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jvanderwal

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    Comment #22077508

    The same exact thing is happening with businesses on Amazon.

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    Comment #20674733

    A few years back Wendy's had an offer where if you got a medium or large drink there was a coupon on it. 32 coupons got you a one-way flight in the continental US, 64 got you a rou…

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    Comment #6405058

    My friends and I got a few round trip plane tickets once. Wendy's had a deal where their largest drinks had coupons to cut off their sides. I think 60 coupons got you a one-way dom…

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    Comment #6052414

    I've just used vanilla extract before.. it doesn't take much, treat it like cologne. It smells much better than bug sprays and you don't have any weird residue.

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    Comment #5788670

    It'll be interesting to see which company Google's autocomplete ends up suggesting when someone types "Moz".. right now it's Mozilla, but with SEOmoz's abilities I wonder if that'l…

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    Comment #5726226

    I wonder if there's any sort of somewhat even distribution to the winning tickets. If it's entirely random, there's shouldn't be. However, I knew a guy who worked at a gas station …

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    Comment #5687838

    We use TVEyes.com in our news monitoring product and it's very close to real-time. It does make mistakes sometimes, but I'm not aware of any perfect transcription software.

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    Comment #5640736

    I was just looking for this kind of information the other day. Is there a way to give it a budget?

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    Comment #5613260

    I'm actually looking into this a little right now since I happen to work for a media monitoring company. I can tell you there is a definite correlation between them, but haven't be…

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    Comment #5519047

    I had never heard of these "atmospheric rivers" prior to this article and started doing a little reading. "Atmospheric rivers are typically several thousand kilometers long and onl…

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    Comment #5497941

    He's right.. even seasoned sales people don't understand their own pipelines a lot of the time. Try coming into a sales-person oriented company with the job of building a marketing…

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    Comment #4539052

    UniKey is doing the "iPhone door opener" idea. Very cool tech - can't wait until it's available. http://www.unikeytech.com/

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    Comment #4468514

    The beauty of golf is people spend a lot of money on it. I'd charge people a premium to use it. Couple recommendations: Lose the pop-up for Facebook sign-in. Optimize it for mobile…

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    Comment #4450940

    I would be very interested in seeing some traffic stats once this is over.

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    Comment #4110979

    >>In other words... I'm still not convinced that tablets or phones are very good for "coloring" or "painting" for children. My personal experience has shown they can be very benefi…

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    Comment #4089274

    A friendly fyi: simplyhired.com might make a case that you're infringing on their trademark.

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    Comment #3979838

    Thanks, I'll have to look into the third-party tool option. Mostly I've been running ads with external links and it would only let me do CPC, but I did do it all thru fb's dashboar…

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    Comment #3978770

    With a click-through rate of about 0.051% on Facebook ads [1], I'm not too surprised by this. They also made some changes over the past month to their ad payments, in particular re…

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    Comment #3853811

    My email is down, but gchat in the same tab is fine.