May 8th, 2010

Why Media Companies Should Become More Like Merchants

Editor’s note: Should media sites become group buying sites as well? Guest author Dave Chase thinks so.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the Internet it is that if a middleman doesn’t add enough value, their days are numbered.

Media companies may not have thought of themselves as middlemen—but that’s what they have been for marketers. When I used to buy advertising a decade or so ago… → Read More

March 9th, 2010

MyNines Launches As The Kayak For Private Sales

Online private sales is a growing business model that is rapidly becoming a staple of online shopping. Ideeli, Gilt Groupe, Vente-Privee, HauteLook and others are quickly gaining millions of users each and attracting significant amounts of venture funding. But the one issue I find with these sites is that it’s annoying to have to check each site every day for sales. I subscribe to almost a dozen… → Read More