A Free iPod With A New Y! Store?
I was digging around on Google news the other day and came across this very interesting press release where a company is offering free iPods with every new Yahoo! Store website package that is purchased. Has anyone else seen this?
Anyway, my initial thought was ok big deal, the company is obviously just marking up their prices to cover the cost of the iPods, but after some thorough digging around I found that this wasn't the case. The company is really handing out free iPods as their newest promotion and still maintaining the prices they offered in the past. Here is an excerpt I pulled from the press release:
"Yahoo! Store web site design firm YStore Made Easy has announced an exclusive offer to anyone who signs up for a Yahoo! Store through them will receive one of three iPods. The type of iPod, shuffle, nano, or full sized video, will depend on the web site package purchased."
Click here to view the entire Press Release.
The company's name is YStore Made Easy, and even though they are a competitor of mine / All Web Promotion, I must say that they have put together a pretty clever promotion. iPods are indeed a hot commodity right now as they are advertised everywhere and anywhere. Hell my dad has heard of an iPod and even though he hasn't a clue as to what one is... I know that he'll be interested in getting one for free... as I assume most people will be. I say, great job on associating yourself with a well known and very popular brand such as Apple. I only wish I had thought of it first.
Oh and if by chance a representative of YStore Made Easy does come across this entry, I suggest that your company considers revamping a few of your "Promotional" pages. I noticed (as of today's date) that the following 5 pages pretty much highlight the same details and even used the same/similar content to do so.
Yahoo Online Store
Yahoo Store Development
Yahoo Store Developer
Yahoo Store Designer
Yahoo Store Web Design
Granted you're not doing anything extreme or spam-like, not like most other doorway-type pages, but duplicate content is an SEO no-no! That's my free SEO lesson for today!
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posted by Karl Ribas Friday, March 10, 2006 Read Comments (2) | Post a Comment | Subscribe  
 
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2 Comments:
Yeah I agree, we should have thought it first. GEEZ.
Aside from the duplicate content (which I just can't believe, come on people!) and that they are our competitor, I do enjoy their top 5 reasons to choose Yahoo Store and their 10 reasons to let them do your Yahoo Store Design. Entertaining.
Just my opinion.
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Jessica, at March 10, 2006 1:02 PM
Take it Y! Store Made Easy! A free iPod is great in all, but it's sad to say that whatever iPod you do get from these people is either already obsolete or will be within a matter of months - but I suppose if you're the person who is just taking the iPod because they're offering it, that you really don't care anyway. Either way, TAKE IT Y! STORE MADE EASY!
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Drew, at March 10, 2006 4:40 PM
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