1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: crowdSPRING, Chicago, Illinois

Package design for a new type of potato chip, new pasta shapes, a name for a new building, the next LG cell phone – all are current or past projects on crowdSPRING, which describes itself as “the world’s largest online marketplace for buyers and sellers of crowdsourced creative services.” The designers and writers who join

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1Mby1M Deal Radar: Camp Bow Wow, Boulder

What do the Champagne houses Veuve Clicquot, Pommery, and Bollinger; the printer of the Declaration of Independence; and the German steel conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG have in common? At one time, all were run by widows who took over the business after their husband died. It’s a path that many women have followed across the centuries, back through

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1Mby1M Deal Radar: Dura Doggie

As part of the blog’s renewed focus on college entrepreneurs, today’s Deal Radar features Dura Doggie, a combination e-commerce and traditional retailer that designs and sells dog toys, but with a socially conscious bent. The company has an unusual business model – it donates 20% of its profits to four affiliated causes in a program

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1Mby1M Deal Radar: WebiMax, Mt. Laurel, New Jersey

Following up on my Top 10 Online Advertising Trends of the Decade, Deal Radar will increase its coverage of online marketing and advertising and search engine optimization (SEO) in 2011, beginning with WebiMax. Recently recognized by TopSEOs.com, WebiMax focuses on online marketing specific to SEO, pay-per-click management, social media, reputation management, Web design, and e-commerce

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Latitude Learning, Saline, Michigan

Latitude Learning is an open source, performance-driven software as a service (SaaS) learning management system (LMS) designed to assist training firms, middle-market companies, Fortune 1000 enterprises, and non-profit organizations. 

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: HasOffers, Seattle, Washington

HasOffers is an affiliate tracking platform that enables brands to create and manage their own affiliate programs. Affiliate marketing, a growing segment in performance advertising, is when online advertisers (merchants) and online publishers (salespeople) share revenue. The publisher, or affiliate, is rewarded by the merchant for bringing in new customers or visitors to the merchant’s

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1Mby1M Deal Radar: Market Force, Louisville, Colorado

Market Force develops customer intelligence solutions that are designed to enable large, multi-location businesses to see their stores through their customers’ eyes and act faster with confidence, thus increasing the bottom line. The company provides a variety of customer intelligence solutions, including mystery shopping, customer satisfaction, price auditing, merchandising services, and analytics to help companies

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1Mby1M Deal Radar: Global Sky, Las Vegas, Nevada

Global Sky is a Philippines-based call center that handles inbound, outbound, and back-office support functions. It aims to be a “branch office” for entrepreneurs, a place where they can outsource all non-core functions.