Archive for April, 2007
Friday, April 6th, 2007
Signing up and using ThemBid.com is free for both the consumer and the business. When we launch the Beta on April 14, 2007 we will be introducing the first upgrade package for businesses.
For less than $1.50 a day, businesses will be able to post special offers, add a company logo, ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
One of the main concerns while developing ThemBid.com was to have a website that would be easy to use but that could scale as the project grew. Fortunately, I've been writing web applications for a long time and along the way I've been exposed to issues ranging from modifying ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Media Impressions is an agency that specializes in media, marketing and promotions. The agency deals with all types of advertising on a local, regional and national level from campaign conception to execution and is experienced in cable television, local test market television, numerous spot television and radio markets, Hispanic ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
ThemBid.com is developed using the Symfony framework, which we whole heartedly recommend for any substantial web application.
In the coming weeks we will be launching a Symfony community page where we will share many snippets and words of wisdom on Symfony based programming as a means of giving back to the ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
I have enjoyed using dealsea.com and fatwallet.com for finding all kinds of great bargains. One thing that was on my wish list, that these sites did not provide, was to view all the special offers in my local area.
For example, if I wanted to go out to dinner with my ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Media Impressions Inc., based in Phoenix, Arizona, will be leading the charge on our marketing campaign. We have been working with the Media Impressions staff these past few weeks on creating promotional items for ThemBid.com to be distributed at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. These items ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
What are the ingredients that go into ThemBid.com?
Web 2.0 is the underlying philosophy used with executing our concept on the web.
Symfony is the framework used to rapidly develop ThemBid.com with limited resources, but excellent programmers.
When trying to explain our concept, often it is easier to use other existing sites as ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
We have hired BPC Media Works, Inc to manage, design and implement our public relations campaign.
They most recently worked with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-election campaign. They specialize in strategic media services, with experts who are from the news media not from public relations, so they know what it takes to ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
To help make the website even easier to understand and use, we will be providing video tutorials. These tutorials will describe the functionality of ThemBid.com.
We will have a link to the tutorials at the bottom of ThemBid.com. New tutorial releases will be announced here. Please comment on this article if ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
In an effort to generate traffic to the ThemBid.com website, we will be offering referral incentives to businesses that register and sign up for profiles. Here is how it will work. Normally, when a business signs up, they will pay an up-front fee which is good for a ...
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