May 19, 2010

Our new widget is live and available in your My Profile page!

We have replaced the old widget with the new one and it is live and available for you to embed on your blog or webpage. Don’t forget, if you still have the old one, remove it, and then replace it with the new one!

If you have any questions, write us at support@instantcashsweepstakes.com!

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May 12, 2010
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Widget Fidget Gidget

Ok, it’s kind of technical to explain but….

Our widget provider has switched platforms. Now, they are not supporting the previous platform. What this means to you and us is that all of the widgets that you have so industriously embedded around the Web-O-Sphere are now rendered useless. :o(

We are searching for a new widget provider. But there won’t be anything we can do to ever make the original ones work again. So if you are reading this and have a widget on your blog or webpage, please remove it and use your referral link instead until we have a new widget provider.

Once we do, we will let you all know!

Thanks!

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May 7, 2010
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The stage at Launch Pad

The stage at Launch Pad

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Lev, our CEO and Co-Founder, presenting on stage at the Web 2.0 Launch Pad event!

Lev, our CEO and Co-Founder, presenting on stage at the Web 2.0 Launch Pad event!

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April 22, 2010

Brand new ICS Demo video!

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Brand New ICS Demo Video!

We will be adding a brand new demo video to our website, but you can be the first to check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8gfUkUmDew&feature=player_embedded

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April 21, 2010

Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad Finalists Announced: AYTM one of 5 Startups to Pitch On Stage!

As part of our continuing growth and expansion, we have been showcasing our sister site, AskYourTargetMarket.com, at various tech conventions and expos around the country since we started. You may remember us blogging about TechCrunch50, and our bid to win and get to present on stage. We officially launched there, and it was exciting and a great learning experience, gaining us lots of exposure and contacts. We also were selected to present on stage at the Vator Splash, and we hosted 2 StartUp Weekend venues.

Our latest efforts have produced exciting results! The annual Web 2.0 Expo held in San Francisco is a conference which focuses on new web innovations, and provides a forum for like-minded folks to gather, see what is new and hot, and network. They also sponsor Launch Pad. They sought out and chose 5 companies from companies all over the world to present their product or service in front of a panel of industry experts and the entire Web 2.0 Expo audience for real time feedback!

It is a fantastic accomplishment to get chosen, and a rare opportunity in a crowded field to get noticed! We are proud and thrilled to have been chosen as one of the five Launch Pad finalists!

We hope that all of you take pride as well, since you are all an integral part of AskYourTargetMarket.com!

Read more here:

http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2010/public/schedule/detail/14585

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April 19, 2010

AskYourTargetMarket.com co-sponsored Startup Weekends!

The past few days were very special for us. We were honored to co-sponsor StartupWeekend in Boulder, CO and Dallas, TX.

Here’s my experience in a few words:
There were 35-40 smart talented people in one room (most meeting each other for the first time), sparked by tsunami-entrepreneurship-tech-energy-spirit, Wi-Fi, a bunch of Macbook Pros in the room = AWESOME 3 day event. After dozens of pitches on Friday, the group voted for the best business idea and formed teams around the most interesting people and startup concepts. Friday night, Saturday and Sunday morning were used to define the business model, come up with strategies, marketing, logo, slogans and building prototype sites with some working functionality, preparing decks and polishing pitches. On Sunday by 3:30 teams started presenting their projects and the judges selected the winners. Now it’s up to the teams to use this steroid start and build real profitable companies or just keep in touch with new friends and move forward.

Our goal was to help teams to use AskYourTargetMarket.com during the event to get real world feedback on their concepts and assumptions. As expected - it went very well! We sponsored a few surveys and got back awesome stats that helped teams to shift some priorities, confirm some expectations and make the right decisions. Interesting fact: the event’s format put everybody in a very stressful time frame, but in reality, if you can’t do it in 48 hours and on 0 budget - you may never be able to pull it off! “Be successful or fail fast” is the best advice the startups received this weekend. AskYourTargetMarket.com definitely succeeded in delivering the valuable data right there and then. All surveys were fulfilled within 90 minutes (150 responses with open-ended answers) and gave them immediate nationwide US consumer feedback.

I’m happy and excited to see our company helping entrepreneurs find their groove, and help such awesome events to be more successful and meaningful. We made new friends, did some usability testing watching people using our system, and definitely had a great time!

For more information:

http://boulder.startupweekend.org/
twitter hash tag: @swBoulder

All - photos: http://bit.ly/9FC9wk

Cheers,

Lev

CEO and Co-founder

AskYourTargetMarket.com

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