Songkick today revealed that its music concert, tours and festival discovery service has grown to 10 million unique monthly fans. In short, that’s an awful lot of people who are syncing their favorite artists and staying notified whenever they announce a new live performance. Songkick says the company has created over $100 million in ticket revenue since its inception, and is already on course to match that total by the end of 2014. ➤ Songkick [Blog] Featured image credit: Shutterstock

Gregory Ciotti is the marketing director at Help Scout. This post originally appeared on the Help Scout blog. Utilizing smart pricing strategies when selling your wares—be they products, services or subscriptions—is a must if you want to succeed in a competitive marketplace. The worse thing you can do is to try to wing it when it comes to pricing… yet this is a mistake I see many entrepreneurs making. Here’s a look at some fascinating studies in behavioral economics that paint a clear picture of how you should properly set your prices—without the guesswork. 1. Similarity can cost you sales When…
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Mozilla today opened pre-orders for the Flame, its first official developer handset for Firefox OS. The mid-range handset can be pre-ordered right now for $170 through everbuying.com and should take roughly four weeks to ship. The non-profit says the Flame reflects the middle-of-the-road hardware that it’ll be targeting with its partners over the next 12 months. Firefox OS is tailored towards customers in emerging markets, so it’s unsurprising to see the company avoid high-end parts for its new Flame handset. The device features a dual-core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm MSM8210 Snapdragon processor, 8GB of internal storage and between 256 MB and…
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Ami Ben David is the co-founder of EverythingMe. A seasoned veteran with experience as a founder, an executive and a VC, Ami is in charge of EverythingMe’s marketing and strategy. Following my first piece contextual mobile product design, I want to talk about designing mobile products in an environment of uncertainty. After all, if context is about understanding and anticipating people, look at the people around you – can you always understand and anticipate them? Probably not, but they still like you (I hope). This is the problem contextual products have, how to get it almost always right (but sometimes wrong), and…
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Nintendo is creating a new YouTube affiliate program that will share advertising revenue with channel owners who record and upload videos featuring footage of its popular games. The console maker announced the plans in a pair of tweets earlier today. NeoGAF forum member Cheesemeister3k quickly translated them, revealing the Japanese firm’s intentions. 【YouTube映像に関するお知らせ】任天堂は以前より、不適切なものを除いて、YouTube上の任天堂の著作物を含む映像を正式に許諾しています。許諾した映像には広告がつくことがあり、その広告収益は従来のポリシー同様、Googleと任天堂で分配されます。(1/2) — 任天堂株式会社 (@Nintendo) May 27, 2014 【YouTube映像に関するお知らせ】その上で、より積極的な任天堂著作物の利用を希望される方に向けて、広告収益の一部を受け取れるアフィリエイトプログラムを準備しています。アフィリエイトプログラムの詳細については、後日続報いたします。ご理解の程、よろしくお願いいたします。(2/2) — 任天堂株式会社 (@Nintendo) May 27, 2014 Just over 12 months ago, Nintendo was criticised for inserting its own ads before and after videos that featured footage from its games. The company claimed ad revenue and, in the process, blocked channel owners’…
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