Why and How we Blog–Part Two

This is part two of the “Blog Blog, Why and How we Blog.” Like any great sequel (the movie Blade is the first to come to my mind), you don’t need to read the first part, but it makes the whole experience more enjoyable. Reasons why we blog, continued: 3. Give you fodder for other […]

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Reaching College Students 101

As much as we love stats and metrics, sometimes it’s necessary to take a step back from our calculators and survey results and think about what all those facts and figures actually mean. All that crunchy data isn’t worth much if you can’t suck the juice out of it and translate the numbers into meaningful, […]

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2012’s Top 20 Back to School Deals for College Students

In case you missed our Top 20 list on Yahoo! News or one of the other dozens of sites that published it, we thought we’d re-post it here for you. Because we’re nice like that and we love back to school season. Amazon Students are eligible for a free Amazon Prime membership which includes free […]

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Authoritative Data – The Muscle Behind SheerID

If you’ve taken any time looking through our website, you’ve noticed we’re quite bold in our claim of being able to verify a customer’s organizational status in little to no time. Go big or go home, right? Well, the fact of the matter is, we stand behind that claim. With our automatic verification process, we […]

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SheerID Verify Allows Magento eCommerce Retailers to Protect Targeted Discounts and Coupon Codes

Today SheerID announced the integration of its unique instant verification API with the popular e-commerce platform, Magento ™. For the first time ever, retailers who use a Magento™ powered e-commerce platform will be able to protect their targeted discounts by using SheerID’s verification plug-in to confirm that customers qualify for special offers like military or student discounts.

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More Back to School News from T-Mobile

When we blogged T-Mobile’s reduced pricing on family lines for back to school earlier this month, we thought the back to school news felt a little wimpy. Thankfully, T-Mobile has come through with a couple new back to school specials that started this week and expire in September. First, we’ve got a BOGO deal (Buy-One-Get-One) […]

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Enroll at Dell University for a Free Xbox

First Microsoft, then HP, now Dell… Is there anyone who isn’t giving away a free Xbox to college students this year? How are these budding scholars supposed to get any studying done when they’re playing Xbox all the time? All kidding aside, there are a couple of things that set Dell’s offer apart from the […]

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HP sends you back to school in style

HP has launched their back to school campaign. I know because I received a couple of emails from Student Rate talking about the HP “Free Xbox” offer. HP also has aggressive pay-per-click ads running. I typed in “Radio Shack Back to School” and got an “HP Back to School” ad on Google, which of course […]

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Oh Those Pesky Coupon Code Sites

We totally understand why you feel the need to offer coupon codes. Really, we get it. We’ve read the same survey results you have, with titillating stats like: •    74% of shoppers search multiple online coupon sources every week, and many spend up to an hour shopping around for the best deals•    55% of online […]

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Go Back-to-School With Apple

I love discounts as I might have mentioned once or twice before so I recently enjoyed looking at Apple’s back-to-school promotion, especially, since I am a proud owner of a Mac. A few years ago I went through the process of choosing a new laptop and decided on an Apple. Back then they enticed us […]

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