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Glenn Beck's Next Act? Launching Discount Deals Site Markdown.com
The discount deals site, similar to Groupon, bears the tagline "Value and Values."
Posted 5/ 24 11 at 12:00 PM | News, Starting a Business, Online Business, Consumer Products & Services, Media
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Watch out, Groupon. Glenn Beck watchers have been theorizing over Beck's next move since it was announced he and Fox News would be parting ways this year. On Monday, his company, Mercury Radio Arts, revealed a surprising project to kick-off Beck's post-Fox career: Markdown.com, a discount deals site with the tagline "Value and Values.""Sure, we care about revenue and profit, but we care about honesty and integrity just as much," the site explains. "We believe in value, but we also believe in values -- the idea that we should be guided by a set of principles that transcends money."
Markdown.com will offer one or two deals per week. Its first week deals are $10 for $20 worth of chocolates at Chocolate.com ("Glenn loves food and can really get behind the product," Markdown's president and only employee Keith Ferry told Business Insider), and a 55 percent discount on a credit score product from identity theft protection service Lifelock.
"As a small-business owner myself, I understand the daily challenges that entrepreneurs face and how frustrating it can be to get well-deserved attention for a great product or service," Beck said in a statement. "With Markdown.com we will be able to feature these great local and regional businesses right alongside some of the most well-known brands in America."
Ferry confirmed that Markdown could become a platform for smaller businesses that might be a fit with Beck's fans, while noting that their intention is to turn Markdown.com into a "really big business."
According to New York magazine, Beck's earned most of his income outside of Fox News -- his existing businesses, including publications, websites and speaking tours, contributed 90 percent to his reported $40 million income in 2010.
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Glenn has always been brutely honest and overly passionate in his programing. If his detractors paid attention to his reports instead of demonizing him our leaders would have been aware of current events long before they occurred. Two years ago he warned of the widespread unrest in the Middle East as well as very substantial rise in the value of gold. Glenn has a gift for seeing things exactly as they are. He is not a prophet, he is an astute analyst.
I believe that those of us who continue to follow Beck will definately benefit.
Glenn Bect is not an 'Act' he is an event.
Perfect example of a FAKE NEWS brainwashed sucker. Glenn Beck hasn't an honest bone in his body. Even used car 'sandlots' wouldn't hire a liar like he is. He has no future except with his already numbed and dumbed 'followers'.
I noticed you use the usual liberal profile of slamming someone without providing a thread of proof to support your statement.
Lol. I'm sorry, but others were predicting unrest in the Middle East loooong before Beck; he just reiterated what they had already predicted. No offense, but if you read more, you might understand why this is true and why Beck has become such a laughing stock.
His "parse it out on the blackboard" sessions are so laughable they brought tears to my eyes. He is the lazy mind's prophet -- nothing more.
Beck is a whack job, I wouldn't buy anything this guy has anything to do with......
The funny part is, you will be taking from him. As he continues make more money, he will pay more taxes. His taxes will help pay for all those social programs you and your liberal friends most likely use!
I wouldn't take a free gift from this idiot!
Would you buy a used car from this clown ? Not me, I think everything he will offer is either 'recycled' or 'refurbished' with no warranty that one can believe. Once a liar, always a liar. Then again, there's always room for one more snake-oil salesman.
yeah, he sounds like an East German mole and subversive. Glenn Beck. Sounds positively communist.
Just the sound of his name makes me want to Puke. Just another filthy Flim Flam man a con man of the first order that actually began to believe his own BS Jim Copeland Boca Raton FL
I totally agree with "Zipp". Beck was on target with evrything he came out with LONG before they happened. However a couple of times I thought he was over the edge. But in reality it was me not accepting what he was saying later to find out he was correct I was just overwhelmed. Glenn Beck is a good guy that makes people aware of the BAD things going on!
People who critize Beck either have never watched his show to form their own opinion or they are too afraid that he has revealed the truth of what's really happening.
I think I am going to puke over this last comment
All men of honor do good not only in business but in life. Glenn Beck is a man of his word, a man of honor and integrity. The truth will always uncomfort the opposition.
Man the hate is rampant. Zipp you tell um. Just a bunch of rabid dogs
They never stop,the name calling far left,can never admit they can't prove Beck wrong on his comments about what's going on in this country,so lets just try name calling.I mean really guys.
I'll bet you anti Beck commenters have never seen his show! He presents logical, factual and video or auio backed up info! So, I guess you sadly still drink the Kool Aid of MSNBC..
he also steals a LOT OF CONTENT FROM MICHAEL SAVAGE. I would listen to the Savage nation, as I have been doing for over 15 years now, I can't believe it's been this long, and then tune in to the Beck on Fox, and I swear to you...I'd hear the same content.. communism this, socialism that...Obama this...health care that...All of Savage's talking points right in Beck's show...nah, no coincidence, Flat out Theft if you ask me.
They are both correct, like Rush, Shnitt, and all truth tellers, why be mad?
amen..Listen to Beck...those who ridicule him..are not listening