Glenn Beck Launches Online Deals Site

As his departure from Fox News comes ever closer, Glenn Beck is branching out into yet another new business territory: the world of online deals.

Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts, announced Monday that it has launched Markdown.com, a Groupon-like site that will offer discounted deals on various products. The first deals are for Chocolate.com and LifeLock, an identity theft prevention company.

The deals will also be promoted across Beck's media empire, including on his news site, The Blaze.

In a statement, Beck said, "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. 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.”

The launch of the new site adds another plank to Beck's booming personal industry. He made an estimated $40 million in 2010 from his various businesses, including his speaking tours, books, publications and his websites. In his opus on Fox News, New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman reported that 90 percent of Beck's income last year came from these ventures.

Comments

[Roburt]

01:43 PM on 06/02/2011

Even if it's not a Beck website, Markdown.com is so full of fail. Its design looks like some cheap GeoCities made by a high school amateur who just learned HTML from playing with Myspace. And there are only 3 deals so far, seems like businesses don't want to work with him either.

[TFlint]

02:29 PM on 05/27/2011

So he's a huckster as wel as a . . .

[Kai Ferano]

05:04 AM on 05/26/2011

I'm a new poster here, and I'm quickly getting the impression that conservatives are not welcome here, and pro-Glenn Beck comments are quickly removed. This goes against the purpose of an open forum.

[Helloise]

04:58 PM on 05/26/2011

Try the sendmemoneyconspiracyashistoryclownface site. They'll love you.

[TFlint]

02:30 PM on 05/27/2011

So open your own forum. The freedom of the press protects the press.

[Scott M Douglass]

11:39 PM on 05/25/2011

Boycott, Boycott, Boycott any and all who sponsor him.

[The Smartest Monkees]

07:50 AM on 05/26/2011

I would boycott them, but I don't buy products like, "Varmit Away," "Possum Belly Poultus," "Evening In Mudsuck Perfume" "Critter Catcher" or any of the other sponsers Beck is likely to attract.

[JackHoffman]

04:03 PM on 05/25/2011

One word to the companies associated with Markdown and Beck.

Boycott.

Enter at your own peril.

[Eddy333]

02:35 PM on 05/25/2011

The guy is cashing in big time. All the talk, all the pomp, all the spectacle, all the outrage. It's all just about making money. He doesn't believe a word he says, just like every huckster that has come before him. It's sad to see how many people on the right and left have taken the bait.

He's laughing all the way to the bank.

[Kai Ferano]

05:05 AM on 05/26/2011

Now how would you, or anyone, know this. Beck seems sincere to me!

[Eddy333]

09:27 AM on 05/26/2011

No one on television is truly sincere. No one.

[Kai Ferano]

07:10 AM on 05/28/2011

Eddy333, No one in his or her personal life either, is completely sincere. It leaves us too vulnerable to what's out there. I think Glenn Beck talks from the heart. Last night he had his final "Founding Fathers" show. I think one of the reasons our country has lost its way is because we fail to revere those responsible for the inception of our nation ...and God knows the mainstream media liberals have no regard for our earliest Americans. Not politically correct! Thanks for your comment.

[rcwells]

02:27 PM on 05/25/2011

Let's see Glenn Beck shilling crappy, survivalist products that are really just a scam. Can someone explain to me how this is a "new gig".

[datenutloaf]

02:14 PM on 05/25/2011

Glen's new gig:

Scraping barrel bottoms......

[Roland19]

01:36 PM on 05/25/2011

I don't think having Beck's product endorsement is going to entice me to do business with someone. Rather the reverse, actually.

[baileywick]

01:17 PM on 05/25/2011

I've got a great product.
It's called "Beckfree."
Tune him and his products out, and voila, Beck free.

[zdeedle]

01:14 PM on 05/25/2011

would you trust any product or company this man endorses? not me.

[seeksthetruth]

12:47 PM on 05/25/2011

Glen "I'll do anything for a Buck" Beck.

[bryanzth]

11:18 AM on 05/25/2011

You know on the retro channels at night, the cancer treatment centers, the gadgets, the MLM marketing adverts. You see, I didn't have cable so I never saw Beck's show. But NOW I might be cursed to have to sit through a commercial with him? Worse than Peter Francis Geraci:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Francis_Geraci

BZ.

[bryanzth]

11:13 AM on 05/25/2011

Went to Markdown and saw this product advertised:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeLock

Hooo boy.

BZ.

[Daveatthedoor]

12:36 PM on 05/25/2011

Wow...this info should be on front page of HP..not in comments

[PrairieGayCompanion]

12:49 PM on 05/25/2011

Flim Flam man of the century.

[mataylor16]

11:10 AM on 05/25/2011

Evokes memories of when paw used to get taken by hucksters that'd come up to the farm.