the latest offering by amex and levelup is a shining light for the future of the coponing/vouchering market. by making the system paperless, a fundamental cmplexity has been taken out of the process for users and by linking it into your credit card (amex in this instance) it makes it so easy to use that… [Read more…]
January 23, 2011
harvard just released a white paper on the impacts of vouchering which looks at the commercial viability of groupon type deals. while couponing is in no way new, the mechanics and finances of it do raise some very interesting questions regarding viability to merchants. existing research from harvard shows that around 1 in 3 merchants… [Read more…]
January 5, 2011
great little article, kinda aluded to it in my last post but it got too long Ahh predictions posts, truly a misalignment of incentives: the only ones worth reading are the most outlandish. Fortunately, we’re writing about the Daily Deal space, where more developments occur each month than in entire years elsewhere. So we have… [Read more…]
January 5, 2011
stumbled across this great article looking at the trends in social buying (i.e. groupon and other related sites). i really like these businesses and think there is a great opportunity there from a local space perspective. the most interesting thing for me is that they are so many sites out there that there is now… [Read more…]
December 6, 2010
so while google tried to swallow groupon, groupon has bought its own technology set – making it stronger and wiser in the upcoming battle for spuremacy of the small advertiser market. Ludic labs two technologies are offerforge, a SMME service to create coupons, own offers etc and diddit – a social network for people who… [Read more…]
December 4, 2010
groupon resisited a $6Billion acquisition by google. thats an interesting twist. nice article in NYT. it just shows the power of local sales force for local markets. most businesses actually dont want to worry about keyword searches and SEO, they just want to buy some advertising and drive some business – easily, without the hassle… [Read more…]
November 29, 2010
In ancient times gone past, people would congregate in markets to buy food, trade and generally catch up. generally, we havent seemed to change much with social media and ecommerce becoming a very strong link – i guess people just like buying stuff with other people around. so while groupon is being touted as the… [Read more…]
November 4, 2010
groupon beware, the new facebook deals API gives it the power to compete and make group bidding and location basd discounting sites obsolete. while the single sign on and otehr exciting features of the new mobile api are interesting, the location based deals API has really fired up my mammon manifesting mind. its the logical… [Read more…]
October 20, 2010
this is a great post with some great basic truths - 1. get used to failure, not in “your a loser” sort of way but in an edisson “figure out 999 ways how not to make a lightbulb” way 2. sometimes you have to let an idea go… from mashable Groupon founder and CEO Andrew… [Read more…]
May 10, 2011
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