Comments on: Thinking Out Loud: What's Driving Groupon?

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By: Johnyaeger85

Johnyaeger85 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:35:00 +0000

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By: Brian Schwartz

Brian Schwartz — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:07:35 +0000

Groupon is clearly all about their own interests with zero retention rate. Clearly their business model won’t last long. In fact, one of my ‘groupon stores’ requires 25 followers, we’re at 21. Who’s to say they’ll even agree to run your promotion to their network if it doesn’t make them the most money?

I’d like to introduce this unique website http://www.MeetABusiness.com, which has been in the works for about a year with 2 other business partners. We do not charge businesses an arm and a leg to offer group coupons, like all the rest of the group coupon sites do. Ours doesn’t charge them anything except for the $9.95 monthly membership fee and a small extra fee if they want to purchase a deal of the day, week, or month, but the first 6 months are free, plus they get all of the other posting and searching benefits offered by the site, which the other group coupon sites don’t offer, such as business resource posting & searching, jobs posting & searching, events posting & searching, networking, and blog posting. The deal of the day feature I think could help you eliminate the ‘expiry’ issue you had with Groupon. Plus you’ll get a free long term backlink in our directory.We have over 300,000 business listings nationwide to date. Again, we are a low-cost alternative (at the moment we’re a “no cost” alternative because we’re free for 6 months) to all of the other group coupon sites that everyone complains are really bad for businesses, because they take so much of the pie from businesses.If you have any additional thoughts, comments or suggestions for the site, we are all ears. Would sincerely appreciate a plug from you on any of your network of sites.

More at: http://jamiebeckland.com/2011/01/groupon-locusts-and-the-coming-small-business-apocalypse/#ixzz1PVEMXViS

By: news and information online

news and information online — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:19:55 +0000

From the vendor perspective, it’s great that they can get more customers, but it seems like a lot of the vendors are for people who sell things that are high margin and have a lot of spoilage, ie once Saturday comes, it doesn’t matter how many people are on the paintball field

By: Carol L. Weinfeld

Carol L. Weinfeld — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:10:33 +0000

Groupon’s success indicates the power of email marketing. The company transfers the door-to-door salesman to one’s inbox. It acts as a marketing firm to assist small businesses by increasing their sales and building their brands.

By: usgets

usgets — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 02:20:58 +0000

I think groupon is not a good idea since they got much benefit for theme self, but how about us? thsy should re-arrange their system for a better way.

By: Small Business Owner

Small Business Owner — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:43:22 +0000

I have to disagree with this article mainly because I have delved into Groupon's business model more in depth and looked at the issue related to offline marketing campaigns that were similar in the 90's. The main problem with Groupon's model that has yet to be discussed publicly is that these deals are all playing psychological games on the consumer in terms of pricing. I have watched and monitored many of these deals since Groupon started.One major similarity is obviously the fact that they are selling the fact that the Discount is a substantial savings over the regular price. Well the issue here is and again is something that was very common in the 90's was overpricing inventory or services and then discounting those items or services in a huge way to give the purchaser or consumer the idea that they were saving BIG. Well the competition Bureau came in and said "Hey wait a minute this is false advertising, You have to prove first that the retail price was in fact what you say the true value was" You cannot simply advertise a pair of shoes as On Sale for $50 regular price $100 and show a discount of 50% if in fact those shoes never retailed for $100, Most likely they were retailed and listed for $70. So the actual discount is actually less than 30%. What is essentially happening is they are duping consumers in a lot of cases (not all) into believing that they are saving a lot of money. Again this has happened before and it takes the public or consumer awhile to figure this out.

I expect that this FAD will end in the near future it will not be eliminated entirely but probably still exist on a much smaller scale with more reasonable deals that are truly honest deals. Consumers or purchasers beware

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:52:36 +0000

Today's Groupon in SF is for a portrait guy in Sausalito. A lot of other days it's for paintball wars, skydiving, etc.

I think that Groupon is good for things that are "the spice of life" where you're signing up for something you wouldn't normally do, like get a portrait of yourself or your family, and when it's $95 instead of $615, you figure "why not?".

From the vendor perspective, it's great that they can get more customers, but it seems like a lot of the vendors are for people who sell things that are high margin and have a lot of spoilage, ie once Saturday comes, it doesn't matter how many people are on the paintball field (within reason).

I recently moved to Ross (can I see your poolhouse when it's done?) and I need a dentist. Groupon isn't helping me with that, but they yellow pages or Google might. To find a dentist, I'm going to ask around (know a good one?) or go to Yelp, though I am leery of Yelp's "pay us to get your negative reviews removed" business model.

By: Jt Placement

Jt Placement — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:21:34 +0000

John,

I've got to respectfully disagree about Groupon's long term, and absolute control of this "new" paridigm.

One has only to look at IE and Firefox. Let me ask all of you here today-would you pay $10 for Firefox?

Head start only, IMHO.

Then again, I've been wrong before, as I bet Mike and Mark have.