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Jun 29
2011

Deals 3D: Announcing the Heavy Hitter Lineup, July 18-19 in SF

Readers of the blog know that we believe the deals space is the springboard for the next generation of …dare I say it…Local Online Commerce. Our Deals 3D conference July 18-19 in San Francisco is the one that couldn’t wait until ILM West in December. Everything is happening right now, as daily deals become a …continue reading »

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Jun 28
2011

The ‘Common Elements of Successful Promotions’

We’ve been focused so much on Deal a Day, that we sometimes forget that Deal a Day is just part of the mix when it comes to successful SMB promotions. Seth Gardenswartz of SpaBoom, a provider of promotion services for spas and restaurants, held a helpful Webinar last week that stressed the six “common elements …continue reading »

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Jun 27
2011

Small Market Deals: A Talk with Deal Garden

The big destination deal sites such as Groupon and Living Social have developed sites in most of the 150 or so large and medium markets in the U.S. How about markets with populations less than 250,000? There are 84 markets with populations between 150,000 and 249,000, and 121 markets between 100,00 and 149,000. The major …continue reading »

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Jun 22
2011

Yipit Raises $6 Million: We Talk with Co-Founder James Moran

Deal aggregators sort through daily deals and find the best ones for consumers in return for a piece of the action. They are primed to make up a healthy part of the extended family of deals products. But it isn’t certain whether they’ll maintain the cooperation of major deals companies. Living Social and others have …continue reading »

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Jun 21
2011

Froogll’s In-Flight Deals: It Really Knows Where You Are Going

The credit card-based, in-flight beverage, food, entertainment and Internet era has a new twist: “Froogll” deals that can be bought online and targeted to users based on destination (i.e. Las Vegas); gender; and observable family status (i.e. travelling single/married/family). Froogll is the brainchild of Jetera, a targeted, in-flight ad provider based in Danbury, CT. The …continue reading »

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Jun 20
2011

HopStop Ramps Up Directions Portal; Adds New Markets, Partners

HopStop, a directions portal that competes in the segment against an ever-building Google Maps, today announced its plans to fight the Big G, including new markets, content partners and features. The 20 person site, which gets about 1/3 of its traffic from destination and SEO traffic, and 1/3 from affiliate partners, has added 20 markets …continue reading »

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Jun 20
2011

Will Groceries Be a Fit for Groupon?

Can Groupon easily extend into the grocery coupon space? No, not at all easily. For starters, food producers used to “cents off” can’t really provide goods at 50 percent off, or more, and then provide a commission of 30-50 percent of sales. But we can think of a number of reasons to green-light a Groupon …continue reading »

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