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Local Onliner

Oct 24
2011

8coupons Relaunches Amidst Daily Deal Slowdown

If you are a major aggregator of daily deals and the industry seems to be slowing down, what do you do next? That’s the question faced by 8coupons, one of the original aggregators. As Founder Landy Ung tells us, “we used to get literally an email a day from a daily deal” site seeking a …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Shopping/Transactions

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Dec 11
2010

ILM:10: Deals as an ‘E Commerce Platform’

In the context of Google’s reported $6 billion acquisition offer to Groupon, questions were raised at ILM:10 about the true potential of Deal a Day beyond its current two or three daily deals and banner ad emails. For Nimble Commerce CEO Prashant Nedungadi, the real potential is moving local advertising into performance based models. “Group …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Deals, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions

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Jun 9
2010

8Coupons Launches The DealBot; Scans Web for Offers

8Coupons, the 2 ½ year old New York-based coupon aggregator, today announced that it has launched The DealBot, which crawls the Web for specific deals. Deals found by The DealBot are added to 8Coupons’ geo-located “MoneyMap” showing deals and merchant locations. Users can weigh in on coupons by affirmatively voting on a section called “Is …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Local Search, Mobile, Shopping/Transactions, Social Media

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Mar 16
2010

Group-Based ‘Deals of the Day’ Sites: 55 (and Counting)

Groupon has a roaring head start in the deals of the day category for groups, with over a million users. We’ll hear all about Groupon from CEO Andrew Mason at next week’s Marketplaces conference in San Diego, where he is keynoting. But there are now countless imitators adding their own deals. New York-based 8Coupons.com, which …continue reading »

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