Posts About ‘Groupon’

Groupon’s Troubles

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Are offer sites like Groupon or Livingsocial the future or have they already surpassed the hype? With Facebook and Google getting into offers you would say that the ‘offer business’ still is booming. But is there room for sites who do just that?

Looking at Groupon’s recent history you can see the offer site is running into a lot of bumps. If they can get over them without damage remains to be seen. This infographic looks at a specific part of Groupon’s problems: the financials. How does it look? See for yourself… (more…)

State of Search radioshow – episode 61: Google Plus and Groupon

The show this week started off with the talk about Google +, Google launched their Social Network just before the show so Bas, Roy and guest Sean Sewell discussed what it was, and what the first thoughts about it were.

Sean Sewell was the guest on the show this time. Sean Sewell is the Director for Lead Generation for Performance Horizon Group, a company that is dedicated to revolutionising the lead generation and affiliate space in the UK. In that role he became very knowledgeable on the topic of coupon sites like Groupon, Living Social and Google Offers. In the second part of the show the future of those sites was discussed.

The shownotes are below. (more…)

The Money Which Is Surrounding Groupon (infographic)

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It is one of the most talked about topics in the industry at the moment: sites like Groupon, LivingSocial, Google Offers and Facebook Offers. Will they survive? What is their strategy and how much are they worth?

This is also the topic of our radioshow tonight in which we talk with Sean Sewell, who is the Director for Lead Generation for Performance Horizon Group, about Groupon, Google Offers and much more. Tune in LIVE and chat with us at 7PM UK, 8PM Europe, 2PM East Coast, 11AM West Coast.

Meanwhile take a look at this infographic which shows the money which is surrounding Groupon. (more…)

Groupon and Livingsocial get some big time competitors: Google and Facebook

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It is kind of a miracle that sites like Groupon and Livingsocial have been able to dominate the field of online deals for that long without any interference of the ‘big boys’ out there: Google and Facebook. Now within a short period of time both successful social deal – sites saw the two biggest players on the web enter their markets.

Google last year tried to buy Groupon but failed. Groupon felt is was just too successful to be bought out. So Google then decided to start working on their own offering site and last week Google offers made its beta-appearance. And if that wasn’t enough competition yet Facebook this week decided to launch “Social Deals“. (more…)