A consortium of newspapers are offering bargain-hunting shoppers an alternative to Groupon and Living Social. The Find n Save platform is tailored to local audiences, offering digital coupons, daily deals, digital circulars, and other advertising products designed and managed by the local affiliate for maximum impact. Find n Save is available to any local daily [...]
Since I just moved to Seattle, my girlfriend and I bought actual hard copy editions of the Seattle Times on the off-chance there’d be some coupons or sales we could know about to get the bric-a-bric we need for our home. Turned out, there wasn’t much in there, making printed papers even less relevant to [...]
This is going to push some privacy buttons. According to The New York Times, your bank statement is about to become yet another frontier in the coupon-loaded advertising game. A company called BillShrink has worked with more than 2,000 banks to offer a new service — part loyalty card, part daily deal — called Statement [...]
If you think Groupon and Living Social is extreme couponing, turn the channel to TLC. I did last night and happened upon a new American sport. Take a look…
Coupons are on fire. I suppose we needn’t be surprised–coupons tap a basic consumer instinct to save money. Yet, the meteoric rise of Living Social and Groupon is a story that’s hard to fully grasp. In a little over two years, Groupon, the Chicago company stared by Andrew Mason, 30, a former rock band keyboardist, [...]
How popular are coupons today? They’re so incredibly popular people are BUYING them left and right. In fact, Business Insider reports that Restaurant.com sold a whopping 1.5 million coupons nationwide in just 48 hours by telling consumers they were getting in on a Groupon-like deal. The Insider notes that Restuarant.com felt the need to frame [...]
I finally joined purveyor of daily deals, Groupon, tonight and I was amazed to find how well it’s working for some local Portland restaurants. Wild Abandon recently sold 2861 $12 Groupons, while Elephants Delicatessen sold 7206 $7 deals. Groupon uses the power of the crowd to drive prices down and volume up–the deal doesn’t go [...]
CheapTweet and CouponTweet are mentioned in a SmartMoney article on companies utilizing social media to offer price incentives to customers–a very prudent use of the platform, in my opinion. I think we’ll see many more Twitter aggregators like the two above. It’s simply too hard to find things in the stream. The incoming Tweets come [...]
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