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You should have sold Groupon when you had the chance, Andrew Mason
It's easy for bloggers to take shots at people who are much more successful than the blogger ever will be whenever the subject of their wrath makes mistakes ...
Daily deals are dying
In 2011, we wrote about how Groupon must fail to save the internet. At the time, there were already some fishy things happening in the Daily Deals segment of ...
Email and the lean green benefits of online marketing
More companies are looking at ways that will enable them to go green with their marketing efforts. However, their motivation isn’t solely driven by the want to ...
Should Groupon founder Andrew Mason keep his job?
We've been very critical of Groupon and its founding CEO Andrew Mason. The enigmatic Silicon Valley guy has famously shunned Google's $6 billion bid for his ...
Call it a comeback: Groupon posts profit, share prices surge
Stocks shot up 18% after a report that Groupon had slayed expectations from The Street to post its first quarterly profit. Better decisions on marketing spends ...
Breaking down the SEC’s beef with Groupon
Few public companies have experienced the type of roller coaster ride that Groupon has been on in such a short time. From darling to dud to darling and back to ...
Will the Daily Deals phenomenon last?
There is an inherent problem with the "daily deals" concept. At what point does saving money on items get trumped by buying too many items that we don't need? ...
The fantastic evolution of online deal platforms
One might argue that the concepts of "flash sales" and "daily deals" are very new concepts, but they have been working well for over a decade online. The recent ...
Can Frugalo single-handedly fix the floundering daily deals phenomenon?
The only thing certain about the future of daily deals is that the industry's future is uncertain. It's not a play on words or a failed attempt at sounding ...
If you invested in Groupon’s IPO, the good news is you’ve only lost half of your money
In less than a month, Groupon's highly-lauded stocks have plummeted from their IPO sale price of $28 closing today at $15.24, down 46% since their November 4th ...
Is Groupon IPO-ready? No.
If it wasn't for Netflix, Wall Street, and Herman Cain, Groupon would probably still be one of the biggest punching bags by bloggers and mainstream media ...
And just like that, the daily deals era may be over
There is much truth in Ben Parr's Mashable story about the end of the "Daily Deals Era". The end of Facebook Deals last week was viewed as a benefit for sites ...
Facebook ends Deals after 4 months
That didn't take long. After testing the waters that Groupon and LivingSocial dominate, Facebook has pulled the plug on Deals. "We think there is a lot of ...
Is the “daily deals” phenomenon just a fad?
The easiest way to get people to use a service is to save them money. That fact has been the catalyst for the tremendous growth of Daily Deals group buying ...