1. You don’t get all of the money Groupon, like most other daily deal sites, takes a cut, often about half of the deal’s value. That means if the customer is paying $20 for $40 worth of food, as the merchant, you only get about $10 per deal sold. “We say ‘about half’ because it [...]

Monster Offers, a deal aggregator, and Fanminder, a company developing solutions to help small business engage with their customers, announced a new daily deal loyalty program today. The program will focus on the small businesses that use daily deal marketing programs and will allow those businesses to create tailored marketing programs and retrieve customer data. [...]

The last panel at the Daily Deal Media Conference 2011 focused on regulation—an issue made even more timely by the announcement earlier today that Groupon was being sued by hundreds of sales employees about unpaid overtime. Daily Deal Media Founder and Editor in Chief Boyan Josic moderated the panel and was joined on stage by [...]

For Rey Pasinli, Executive Director of Total Apps, the biggest worry he has about the daily deal industry is the lack of control. “That lack of control causes potential situations that are explosive,” he said. These situations include stolen credit cards, merchants that close shop while the deal is still live, excessive chargebacks and excessive [...]

Kara Trivunovic, Senior Director of Strategy Services at StrongMail, got an email with the subject “Open Me First.” Since she was on vacation, she didn’t, but later that week, she got another email from the same company with the subject “Resistance is Futile.” That one she opened. Looking for creative ways to leverage your subject [...]

There’s no contention that mobile offerings are the future of the daily deal industry. The question lies in the how. “With mobile, it’s not a question of what you want to do but how you want to do it,” said Barry Newman of Saveology. Newman joined moderator Boyan Josic, Editor in Chief of Daily Deal [...]

Groupon made waves in the industry when they announced they were trying for an IPO—unfortunately not all of the press was positive. This announcement also gave many other players in the space a goal to reach for. But, as Mark Donahue, Chairman & CEO, TripAlertz, pointed out, 99% of businesses in this space will never [...]

For many, the last year has been one of acquisition. No one knows this better than Chad Jacques, CEO of CrowdSavings, whose company bought seven companies so far in 2011—four of those were in the last six weeks. At the last panel of the Daily Deal Media Conference 2011 Day 1, the panelists tackled an [...]

While Canada is not usually considered an emerging market, the definitions are different when talking about the daily deal space because it’s such a new industry. These up-and-coming markets were discussed on the stage at the Daily Deal Media Conference 2011 by Ghassan Halazon, CEO TeamBuy.ca; Dan Smith, Chief Marketing Officer, kgbdeals; Dan Hess, CEO, [...]

Emcee and Daily Deal News President Eric Meyer eloquently noted that the legal panel, “made 40 minutes of legal talk interesting.” Throughout that 40 minutes, Jay Edelson, Partner of Edelson, McGuire, and David Almeida, Partner, Sedgwick, LLP, engaged in a legal debate over daily deal sites and legal issues including class action suits and arbitration [...]