Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training. Let’s face it, one of most common objections negative investors and naysayers have of the daily deal industry’s future is that the barrier to entry is too low.  To launch a daily [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training. With so much drama surrounding the daily deal industry, it makes many wonder whether the daily deal phenomenon is fizzling out? I’ll give you the short answer. No. To really understand the [...]

  Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training. One of foremost missions of daily deal websites is to convert visitors to subscribers, subscribers to buyers, and buyers to repeat buyers.  As your deal site grows, it is important to [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training. If you are anything like me, you’ve noticed a pattern that’s emerged on your Facebook newsfeed.  The posts that I am referring to all start with something like; “Vote for me to [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne. Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training. The daily deal industry leader, Groupon, has continued down its shaky, uncertain path, leaving the skies none too clear in the immediate future. The company’s CEO, Andrew Mason, was recently fired [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training. We at Daily Deal Builder have been watching the deal space since its inception and one thing we really like about the deal industry is its ability to not only bring us [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training. If you are anything like my friends and I, you are quick to take note of companies that support charitable causes. Most of the time it makes us like the company and [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training. Love them or hate them, niche daily deal sites have been on the rise.  The way for these smaller daily dealers to see success, is by going above the status quo and [...]

If you feel that you are a “right fit” for the deal industry, one of the first steps you need to decide is whether or not you want to create a site from scratch or use deal software to create your site.  This article discusses the difference between the self-serve type deal software providers and the [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training. Most of the time when we read about daily dealers in the news it is primarily about the large players like Groupon and Living Social.  What we don’t often hear or read [...]