Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of customizable deal software solutions and training. Getting your emails past an ISP’s deliverability standards alone is a significant barrier.  Getting your emails opened and links clicked is an entirely different barrier.  Like many of you, I am [...]

In Groupon’s world, web-based group buying remains #1 in revenue and merchant ROI.  Groupon’s SoLoMo approach, Groupon Now, launched in mid-2011, is showing both lower adoption and revenue rates compared to the company’s standard, web-based group buying Groupon deals. As we review nearly a year into the SoLoMo, aka Social + Local + Mobile, launch of [...]

The Daily Deal Summit East has concluded and the number of questions being raised about the uncertainty of the industry hang in the air like stale smoke in a pub. It has a familiar smell that became tolerable during the honeymoon of bloated valuations and first-in hype. But, it was time to clear the air. [...]

Marketo provides on-demand marketing software which helps businesses enhance and optimize their sales and marketing efforts. The acquisition of Crowd Factory, creator of white-label social marketing tools, will allow Marketo to increase and diversify the services they offer. Crowd Factory was a hot purchase for Marketo, due to its platform and operations. The ability for [...]

The Daily Deal Media team had a fantastic time at the Daily Deal Summit Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The conference was host to representatives from every aspect of the daily deal and e-commerce industry: Deal sites, Merchant Services, Investors, White Labels, Consultants, CEOs, Start-ups and many more. You can see the entire list [...]

ZigMail has just introduced its latest offering called Zigit. This is a free web service that intends to widen the reach of emailed promotional offers across social media contacts. Zigit allows people to share email offers from their Inbox across social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. This functionality of Zigit will help email marketers [...]

The Daily Deal Media team is having a great time at the Daily Deal Summit in the heart of the Big Apple – Times Square! Boyan, Kara and I have met some great people and enjoyed re-connecting with those we’ve met before. The panels have been great! Some of yesterday’s panels featured CEO’s and founders [...]

SaveLocal Gives Us Daily Deal Summit East 2012 Speaker Teaser with Daily Deal Market Infographic   SaveLocal of Constant Contact has released their newest infograph as a creative prelude to the Daily Deal Summit in NYC beginning tomorrow, April 17th. Learn more about the statistics and reasoning behind the these state of the deal market figures with SaveLocal [...]

At the age of 22, Dave Wachtendonk purchased a murder mystery events company that would impress Agatha Christie. With the burgeoning daily deal space, small companies have become bombarded with phone calls from competitive vendors seeking their account. Dave Wachtendonk had become one of those small businesses owners. This is a story about how the [...]

Seamless Integration Shopping cart software and ecommerce developer 3dcart has partnered up with ReferralCandy and formatted a software integration platform. The process seamlessly integrates ReferralCandy’s referral application with 3dcart allowing the company to continue its focus on social selling, Through the ReferralCandy system, customers are enabled to share referral coupons via email and or social [...]