Although couponing has gained mainstream acceptance, those pesky pieces of paper have proven an inefficient way to redeem the offer. They get lost or expire, or slow checkout lines to a crawl. And what if the marketer wants to see if they were even used, and by whom? Take a look at the next step [...]

Chirpify’s 1.3M in VC Funding Solidifies New Social Commerce Model” T-Commerce” - Twitter + Social Commerce  First came electronic commerce known as “E-commerce”, followed by Social electronic commerce, “Social Commerce”. Next social commerce became categorized down to the platform with socialized selling with Facebook, or “F-Commerce”. Now the circle broadens with the introduction of T-Commerce – socialized selling on Twitter. [...]

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 [...]

Daily Deal Dilemmas - Contributed by PulseTV & Vidsense CEO, Jaffer Ali   “Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” –Peter Tosh, musician (Popularized by Blues man, Albert King)    Most people think that Groupon created the daily deal business. Not so. Back in 2001, a French entrepreneur, Jacques-Antoine Granjon pioneered a private [...]

DDM Summit Recap: Presenter Veronika Sonsev, CEO, InSparq on “Social Shopping: Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy Alone” The marketing landscape has changed for ecommerce. Customer acquisition costs are rising. There are lower barriers to entry, which mean more competition. And, it is easy for even the most loyal customers to defect to competitors. With these trends, it is easy [...]

Savemore.com, the daily deal website notorious in the industry and deal community for ‘scamming’ shoppers, may have finally closed their doors. Thursday afternoon, Daily Deal Media received a reader comment that the savemore.com site is down. Although, the page on the site to display past deals does load still, the main site which conducts the [...]

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 [...]

Daily Deal Summit East Panel Review DDS Panel Topic:  ”Making The Deal Model Work” Moderator: Jess Swain, Director, Brand and Strategy, ShopLately.comPanelists: Marc Caltabiano, VP, Products & Marketing, Cartera Commerce Dave Gilbertson, VP & GM, SaveLocal from Constant Contact Dave Wachtendonk, Product Manager, SaveLocal from Constant Contact Mo Yehia, Co-founder, Sqoot What is not working [...]

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 [...]

Facebook Daily Deals? Facebook Group Buying? Facebook Offer Network? … This Time it Just May Work It appears as though Facebook is trying their luck once again at the daily deal, social and ecommerce game with their newest program, Facebook Offers. Only two short weeks following the forced Facebook Timelime mandate, the social networking giant [...]