50 Australian Daily Deal Sites Close In 2012, Daily Deal Industry To Stagnate
While Groupon recorded an awesome 650% year on year growth in 2011, the daily deal site industry took a turn for the worst in 2012, registering an increase of a mere 1.4% on year.
The sudden cease in growth brought on the folding of several group buying sites, bringing the number from 80 down to around 30 today. Telsyte, an Australian based market research and consulting organization that specializes in broadband technologies, services and metrics, explained to Australia’s Marketing Mag that blame changes in…
Jack Media Dips Into The Fashion Industry, Acquires Daily Deal Site – All The Sales
Jack Media, a well-known online marketing firm based in Canada and Australia, announced yesterday the acquisition of leading apparel and fashion accessory daily-deal website All the Sales. Jack Media is known for its ability to “turn browsers into buyers.” The merger has fashionistas excited for the company’s promises to help savvy shoppers “never miss a sale… again.”
All the Sales is a fashion forward site is self-described as a “group of shoppers” frustrated by the time and effort it takes “to find a…
Groupon’s Nepal Trip Takes A Turn For The Worst For Australian Couple
Lulka is an important base for trekking and mountain climbing.
Michael, a 26 year old from Melbourne, Australia, has recently had an unpleasant experience with Groupon resulting in a $3,500 debt on his credit card.
The Aussie native planned on going on a trip, with his girlfriend, to Nepal in October and early November of 2012. The all-inclusive trip (accommodations, meals, flights, international flights) had been put together by Groupon and participating merchants. Since Michael had planned the trip over four months…
DealFree Expands Deal Offerings with New Travel and Wellness Deals
Australian Daily Deal Site, DealFree Adds Travel and Wellness Deals for Holiday Season
Looking for a last minute holiday gift this season? Australia-based site DealFree now offers users daily deals on travel in cities around the Australia area along with new wellness products.
“It’s the final week before the holidays and there’s a shopping frenzy out there. It’s during times like these that people appreciate the value of online shopping,” The Digital Group Managing Director Ashley Farrugia said in a recent press release.…
Australia’s Spreets Cuts most of Sales Force to Become Daily Deal Aggregator
It looks like more jobs have hit the cutting room floor in Australia’s daily deal industry. Last week, Spreets eliminated most of its sales staff as part of a plan to move to an affiliate model, aggregating deals from other providers. No information was given on the exact number of job cuts
This news follows closely on the heels of LivingSocial’s recent cuts of 24 jobs in Australia and 400 worldwide, including 160 at the company’s Washington D.C. headquarters.
As…
Running Daily Deals Abroad (Part 2)
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.
I initially wrote about the daily deal industry abroad and have since been traveling in Europe and have taken notice of a few key things about the deal industry…
My first and foremost observation is that when traveling abroad, daily deal sites do not cater to foreigners. Redeeming coupons and vouchers as a local…
Australia’s Group Buying Revenue Plummets to $530 Million for 2012
Australia’s niche players in the field of group buying have been watching their bottom dollars in recent months. While prior forecasts had placed revenues for the sector at $600 million, drops in consumer spending have lowered that figure to $530 million.
News has been grim for nearly a year running, with tech analysts Telsyte reporting four consecutive quarterly drops for the once-thriving industry. As one might expect, the brunt has been hardest on the small-name players.
In the…
eBay Reports Surge in Australian Smartphone Commerce
Mobile commerce is booming Dow
n Under. According to research conducted by eBay and PayPal, over $5.6 billion in sales have been generated through the two sites during 2012 by Australian smartphone users.
Observers in other parts of the world might dismiss such figures, yet the current antipodean surge is no small fry for a land of 22.8 million people. After all, Australian retail on the same two sites maxed out at $155 million during 2010. When sales growth is taken into consideration, one could…
Daily Deals Sites Take Heat from Aussie Medical Board
The Australian medical industry has called for a crackdown on the world’s leading deal-a-day sites over what it alleges to be the unlawful promotion of cosmetic products and procedures.
Doctors in the land Down Under have cried foul over promotions of Botox injections and liposuction, claiming that daily deals on such procedures constitute breaches to the laws of advertising – which prohibit such promotions on any type of drastic medical procedure.
Groupon, for instance, has recently advertised discounts by as…
Running Daily Deals Abroad
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 training.
I am traveling in Paris and Amsterdam for a Workation (part work / part vacation) and one of my objectives is to closely monitor and take note of the workings of daily deals and coupon sites in Europe. We have noticed over the past couple of years that the demand to start a daily deal site in countries outside of the…
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