Dealfind: What Happened and a Closer Look at the Merger with TeamBuy
As most of you have heard, Dealfind merged with TeamBuy back in January following a turbulent time at Dealfind which included sweeping changes in management and an alarming amount of complaints about customer service, order fulfillment and product value.
We have profiled Dealfind many times on DDM and tracked their impressive growth into one of the leading daily deal sites across Canada. So what went wrong? What really happened and what’s in store for this company now that they’ve merged with TeamBuy?
Here…
Press Release: The Entire Canadian Deals Ecosystem; A Lot Larger Than Realized
WireService.ca Press Release – March 5, 2013 - It is well known that Canadians love finding and redeeming deals. They receive these deals, savings, offers, rebates and incentives from a wide selection of sources. Until now, however, the industry could not easily answer how large in scope the deals industry was in Canada. Nor could anyone answer how many deal categories existed, or what categories there were beyond daily deals and coupons, who the leading deal providers are in the country per category, or who the leading coupon providers, savings…
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…
Dealfind and TeamBuy.ca Announce Merger
TeamBuy.ca and Dealfind.com, two of Canada’s leading e-commerce companies, are pleased to announce a transformational merger that creates Canada’s largest online deals destination.
The transaction—the largest ‘daily deal’ merger in North American history—brings two of the strongest brands in the industry together to offer an unrivaled array of unbeatable deals to over 3.5 million members combined—including a million throughout the United States. Both companies began as ‘deal-a-day’ sites, evolving rapidly to become leaders in the broader flash sales and e-commerce space across various categories.
“From a consolidation perspective, this merger gives us a rock solid foundation where one in every…
Sources Say Dealfind And Teambuy.ca May Merge
Two Canadian daily deal heavy hitters, DealFind and Teambuy.ca, may be merging according to the Canadian Deals Association, into the largest daily deal site in the country.
Teambuy.ca is a unique Canadian “team” daily deal site that started in 2009 as well. Visitors may browse through a number of handpicked deals, and as long as a minimum amount of people purchase the deal, everyone will receive it. Each deal, however, is not successful unless the minimum amount of buyers purchases the deal. If the minimum amount is…
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…
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…
Rogers and CIBC Make Mobile Commerce History in Canada – PayPal Begs to Differ
Rogers and CIBC made history – or did they?
Rogers Communications is a diversified Canadian communications and media company. The company employs leading edge technology in providing wireless voice and data communications services throughout Canada. It turns out that last week; Rogers and CIBC launched Suretap, a digital mobile payments service.
During the excitement of the moment, David Williamson (Senior Executive VP at CIBC) said; “We’re pleased to make history in mobile commerce in Canada by completing the country’s first mobile credit card transaction.” His…
Square Heads North to the Great White – It’s Time for Some International Exposure
The card reader is still free
For those that remember Square, the company has been quietly building quite the consumer base in the US. The company has decided to make its Mobile Card Reader available to those outside the country – first stop; Canada.
One had to figure it was just a matter of time. The company has a state of the art on the fly mobile payment processing service. Realistically anyone, anywhere that has a usable iOS or Android device, is a merchant…
Paymobile Pays to Obtain Zoompass
Canada-based financial services company Paymobile has purchased Zoompass, the mobile-based, stored payment offering from EnStream.
Zoompass comes with a contactless payment card system that enables person-to-person transfer of money, online transactions, card withdrawals and transactions at retail outlets.
The mobile device application is available for download from iTunes, Google Play, and Blackberry app stores.
“Since its inception, Zoompass has proven itself a reliable and robust mobile-commerce platform,” said Gino Porco, the Chief Executive
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