Ideas for marketing Group Deal site (like Groupon)?

stanwhisky

14 years ago

Do you mean something like Groupon?
Like finding local small business to partner with your deals site?

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AmericanWarrior 14 years ago

Originally Posted by stanwhisky

Do you mean something like Groupon?
Like finding local small business to partner with your deals site?

Sorry, yes precisely like Groupon, Livingsocial, etc.

To be precise, I'm looking to market to consumers / buyers - I'm sure local businesses in need of clients will be easy enough to find.
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Gary Ning Lo

14 years ago

You would get more replies if your question was clearer...

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~Gary

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keith1975 14 years ago

Would like more information in order to provide some helpful advice

I see there are lots of "groupon" type scripts available - here is an example for wordpress - http://groupbuyingsite.com

If I was setting up a groupon site I would either concentrate on a locality and then target local businesses
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stanwhisky

14 years ago

I and 2 other partners are planing start this business now.
We hope this is our new income stream.
We are in the info gathering phase.

2 market that we need to find: partners (small businesses) & buyers(consumers)

Finding partners is the issue because they have to be approached face to face to close the deal.
Find buyers is more easy but costly via PPC or facebook.

When you find scripts, please get the script provider that have prompt reply and support and can help update features in future.

Investment to this project can be very costly;

Anyway, I need more information on how to find partners via the internet. Does any one achieve finding partners in internet?

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AmericanWarrior

14 years ago

Originally Posted by stanwhisky

I and 2 other partners are planing start this business now.
We hope this is our new income stream.
We are in the info gathering phase.

2 market that we need to find: partners (small businesses) & buyers(consumers)

Finding partners is the issue because they have to be approached face to face to close the deal.
Find buyers is more easy but costly via PPC or facebook.

When you find scripts, please get the script provider that have prompt reply and support and can help update features in future.

Investment to this project can be very costly;

Anyway, I need more information on how to find partners via the internet. Does any one achieve finding partners in internet?

Hey, we should chat - what's your email or IM? I think we can help one another.

Originally Posted by keith1975

Would like more information in order to provide some helpful advice

I see there are lots of "groupon" type scripts available - here is an example for wordpress

If I was setting up a groupon site I would either concentrate on a locality and then target local businesses

Thanks, I'm looking into software in another thread.

Here I just wanna learn how to attract consumers (buyers). Groupon's 50-million email list is gonna be a bitch to compete with.

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stanwhisky 14 years ago

[QUOTE=AmericanWarrior;3967351]Hey, we should chat - what's your email or IM? I think we can help one another.

stanwhisky@yahoo dot com.

You can drop me an email.
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AmericanWarrior

14 years ago

So does anyone have suggestions for how to get traffic to a site like Groupon and Livingsocial?

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Glenellis

14 years ago

Originally Posted by AmericanWarrior

So does anyone have suggestions for how to get traffic to a site like Groupon and Livingsocial?

It really depends on who you are trying to reach. Housewives? Look to all those "Mom" forums and see if you can cut a deal with admin to run some banner ads (like you now see at the top of WF). College students? You'll probably have more success going offline and getting your website address into their hands using cheap giveaway gimmicks (mousepads, pens, etc., imprinted with your logo and web address.)

Grab a booth at any large gathering of people (fairs, festivals, concerts, sporting events, etc.) and give everyone who approaches something free that has your website address on it.

Send a press release to every newspaper, TV and radio station within a 50 mile radius and see if you can get some free press coverage. Considering the state of the economy, most of these will have at least some interest in giving you some coverage and providing their base with a way to save a few bucks.

Since it sounds like you are trying to develop a "local" groupon type site, all these ideas will get you some traffic for starters. Then you parlay that traffic by trading more freebies for some "refer-a-friend" traffic, and do the same with any new referrals you get from that traffic.

You won't end up with a million subscribers overnight, but you could build a local list up to 10-20k fairly quickly, and if you are sending them relevant offers with true savings, your business customers will be repeat buyers and you end up doing very well financially.

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AmericanWarrior

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Glenellis

It really depends on who you are trying to reach. Housewives? Look to all those "Mom" forums and see if you can cut a deal with admin to run some banner ads (like you now see at the top of WF). College students? You'll probably have more success going offline and getting your website address into their hands using cheap giveaway gimmicks (mousepads, pens, etc., imprinted with your logo and web address.)

Grab a booth at any large gathering of people (fairs, festivals, concerts, sporting events, etc.) and give everyone who approaches something free that has your website address on it.

Send a press release to every newspaper, TV and radio station within a 50 mile radius and see if you can get some free press coverage. Considering the state of the economy, most of these will have at least some interest in giving you some coverage and providing their base with a way to save a few bucks.

Since it sounds like you are trying to develop a "local" groupon type site, all these ideas will get you some traffic for starters. Then you parlay that traffic by trading more freebies for some "refer-a-friend" traffic, and do the same with any new referrals you get from that traffic.

You won't end up with a million subscribers overnight, but you could build a local list up to 10-20k fairly quickly, and if you are sending them relevant offers with true savings, your business customers will be repeat buyers and you end up doing very well financially.

Thanks for your advice. How about if I try to buy someone's list or something like that? I have money to invest and really need a good kickstart of that sort, but I don't know where to buy a list - all I know of is those opt-in email marketing companies where you pay $300 or whatever to email 4-5 million people.

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AmericanWarrior

14 years ago

No one knows?

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flippianstar11

Banned 14 years ago

Use viral marketing tools and drive traffic from social networks too.pm me for more help

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AmericanWarrior 14 years ago

Originally Posted by flippianstar11

Use viral marketing tools and drive traffic from social networks too.pm me for more help

Haha I don't think we can PM one another, cuz we both have under 50 posts. Can you please post up a bit of info? Also I'll get my postcount up in a few days. Thanks!
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flippianstar11

Banned 14 years ago

then wait for few days

THere are some advices that cant be shared

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AmericanWarrior

14 years ago

Haha no problemo.

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14 years ago

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cryst

14 years ago

try first to localise your website....

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AmericanWarrior

14 years ago

Originally Posted by cryst

try first to localise your website....

What do you mean?

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cruisinman

14 years ago

Get in touch with Tyler English with DailyDealBuilder dot com

Get the total package for less than $400 and a small monthly hosting fee.

Tell him Tom Coleman sent you.

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AmericanWarrior

14 years ago

Originally Posted by cruisinman

Get in touch with Tyler English with DailyDealBuilder dot com

Get the total package for less than $400 and a small monthly hosting fee.

Tell him Tom Coleman sent you.

Thanks, but a few other scripts have more features.

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TommyB

14 years ago

Social media,Twitter, facebook etc. you can also try coupon forums

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AmericanWarrior

14 years ago

THREAD CONTINUED BELOW - THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ying-site.html

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mio4545

14 years ago

the first mistake is that you use a groupon clone. the keyes for marketing is diferentiation and innovation. So with hudreds of site trying to look like groupon you are just going to looose time and money like all the rest.

New things are out... try orangedeals software a deal site software that doesnot look like groupon and has a new innovative business model more fair for businesses and coupon buyers.

free and open source

have a look at tecorange.com

tecorange.com/index.php/download-free-open-source-software/77-orangedeals-deal-site-software-free-open-source-php-mysql

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Babar2b

13 years ago

Find out your target audience by using ''google insight'' and try to post on group deal forums as much you can. Be relevant. websites like groupon and Redflagdeals have there on site forums.

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