Magazine; Meet the Fastest Growing Company Ever; August 30‚ 2010 Chicago Magazine; On Groupon and its founder‚ Andrew Mason; August 2010 Inc. ; Groupon Goes National With Gap Deal; Aug 20‚ 2010 The Wall Street Journal; Groupon Moves Into TV Land‚ Does Deals With Top Chefs; August 4‚ 2010‚ Los Angels Times; ’Daily deals’ sites turn discounts into a social media phenomenon; October 26‚ 2010 The Wall Street Journal; Groupon And The Clone Wars; September 16‚ 2010 CNN; Man tries living on coupons for a year;
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Groupon Inc. History Groupon is a word combination between “group” and “coupon.” Groupon is a website that offers the best daily deals on restaurants and bars around your area‚ getaways‚ spas‚ goods‚ and things to do. Groupon was launched in November 2008. Groupon is an outgrowth of ThePoint.com‚ an online community launched in 2007 for organizing all forms of group action and fund-raising around a “tipping point” of required participants. Its headquarters and first market was Chicago‚ then
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Sauber Groupon 1. An understanding of consumer behavior helped Groupon grow from 400 subscribers in Chicago in 2008 to 60 million subscribers in 40 countries today by developing the concept of making offers that are only carried out if enough people commit to participate in them. Groupon’s simple business model offers subscribers at least one deal in their city each day‚ but the coupon is only valid if a certain number of subscribers sign up for this deal. 2. The Groupon Promise is
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Describe the major trends and forces that are changing the marketing landscape in this age of relationships? Dramatic changes in the marketplace are making companies rethink their marketing strategy‚ as it is becoming more challenging. The forces that are changing the marketing landscape can be described into five major factors: Changing economy: The great recession has caused many consumers to change their spending habits and buying attitude. This created an age of consumer frugality‚ which
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The Bypass Strategy Probably the most difficult and failure-prone of all plans‚ the bypass strategy enables attackers to bypass its chief competitors and diversify into unrelated products or markets. From a military perspective‚ this may work as a temporary flanking strategy‚ but in marketing it runs the risk of diluting the core business and central operating strategy‚ extending resources into areas where the company had no business being. Pepsico diluted its core competency—the production and
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Writing Assignment 1) Groupon’s Revenue Recognition issues In September 2011‚ Groupon dramatically changed the way it reported revenue. Prior to this date‚ Groupon recorded revenue acting as a principal‚ not an agent. Recording revenue in this manner means that Groupon was recording a “cost of goods sold” entry with each “revenue” entry on every sale it made. These entries heavily inflated the amount of revenue Groupon was reporting. Although net income was not affected by this‚ many other things
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* FOCUSED OR NICHE STRATEGY WHAT IS FOCUSED OR NICHE STRATEGY? * Focus strategy based on low-cost * Concentrate on a narrow customer segment beating the competition on lower cost * Focus strategy based on differentiation * Offering niche customers a product customized to their needs * Overall objective of both focus strategies is to do a better job of serving a niche target market than competitors * Keys to success * Choose a niche were customers have a distinctive
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Competitive Strategy Asia-Pacific Marketing Federation Certified Professional Marketer Copyright Marketing Institute of Singapore Outline * Introduction * Sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) * Sources of SCA * Strategies for * Market Leaders * Challengers * Followers‚ and * Nichers Introduction * Having a competitive advantage is necessary for a firm to compete in the market * But what is more important is whether
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is not inherent proof in the market that consumers are interested in actually being loyal to a brand advertised on Groupon. Additionally‚ it is unclear whether this is a financially attractive option for the vendors (ie. bounceback offers) Strategic Fit Low: completely opposite from their current strategy of having a wide offering‚ catering to multiple market segments High: Groupon already has the infrastructure (sales people‚ website backend (customer tools)‚ and customer / vendor lists Medium:
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The Groupon Effect Harness the Behavior‚ Not the Deal February 2012 Context Daily deal sites have become a regular fixture in the columns of respected business publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the Financial Times What… Is the hype about around deal sites? Their growth in popularity with consumers has garnered frequent attention from analysts‚ highlighting their success only to meet it with equal skepticism With so much interest in the market‚ Grail Research
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