How Daily Deal Marketing Changed Digital Marketing in 2011
The year Groupon turned down Google, aired a Super Bowl ad that backfired and went public anyway, while Facebook and Google both tried and failed to compete.
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The year Groupon turned down Google, aired a Super Bowl ad that backfired and went public anyway, while Facebook and Google both tried and failed to compete.
How a failed group-action website in Chicago pivoted into Groupon, the fastest-growing company anyone had tracked, and built the daily deal category around it.
An operational playbook for the deal-a-day model in 2008, built on the pattern Woot pioneered years earlier and few other retailers had yet copied.
Twelve concrete tactics for running deep-discount, limited-time promotions the way sites like Woot proved out, without training customers to wait for discounts.