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"I don't even know the name of mine" That's kind of scary. I just got a Sarah Palin flashback. "Groupon is very good at creating hoards of customers; what it
by singer 16y ago
"I don't even know the name of mine"
That's kind of scary. I just got a Sarah Palin flashback.
"Groupon is very good at creating hoards of customers; what it lacks, I think, is the consultation that should be provided to businesses about how to limit and handle the crowd."
Maybe they just need to allow businesses to put a cap on the number of coupons that are sold? Since a lot of companies are only advertising to their local market, I wouldn't even think this would be an issue.
- Jun8 16y ago:-) I doubt you read your local newspaper with the same zeal as, say, WSJ, Economist, etc. Local newspapers are quite irrelevant unless you are really tied to the community. I think they already have the cap thing. However, it's not as simple as that. A lot of businesses possess neither the experience nor the theoretical skills to analyze what-if situations involving hundreds or thousands of new customers. When you say the companies are "only" advertising to their local market you are making teh same gross underestimation that some of these poor small businesses do: local can be huge! For example, AFAIK Chicago metro area is around 3M people, when you throw in the suburbs it around 9M. When you advertise to Chicago groupon, all those people have access (e.g. I live 30 mi outside Chicago but still bought the Tall Ship Wendy deal at Navy Pier this summer, they were quite overwhelmed with the demand.)