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Prediction: Groupon will eventually become old news, and irrelevant. A "Copy-Cat" will focus on developing a customer base consisting of quality niche customer
by clistctrl 15y ago
Prediction: Groupon will eventually become old news, and irrelevant. A "Copy-Cat" will focus on developing a customer base consisting of quality niche customers, and become the dominate player.
- spitfire 15y agoprediction on top of prediction. There'll be multiple players, in multiple niches and a few larger players in the general market. prediction on top of prediction on top of prediction: Market forces and economics will come to play. (nature abhors a vacuum, where there's money people will flock).
- trotsky 15y agoprediction^3: Interest in group buying wanes both from consumers and business owners. Groupon branches out to a more traditional ad network/ad services company with a local focus to try to leverage their sales staff. Living Social accepts reduced margins compared to todays market and sticks it out in some of the niches that work well like day spas.
- johnx123 15y agoAnother prediction: Most merchants will start their own deal website like http://thesuperdeal.com/birmingham/deals/recent http://thesuperdeal.com/birmingham/deals/recent Read somewhere that these guys use agriya groupon software, part of their ideas were copied by real groupon in their 2.0 release.