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Groupon getting pummeled daily in Israeli deal market, Buy2 leads
- ediggs 15y agoIt's all in perspective - "100,000 Facebook friends in Israel is equivalent to over 5,000,000 Facebook friends in America"
- BSeward 15y agoAs a straight translation of percentages, sure. But who cares that 1.3% of the population Likes something except in the context of total population? "1 out of 77 kids has an awful haircut, an equivalent to over 5,000,000 awful haircuts in America." Better to keep the scales the same: US state with closest pop to Israel is Virginia, total market available to Groupon in Israel is arguably about equivalent to that.
- creativeone 15y agoThe point is that the penetration of daily deal sites in the Israeli market is deeper than that of the US. And groupon is lagging compared to its Israeli competitors.
- patrickgzill 15y agohow big is the Israeli market overall? About the size of what US state - maybe Pennsylvania?
- creativeone 15y agoGDP of israel is just over that of Louisiana.
- ig1 15y agoIt's ridiculous to measure the popularity of any non-Facebook service by number of Facebook fans. The percentage of users who fan a page of Facebook can vary vastly between competing companies.
- creativeone 15y agoI wouldnt say totally preposterous to compare. After all these companies rely heavily on Facebook for their marketing, of course their email list is probably their key marketing tool, but that info isn't available. Then again, I did also write the article so I am a little biased, thanks for the feedback.