Email Rules For Offers
Not a totally surprising Chart of the Day from Business Insider. Email rules when it comes to presenting offers to consumers.
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Cloning A Clone
Back in the day when deal sites were all the rage and Andrew Mason was still CEO of Groupon he would talk about "clones" all the time. Clones being competitors. It seemed he used the term in a derogatory manner that always struck me as odd. In every large fast growing market I have been in, […]
Continue reading →Where You End
So after my somewhat gushing Groupon earnings call summary, here's the other side of the coin. One of the things that CEO Eric Lefkofsky said during the call, and it has become a major talking point since, is that Groupon wants to become the first place shoppers turn to when they "want to buy anything, anywhere, […]
Continue reading →Groupon’s Q2 Earnings Notes
On Wednesday Groupon (GRPN) announced their second quarter earnings. The stock market reacted quite favorably sending the stock up 22% in a single day. That is quite the dramatic recovery for a company with a pretty solid record of missteps with the financial community. This is why the stock is moving. Groupon named co-interim chief […]
Continue reading →Is Social Media Failing Retailers?
L2 Think Tank recently released a study focused on speciality retail. eMarketer published some information from the study including the chart below, that shows social media is not really have that big an impact on ecommerce sales. This social referral result is from speciality retailers with a 90% use rate on Facebook, Insta, Pinterest, Twitter, […]
Continue reading →Growing Consumer Mobile Coupon Interest
Interesting new report out by comScore and UPS, Pulse of the Online Shopper. The most amazing snippet to me is that 47% of shoppers are willing to have a retailer send a coupon to their smartphone when they are in-store or nearby. Seems like a sea change from not that long ago. From the study here […]
Continue reading →Groupon’s Growing Mobile Business
That post the other day about room to grow in the mobile coupon space. From the Groupon Q1 earnings call this is what it looks like today for them, one of the leaders in local couponing. Sales via mobile have risen to 45%. There's gold in them devices.
Continue reading →Speed Matters
My friends over at Rigor put together this litte infographic on the ROI of web performance. A little speed goes a long way for an ecommerce company.
Continue reading →Fab
VentureBeat reported today that Fab just closed a $40 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Fab is an oft talked about company in the halls of Half Off Depot. Before today I do not know about the company's pivot from a social network for gay men. Interesting. In Fab's announcement they attributed their success to three […]
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