Business Owners, a question

[tmleadr03]

Have you ever tried Amazon Local or Groupon or anything like that?

I am giving it a whirl for the next 6 days and was curious if anyone else had tried it.

[sturn18]

I've tried groupon and some other services similar. They are effective in that they do bring in customers, but in order to make any money using them you have to upsell when the customer comes in. Don't count on seeing any of those customers again because regardless of how good the service is they are generally shoppers and only care about the goods or services being on sale.

[anaphylaxis]

I've tried groupon and some other services similar. They are effective in that they do bring in customers, but in order to make any money using them you have to upsell when the customer comes in. Don't count on seeing any of those customers again because regardless of how good the service is they are generally shoppers and only care about the goods or services being on sale.

+1

I've done it before... never again. You'll be selling a product or service for a fraction of what you usually do. The people you'll attract want something at the bottom dollar yet their expectations and sense of entitlement are as if they had paid full price and then some.

[ruthabagah]

I've tried groupon and some other services similar. They are effective in that they do bring in customers, but in order to make any money using them you have to upsell when the customer comes in. Don't count on seeing any of those customers again because regardless of how good the service is they are generally shoppers and only care about the goods or services being on sale.

+1 again on this comment: groupon is a great tool to create "foot" traffic and upsell customer on other product/services at regular price.

[colorider]

Did groupon and living social. NEVER again. Brings out the bottom feaders.

[spqrzilla]

Chris, if I knew you were going to sign up, I would have tried to talk you out of it.

[lowbeyond]

Dont

Run Away Fast

Hell i dont even buy any groupon stuff anymore, even if its a killer "deal" since i heard what they do to small biz.

ps// no idea about the amzn stuff.. but i imagine its similar

[tmleadr03]

Hmmmm....


I am sensing a theme here.


Hopefully my other marketing venture works better then this one.

[Bailey Guns]

My wife and I must be bottom feeders because we use Groupon coupons for restaurants all the time. Of course we always buy extras like drinks and such, and we always tip the server on the full price of the meal and then some...usually about 30%...the servers don't seem to mind that we're bottom feeders. We also use the Tony's Meat Market Goupons all the time. It's the only way we can afford most of the stuff Tony's sells and Tony's doesn't seem to mind because they offer Groupon deals about twice per year. Being bottom feeders, we take advantage of their offer.

Again, not speaking from the business advertising side, but some of you guys crack me up.

You piss and moan if someone sells an item for more than what you think it's worth and then when a bargain for the consumer comes along like Groupon you act like it's run by Satan. Maybe I'm missing something. Does Groupon put a gun to the head of merchants and force them to offer their services or products at a discounted price? Or do many merchants think it's an attractive way to get people in the door and sell their product? I'm guessing it's usually the latter because I sure see a LOT of repeat Groupon offers out there. Not saying it's for every merchant but they sure seem to have a pretty successful business model to me.

And, NEWSFLASH, for those of you who haven't run your own business upselling is the name of the game of you sell retail products. A lot of you understand that and understand Groupon offers you a chance to do that to customers you'd otherwise likely never see.

Bottom feeders? Way to be a dick.

[Cman]

You will end up very poor customers with that type of advertising. I bought a list from infousa that had the type of customers that I wanted. Then I did direct mail advertising to them with letters and offers.
Good luck!