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.

[Jim B]

I am sensing a theme here.


Hopefully my other marketing venture works better then this one.

Have you tried Google Adwords (paid search)?

[tmleadr03]

Have you tried Google Adwords (paid search)?

Yes, the return on that was nothing. Seriously. Saw no uptick in business or traffic to my website.