Recommendation Groupon has become the No. 1 of deal-daily Internet companies, and I think that its information systems are good enough. Either security issues, or technical support are good enough so far. However, Groupon still need to focus on the future because this industry is very competitive. Groupon have to keep learning and improving. Therefore, I recommend that Groupon should focus on the aspect of data storage and payment method. Data storage: There is no doubt that Groupon have done very well on the aspect of data space. Groupon utilized cloud-based services to store its data when it was established. The purpose is that Groupon wanted to eliminate the possibility of the limitation of data space during the process of quickly expanding
The cloud, the group members can be completely releasedfrom the troublesome local data storage and maintenance. It also poses a significant risk to the confidentialityof those stored files.
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Groupon is an internet website company focused on generating revenue by utilizing relationships with merchants to provide consumers with discounts on select items. The goal of the discounted vouchers is to drive additional consumer store traffic and generate revenue for merchants which are shared with Groupon via a predetermined contractual percentage. Groupon generates visibility and exposure with email and social networking to increase consumer spending at specific merchants. Groupon has many features from personalization of product offerings to specific demographics and target segments. In addition, a more defined value proposition allowing merchants an opportunity to showcase their own product offerings on
After discovering errors in its accounting and the failure to set aside enough reseveres for customer refunds, Groupon. Inc announced revision of its first financial results posted as a public company in April 2012, which resulted in a cut to its 2011 fourth-quarter revenue of $14.3 million. In addition, this revision has reduced its fourth quarter operating income by $30 million, net income by $22.6 million, and earnings per share by $0.04, due to an increase of operating expenses after compliance with GAAP.
Groupon has been called the fastest growing company in history. The idea of offering real discounts to people in local markets, providing signature daily deals and exposing people to new products and services at deeply discounted rates has attracted a groundswell of consumer support and influenced other companies to start similar businesses.
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The three problematic areas that Groupon will face in its future are use and repeat purchases, managing its growth, and high levels of competition. For some of us we by our coupons months in advance and forget to use them which often leaves us dissatisfied about the purchase. Still with its lack of customer loyalty new subscribers are flocking to the website, which has created a demand for continuous expansion of the company’s infrastructure as well as goods and services that it offers. Moreover, the inundation of mobile devices has created some competition. Now anyone with a smartphone can save money on the spot. This has leveraged the competition against Groupon. For example will shopping at Kohls I used a 20% off coupon I found on my phone
This is where Groupon comes in with having the ability to save the consumer money anywhere from 50% to 90% through different services and products. Saving people money is only going to mean better things for Groupon in these economic times. We can only think that Groupon is going to fair well despite the economic situation the country is currently suffering.
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Groupon was founded in 2008 by CEO Andrew Mason; Groupon is the market leader in the daily deal industry. The company has shown remarkable growth since 2009, now with over 150 million subscribers worldwide and 1.6 billion dollars of profits in 2011 (Slade, Hawkins & Teng).
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With the internet technology, everyone can stay at home for online shopping. What’s more, if you can enjoy daily discounts with all the information, home delivery and 24-hours daily operation, that’s all can be found by buying Groupon. Groupon, the company has successfully captured millions of online consumers throughout the world. The marketing strategy of Groupon captures the consumer behavior. Consumer buying behavior, defined as... “The buying behavior of final consumers, individual and households who buy goods and services for personal”.Groupon consumers mainly responses to:
I believe that Groupon has become successful for many different reasons. First of all, Groupon was the first to transport the traditional “Coupon clipping” to the online world. This opened many opportunities. It was something new, exciting to consumers that they hadn´t seen in this way. So Groupon had a first mover advantage even though they only connected already existing ideas and technologies in a new way. By being online Groupon could reach many, possibly millions, of people at once. This was a strong argument when Groupon talked to local merchants. As most of these merchants did not have an extensive marketing budget and were not necessarily familiar with new
Groupon is a deal based business that brings customers discounted deals from the businesses. As a result of massive success and the growing competition, the business is faced with the option of either selling to Google or developing an effective marketing strategy for continuing its own. In the due context, the underlying report proposes a marketing plan for successfully dealing with the market challenges (Chatterjee, O”Keeffe, and Streiff, 2012).