What an amazing few hours for the online coupons sector.
The biggest news of the day is from Facebook who will be launching their Facebook Deals service that will offer businesses the opportunity to promote coupons via Facebook. Continue reading
I’ve previously written about Foursquare and Groupon and made comparisons of the two in previous posts, but in my opinion, despite both being great businesses, both have their limitations.
Brendan, our Myzerr CTO, posted an article today on his view of these limitations and a little project we have been working on called Crowdsauce.com. Brendan explains ‘CrowdSauce aims to use the power of the people to get great deals from Businesses that YOU love. You put the pressure on them, get the numbers and we’ll ask them to provide you with a discount. It’s Groupon in reverse, it’s Foursquare that’s been rewired to benefit YOU.’
Have a look at the post and join the Crowdsauce crowd today.
I spoke with Patrick Stafford from Smart Company earlier and in relation to the new location based features for business being implemented by Facebook. See his article here. Continue reading
When I speak to people about what I do most people usually ask me about Groupon and Foursquare. Both have been in the tech news lately with Groupons’ amazing $1 Billion valuation and Foursquare’s reported $95 Million valuation. So here are my views on both and why I prefer the Foursquare model: Continue reading