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2.1 Market Summary Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that is localized to major geographic markets worldwide. Launched in November 2008, the first market for Groupon was Chicago, followed soon thereafter by Boston, New York City, and Toronto. Groupon has over 50 million subscribers across 300 cities in more than 40 countries. The idea for Groupon was created by Andrew Mason who is currently the company’s CEO. [update]Groupon serves more than 150 markets in North America and 100 markets in Europe, Asia and South America and has amassed 60 million registered users. The growth in the future is likely to be at a slower pace, primarily because the company is already one of the largest in the local deals space.

1. Coupons have been around forever, so why has Groupon become successful? 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

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:

• SWOT analysis Strengths As the pioneer in the daily deals market, Groupon gains the first mover advantage of capturing more market shares and building customer loyalty. By operating in approximately 48 countries worldwide, it acquired strong global brand recognition and foothold in these markets. In recent years, Groupon has attempted to diversify

Groupon Review 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

Groupon creates value through the low costs they offer additionally, through the convenience and the extensive variety of items they provide. Groupons initial value proposition was to enable local organizations to present individuals to their businesses, in this manner enabling organizations to gain future potential customers. The greater part of their income relies upon the quantity of items

Transnational Management: Applied to the Case of Groupon Maastricht University School of Business and Economics Maastricht, Dec. 4th, 2012 Course: Global Business Table of contents Page 1. Introduction 2 2. Business model 3 3. Organizational Structure 4 4. Groupon’s corporate strategy 5 5. Groupons global strategy 6 6. Groupon’s entry to China 7 7. An Evolving Role 10 8. Conclusion 11 9. References 12 10. Appendix 13 1. Introduction Groupon is a deal-of-the day Internet start-up company that was

4. Updating with time: Groupon keep on updating itself providing new deals every time hunting the right people and right merchandises.

The Basics of Capitol Budgeting: Evaluating Cash Flows Mini Case a. Capital budgeting is the process of analyzing projects and determining which ones to accept and include in the capital budget.

Marketing Plan For Groupon Mehmet Ozkara Irmak Tuncer Serra Tankut Mehmet Burak Sezer Meltem Merve Aydin Marketing Strategy Ted Clark SUNY – New Paltz 22/06/15 MARKETING PLAN FOR GROUPON 1. Executive Summary 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).

What we recommend is that, Groupon needs to separate its financial duties once the company go public on the stock market, it has to go out and make quarterly earnings meaning to say it will be transparent. Because one company has to go on transparent to the public as this plays a big role in the growth of the company, stock market where investors would want to decide whether to buy Groupon stock or not. Groupon as a middle person between it’s customer and the merchants who offers a deal. When all of these happens, the least thing that could occur is that the stock goes down and Groupon’s stock lost about 85% of its value which is really bad that it’s worth was a little more than $2 billion.

(1) Introduction Karl and Christopher Chong were the co-founders of Groupon Singapore, an e-commerce marketplace offering a variety of deals to consumers. It acquired their group-buying site, Beeconomic, in November 2010, 7 months after its existence for reportedly $24 million. Being one of the fastest growing companies in Singapore, it employed “160 employees within three years” ("Karl Chong", n.d.) and has an “annual sales turnover of US$65 million” ("Karl Chong", n.d.), surpassing the performance of Amazon and eBay.

5. Groupon Groupon is an app that searches through more than 500 cities and brings you the bestdeals in many spheres of life like food, technology items, and apparel among other categories. It goes hunting down for vouchers, any entertainment deals, savings for particular restaurants, and discounts on fashion. This app is free.

SWOT ANALYSIS GROUPON | | Gracia Marhaeni [ 2IBLF1 ] GMK 01-11-2012 | Summary The first page of the report will provide an introduction. The introduction briefly inform the reason why I wrote this report. This report has been made due to the fact that I would like to inform other vendors about the underline problem of Groupon and what the solution could be for Groupon to take its leadership back in this industry. Furthermore I formulated the question that I wanted to answer in this report: What can or should Groupon do to develop their strategy to maintain competing in the Electronic Commerce industry?

Describe the business model, value proposition, target customers, and how they acquire new customers. Groupon is an easy way to get huge discounts while discovering fun activities in your suit. Each day, it features a cool new experience and unbeatable price in dozens of cities across the country. From