The Internet Based Business Of Groupon

Corporate-level strategies are liable for market definition; they address the entire scope of the business. This strategy helps a business to diversify its service. It gives them direction in which geographic region they should operate and which service markets to strive in. “Thus, an effective corporate-level strategy creates, across all of a firm’s businesses, aggregate returns that exceed what those

Andrew Mason, Founder & CEO of Groupon, had a big idea, but was not aware how massive it could grow. Before Groupon, Mason begun a website called ThePoint.org as a site for collective action, to get groups of people together to solve public and social issues. It wasn’t as effective as he projected, and so started to think of how he could take the group approach of ThePoint.org and turn it into a business channel. Mason believed the Internet had potential to change how people discover and buy from local businesses. That’s when Andrew Mason came up with the excellent concept for Groupon. “Part of Groupon’s success is the simplicity of its business model…” (Kerin & Hartley, p. 110) Groupon offers “Deal of the Day” coupons from local and nationwide

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.

Groupon redefines how small businesses operate when it comes to attracting and selling to consumers. It helps businesses operate and grow more effectively. Groupon knows it has a social responsibility with respect to the society it operates in. It tries to help small businesses grow which in turn boosts the economy. Additionally, given the state of the economy, it helps consumers find deals at an affordable cost. Groupon has a corporate social responsibility department which has employees who work on “strengthening local communities, connecting customers to their neighborhoods, and making Groupon a better place to work” (Carlson)

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As Groupon is established in many countries of the world, a global strategy has to be pursued

However, by nature, customer priority on great deals only and unlikely in the future to purchase at higher retail prices. In the run long, the mechant come and go without continue offering they products / services to Groupon’s customers.

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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).

“Competitive strategy involves positioning a business to maximize the value of the capabilities that distinguish it from its competitor’s” (Porter 1980:47). A successful business plan requires first and foremost the formation of an appropriate strategy. Through the implementation of a suitable strategy, the company is able to obtain its own industry niche and gain an understanding of its customers (Porter 1985). Whichever strategy is adopted it must be adequately integrated within the firms goals and missions to achieve a competitive advantage (Parker and Helms 1992).

The five generic competitive strategies are low-cost provider, broad differentiation, focused low-cost, focused differentiation strategy, and best-cost provider strategy. According to the textbook, “a company’s competitive strategy deals exclusively with the specifics of management’s game plan for competing successfully” (Gamble, 93).

A competitive strategy, or business-level strategy, is the way a business used to successfully enter and penetrate into a market (Eastwood et al, 2006), and also, to succeed in this chosen market against its competitors (Johnson et al, 2014). A company needs to develop and apply appropriate strategy to help the company to generate distinctive competences (David, 2007). Compared with the strategies implemented in other levels of operation, competitive strategy is more focused on the competition against other competitors and strategic choices to better attain market share (Harrison and St. John, 2009). According to

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