You take a locative services site, with a site offering deals around the city and viola! A site that can do more than any other locative services site, with specials from around the said city changing from week to week. This site would be much more productive than either of the two on their own, and could potentially do very well in college towns such as Madison.
Tomorrow I am presenting, and upon coming to this idea, leave you with the question of, "would you use this kind of a site if it were available? Why or why not? Also, how would adding a cost to this kind of a website change the frequency with which you'd use it?
Like I mentioned in class, I think that this would be a really good idea. Groupon hasn't been doing that great of a job at hitting the niche's that it needs to. There are TONS of businesses I can think of that they should be contacting to feature on their site (rather than businesses coming to them to be featured.) If they combined with foursquare, that could see which businesses people are actually already going to, and feature deals based upon this.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds absolutely brilliant! I know that FourSquare eventually offers people deals when the "check in" at designated locations, so why not come together with Groupon? It's sort of the same type of thing. The only worry I would have is that Groupon--a lot of time--well, their places suck. Not a lot of people go there. So some alterations would be needed there if this plan wanted to succeed. For example, Tuesday offered a discount on Greek Clothing and Merchandise. I'm just not sure how something like that would be able to link to FourSquare. But if the wrinkles were ironed out, I think this would be a great business proposition, benefiting both clients.
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