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Why Investors Who Bought Groupon's IPO May Be Disappointed

Harvard Business Review

billion market valuation. In addition, with little differentiation and a bevy of rivals, marketing costs are skyrocketing. The real innovation of deal sites such as Groupon and Living Social is that they have garnered millions of consumers who are interested in receiving deals on a variety of products and services.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. We decided to avoid CPM (cost-per-impression) based advertising as it is difficult to measure the ROI. That will probably be the tipping point for us.