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One of the toughest careers out there is being an entrepreneur

admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:41:12 +0000

VentureBeat.com: “How JackThreads grew from a bootstrapped bedroom startup to 2M members” Link Related Posts: Wow! #Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion Our BabyBluu.com gets its first star on eBay for superb customer service Zynga moves its future away from Facebook, launches its own gaming platform Yelp Prices IPO Valued at $900M Groupon captures 76% of daily deals market in Poland

Wow! #Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion

admin — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:20:23 +0000

VentureBeat: “Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced Facebook is acquiring Instagram. The photo-sharing startup recently passed 30 million members. Particularly since picking up a slew of new users with its Android app launch, Instagram has become one of the most important for taking and sharing photos on mobile devices, so it makes perfect sense that Facebook would want the company.” . . . → Read More:

New York Times has over 500K paying subscribers after introducing a paywall last year

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:13:23 +0000

A year after launching a controversial pay wall, The New York Times revealed Tuesday that it has nearly half a million paying subscribers for its flagship paper. The company also said it will make it harder for people to read web publications without paying up. Link Related Posts: The New York Times sacrifices revenue from paywall to defend sales of printed papers New York Times rolls out a paywall, asks Twitter to shut down accounts linking to newspaper’s free content 65% of internet users are willing to pay for accessing paid online content “The Bible of Boxing” goes digital, behind a paywall On the Media: ‘Old media’s’ dilemma of charging for online content

Our BabyBluu.com gets its first star on eBay for superb customer service

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:18:31 +0000

Our daily deals division – BabyBluu.com recently got its first (yellow) star for the superb customer service. While other daily deals companies are closing down their doors, BabyBluu.com has finished 2011 on a very positive note. The revenue growth is currently over 300% a month. The company trades in luxury fine jewelry and it’s new . . . → Read More:

Zynga moves its future away from Facebook, launches its own gaming platform

admin — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:14:55 +0000

Zynga Inc is launching a new games service that allows users to play on the company’s website instead of Facebook, potentially driving traffic away from the world’s No. 1 social network that is its biggest partner. The service is the online game company’s boldest move yet to create a presence outside of Facebook, where it makes 93 . . . → Read More:

Yelp Prices IPO Valued at $900M

admin — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:10:55 +0000

Yelp Inc priced its initial public offering of class A common stock at $15 a share, above the expected price range, valuing the U.S. consumer review website at nearly $900 million. Link Related Posts: Merchants using #Groupon and #LivingSocial get downgraded fast on Yelp by their customers Study: businesses that run “daily deals” on Groupon are likely to see their reputation decline Yelp to scale down its Yelp Deals as the revenue drops One of the toughest careers out there is being an entrepreneur Wow! #Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion

Groupon captures 76% of daily deals market in Poland

admin — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:32:43 +0000

According to Poland’s Gazeta Prawna, Groupon has captured 76.08% of the daily deal market in Poland with 286,6 million of PLN ($91 million) in sales in 2011. The next largest competitor is a local clone of Groupon – the Gruper which captured 12,13% of the market share. Link Related Posts: Analysts: It’s time to sell Groupon’s stocks SEC filings: Groupon has not yet made a $1 of profit, maybe it will…. by 2013 Merchants using #Groupon and #LivingSocial get downgraded fast on Yelp by their customers #Groupon cost of acquiring one customer = $23.46, marketing expenditures in 1-2Q ’11 = $378.7 million SEC demands #Groupon change its creative accounting practices if it wants to do an IPO… and its official revenue drops by 54.8%

Analyst: Facebook Will Make $1.2B Annually From Mobile Ads

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:54:16 +0000

Fox Business: “No, Facebook is not advertising yet on mobile devices. Yes, that hasn’t stopped people from speculating on what it will mean when it does. The latest: an estimate of how much the social network stands to make from mobile advertising: more than $1.2 billion a year in the U.S. and its five biggest markets in . . . → Read More:

Magazines to redesign their print editions to look like iPad apps

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:31:05 +0000

Fox Business published a story that some of the printed magazines intend to redesign their print titles to fit the tablet format. The main reason for the change would be that creating and running separate apps for every title and every device is getting expensive. Apparently the easier and more cost effective way to . . . → Read More:

Facebook once again copycats Twitter, will introduce verified accounts for high-profile members

admin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:50:38 +0000

VentureBeat: “Facebook will soon begin rolling out verified accounts for high-profile members with large numbers of subscribers, and it will give verified users the option of a pseudonym for their name.” Link Related Posts: Salman Rushdie attacks Facebook via Twitter Scared #Facebook is copying Google+ and #Twitter Twitter surpasses Facebook as the most popular network used by financial services companies Facebook has millions of fake users and fake pages Facebook plans to become a Twitter-like network

#Groupon looking for new revenue sources after miserable earnings report for last year

admin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:34:57 +0000

VentureBeat.com: “Groupon is in the process of testing a new VIP service that will cost $30 per year and give users early access to deals, easy refunds, and more, according to a Business Insider report. The company reported poor-to-mixed results with its last quarterly earnings, so it is likely looking for new ways to generate revenue and ways to . . . → Read More:

Groupon becoming the new Amazon: Offering Deals With No Time Limits

admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:21:27 +0000

According to Fox Business, Groupon is currently testing an idea of offering discount deals without time limits. Well, we already tested it at BabyBluu.com and it works better for us than the time limited approach. As far as Groupon is concerned, the new strategy may be needed to lower the company’s costs associated with its large . . . → Read More:

The app economy created 466K jobs in America already

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:22:16 +0000

Report: A research by TechNet shows that the app economy in the United States already created over 466.000 jobs. According to the report, the estimation is rather conservative, meaning that the 446K number would be actually lower than the real number of jobs created. Read entire report here Related Posts: One of the toughest careers out there is being an entrepreneur Wow! #Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion Our BabyBluu.com gets its first star on eBay for superb customer service Zynga moves its future away from Facebook, launches its own gaming platform Yelp Prices IPO Valued at $900M

Zynga loss jumps to $435 million, stocks down

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:01:07 +0000

Fox Business: “The San Francisco-based company reported that it swung to a loss of $435 million in the quarter ended in December, compared to a profit of nearly $43 million in the period a year earlier. Sales rose to $311.2 million. On an adjusted basis, earnings were 5 cents a share.” Link Related Posts: Zynga moves its future away from Facebook, launches its own gaming platform Zynga secures $1 billion credit line, contemplates delaying IPO if market turbulences continue One of the toughest careers out there is being an entrepreneur Wow! #Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion Our BabyBluu.com gets its first star on eBay for superb customer service

Groupon Shifting Strategy toward Customer Retention

admin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:08:14 +0000

DailyDealMedia: “Almost all companies that profit from marketing to consumers have to debate between the relative values of customer retention and acquisition. Depending on various circumstances such as the social, economic, and personal behavior of consumers, companies have to decide on the right balance between the two. Groupon has now determined that it is . . . → Read More:

Analysts: It’s time to sell Groupon’s stocks

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:32:59 +0000

MoneyShow.com: “While Groupon (GRPN) has quickly made a name for itself, this recent IPO appears ripe for selling. The company does not appear to have an economic moat, and even after falling after the IPO, the stock still looks richly valued. Caveat emptor! Heavy spending and rapid expansion has helped Groupon establish a market for “daily deals” . . . → Read More:

Fab.com: How a gay website transformed into a daily deals powerhouse

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:03:48 +0000

Inc.com: “It’s the overnight success story heard ’round the start-up world: In June 2011, serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg and interior designer Bradford Shane Shellhammer relaunched their struggling social network as Fab.com, a flash sales site promoting housewares from indie designers. Fast forward six months, and Fab was valued at $100 million, had 2 million users, . . . → Read More:

AOL to transform HuffPost into an Internet TV network

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:13:06 +0000

VentureBeat: “AOL is planning to launch a new streaming video network branded under its Huffington Post web news site, the company announced Thursday. The new network will feature live streaming video content 12 hours a day during the week from 9 a.m to 9 p.m. ET, according to a THR report. Founding Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff . . . → Read More:

Facebook to reach 1B active users in August, that’s 14% of the world

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:18:16 +0000

VentureBeat: “Facebook is soon to have 14 percent of the world’s population all to itself. A new study says the social network will hit one billion users this year. Gregory Lyons, a senior analyst at digital marketing firm iCrossing, ran the numbers based on Facebook’s past growth and found that Facebook will probably hit the milestone in August 2012. . . . → Read More:

Yahoo revenue down 13 percent in Q4

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:12:38 +0000

VentureBeat: “Yahoo‘s revenue dropped 13 percent compared to the same period last year, the company reported today. In its quarterly earnings’ announcement Tuesday, Yahoo reported $1,324 million in GAAP revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011, while costs increased by 10 percent. Excluding traffic acquisition costs from Yahoo’s partnership with Microsoft and others, the . . . → Read More:

Facebook to go Public on the NYSE – Shares Priced Between $38 and $40

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:02:48 +0000

DailyDealMedia: “PrivCo, a New York firm and ‘The Private Company Financial Data Authority’ that tracks private companies, believes that Facebook plans to file IPO documents as early as late Tuesday (1/31) or early Wednesday (2/1). This makes total sense and explains why secondary trading in Facebook shares was halted or frozen this past week. There . . . → Read More:

10 Daily Deal Sites that Received Big Cash Funding in 2011

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:11:02 +0000

DailyDealMedia.com: “Despite the down economy there seemed to be no shortage of venture capital and other forms of investment within the daily deals and group buying industry for 2011. Some companies pulled in some pretty big bucks this year to keep their businesses growing. In July Daily Deal Media reported that in the first . . . → Read More:

The Gilt Groupe May Approach $1 Billion in Revenues in 2012

admin — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:16:08 +0000

DailyDealMedia.com: “Kevin Ryan (CEO of Gilt) commented on and addressed many concerns with The Financial Times. Ryan insists the economy impacts Gilt “less than you’d think … a recession is slightly more helpful for me.” Ryan expects Gilt’s annualized turnover will be close to $1 billion after posting gross sales of $500 million in . . . → Read More:

Did you invest in Groupon’s stocks? You must be an idiot: Groupon’s valuation drops by $5.7 billion in just 3 days

admin — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:06:32 +0000

DailyDealMedia.com: “The weak close in GRPN is a bad omen for Friday. Shares of GRPN continue to trade lower in the aftermarket. The only bright spot today is that markets are closed tomorrow. At least we get a reprieve for 24 hours from more market bleeding. As I mentioned yesterday, once GRPN broke below . . . → Read More:

Salman Rushdie attacks Facebook via Twitter

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:41:04 +0000

Reuters: “At least that’s what Salman Rushdie did when he discovered Facebook had deactivated his account because they wanted further proof of his identity. When the esteemed writer found out, he began tweeting up a storm, asking Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, “@MarkZuckerbergF? Are you listening?” Link Related Posts: Scared #Facebook is copying Google+ and #Twitter Twitter surpasses Facebook as the most popular network used by financial services companies Facebook has millions of fake users and fake pages Facebook plans to become a Twitter-like network Study: People who use social media frequently display symptoms of drug addicts

These Two Companies Won’t Last Another Five Years

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:46:32 +0000

Wall Street Daily: “Later this week, daily deal juggernaut, Groupon (Proposed Ticker: GRPN), is scheduled to go public. The company plans to price shares between $16 and $18 and raise $510 million.

But I wouldn’t invest in the deal at any price!

Just like I shared yesterday about Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), I’m convinced Groupon won’t be around in five years.” Link . . . → Read More:

Boston’s daily deal site BuyWithMe.com goes under the bus

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:25:05 +0000

BostonHerald.com: “Gilt Groupe subsidiary Gilt City, a website that offers discounts on luxury products, has acquired the assets of embattled daily deals site BuyWithMe, for an undisclosed amount. Those assets primarily consist of BuyWithMe’s member list, according to Gilt City president Nathan Richardson. About 10 of BuyWithMe’s Boston employees will move to Gilt City’s four-employee . . . → Read More:

SEC filings: Groupon has not yet made a $1 of profit, maybe it will…. by 2013

admin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:43:41 +0000

Monringstar: “Not surprisingly, Groupon GRPN has cut a deal with potential investors. It has indicated that it seeks a $10.1 to $11.4 billion valuation with a $16 to $18 per share offer range, a valuation that approximates a 50% discount to the $20 billion level the company had sought earlier in the year. However, . . . → Read More:

Facebook Sued For Violating U.S. Wiretap Laws

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:05:17 +0000

AllFacebook.com: “A class-action lawsuit alleges that Facebook violated federal wiretap statutes by tracking people’s Internet browser history even when they are not logged in.” Link Related Posts: Research: Pinterest delivers more revenue per click than Facebook and Twitter Zynga moves its future away from Facebook, launches its own gaming platform Analyst: Facebook Will Make $1.2B Annually From Mobile Ads Facebook once again copycats Twitter, will introduce verified accounts for high-profile members Facebook to reach 1B active users in August, that’s 14% of the world

Merchants using #Groupon and #LivingSocial get downgraded fast on Yelp by their customers

admin — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:24:39 +0000

The New York Times: “And the long-term reputation of the merchant may be at risk, according to a new study by researchers at Boston University and Harvard that analyzed thousands of Groupon and Living Social deals. The researchers found that fans of daily deals were on average hard to please. After they ate at the restaurant . . . → Read More:

Research: LivingSocial, BuyWithMe offer discount deals which are more expensive than regular market price of the same products and services

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:21:41 +0000

DailyDealMedia: “When BuyWithMe offers house cleaning in San Francisco for $60 – a stated discount of 57% – or Livingsocial offers interior painting in Kansas City for $89 – a stated discount of 56% – are consumers really saving money?” Link Related Posts: Merchants using #Groupon and #LivingSocial get downgraded fast on Yelp by their customers LivingSocial deal offering $20 worth of Whole Foods groceries for $10 has become an online hit Sharp declines in daily deals market in America LivingSocial to reach $1 billion in revenue in 2011… after merely 2 years in daily deals business LivingSocial becomes a market leader in Australia

#Groupon cost of acquiring one customer = $23.46, marketing expenditures in 1-2Q ’11 = $378.7 million

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:03:47 +0000

Wall Street Journal: “Groupon, the daily-deals market leader that filed to go public in June, spent about $7.99 to acquire each subscriber who actually redeemed a daily deal in the first quarter of 2010, according to regulatory filings. By the second quarter of 2011, that figure had nearly tripled to $23.46. Overall, Groupon spent $378.7 . . . → Read More:

Big brands are still skeptical about using daily deals websites for sales or marketing purposes

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:31:32 +0000

The Washington Post: “Businesses that can afford an advertising agency tend to be skeptical about the value coupon sites can offer their brands. Area advertising executives say they pitch the sites as another channel to reach customers, but so far clients are not biting.” Link Related Posts: Our BabyBluu.com gets its first star on eBay for superb customer service Groupon captures 76% of daily deals market in Poland Fab.com: How a gay website transformed into a daily deals powerhouse SEC filings: Groupon has not yet made a $1 of profit, maybe it will…. by 2013 Merchants using #Groupon and #LivingSocial get downgraded fast on Yelp by their customers

SEC demands #Groupon change its creative accounting practices if it wants to do an IPO… and its official revenue drops by 54.8%

admin — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:13:44 +0000

The New York Times: “The change is one of the biggest included in the latest version of Groupon’s prospectus, which has been amended several times since May. Groupon’s earlier way of reporting revenue has now been labeled “gross billings.” For example, in a version of the prospectus filed last month, Groupon reported $1.52 billion . . . → Read More:

#Facebook vs. #Google rivalry grows

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:55:25 +0000

Forbes: “Google+ has finally opened its doors to the public. You might notice the huge blue arrow on Google.com that takes up nearly a quarter of the page. [...] This is a timely distraction to show users that Google is actively expanding into social.” Link Related Posts: Scared #Facebook is copying Google+ and #Twitter Facebook to acquire 20 companies to be able to compete with Google+ Google Plus is the fastest growing website in history: reached 25 million users in one month, Facebook did it in 30 months Facebook blocks tools that allow for easy migration to Google+ Social media could kill Groupon

Associated Press teams up with 40 newspapers to offer daily deals

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:31:19 +0000

PCMag.com: “In an effort to boost the floundering newspaper industry, the Associated Press is teaming up with 40 papers for a mobile coupon initiative. Dubbed iCircular, it will offer deals in a special section within the iPhone apps of various papers.” Link Related Posts: Our BabyBluu.com gets its first star on eBay for superb customer service Groupon captures 76% of daily deals market in Poland Fab.com: How a gay website transformed into a daily deals powerhouse SEC filings: Groupon has not yet made a $1 of profit, maybe it will…. by 2013 Merchants using #Groupon and #LivingSocial get downgraded fast on Yelp by their customers

Companies developing Facebook apps created 182,000 jobs so far

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:56:58 +0000

PCMag.com: “According to a study from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, the Facebook App Economy created 182,000 jobs and contributed between $12 and $15 billion to the economy this year.” Link Related Posts: Miramax partners with Facebook to offer movies, rentals and games to be accessible through cloud services Social media could kill Groupon Times Live: Taking over the news Research: Pinterest delivers more revenue per click than Facebook and Twitter Zynga moves its future away from Facebook, launches its own gaming platform

Google Buys Another Daily Deal Site

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:45:51 +0000

PCMag.com: “Perhaps in an effort to boost its struggling Groupon competitor Google Offers, Google has snapped up another daily deals site. According to The Next Web, Google has acquired German company DailyDeal.” Link Related Posts: Our BabyBluu.com gets its first star on eBay for superb customer service Groupon captures 76% of daily deals market in Poland Fab.com: How a gay website transformed into a daily deals powerhouse SEC filings: Groupon has not yet made a $1 of profit, maybe it will…. by 2013 Merchants using #Groupon and #LivingSocial get downgraded fast on Yelp by their customers

Overview of financing options for daily deal start-up companies

admin — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:20:05 +0000

Here is a good overview of financing options for daily deal start-up companies by DailyDealMedia.com: “So you decide you like the daily deal site idea. Perhaps you worked as an account executive for Groupon or LivingSocial and feel you have a great idea for a niche market. You have done your homework and have . . . → Read More:

Coupon sites that could save you hundreds

admin — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:44:41 +0000

Christian Science Monitor has a good slideshow with the best daily deals and coupon websites, which can save you a lot of money. Unfortunately they forgot to mention our BabyBluu Deals, probably because we don’t sell yoga classes as 100 other daily deals websites on the internet do while we trade in the luxury . . . → Read More:

More and more companies go into bankruptcy after working with #Groupon and #LivingSocial

admin — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:30:38 +0000

ABC News: “But as this burgeoning virtual marketplace has blossomed over the past three years, so has criticism. Some businesses have been so overwhelmed by the sheer volume generated by a mass coupon exchange that they have almost been driven into bankruptcy. Other retailers, most recently movie theater owners, have fretted that the scale . . . → Read More:

Facebook becomes a marketing failure for brands

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:58:45 +0000

More and more companies are complaining how Facebook is becoming a waste of money for them because the social network is not delivering expected marketing results. Skyttle Friends, a company providing Facebook analytics, published a survey showing how regular Facebook users interact with the largest fan pages on the network. As much as 99% . . . → Read More:

Print media ad revenue declines by -8.9%

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:49:42 +0000

Forbes: “Print media continues to suffer from declining advertising trends, putting pressure on digital platforms to pick up the slack. According to a recent note by UBS, print ad growth came in at negative 8.9%, below estimates of a 7.7% decline, to the benefit of other media segments which will receive funds flowing out . . . → Read More:

The New York Times sacrifices revenue from paywall to defend sales of printed papers

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:44:00 +0000

The Atlantic: “Today the Boston Globe launched a new site, and unlike at its old home at Boston.com, visitors to BostonGlobe.com will have to pay a fee to get behind the site’s paywall and read the newspaper’s stories. But make no mistake: This paywall is about more than making money off the web. This is about making money from old-fashioned . . . → Read More:

Scared #Facebook is copying Google+ and #Twitter

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:36:49 +0000

The Washington post: “Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering at Facebook, spoke with Jason Kincaid at this morning’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference. The topic of the conversation focused on many of Facebook’s newest features, including the recently launched Friend Lists and “Subscribe” option, which lets users follow others’ public updates in a model very similar . . . → Read More:

AmazonLocal to begin serving up deals on Kindle

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:46:21 +0000

DailyDealMadia: “AmazonLocal, the daily deals service started by Amazon a few months ago, will soon be hawking their deals on the discounted kindle and Kindle 3G. AmazonLocal, while offering a similar service as Groupon and LivingSocial, did not jump into the space by serving up their own deals. Instead they offered deals from LivingSocial.” . . . → Read More:

Companies start to look at Return on Influence on Twitter and Facebook

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:50:41 +0000

Christian Science Monitor: “Musicians Taylor Swift and Kanye West have millions of Facebook fans and Twitter followers. But there’s a difference between their abilities to get people to buy something or believe in something, just as there’s a difference between JetBlue’s social media strategy versus that of US Airways. I call it the new ROI – return on influence. And the new ROI can affect . . . → Read More:

LivingSocial deal offering $20 worth of Whole Foods groceries for $10 has become an online hit

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:20:48 +0000

Statesman.com: “A LivingSocial deal offering $20 worth of Whole Foods groceries for $10 has become an online hit. The deal, which is still ongoing, has set a record for the daily deal site. LivingSocial said it was selling roughly 115,000 an hour, which company spokesman Andrew Weinstein said is its fastest-selling offer ever, according to the Associated . . . → Read More:

U.S. daily deals market to reach $4.17 billion by 2015

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:16:57 +0000

Bloomberg/BusinessWeek: “Groupon Inc., LivingSocial and other daily-deal websites will generate $4.17 billion in U.S. sales in 2015, more than double the amount this year, research firm BIA/Kelsey estimates.” Link Related Posts: Our BabyBluu.com gets its first star on eBay for superb customer service Groupon captures 76% of daily deals market in Poland Fab.com: How a gay website transformed into a daily deals powerhouse SEC filings: Groupon has not yet made a $1 of profit, maybe it will…. by 2013 Merchants using #Groupon and #LivingSocial get downgraded fast on Yelp by their customers

New Daily Deal Loyalty Program Introduced by Monster Offers and Fanminder

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:11:55 +0000

News release: “By combining the social and mobile sharing capabilities of Fanminder with the Daily Deal expertise of Monster Offers, the new loyalty program will allow small businesses to easily create and publish enticing Everyday Promotions™ that are more profitable and more utilized by merchants. Built-in social sharing capabilities will send offers to a . . . → Read More: