I recently blogged about 3 good ways to drive traffic to your website, and today I am going to be discussing 4 ways that you can use to easily drive traffic to your daily deal site (or any website for that matter).
There are hundreds of millions of people that get on the internet every single ... Views: 709
Writing compelling copy and headlines is a skilled trade and art. But there is a science to it as well and in the daily deal industry there are proven formulas to writing headlines that convert.
We increasingly take in large amounts of information in an incredibly short amount of time.It ... Views: 665
Yipit.com is a daily deal aggregator site. There current success is undeniable as seen by their Alexa traffic ranking, along with their recent collection of $6,000,000.00 series B funding they received in late June.
A daily deal aggregator site, like Yipit, basically curates and aggregates ... Views: 937
So let’s be clear… the internet is 20 years old and it’s basically a giant mess. There’s information everywhere and on every type of platform that we as the human race have been able to imagine thus far, and we are an exceedingly intelligent species that will find new ways to benefit from just ... Views: 604
“Cause” marketing or cause-related marketing refers to a type of marketing involving the cooperative efforts of a “for profit” business and a non-profit organization for mutual benefit. The term is sometimes used more broadly and generally to refer to any type of marketing effort for social and ... Views: 522
Something really entertaining occurred at the Daily Deal Media Conference… Multiple daily deal software companies were hanging out, collaborating, learning from eachother, and actually having a good time together all in one room.
Yes, we ended up cheersing to ‘the enemies’ together :: but it ... Views: 504
“Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.”
- Ben Merzich – Author of the Accidental Billionaire.
Research the marketplace, research competitors, research trends, research the major players, research what is ... Views: 607
Growing your members and subscribers is one of the core goals that a daily deal company should always continually be working on. Well, all web-based businesses for that matter. Email database size and promotional campaigns are extremely important in the daily deal industry. One of the ways ... Views: 673
It’s easy to see what habits make up a great daily deal site, however not quite as easy to spot the things that you need to avoid as a deal site owner in advance.In hindsight, the things to avoid become much clearer. Let’s jump right in to 10 things that you should definitely avoid doing in the ... Views: 573
So this one time a fairly smart guy had an idea. He wrote up his idea as a business plan and showed it to other fairly smart guys.
Those other fairly smart guys liked his idea and offered him some money to get the idea off the ground in return for shares in a newly formed company. Suddenly, ... Views: 512
As Facebook nears a 1 Billion person userbase, it has become blatantly transparent that social media is here to stay.
Since daily deals began, they have had a unique connection and love affair with social media. Whenever someone gets a great deal on something, we all typically enjoy sharing ... Views: 669
One of the toughest parts of seeing success in a new market is to prove that demand, and the actual market, exists. Many times, market need does not always translate into market demand.
Many companies run market surveys and use official demographic data to evaluate the potential of a new ... Views: 514
Being heavily involved in the daily deal industry, I always enjoy discussing the pros and cons of featuring a deal on a deal site with businesses who have either just ran a deal through one, or businesses thinking about running a deal. From each of my discussions, it has become obvious that one ... Views: 454