If you have experiences — good or bad — that you’d like to share, email dailydeals@agrawals.org. I also maintain a companion blog focused on sharing Groupon, LivingSocial and other deal experiences.
Start here
- Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse
- Deal-a-day websites (Radio New Zealand)
- Daily Deal Sites Hurting Some Small Business (CBS San Francisco)
- Groupon Gripes Get Louder (CBS Los Angeles)
For businesses
- Daily Deal Sites Hurting Some Small Business (CBS San Francisco)
- Groupon Gripes Get Louder (CBS Los Angeles)
- Best practices for businesses considering Groupon, LivingSocial or Google Offers
- How daily deal companies could improve the merchant experience — and why they won’t
- American Express to Deliver Discounts (Bloomberg TV)
- 6 cases when it makes sense to run a Groupon
- A look at Groupon’s extremely lopsided merchant agreement
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- Revised Groupon merchant agreement
- LivingSocial merchant agreement
- Daily Deal Providers May Be Violating Consumer Protection Laws
- Selling value, not price
- Shop Talk: A conversation with a Groupon merchant
- Shop talk: Square and Groupon
- Local restaurant tries do-it-yourself Groupon
- Virgin America knows how to make daily deals work
- Maximizing the value of deals on Facebook and foursquare
- Google Offers Versus Groupon: The Portland Throwdown
- The Groupon pyramid scheme? (KPCC, Southern California Public Radio)
For potential investors
- Groupon Amends S-1, But Key Numbers Still Missing
- What are the most notable aspects of the Groupon S-1?
- The SEC eyes Groupon (Marketplace)
- Daily Deal Sites Mean Everyone Wins: Pro or Con? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- American Express to Deliver Discounts (Bloomberg West)
- Time to Beware of Google? (CNBC)
- Agrawal Says Groupon Not Providing Retailers Real Value: Video (Bloomberg West)
- Daily Deals And The Potential For Fraud
- Google Offers Versus Groupon: The Portland Throwdown
For consumers
- Groupon Gripes Get Louder (CBS Los Angeles)
- Daily Deal Providers May Be Violating Consumer Protection Laws
- Daily deals and personal social responsibility
- My great Groupon customer service experience
My daily deals stories on TechCrunch
- 160-Year-Old American Express Out-Innovates Google and Groupon
- Groupon Amends S-1, But Key Numbers Still Missing
- Foursquare’s New Deal Partnerships Are No Big Deal
- Google Offers Versus Groupon: The Portland Throwdown
- Daily Deals And The Potential For Fraud
- Daily Deal Providers May Be Violating Consumer Protection Laws
- Why All The Daily Deal Hate?
- Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse
- Why I Want Google Offers And The Entire Daily Deals Business To Die
- Google Offers Is A Cheap Knockoff
- Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”
- Why Daily Deals Are Becoming A Raw Deal
My comments in other media outlets
- The SEC eyes Groupon (Marketplace)
- Daily Deal Sites Hurting Some Small Business (CBS San Francisco)
- Daily Deal Sites Mean Everyone Wins: Pro or Con? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Groupon Gripes Get Louder (CBS Los Angeles)
- American Express to Deliver Discounts (Bloomberg TV)
- Deal-a-day websites (Radio New Zealand)
- Time to Beware of Google? (CNBC)
- New daily-deals twist: Request your own discounts (CNNMoney)
- The Groupon pyramid scheme? (KPCC, Southern California Public Radio)
- Agrawal Says Groupon Not Providing Retailers Real Value: Video (Bloomberg TV)
My series on local search
- Part 1: Local search is starting to get more social
- Part 2: How the battle for local search will be won
- Part 3: Google Hotpot a strong competitor to Yelp
- Part 4: Statistics on business and consumer engagement in local search
- Part 5: Foursquare 3.0 takes mobile ball to a whole new level
Other great resources on daily deals space
- Kedrosky on Groupon IPO, Foursquare Partnership (Bloomberg West)
- Food Critic Exposes The Bad Dining Deals From Groupon, Gilt & More (HuffPost Food)
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