Groupon - do you use it? 30th November 2011 10:21 AM
“Also, can't understand how new competitors like wowcher get the funding for massive TV advertising campaigns... who's lending all this money on dodgy business strategies / plans?”
Must admit, the wowcher site appears to be riding the coat tails of the groupon style site popularity. Also baffled by how they have managed to get so much funding. Are they too late? Not convinced with the name, but guess time will tell.
Core audience though (or so it seems in the UK) is young female, who communicate to their peer groups via social networking, so guess thats why you see so many Spa days, hair dressers, cupcakes etc, and not socket sets, motorbike parts or other manly things
“We looked into the possibilty of using Groupon but they said they haven't had success in the past with Professional Services, then they said that they are more about B2C then B2B.”
Have you looked at Huddlebuy? Just recently partnered with them and they are a good bunch. Not being going very long, but they are purely a B2B version of Groupon, so things like professional services seem to go down well.
I just got the phone slammed down 
