Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Groupon Inspired service on Facebook

Now the 500 million plus users of Facebook Inc. will be able to capitalize on the online deals by the Groupon-Inspired Service, which is in testing condition on Facebook.

This service will work with the existing dealing programs of Facebook.

With this deal Facebbok will help users to get discount offers from partner services such as Gilt city, Pop sugar city, Plum district, Reach local and zozi.

Groupon service will make money by taking a commission on the sale of discounted deals such as $15 for @25 worth of pizza. It comes with feature called "Buy with Friend".

It has been founded that more than 50% of users share the information of their purchases.

This can be found on the link:
www.facebook.com/groupondc

Or you can check Groupon here
http://www.groupon.com/r/uu24398950

Warner Bros offered a plan following this service to show rental movies at $3 with Facebook Credits to its members.

Further Reading:Bloomberg Businessweek, Mar 14, 2011. Facebook to offer Groupon Inspired Service with Discount
Deals. Accessed Mar 15, 2011. http://businessweek.mobi/detail.jsp?key=297907&rc=to

PC World, Jan 26, 2011. http://www.pcworld.com/article/217876/facebook_groupon_coming_your_way.html

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