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Groupon Revenues in Chicago – How Much Do They Make?

December 7, 2010 by dailydibs

If you have ever wondered how much money Groupon makes in Chicago,  here is a detailed view of each deal offered, the amount sold, and the total revenue collected.  Keep in mind that for the most part, Groupon keeps half of what they collect.  Notice the Nordstrom deal that brought in a cool $1.8m.

Click the image for a better view.  We also have a post with a more detailed look at Groupon Revenues.

Filed Under: data Tagged With: Chicago, groupon, revenues

Groupon RedEnvelope 2012 Deal

December 2, 2010 by dailydibs

Groupon continues to leverage their tremendous scale by offering yet another national deal like their popular Gap Groupon and their Groupon Fandango deal.

Similar to a deal they had last year they now have another deal at , RedEnvelope (a place for unique and personalized gifts).

Here is the link to the 2012 Father’s day Groupon Red Envelope deal.

Red Envelope is a great place for Father’s day gifts and what could be better than 20 free dollars.

Filed Under: NationalDeals Tagged With: groupon, RedEnvelope

U Daily Deal: Daily Deals From The Entertainment Book Company

November 2, 2010 by dailydibs

If an existing company has a significant online audience or deep local merchant relationships chances are that company has considered or already started a deal of the day site. With that said, one of the most recent entrants into the local deal of the day game should be no surprise to anyone – it is the folks that bring you the Entertainment book.

Entertainment Book 2010

UDailyDeal.com appears to be Entertainment Publications, LLC’s daily deal play. The site itself does not exactly signal that the Entertainment book folks are serious about this effort (seems like a very quickly put together site), but we have been tracking them now for a couple of weeks and they consistently have a deal each day and the deals are proving to be quite popular with our audience.

Not only have they done a daily deal site, which is sort of a no-brainer, but they appear to actually have a niche target market in mind. Based on the information on their very spartan homepage, they appear to be targeting the college student market. From what we can tell so far their deals are primarily at local restaurants near and around the many college campuses in Atlanta.

How well is UDailyDeal doing?

For starters, they appear to only have deals in Atlanta. Their homepage shows signup options for Boston and Philadelphia, but those cities do not appear to be live yet.  As far as their performance, they don’t publish the number of sales on their site, so we can’t say for sure how well they are doing, but we suspect that the advantages they have with local merchants are significantly offset by a lack of online audience.

However, as we mentioned earlier, the deals seem to be quite popular and are restaurant focused.

We’ll do a little digging and find out what sort of rev share they are taking from their advertisers.

Filed Under: New Sites Tagged With: NewSite, udailydeal

Valpak Deals Launching Soon

October 28, 2010 by dailydibs

In an email we received today, Valpak announced that they will have live deals starting November 3.

Valpak had previously announced that they would launch in Omaha, Long Island, New Haven, Las Vegas.  Their annnouncement does not indicate if they will launch their deal of the day product in all those markets simultaneously.

Beginning Wednesday, November 3, Valpak Deals will offer you daily deals and savings offers to be used at a top-rated business in your area. Save up to 90% on dining, shopping, entertainment, professional services and more. From cupcakes to disc brakes, adventure sports to posh resorts, pet foods to import brews, home goods to goodies, it’s all in the Pak!

Valpak has one very clear advantage in launching daily deals – selling to merchants.  Valpak has not only a significant number of merchant relationships, but also feet on the street in many of their markets.  They should have no problem lining up quality advertisers, which is probably becoming more and more difficult in some markets.

Interestingly, Valpak is not launching in any major markets.  Although there are less potential subscribers, there is also less competition for selling to advertisers and the cost of acquiring customers will also be lower.  We think this will probably serve them well.

Depending on the size of the email lists they already have access to in these markets, we expect that Valpak will probably be successful with this deal product.  We’ll check back on their progress after they launch – and of course we will add their deals to Daily Dibs.

Filed Under: Deal Sites Tagged With: NewSite, Valpak

TravelZoo Local Deals – Better Than Most Daily Deals

October 21, 2010 by dailydibs

A couple of months ago, TravelZoo announced that they were going to join Groupon and get into the local deal game.

Their CEO, Chris Laughlin said this:

“Local Deals fits well within our strategy of alerting our 21 million high-quality subscribers worldwide of the very best deals.  With Local Deals, we are able to further our coverage of local entertainment and lifestyle content and make it more relevant for our subscribers. For example, we can now cover more local spa and restaurant deals.”

Well it has been almost two months since they launched so we thought we would check in on how they are doing.

How Does The TravelZoo Daily Deals Program Work?

  • For starters, their deals aren’t necessarily daily.  Each deal they offer seems to vary between 1 and 8 days.  Additionally, they don’t always have an active deal in each city.  For instance, they have done deals in New Orleans, but their last New Orleans deal sold out over a week ago.
  • They seem to be targeting high-end local services.  These guys aren’t messing around with just the local Mexican restaurant.  They are hitting the top-rated restaurants, spas, and local tours

How Are They Doing?

  • They are selling a lot of deals and making a lot of money.   Today for example, for their 10 active deals they have sold a total of over 3,500 deals at an average deal price of $62.  In New York alone, they have a deal that has sold over 1,400.   The New York deal has a price tag of $125, so that deal alone has grossed over $175,000.  There is probably one happy sales guy somewhere right now.
  • You can check out all their latest deals on our TravelZoo Local Deals page.  You can also check out our list of all the TravelZoo Local Cities.

TravelZoo is clearly kicking butt right away with these deals, and the reasons should be obvious.  First they claim over 21 million subscribers. Subscribers that are already pre-qualified deal hunters.  Second, they have lots of existing business relationships that they can leverage.  There are lots of companies that have either an existing large audience or existing business relationships, but only a few have both, and TravelZoo is one of them.

It will be interesting to see how aggressive TravelZoo gets in this space.  Do they stick with the high-end deals, do they increase the frequency of deals?  We think that long-term the successful deal sites will develop an identity around their deal offerings.  High end businesses might be a great niche to claim, but it will probably require that they don’t substantially increase their frequency.

Of all the new entrants to the daily deal space, we think that TravelZoo is among the best.  We are looking forward to their arrival in Atlanta (as long as they keep targeting the high end businesses).

Filed Under: Deal Sites Tagged With: reviews, travelzoo

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