Groupon marketing results - customers are out there

Long term effect of these deals are none to negative, as they may easily cannibalize regular business. Volumes of customers in the services business essentially requires time. That's obvious for the article above where costs of paralel servicing are very high (other helicopters).

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Basically, stuff where the vendor is trying to get your foot in the door or simply selling you an attraction where the "an $X value" may or may not be accurate.

The helicopter one is interesting, particularly because this is something those 2,600 people would never search for in Google. But then end result shows that deals like this benefit Groupon much more than the vendor.

If stuff like this keeps happening, are people going to want to continue offering deals on the site?

That's a 1.25% blind conversion rate from email send which is UNHEARD of outside of very targeted newsletters.

Where can I invest in Groupon stock again?

That blows my mind wide open.