Entries in Hyperlocal Group Buy (2)

Saturday
Nov132010

Four Group Buy Sites Launch for UT Austin

Campus Daily Deals was launched in March 2010 by Campus Direct Media the publishers of the highly popular UT area edition of the Student Discount Handbook.University of Texas at Austin students and faculty love to get their Groupon!, LivingSocial, Morgan's Deals, and about a dozen other Austin area group buy deals. In fact, group buy industry leader Groupon's current user demographics show that 12% of their users are college students.

In addition to all the local and national group buy options in Austin, UT students, faculty, staff and area residents now have four new sources for group buy deals tailored to them:

Campus Daily Deals: Launched by Campus Direct Media the publishers of the highly popular UT area edition of the Student Discount Handbook.

The Buys of Texas: Daily Deal site launched by the University of Texas through its student media department.

College Mint: Recently launched Austin based college group buy site.

Big Deal on Campus: National college group buy site opening in the Austin market.

While four new media startups in the same niche in the same market seems like a lot, there are even more college group buy sites on the way to UT and campuses across the country.

As the group buy industry has started to move toward targeting geographic and demographic niches, the popularity of group buying amongst the campus crowd has fueled the launch of over 15 startups nationwide in the College Group Buy Space.

Monday
Nov012010

Over 30 "Group Buy Platform" Companies Emerge to Power Daily Deal Startups

Hundreds of Daily Deal and Flash Buying startups are emerging to cash in on the group buy explosion. To serve the startup boom in the group buy space, over 30 companies are specializing in providing the technologies that power group buying sites. 

The companies' offerings include downloadable scripts to install on your own server, full service white label hosted solutions that handle everything from email management and social sharing to business forms and credit card processing, and full service dealware providers that network the independent daily deal sites they power nationally.

Check out our Coupon Business Directory for a list of 31 Daily Deal Technology Companies: http://www.couponmarketer.com/coupon-business-directory/category/group-buy-technology