Groupon : Social Media Tips for Small Businesses

Group buy industry leader Groupon hosts a webinar on how small businesses can effectively utilize social media.

Social Media Tips for Small Businesses from Groupon on Vimeo.

Technorati : Social Media - A Coupon Clipper's Delight?

According to a consumer survey by Cone, 77 percent of consumers look for incentives via online channels when deciding whether to engage or not, and nearly half of them are looking on social media networks.

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Facebook Launches Social Buying with Facebook Deals. Confirmed Participants Include: 24 Hr. Fitness, American Eagle, Chipotle, Macy's, North Face

The rumors are true, Facebook is getting into the hyper-local social buying game with the rollout of Facebook Deals on it's Facebook Places Platform.

According to Digital Journal, which broke the Facebook Deals story 3 hours ago, "four types of deals are available: Individual deals, loyalty deals, friend deals and charity deals. Individual deals target an individual user; loyalty deals offer incentive to get users to come back often (for example, offering a free coffee if the user buys two at previous visits); friend deals to offer incentive to get users to bring in large groups (for example, offering a group of four people a discount at a restaurant); and charity deals."

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