Tippr Adds Google Offers to Growing List of Affiliate Partners for White-Label Daily Deal Platform

TIPPR™, the premier provider of group buying solutions, today announced a partnership with Google Offers that will leverage Google’s trusted brand and extensive reach to expand the distribution of TIPPR deals to new cities, beginning in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Google Offers service, which sends local, personalized deals of the day to subscribers email inboxes, launched in June and has quickly expanded to additional cities nationwide. With this partnership, Google Offers subscribers gain access to deals provided by TIPPR.com.

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Tippr’s Two Cents on Groupon’s IPO

Simply put, Groupon is spending a lot more than it takes in. While their financials are not public, we can guess from LivingSocial’s massive media presence that their financials are similar.  According to Groupon’s financials and our own experience with SEO, display ads, and an affiliate network, the cost of acquiring new customers is INCREASING.   So, the obvious questions are: Is there a tipping point?  Can any company find a way to make money in the daily deal business?

We believe YES.

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Tippr Grows Sales Force Through Dealpop Acquisition

Tippr™, the premier provider of group buying solutions, today announced the acquisition of WhitePage’s daily deal business, DealPop. Through the acquisition, Tippr gains an experienced sales force with national reach and a technical team with deep expertise in group buying infrastructure technology. This marks the fifth acquisition by Tippr, further cementing the company’s position as the leading white label daily deal platform. Terms of the deal were not announced.

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Tippr Teams with Facebook Deals

Merchants featured on Tippr.com and the daily deal sites operating on the PoweredByTippr platform now have the opportunity to easily expand their reach into Facebook. By teaming up with Facebook Deals, the PoweredByTippr platform provides additional visibility for merchants and allows them to share their deals with a socially active and influential group of consumers. The PoweredByTippr platform will provide a streamlined approach for publishers to showcase daily deals to Facebook’s more than 500 million users.

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Cat Lovers on Campus? 17 Things to Consider Before Launching A Daily Deals Site

In a few short years, Groupon slapped a buy button on a website, hired some sales people, and is now reportedly making $760 million annually with a multi-billion dollar valuation.

Easy, right?  I mean there are 600+ new group buy sites and new ones popping up every day.  Got a great idea for a daily deal site?  (My favorite thus far is the niche site at the cross section of Cat-Lovers on Campus)

Before you get too carried away and quit your job to set up shop in your garage, here’s 17 things to consider:

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PoweredByTippr Launches Marketplace to Simplify Daily Deal Exchange

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PoweredByTippr™, the industry’s first patented, white-label group buying platform, today announced the launch of PoweredByTippr (PBT) Marketplace, an online market for merchants, sales agents and publishers to exchange daily deal offers. Through PBT Marketplace, parties can post available deals, search for deals, negotiate pricing, reserve inventory, purchase vouchers, report deal issues, and process payments all from one location; providing a streamlined approach to daily deal offer exchange.

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PoweredByTippr Launches Marketplace to Simplify Daily Deal Exchange

PoweredByTippr™, the industry’s first patented, white-label group buying platform, today announced the launch of PoweredByTippr (PBT) Marketplace, an online market for merchants, sales agents and publishers to exchange daily deal offers. Through PBT Marketplace, parties can post available deals, search for deals, negotiate pricing, reserve inventory, purchase vouchers, report deal issues, and process payments all from one location; providing a streamlined approach to daily deal offer exchange.

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