Australia now has an official group buying code of conduct, designed to boost consumer confidence in the platform and ensure they make informed choices about purchases, and to promote compliance and best practices within the industry.
An independent study has found 95 percent of businesses that have sold their products of services through group buying sites were happy with the experience, and many would do it again.
Mothercare has broken the record for sales on LivingSocial, with over 21,643 vouchers sold in seven days at a total pre-discount retail value of $2.9 million.
Scoopon has boosted its presence in the travel and hospitality market by launching Scoopon Travel, a new dedicated site delivering deals on flights, accommodation and travel packages.
Fans of Scoopon’s daily deals can now access them on the Google Android platform, thanks to the release of its new smartphone app.
In a guest post for Dynamic Business, DealFetch Co-Founder Stas Belkov tells why location targeting is the only way forward for the group buying phenomenon.
Australians can now swap, buy or sell unwanted or unused group deals or vouchers for free, thanks to the launch of a new online marketplace, Swapdeals.
Australians may be addicted to a bargain and flocking to the numerous collective buying websites in droves but are some better than others, and is the customer base large enough to go round? If the answers is “yes”, and “no”, that may explain why the various daily deal sites are tripping over each other to proclaim themselves leader of the pack.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online was launched today, with this cloud based customer relationship management (CRM) software providing small business a serious alternative to using Salesforce.com to manage relationships with customers.
Cudo.com.au the NineMSN affiliated Groupon clone that launched in September last year has taken the crown of the most visited site in its category just as rival Spreets was bought by Yahoo!7 for $40million.
