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Daily Deal Media News Daily Deal News for February 14th, 2012 Tim O’Shaughnessy on LivingSocial’s Revenues and the 5 Controversies that Surround Daily Deals Jay Edelson: Preventing Your Daily Deals from Becoming Permanent Targets Free Webinar by Daily Deal Builder - Register Now! Will the App Economy Turn Out to be the Medicine the Ailing US needs? Groupon (Kind of) Arrives in Thailand Eton Deals: Educational Deals in the UAE When Journalism Meets Daily Deals Monkeybars Provides Social Market Place for Artists and Fans Daily Deals For Wine Lovers Businesses Save With Daily Deals Kindling a publishing revolution? Groupon Hires Paul Taaffe to Improve Public Image   NOW AVAILABLE: Learn how Historical Deal Data can help you monitor the competition and provide you with key market intelligence. Contact Eric at emeyer@dailydealmedia.com Tim O'Shaughnessy on LivingSocial's Revenues and the 5 Controversies that Surround Daily Deals Following the daily deal industry is enjoyable yet challenging. I had hoped to get an idea how Groupon may fare by finding out how LivingSocial was doing. Sometimes you have to listen to one conference call in order to gain insight into another’s business. Such was the case with Amazon and LivingSocial. In order to find out how LivingSocial was doing, I had to listen in on the Amazon quarterly conference call. This is where problems can arise and information, although accurate, may not paint an accurate picture. The Amazon call focused on Amazon yet painted a picture of massive losses for LivingSocial. Thank goodness for conferences and interviews and great notes. Recently, Kara Kamenec, of Daily Deal Media, was privy to an interview between Tim O’Shaughnessy (CEO and Co-founder of LivingSocial) and Henry Blodget (CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Business insider) at the Business Insider Commerce Summit 2012. I am using Kara’s notes and quotes to not only expound on the $558 million in losses booked by LivingSocial, but also to discuss what may be considered the top 5 controversies or myths that surround the daily deal industry . First, let’s delve into the massive losses for LivingSocial as reported by Amazon. According to O’Shaughnessy, the biggest part of that loss was in the beginning of the year, and it narrowed toward the end of the year. “The joys of getting the scrutiny of an S-1 filing without actually filing one,” he said. “There’s one small chart that Amazon filed that doesn’t really give a particularly illuminative view of the business. There are certain things from an accounting perspective that you can’t see with that limited of a view. It’s fun to see little snippets and extrapolate them out without the big picture.”   Free Webinar: A Real Industry, Real Opportunity, Real Money To Be Made. A Virtual Business Model You Can Be Proud of Awaits You! At DailyDealBuilder, we’ve pulled some strings for you...   DailyDealBuilder.com has been making some pretty big waves. We have arranged for a Special Live Webinar this week, Tuesday February 14th where, as attendees, you can sit in live as we give us an amazing presentation of our take on this crazy daily deal phenomenon.   At the webinar you will have the opportunity to openly ask questions. We will discuss some amazing things you might possibly have never thought about and we will be presenting our way of seeing the web and business. We will also introduce some very cool technology as well as a few key ways to tweak your marketing and really get a jump on your competition.  Finally, we will demonstrate two techniques we are currently using to drive lots of targeted traffic for cheap; and if that was enough we are going to give you some really cool scripts for free. Space is limited, so Register Now! To get a sneak peak of the webinar content, check uot Hollis Carter Being Interviewed By Eric Meyer of DailyDealMedia.com about DailyDealBuilder's deal software and solutions for the deal industry. View this HERE! Make moves today! About DailyDealBuiler & Daily Deal Media  If you attended the 2011 Daily Deal Conference in Chicago you most likely saw 2 young, kind of scruffy looking guys walking around who seemed to know a little something that others did not; they brought a lot of life to the event and parties. That's us! We are proud to be some of the first to start working in partnership with Daily Deal Media. Jay Edelson: Preventing Your Daily Deals from Becoming Permanent Targets A Daily Deal Media Exclusive: Overview of Jay Edelson’s Persuasive Daily Deal Industry Report Contribution, “Preventing Your Daily Deals from Becoming Permanent Targets” In our 2012 Daily Deal Industry Report, we were fortunate to have an especially knowledgeable contribution by legal expert Jay Edelson, Managing Partner of Edelson McGuire, LLC focusing on the growth of daily deal industry and the legalities what accompany exponential industry growth. Edelson breaks down the typical, yet seemingly error-driven, phases of emerging industries as they collide with four main stages of confrontation both in the courtroom and on the revenue playing field. His contribution blatantly explains and identifies reasons as to why in the so-called prominent year of daily deals, few if any industry players and legal lineups seemed relatively prepared for the magnitude of legal confrontations and controversies to arrive ... Daily Deal Media LLC 700 Tower Dr Suite 500, Troy MI 48098 Direct: (248)247-3580 Email: info@dailydealmedia.com Web: http://dailydealmedia.com Be a fan on Facebook Follow us on Twitter RSS Feed

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