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July 2, 2011 06:18 pm GMT

Is Groupon Bad For Small Businesses?

If you watch the nightly news, you would assume there's a murder on every block, and if you've been reading TechCrunch recently, you would assume Groupon is murdering a small business in every city.Given the hundreds of thousands of merchants who have run daily deals in the past year, it is inevitable that a few will have had bad experiences. However, to assume that a handful of these anecdotes fully represent merchants' experiences with daily deals is insufficient and irresponsible.A series of guest blog posts by Rocky Agrawal criticize daily deals, advising small businesses to stay away based on examples of where the deals fail to turn a profit for the businesses. While Rocky's posts are surely well-intentioned, his evidence is largely based on a few anecdotes and a basic misunderstanding of daily deal economics.

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