Groupon is one of the fastest growing collective buying sites in the U.S. thanks to its incredible popularity, a very lucrative business model, and several large rounds of funding. It has found great success with Facebook users who feverishly share its daily deal offerings with one another. Upon securing its latest round of funding Groupon’s valuation was estimated to be $1.2 billion and at the time Groupon was only available in ~40 cities throughout the United States. With the wind at its back and almost nothing to fear, Groupon’s future looks quite promising. Despite its momentum, Groupon could soon be facing an incredible threat if Facebook decides to expand its business-to-business services.

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Facebook ecommerce apps and storefronts permit users to add custom shopping carts to their fan pages or profiles in order to directly sell on Facebook. Social networks like Facebook are no longer used for merely uploading photo albums, or checking the status updates of your friends. E-commerce has evolved with social networking platforms to form social commerce solutions that can embrace the real-time social Web. Facebook storefront applications offer lots of new opportunities for business owners that want to expand and promote their online stores. In the review list below we’ve identified some of the best Facebook ecommerce applications to help you sell on Facebook.

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Facebook animal game apps seem to be one of the most popular game genres available on Facebook. The abundance of online animal games to play on Facebook makes finding a decent game for animal lovers a bit challenging. We’ve sorted through many of these games to come up with a list of some of the best Facebook animal games. These free online games can easily be added to your Facebook account and removed if you don’t like them. To learn more about how to change the settings on games, check out the Facebook Guide. For other types of popular games you may like, see the best Facebook games list.

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Group buying websites, also known as collective buying sites, like Groupon are attractive to local small business owners because they possess the group buying power to generate hundreds to tens of thousands of sales from new customers within a single day. They are able to do this by convincing their clients (local merchants) to offer incredible discounts that are greater than half-off the original price, incentivizing the sharing of group buying deals, using a countdown timer and limited quantities to create a sense of urgency for purchasing deals, and by permitting users to buy and exchange the deal vouchers as gifts. Local business owners also like using this form of promotion because they can accurately measure its effectiveness when customers redeem their vouchers. A typical response from several past Groupon clients suggests that most businesses merely break even but is this really true?

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Groupon and other popular group buying sites are very effective at generating hundreds to tens of thousands of new sales for a business owner in just one day. Group buying websites are able attain such impressive sale numbers by partnering with merchants that discount a product or service by at least 50%-off the original retail price. Group coupon vouchers are sold directly from the group buying site which can later be redeemed at the merchant’s place of business. With Groupon taking a 50% cut of each voucher that’s sold, the total expense of attaining those sales from a merchant’s standpoint can be quite overwhelming.

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New group buying sites are springing up every day to compete with the largest and most profitable group buying business known as Groupon. Groupon harnesses the collective buying power of its large user base to offer huge discounts on local services and products via their daily email delivered group buying deals. Groupon has a huge lead on most of the competitors but with nearly 100 group buying websites already launched, one has to wonder if Groupon can maintain its dominance indefinitely. As the group buying business model evolves, merchant-friendly add-on platforms may be born to serve the needs of local business owners and eliminate third-party group buying service providers.

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Private sales sites and members-only online shopping clubs are able to offer huge discounts on brand name products and services for a fraction of the manufacturer’s suggested retail price. Most of these private online shopping clubs simply purchase excess inventory directly from the manufacturer and slightly raise the price of the merchandise to make a profit. To the manufacturer, these private shopping clubs are particularly desired because the exclusive nature of these sites do not negatively impact the brand’s image from a consumer’s standpoint. We’ve compiled a review list of some of the top online shopping clubs for attaining large savings on brand name products below.

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Hotel City is a Facebook application game created by Playfish. This Hotel City strategy guide, includes such information as how to play Hotel City, how to win lots of money, and helpful Hotel City tips to help you win in the game. We plan to update the Hotel City guide as game features are introduced by Playfish. If you have some great tips or important Hotel City strategy hints that you’d like to share, please let us know and we will incorporate them the next time the guide is updated.

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WordPress job board themes and plugins can help you transform your plain WP blog into a standalone job board site or simply create a single page to display employment opportunities for your company. Besides a complete jobs site, WordPress job board plugins can also provide another useful tool for generating revenue from your site. Many website owners are able to generate a considerable amount of income by charging a small fee to allow employers to post job openings on their site. Below we’ve listed some of the best WordPress job board themes and plugins that are currently available. If job aren’t what you’re looking for or you’re in need of some other terrific WP tools to improve your site, see the premium WordPress plugins list for inspiration.

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