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Company | DealsNear.me | ||
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| http://www.DealsNear.me | ||||
| Founded: | March 1, 2011 | |||
| City: | Chicago, Illinois | |||
| Country: | United States | |||
| CEO: | Levi Bergovoy | |||
| Founders: | Levi Bergovoy | |||
| Category: | Marketing/Advertising | Funding: | Seed/Friends & Family | |
| Tags: | Local deals | Employees: | 2-5 | |
What does DealsNear.me do?
DealsNear.me is a local deal discovery service. It collects and displays deals and offers from local businesses, filtered by distance and deal type.
How are they different?
We focus on the actual deals (not coupons or gift certificates) being published by local businesses on a multitude of new platforms such as Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla etc. – We then tag those deals to the address of the business so users can find deals near them. A neat, slightly twist on the ‘local deal’ angle. Real deals, thousands of them, being published each day by local businesses. As far as I know, no one else has done this for local deals on Twitter.
Why could DealsNear.me be BIG?
Local advertising is a huge market, hundreds of billions of dollars. Advertising options for small to mid-size local businesses haven’t really changed much: newspaper, radio or TV ads. If it were a minor announcement, they would perhaps put something the window. These new platforms, such as Twitter and 4sq. are revolutionary for these businesses, provided they have an audience. Most businesses don’t, and they often abandon usage. We aim to help them and ourselves and if we can aggregate this deal info, it would put us in a very critical position in a rapidly changing and growing space.
How they plan to make money:
Premium accounts and a self service ad system to allow businesses to make sure their deals will be seen.
Our thoughts:
No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.DealsNear.me
