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The Dealmap is a deal “discovery” service – a comprehensive source for consumers to find and share hard-to-find local and daily deals. The Dealmap aggregates local/daily deals on the Web from the largest number of sources, and makes them available to consumers when and where they want them – through its website and social applications, and its daily email. The site showcases discounts of up to 90% off restaurants, attractions, hotels, spas, salons, entertainment, shops and more. Using SentimentAnalysis™ from its parent site Center’d.com, the Dealmap also integrates detailed insights about local businesses, giving people the information they need to make better local purchasing decisions.

- The Dealmap aggregates the largest number of local deals (300,000+) and daily deal sites (nearly 100) anywhere on the Web, using a sophisticated spidering system to ensure the deals are fresh and valid.
- The Dealmap is the only one that lets consumers view local deals on an actual map, or in list form.
- The Dealmap already offers daily deal emails and deal alerts via Twitter in more than 20 cities (which includes all the individual group buying sites and Foursquare).
- The Dealmap gets its deals from the widest range of sources: from partners including Restaurant.com, ValPak, GoldStar Entertainment, CitySearch and more, local daily deal sites (including Groupon and Living Social), traditional media sites, directly from businesses, and from users who submit deals themselves (and offers an incentive-based gaming feature to promote user deal submissions).
- The Dealmap offers summarized and aggregated information about what consumers think about the businesses and service providers offering these deals, which it gets from parent site Center’d.com.
- The Dealmap will launch an iPhone application within the coming weeks.

The timing for The Dealmap’s unique deal discovery service is perfect, since the economy continues to struggle and shows only slight indicators of improvement. Consumers are now conditioned to search for deals; in fact, many consumers will not make a purchase without some sort of deal or discount associated with the product or service. Many companies have entered the deal space however, making it vast and confusing, and consumers are becoming overwhelmed trying to sort through the plethora of daily e-mails, deal sites and attempts to find deals via social networking. The Dealmap offers a single, comprehensive resource for people to either browse or indicate specific deals that interest them, and pull deals from the site, or have them sent to them via a daily e-mail. The Dealmap’s pending iPhone application will deliver deals to consumers when they are most likely to use them – when they are out and about.

The Dealmap has affiliate relationships with a number of partners, and will eventually offer preferred placement to companies and advertising solutions to businesses. Additionally, The Dealmap earns revenue through distribution of its deals via its API.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://thedealmap.com