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Re: Show HN: Spoffer – Not just another deals site

#11

Just out of curiosity... How are you planning on monetizing this?

Well in case that its advertising platform there are a lot of different monetizing ways like pay per click (pays business), "staff recommended"

offers which pops to the top and are "more visible" than others, or some pricing scheme with "pay as you go", "monthly subscription" and etc.

Re: Show HN: Spoffer – Not just another deals site

#12
post #9

Would a good description of this be Red Flag Deals with a way better UI? Looks awesome.

RedFlagDeals like others (slickdeals.net, dealspl.us and etc.) are quite different - there are community found and posted deals with some

"premium/partners" ads mixed. Spoffer works in a different way - people get deals and offers directly from businesses. Business channel on

spoffer is smth like business Facebook fan page, but entire solution is dedicated to special offers without any noise and with all necessary

tools for businesses (offers editor, analytics) and for people who want to discover offers as well. Also it could be treated as new generation

marketing channel which is a bit similar to email marketing, but businesses are collecting spoffer subscribers instead of email addresses and

other side - people, are getting these offers to their offers stream instead of email box.

Re: Show HN: Spoffer – Not just another deals site

#15
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post #6

I didn't really understand the 'how it works' video, I 'subscribe to a business' and then what? Do I get emailed with offers or do I need to go back to the website to see new offers? How are you going to get people back to the site after the first viewing if you're not going to email or connect with them on social media?

Yes the main idea is that after you subscribe to businesses you're interested in you are able to access your offers stream in several ways: of course you get notification emails about new offers from businesses you're subscribed if you want to get it (there will be settings for that because idea behind of that is that EMAIL IS NOT FOR SUCH THINGS LIKE SPECIAL OFFERS:) ) also there will be push notifications in mobile…

>Push notifications in mobile apps

There's no way this could get annoying. Push notifications are great for things like SMS, voicemail, email, and emergency management alerts (such as amber alerts, or if there is a fire nearby), but coupled with anything resembling advertising -- even if the user claims they want to see it -- I would wager heavily that it will cause a service to hemorrhage users. Is this an opt-in only "feature"?

Re: Show HN: Spoffer – Not just another deals site

#16
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes the main idea is that after you subscribe to businesses you're interested in you are able to access your offers stream in several ways: of course you get notification emails about new offers from businesses you're subscribed if you want to get it (there will be settings for that because idea behind of that is that EMAIL IS NOT FOR SUCH THINGS LIKE SPECIAL OFFERS:) ) also there will be push notifications in mobile…

>Push notifications in mobile apps There's no way this could get annoying. Push notifications are great for things like SMS, voicemail, email, and emergency management alerts (such as amber alerts, or if there is a fire nearby), but coupled with anything resembling advertising -- even if the user claims they want to see it -- I would wager heavily that it will cause a service to hemorrhage users. Is this an opt-in on…

Agree. The idea is to have all notifications configurable, only "silent" notification which is visibile when you connect to website or app, email notification on/off, mobile app notification on/off - for example if you're preparing for your new skying season and want to buy some new equipment, maybe its not so annoying to get push notifications from www.dickssportinggoods.com about great sale of winter goods?

Re: Show HN: Spoffer – Not just another deals site

#17
post #14

Is this for me? I'm in Australia.

Not yet. The idea is to have it globally, but for now only some well known US brand names are covered. But your question is about different markets, its impossible to launch such kind (business to people) of website in all over the World at once :) But theoretically - yes, of course its for you in case there will be a lot of Australian retailers, service providers and etc. publishing their offers.

Re: Show HN: Spoffer – Not just another deals site

#18
post #13

So you want to be yet another place I need to check in with to get these offers and provide the tracking, analytics and subscriber numbers to sell to businesses? In addition to Facebook, Twitter and my regular email.

In fact yes. But its the same with every new service or? Also "sell to businessess" is not really correct wording... why? Because after you register on spoffer and subscribe to some channels (businesses) spoffer itself is the only one "entry point" to you for businesses. They don't get your email or social network access and you don't risk to get spam there later on.

Re: Show HN: Spoffer – Not just another deals site

#19
Looks like a great site and well executed. Im left with the impression though that the layout/design could do with some extra polish. Im not a designer myself so cant really make useful suggestions. Perhaps submit your site to :-

http://www.reddit.com/r/design_critiques/

to get some feedback.

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