{"id":1070,"date":"2011-04-26T21:50:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T21:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebizz.wordpress.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2012-04-16T22:35:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:35:22","slug":"facebooks-new-social-deals-is-this-the-grouponlivingsocial-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/facebooks-new-social-deals-is-this-the-grouponlivingsocial-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s new &#8220;Social Deals&#8221; &#8211; Is this the Groupon\/LivingSocial Challenger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deals\">Social Deals<\/a> is set to challenge the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupon.com\">Groupon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingsocial.com\">LivingSocial<\/a>, but is Facebook doing the right thing?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s take a look at Facebook Places vs Foursquare, did it do justice and become a true challenger?\u00a0 Not really, yes I personally stopped using Foursquare, but not b\/c of Facebook.\u00a0 FB places just become another check-in site (like yelp).\u00a0 It offered no real &#8220;reward&#8221; for checking in; at least with Foursquare department stores started offering promotion codes.<\/p>\n<p>Now with Social Deals, Facebook has a lot of catching up to do.\u00a0 As a heavy user of Groupon, Facebook needs to stay on top of their competitive edge and run with it.\u00a0 Social Deals must be more user friendly, make it easier to purchase coupons and keep track of existing used and non-used coupons.\u00a0 See what<a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/no-teeth-whitening-facebook-launches-social-deals-to-bring-social-experiences-offline-74658\"> other people<\/a> think&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at some screen shots of what the new deals page looks like on fb:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>DEAL OVERVIEW PAGE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screenhunter_04-apr-26-14-371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1073\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/facebooks-new-social-deals-is-this-the-grouponlivingsocial-challenger\/screenhunter_04-apr-26-14-37-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screenhunter_04-apr-26-14-371.jpg?fit=1000%2C344&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,344\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Social Deals on Facebook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screenhunter_04-apr-26-14-371.jpg?fit=300%2C103&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screenhunter_04-apr-26-14-371.jpg?fit=697%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073 alignnone\" title=\"Social Deals on Facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screenhunter_04-apr-26-14-371.jpg?resize=500%2C172\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screenhunter_04-apr-26-14-371.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screenhunter_04-apr-26-14-371.jpg?resize=300%2C103&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screenhunter_04-apr-26-14-371.jpg?resize=768%2C264&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>INDIVIDUAL DEAL PAGE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screenhunter_05-apr-26-14-44.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1074\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/facebooks-new-social-deals-is-this-the-grouponlivingsocial-challenger\/screenhunter_05-apr-26-14-44\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chris-salazar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screenhunter_05-apr-26-14-44.jpg?fit=511%2C545&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"511,545\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Social Deals Page 2 &#8211; 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