Groupon has offered daily coupons and discount tips based on
where site visitors are in both mobile and PC version sites. Google has offered
suggested information or advertisement automatic engines based on Gmail inbox
mail subjects and contents. Social networking and free email companies can
establish effective advertisement software to offer right products and services
to online users or subscribers. Brick-and-mortar stores usually send coupon
booklets and mails to local shoppers, card account holders and sign-up
newsletter subscribers. Groupon can survive as long as online subscribers and
visitors like the ways Groupon is doing compared to other methods of receiving
daily best deals on merchandises and services. Groupon has just taken a dual
role of in-store coupons and postal coupon mails exposing or displaying in
front of prospective shoppers. Each person may look for some special deals on
specific products and services during a year.
Facebook has successfully established its brand as the top
world-class social networking environment that has connecting hundreds million
subscribers together worldwide. Any social networking is in turn converted into
so-called virtual marketplace of advertisement, deals and entertainment. A fair
or business show is regularly held to attract visitors who want to discover new
products and services from business organizations. Game shows, fashion shows,
electronics gadget shows, airplane shows, car shows, financial shows, career
shows and more are held in large, medium and small cities. Facebook has
acquired different application developers and IT companies to increase its own
appealing features. Business organizations and individual customers can explore
such virtual marketplace to bring in new products, services and ideas to
prospective audiences and customers.
Google has optimized its revenue-generated advertisement
engine over its history to an almost saturate level. It means Google cannot
earn more from its advertisement core search engine. From the core search
engine architecture, Google has add more values into its business model – (a)
free email service, (b) blogging, ( c) online sites, (d) online sharing
documents, (f) YouTube – social media, (g) Android OS – PC, Smartphone, Tablet
and gadget versions, (h) solar and green technologies, (i) finance and venture
capital, (j) Wi-Fi Internet services, (k) streaming video and on-demand TV, (l)
Google Map, (m) business solution packages, (n) pioneering hi-tech gadget
development, (o) mobile payment technologies, (p) Motorola Mobility – Mobile Phone,
(q) Nexus – Tablet, and more. American consumers have not seen General Motor,
Ford and Chrysler moving into software industries. Most automobile makers are
interested in sales networks, supply chain networks, financing services, media
firms to offer optimized business solutions that guarantee the former’s car
sales goals. Car buyers can receive information about new car models from media
streams, apply for car loans from financing service firms, trade in old cars
and purchase new cars at dealerships. Google’s executive board directors,
including co-founders and primary investors have weighed Google’s future market
on mainstream technologies and trendy product values. If Google can reformed
and revolutionized Motorola’s product design, software development platforms in
a very short time – one year to two years – Google will boost the new sales
goals from its future Smartphone business, directly challenging Samsung and
Apple.
