Travel Site, Group-Buying Escapes, Prospers with Group Buying

Group Buying Escapes, travel sector of leading Australia’s leisure coupon company, RewardsCorp Group, is taking travel deals to new heights by combining solid alliances with major, international deal sites and utilizing consumer market knowledge obtained though their big brother company.

The Group recently reported a staggering 24% of its market revenue is strictly the result of travel deals. Furthermore, the travel sector did a complete 180 turnaround in only three short months, from June to September, and transformed from the smallest to largest company sector raking in $158.5 million from $123.9 million. Now five months in, Group Buying Escapes had sold up to 53,000 room nights and about 10,000 travel vouchers.

RewardsCorp Group Director, Randall Deer, sites the Village Coconut Island Deal as their light bulb point moment when the power of Group Buying became evident. By promoting the resort for five days, 998 vouchers were sold, filling The Village Coconut Island up to 7,984 room night bookings.

“Travel is a specialist market but through our wealth of industry experience we are able to consistently orchestrate attractive, packaged deals to sought-after international and domestic destinations which are helping drive this exciting, new business for our partners.” – Randall Deer, Director, RewardsCorp Group

Group Buying Escapes currently works with major players, most notability, Groupon, Your Travel Deal, Living Social Escapes, Escapes Guru, Scoopon, The Travel Scoop, Spreets and Wow Stays. To Randall Deer, these major partnerships as a key to the company’s success:

“Our innovative business model is simple but successful, … Targeting the movement of low shoulder and low yield inventory, Group Buying Escapes’ marketing partnership with the major sites (Groupon, Scoopon, Living Social and Spreets) delivers pre-paid quality bookings to maximize resorts’ revenue while delivering a highly efficient, credible and manageable reservations platform without risk of oversell.” – Randall Deer, Director, RewardsCorp Group

Source: ETravelBlackBoard

Schedulicity Continues to Help Small Businesses Who Run Daily Deals

Schedulicity continues to streamline multiple aspects of small businesses with innovative products and services

Schedulicity is the leader in online appointment scheduling for small businesses and today announced a notable momentum in its role in the small business technology and daily deal space. Salons, spas and any other small business that operates by appointment and participates in the daily deals industry can take advantage of what Schedulicity has to offer. The company recently launched a feature called Deal Manager, which demonstrates how small business can take advantage of the rapidly growing deals arena without becoming victims of its success.

As you can imagine, and as studies show, only a small percentage of customers that purchase daily deals come back to that business to purchase things as full price. Many merchants call the people who don’t come back “deal trolls” (but that’s another story, covered here)

How does Deal Manager work? Deal Manager allows small businesses to participate in daily deal promotions while exercising control over the number and density of discounted appointments scheduled, thus drastically enhancing the value of deal promotions for their businesses. Launched in 2011, Deal Manager has been used but thousands of businesses, and Schedulicity anticipates that by the end of the year, tens of thousands of appointments will be booked using the groundbreaking feature.

David Galvan is the President of Schedulicity and explains how Deal Manager has a positive impact on small businesses who participate in the daily deals space. “The continued market adoption of daily deals by consumers creates unique challenges and opportunities for small businesses,” he says. “Our Deal Manager service helps small businesses to better manage the flow of leads generated directly from daily deals without sacrificing normal business operations or significantly jeopardizing their current book of scheduled business including walk-ins.”

Have scheduling inconsistencies? Never fear. Constantly innovating, Schedulicity’s newer product offering Pop-Up Offers is a powerful new scheduling feature that dramatically simplifies the process of marketing and filling last-minute appointment cancellations and open time slots. This popular service became available nationwide just two weeks ago and has already led to the creation of nearly 8,000 last-minute offers across the country.

Features like this have helped Schedulicity grow substantially. The company is announcing that to date, it has facilitated nearly half a billion dollars in A-Commerce™ (appointment-based commerce). Additionally, its customer base has grown to 15,000 in less than just two years, resulting in more than 7.5 million appointments booked online.

Hair stylists, massage therapists, estheticians, attorneys and all other appointment-based professionals can now automate their entire scheduling process, with 24/7 ease and a host of convenient features that includes mobile phone access and Facebook social media integration. In many cases, Schedulicity eliminates the need for full-time scheduling personnel, while freeing small businesses to focus on service quality, growth and building customer loyalty.

More about Schedulicity:
Schedulicity is the leading online appointment scheduling solution for small businesses. To date, more than 7.5 million appointments have been booked through Schedulicity (an appointment is booked every four seconds) in more than 2,000 cities across the U.S. and Canada, facilitating over $475 million in appointment-based commerce per year.

Source: MarketWire