"MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Google Inc. is enabling users to find and print coupons from merchants listed in the online search leader's index of local businesses, adding to a slew of free features designed to attract more traffic to its Web site. More than 20,000 coupons are expected to be available Tuesday when the service debuts on Google's popular mapping service. The initial coupon supply is being provided by Cox Enterprises Inc.'s Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, which has been mailing envelops stuffed with coupons and discount offers for nearly 40 years." Full Story
Sounds interesting.. I wouldn't mind offering free shipping coupons to people that find us on Google. It says local merchants will be able to submit their own coupons, any idea where the form is for that?
Have you checked out Google new service - Add Coupons - this allows Google users to print your coupons and bring them to your business. Coupons will appear alongside your business listing on Google Maps. Anyone can add this Coupon to Google local. Here is the url: https://www.google.com/local/add/login?hl=en-GB&gl=US I took a screenshot of this service:
A new Google program that allows merchants to create printable coupon pages linked to their Google Maps entry potentially threatens the $1.1 billion that coupon advertisers spend in newspapers, according to a report released Tuesday by Merrill Lynch. But the impact likely won't be felt in the short-term, because the early users of the service will probably be small self-service marketers, predicted the investment house. "We think the near term impact is minimal, but longer term we have some serious concern," stated the report.
I haven't heard anything about this, but certainly an interesting concept. makes perfect business sense to google...but yes, it certainly impacts advertising dollars.
We figured we can use it for membership discounts for one of our association sites. Nice new angle to get memberships.
Awesome, I was just looking for this after reading this thread yesterday: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=1269106#post1269106 Just added a 10% coupon to our listing.