More Signs of A Stressed Consumer? Digital Coupon Use Surges
Published: Tuesday, 23 Jun 2009 | 8:55 AM ET Christina Cheddar Berk
News Editor
Are consumers getting more stressed?
Steven Boal, CEO Of Coupons.com, thinks they are. Despite reports of rising consumer confidence, factors such as rapidly increasing gasoline prices and high unemployment are continuing to put pressure on consumers, according to Boal.
AP
The increased use of digital coupons may mean the era of flipping through newspaper inserts is coming to an end.
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“Consumers are still feeling the pinch, from our view,” Boal says.
Want more proof? Use of digital coupons surged from April to May, according to ComScore reports. What’s more, June looks to be shaping up to show another solid month of growth for Coupons.com, the leading digital coupon Web site, Boal says.
Digital coupon Web sites saw the largest increase in unique visitors, a key measure of Internet traffic, from April to May of any Web site category, says Andrew Lipsman, director of Industry Analysis at ComScore.
The growth in unique visitors at Coupons.com rose 85 percent during that period, solidly outpacing the 19 percent growth in the overall category, according to ComScore.
It’s notable, that at the same time, online commerce weakened, Lipsman says. Since the start of this year, sales of products online had been basically been flat with year ago levels, but the value of those purchases in May fell from a year ago, according to ComScore data.
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Do you have a marketing budget set aside to promote your small business each year?
Marketing experts typically recommend that you reserve as much as 10% of your small business’ gross sales for marketing. That includes advertising such as online coupons, promotions, direct mail, giveaways like magnets and such, promotional signage, and so on. The question is whether or not 10% is realistic for your small business or not.
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From The Economist print edition

IN TERMS of efficiency, if not size, the advertising industry is only now starting to grow out of its century-long infancy, which might be called “the Wanamaker era”. It was John Wanamaker, a devoutly Christian merchant from Philadelphia, who in the 1870s not only invented department stores and price tags (to eliminate haggling, since everybody should be equal before God and price), but also became the first modern advertiser when he bought space in newspapers to promote his stores. He went about it in a Christian way, neither advertising on Sundays nor fibbing (thus minting the concept of “truth in advertising”). And, with his precise business mind, he expounded a witticism that has ever since seemed like an economic law: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted,” he said. “The trouble is, I don’t know which half.”
Wanamaker’s wasted half is not entirely proverbial. The worldwide advertising industry is likely to be worth $428 billion in revenues this year, according to ZenithOptimedia, a market-research firm. Greg Stuart, the author of a forthcoming book on the industry and the boss of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a trade association, estimates that advertisers waste—that is, they send messages that reach the wrong audience or none at all—$112 billion a year in America and $220 billion worldwide, or just over half of their total spending. Wanamaker was remarkably accurate.
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