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Coupon Businesses: How They Make Their Money

Coupon businesses work by promoting other companies’ product discounts directly to customers. How it works is this: They collect coupons from participating companies. Participating companies get a wider audience and therefore a boost to their business. Meanwhile, consumers get a good deal. And, oh yes, the coupon business gets a commission for any sales. All the while, the coupon company looks for other opportunities. Some of them make their money through direct sales while others get it through sales and offers such as the methods we describe here.

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The Future of Boutiques & Fashion

Trends change fast in today’s technology-led world. If you went back in time, hardly anyone would be talking about Instagram as a key driver of fashion or acknowledge that most people are happy to buy goods online. Suffice it to say the future of fashion will also look different than what it is today. So what will this world look like? READ MORE for industry predictions

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Big Ideas 2011: Rethinking Retail

Online retailers have always competed by offering convenience and low prices, but they’ve lately began to master the art of getting people to buy things they don’t yet know they want. Inc.com reports that these new start-ups–like Gilt Group, LivingSocial, and Groupon–send locally targeted e-mails (hello, Shreveport, Louisiana!), give huge discounts (50 percent off is

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