1. Threat of New Entrants
New entrants get attracted to profitable markets reducing the profitability of the players already existing in the industry. Groupon operates in a kind of industry where it is difficult to achieve the differentiation and customer loyalty. There are very less hurdles to enter this industry of daily deals because the business is about an intelligent idea and not on any technology miracle or advancements. Since the industry is new and unregulated, the new entrants nearly face no compliance issues. Also, the nature of the business is such that it does not require the entrant to have fixed assets like the machines, property, etc as well as very little set up cost is required, which attracts many entrepreneurs. Also it
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This is kind of difficult as there is nothing different they have to offer their customer and merchants than their competitors. Plus many merchants already have their fixed providers , so it is difficult to convince them to accept additional deals. The only way the new entrants can build the base is by exploring and planning targeted marketing based on geographic location and market positioning.
Due to the ease of entering the market, Groupon has faced increasing competition. The revenue growth for Groupon is affected as there are many entrants in the market, so the plan of action for Groupon is to increase its bottom line profitability to show the positive net income. Once this happens then Groupon just has to struggle to maintain high profits without the subscriber growth.
2. Internal
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Supplier Power :
As Groupon is not a manufacturing company and hence we cannot consider it as the supplier. But the business of the Groupon depends on the merchants and hence here we will consider merchants of the company as the suppliers. As suppliers provides products and materials which can be considered as the raw materials for the final product of the Groupon .
The power of supplier is low as an individual supplier would not have a strong influence on the price per deal. Also since there are many suppliers, it is easy for Groupon to switch among them. Also since Groupon tries to localize their deals, the merchants are small in size and are usually the start ups and hence have the low power. But the biggest fear for the Groupon is if the large amount merchant decide to stay out of the game. This will cause serious loss to the business. This forces the Groupon to offer deals that are reasonable to the merchants.
5. Buyer Power :
The buyers in this case are the customers buying the coupons. An individual buyer is not a threat to the Groupon than the group. Normally in this type of industry the group behaves in a particular way because the customer base is interested in the deals that are cheap and are of good quality. Also they have very low switching costs and hence Groupon should strive to provide proper deals and quality to the customer base and respect their group buyer
One of the factors contributing to the barriers to entry is the high capital requirements that are needed in order to compete in the market. Large investments are required in acquiring facilities and maintaining them, along with purchasing the expensive equipment relative to manufacturing welding products. Purchasing the equipment is not enough, but new companies are also required to develop the advanced technologies before effectively competing in which is really time consuming. With these asset specificities, potential entrants are discouraged from committing to obtaining these specialized assets that have no other means of use or profitability if the venture fails. When existing firms acquire these specialized assets, they are more inclined to resist efforts by other competitors from stealing market share, therefore enhancing the competitive disadvantage for new entrants.
Bargaining power of suppliers analyzes how much power a business 's supplier has and how much control it has over the potential to raise its prices, which, in turn, would lower a business 's profitability. (Arline, 2015).
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This is the possible way to attract more new customers buying with Groupon and develop Groupon in their mind. If they are happy with their previous purchase from Groupon, the possibility to continue purchase from Groupon has been increased.
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