Google Offers Is A Cheap Knockoff
June 10, 2011 at 13:28 PM EDT
Google's recently released Offers product is showing mixed success in Portland, its first market. In this post I will try to look at both the good and the bad of Google Offers. As I point out below, they get an A- for effort, but a C for originality. Since launch, the offers have included discounted coffee , pool table time , a Lebanese restaurant , tanning services and a pedicab brewery tour . The coffee and restaurant deals did very well, while the pool table time and tanning services didn't come close to their sales caps. The pedicab sold 26 out of 700. The contestants on The Apprentice generated more revenue from pedicab tours —$1,270 vs. $1,170.