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"There's now another reason for small businesses to be skeptical of daily deals. \nNew research found that 43% of consumers said they would be more likely to purchase a daily deal if it was offered at a local business they knew. However, a similar number of respondents also said that buying a daily deal would not make them more loyal to the company or business offering it.\n\"Only 42% of respondents said that getting a good deal would imbue them with an attachment to a business,\" according to the eMarketer report. \"That may be further hindered by deal vendors' tendency to withhold customer contact information from the businesses they work with, making it difficult for small businesses to follow up and develop deeper relationships with customers.\"\nSeveral factors played a large part in the success of daily deals. Thirty-nine percent of consumers also said that they would be more likely to purchase a daily deal because it was offered at a store that was close to where they lived. Both those factors, however, do not beat familiarity with a product, the eMarketer report found. Six in 10 consumers said they would purchase a daily deal if it was for a product they already liked to use. \n\nSEE ALSO: 5 Daily Deals Gone Unexpectedly Wrong (Business News Daily)\nThe research also found that daily deals do not need to come from daily deal websites like Groupon and LivingSocial in order to be successful. In fact, half of the report's respondents said that the biggest factor influencing consumers in their decision to purchase a daily deal was if it was recommended by friends and family members. \nOnly 32% of consumers said they would be influenced to buy a deal if it came from sites like LivingSocial and Groupon and 6% of consumers said they would be influenced to buy if it were recommended on a social media site.\nAmong those deals that were recommended on social media, deals on restaurants were most popular. Nearly 70% of respondents said they had recommended or shared a daily deal via social media for a deal on a restaurant. Deals on entertainment, food and groceries, travel and spa and beauty services all followed.\nChadwick Martin Bailey, a market research firm, conducted the research in this eMarketer report for Constant Contact.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, GiorgioMagini"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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