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ValuePal The best deals from your favourite companies Barry Sweeney Michael Mone Ciaran Griffin Dheeraj Kumar

DCU Practicum Presentation - ValuePal

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My final project on the masters in e-commerce at DCU. I developed the idea & led a team of four people over the summer 2010. The project was a business plan for a discount and promotional advertising platform, that lets companies automatically promote their product and service offerings to an increasingly value hungry consumer market. It provides highly targeted and location based discount advertising to consumers in a more cost effective and efficient way than existing platforms and marketing channels.

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ValuePal The best deals from your favourite companies

Barry Sweeney Michael Mone Ciaran Griffin

Dheeraj Kumar

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The Recession

•“65% of Ireland's consumers are now buying 'clever' and spending more time hunting for value” – PWC 2010

• 92.6% stated that their purchasing habits had changed as a result of the recession and that they are now researching more actively for better value products and services – our research

•Retailers have been aggressively responding by providing more deal’s, engaging in promotional activities - PWC 2010

• “the majority of retailers believe that these changed consumer habits are permanent” – PWC 2010

= growth in discount and promotional advertising (incentive advertising

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Promotional Marketing

• “Internet searches for discount vouchers in the UK have increased by 47.5% in the 12 months to August 09” – Experian Hitwise 2009

• “on-line retailers now receives 1/100 visits from a voucher website” – Experian Hitwise 2009

• “28% more of consumers were looking for promotional offers than they were in July 2009, which raises to 41% in 16-24 year olds” – Valassis Ltd 2010

• “66.2% used a voucher or coupon in a retail store in the last 12 months.” – our research

• “82.4% would not feel uncomfortable displaying a coupon at a checkout to receive a discount.” – our research

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SME Promotional Marketing

OFF LINE CHANNELS ONLINE CHANNELS

Costly

Print Advertising Tech

AdWords

Radio / Television SEO

Low ROI

Direct Mail / Insertions Costly

Website

Leafleting Banner Advertising

In-store POS, Window displays Facebook / Twitter

• 65% have offered discounted prices in the last two years •100% would like to use the internet more to promote their business •70% see cost as a barrier to increasing digital marketing activities and 17% - lack of technical expertise.

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Use Cases

• Create & publish a discount offer

• Specifying promotion method , details & method of redemption .

• Published to ValuePal homepage of customers in Cork, who have selected Rainbow as a preferred company or specified an interest in gift & home wares.

• Benefit to partner: targeted and cost effective: €4.

• Benefit to customer: Easily acquired, money saving deal from a company they like.

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Use Cases

• Excess inventory of rooms this weekend.

• Create a group deal, to sell 10 at 50% discount or €50.

• If 10 customers commit, we make €25 commission.

• The benefit: the hotel can market their deal quickly and effectively to a targeted customer base.

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Use Cases

• 32 Stores nationwide, but only want to create a deal in the Galway outlets.

• Select digital redemption method, input barcode.

• Fully trackable in terms of redemption and ROI

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Ad Creation Process

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On mobile

• View deals based on your location

• Display deal at checkout• Retailer scans, you

recieve discount • Retailer can monitor

redemption rates / ROI

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Competition

• Fragmented, Complex, Dynamic • Resurgence in light of recession driving

innovation. • Significant start-up activity in Group Deal

sector.

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Direct competition: Groupon

• 150 cities, $300m saved • Group deals only • 1 per day, lifestyle

products & services • 6 month waiting list• High commission rate,

up to 25%

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Direct competition: onoffer.ie

• Broadly similar but critically different.

• No user preference or localisation filtering

• Not client managed solution

• €400 per month

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Direct competition: myvouchercodes.co.uk

• Leading UK voucher site.

• No user preference or localisation filtering

• No client managed solution

• £250 per month

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Competitive Advantage

• Client managed solution – cost efficiencies • Designed to allow partner flexibility • For consumers, preference & location based• We’ve assimilated the best features from the

in industry to develop an Integrated, flexible, low cost platform which provides a win-win scenario constituents

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Operations

• Year 1: Ireland 8 full time staff, two outsourced teams. • Year 2: UK & Ireland: 15 full time staff, two outsourced teams. • All other operation functions outsourced.

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Sales & Marketing

• Key operational imperatives to future success.• By the end of 2011 have 2,960 Irish partners, 4,283

end of 2013. • By the end of 2012 have 12,149 UK partners, 27,662

by end of 2013. • Acquire 350,000 Irish customers in 2011. • Acquire 750,000 UK customers in 2012. • Move from acquisition in Y1 to retention in Y2 & 3.

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Marketing

• Establish ValuePal as a leading online brand.• Focused on innovative & effective methods of

communication to build long term relationships with partners and customers.

• Recruit experienced Marketing Director • Year 1 Marketing budget allocation €618,000 • UK Marketing budget allocation €2,200,000

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Marketing

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Sales

Sales Director

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Partner Acquisition Map Y1 - Ireland

Q1Q2

Q3Q4

50 150155

160

100 300 350 400

200

2000 2200 2400

Type C Type B Type A

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Revenue Projections Year 1 - Ireland

Type A

2400

Publishing 1 & 2 ads per qtr. for an avg. of 5 days

30% publishing 1 group deal per qtr.

€454,710

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Forecast Revenue Growth – Ireland

20112012

2013

€ 747,684

€1,249,011

€1,525,366

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UK Partner Acquisition 2012-2013

Q1 2012Q4 2012

Q1 2013Q4 2013

500 579

608 704

1,000 1,728 1,987 2,891

4,000

9,842 12,302

24,027

Type C Type B Type A

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UK & Ireland Revenue Forecast 2011-2013

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Financial Overview

Funding

Financial Performance

Equity / Valuation

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Questions?