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NetBanker Blog: Groupon 2.0 and Merchant Funded Rewards

By Mercator Advisory Group
March 28, 2011
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Blogger Jim Bruene, over at NetBanker, has some interesting ruminations today on the future of rewards in banks’ card portfolios. Groupon, he says, should be an instructive and inspiring business model for delivery of cardholder rewards in debit and credit card programs.

It’s Groupon 2.0 that I think is even more interesting for financial institutions. The new model, coming in a few weeks, is all about mobile deals. The company is said to be planning on adding two buttons to your smartphone:

I’m hungry…which will alert you to nearby Groupons you can use for food deals.

I’m bored…which will alert you to just about anything else Groupon sells.

It’s brilliant. And so simple. Again, everyone will wish they’d built it.
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So how could you do the same thing in personal finance? What would those buttons be?

• I’m broke….leads to ATM finder, cash-back location, credit card site, loan app, friends & family loans, P2P lender, etc.
• I’ve just been paid…leads to ATM finder, branch locations,
deposit accounts, billpay, investments, automated savings plans, etc.
• I’m out of town…leads to ATM finder, FX locations, travel services,
resource locator, notifies card issuers, security preferences, etc.

But those are all pretty much standard functions of online/mobile banking today. The bigger opportunity may be to beat Groupon at the local level, with merchant-funded rewards tied to debit/credit cards (see note 1). Banks could potentially use the same “hungry/bored buttons” and direct customers to cash-back deals at restaurants and other merchants making offers to your cardholders.

Bottom line: Location-based rewards is another example of why mobile banking will be more important than online banking. To put it simply:

Banks enable commerce.
Mobile enables location-based commerce.
So financial institutions are right in the middle of a multi-billion dollar shift in retail spending. Enjoy all the opportunities!

The Original Blog Post: http://www.netbanker.com/2011/03/can_banks_and_credit_card_issuers_outflank_groupon_with_merchant-funded_rewards.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+netbanker+%28NetBanker%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

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