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For the right business Groupon can work.

The cost of supplying the product or service must be small as the percentage the business gets from the offer price is only about 40%.

The key is to have a sell up once the Groupon 'client' there. e.g. paintaballing where most people buy extra paintballs at normal price and the marginal cost of having people doing the gig is low.

I know a photographer who does it too and again the selling up is the key. He is careful not to offer to many gigs and that there are times when the offer can be used so it is done to suit him.

I tried it a couple of times on one of my sites i.e 50 links. On checking it seems that the links are very poor. I wont use it again.

Could change his name and address etc. I suppose Any need a Deed Poll ?

I would think bought as a business and as such consumer rights don't apply in the same way That is my assumption but I may be wrong about that).

What exactly was offered and agreed to is very important and Garde is right that 12 month minimum can't be introduced without some prior knowledge.

Paul,

If you only have an oral contract you can in principle rely on what you were told and ask for the contract to be honoured as per your agreement "immediately" and if they dont and provided the breach is serious enough stop paying.

The detail of what you should do is a little more than that though.

How did you arrange to make the payment and were you referred to any terms and conditions?

Where did the 12 months minimum creep into the equation?

I was a fireman for 11 years and whilst it had its obvious dangers the rate of death and serious injury has been kept a lowish levels due to 'safe working practises'. That sounds like an oxymoron but it is true.

I actually think the police have a much greater risk of serious injury and death due in some part to the inherent unpredictabilty of their 'clientele' and the situations they find themself in.

Thanks Steve

I was not really sure where I was, but using private browsing and Google account logged out etc it looked like I was on page 4 about a week ago.

Then it disappeared way down past page 15 when I stopped looking.

I was hoping it was the legendary Google dance as I have started 'nice and steady' putting on a link or two most days.

Re the landing pages it is an experiment to see if by targetting a specific area e.g. "lasting power...bath" with different/uniqueish on page, using an image from there e.g. Bath Abbey (but I am having a problem with the featured image feature), plus a mention of about 8-10 of the main towns/areas saying I will go there, this will show better if any local search is used.

I have and will be be using a sort of silo (other pages/posts) with some local case studies. When I say local I mean Mr and Norton had a house in Bath...yada yada. Tying to hook in place names in or near the target area. Ancjhor text to the relevant landing page only.

This may not be what is properly called a landing page butIi link building with anchor text of various termms like "lpa bath" "power of attorney bath" and a wee bit (very wee but more to come) of individual promotions.

As I say an experiment.

Thanks for asking Steve. There was actually two with one of the two now 'functioning' and getting up the listings I think.

Needs more work on the visual elements and on content. I will be refining the call to action and putting on a video or two. It is the LPA one below. The target population is definitely older and many will not use the net but I realise this is changing with more and more silver surfers.

I dont expect much from it right now but if I make Google page 1 it should become more useful although I am leaning towards 'local search' so that may cause it to get better results. I have set up 'locallanding pages' which also need refining (they dont feature on the menu). Actually there is a point for discussion!

I think the second one will happen when my in laws come to ours for christmas

There is a progrmme on tonight covering this.

Sorry Steve I would have added to the original thread but it is closed.

BBC News - Somerset 'Debt Doctor' owes clients

A while back I used to rewrite my articles for different sites. Now I start from scratch every time and do my best to predicate it from a differnt angle.

Not always easy but I can only but try.