{"id":1867,"date":"2011-11-30T23:08:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2012-09-13T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:00:11","slug":"groupon-was-the-single-worst-decision-i-have-ever-made-as-a-business-owner-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Groupon Was &#8220;The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The sales process seemed like buying a car. Initially, the rep asked for 100% of the revenue. He eventually \u201csettled\u201d for 50% \u201cUnderstanding that your business is newer, I decided to split the revenue with you,\u201d he wrote. At one point, Jessie was told that she could only ever run one Groupon over the life of the business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/06\/09\/groupon-single-worst-decision\/\">Groupon Was &#8220;The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner&#8221; | TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sales process seemed like buying a car. Initially, the rep asked for 100% of the revenue. He eventually \u201csettled\u201d for 50% \u201cUnderstanding that your business is newer, I decided to split the revenue with you,\u201d he wrote. At one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-groupon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}