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Around the Web: Groupon expands to San Angelo

Shared by Tommy Thomason on February 8, 2011
Advertising, Business of News, Online advertising / NetNewsCheck

Groupon has just expanded to San Angelo. That means the site is now found in 13 cities in Texas and obviously, it’s beginning to move toward smaller markets. Other Texas cities that have Groupon sites are Beaumont, Fort Worth, the Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, Dallas, Lubbock, Austin, Corpus Christi, Houston, Amarillo, El Paso, Midland/Odessa and Abilene. Groupon is just one example of the move of advertising dollars to digital direct marketing. Forbes magazine called Groupon “the fastest growing company ever.”

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Tommy Thomason
Director at Texas Center for Community Journalism

Tommy Thomason is the founding director of the Texas Center for Community Journalism. Thomason began his career in journalism in the early 1970s with the Associated Press, working as a sportswriter in Arkadelphia and Little Rock, Ark. He has also worked in public relations in Dallas and as a...