What’s more fun than buying the daily Groupon (and less fun than watching people fall down)? That’s right – sharing Groupons. Maybe you share because you’re looking for people to help you use a Groupon. Maybe it’s because you need to share in order to reach the minimum required for the deal. Or maybe you’re just a nice person and want to help friends get deals on stuff they love.
Today we added one more great reason to share – for every new customer you bring to Groupon, we’ll give you $10 in Groupon Bucks when they buy their first deal. It’s our way of saying “thanks” for your help spreading the word and increasing our collective buying power!
How to Earn Groupon Bucks
Once you create a Groupon account (if you’ve already bought something, you have one), find your personal referral link by clicking Refer Friends, Get $10 at the top of the page.
From here, you can post your link to Twitter, Facebook, or email, or just Cher (pun intended – intended with extreme prejudice) your personal link. Wrap that link around a Groupon badge, and put Groupon on your blog or social networking profile to keep Groupon Bucks flowing!
The “Share” links attached to each deal will also earn you Groupon Bucks. Whether a customer buys that deal immediately or subscribes to the daily email and doesn’t get their first Groupon for months, we won’t forget – you’ll still get your Groupon Bucks.
This was a frequently requested feature – we’re excited to see what you think!
Morgan Levy
onOctober 5, 2009 12:58 pm
Would be awesome if the referral links actually linked back to the referrer’s city. It’s confusing for people when they use a referral link and they all get directed to Atlanta.
Ken Pelletier
onOctober 5, 2009 4:35 pm
Hey Morgan,
We thought about that, and reasoned (wrongly?) that the person clicking would be better off landing on the city nearest to them, not necessarily the city of the person who made the referral. If I refer my friend in Boston, and I’m in Chicago, they’d be more interested in Groupon Boston – or so our reasoning went. So what we do is geo locate the person clicking the link and land them on the nearest Groupon city.
Morgan Levy
onOctober 9, 2009 3:48 pm
Yeah, that just doesn’t seem to work. Everyone in Nashville is complaining about being sent to the Atlanta page when they click on my referral link. Ah, technology!
Ken
onOctober 12, 2009 7:32 pm
Morgan,
We found the source of the issue in Nashville and fixed it. Turned out to be an incorrect geo-coding. Sorry about that – all cured now. Thanks for pointing it out.
Morgan Levy
onOctober 13, 2009 2:06 pm
Awesome! Thanks!
Jux
onApril 2, 2010 11:30 am
Hmmm. I have someone sitting right next to me, here in L.A., but my referral link keeps landing her at the Tulsa page (and with no mention of me referring/thinking she’d like the deal). HowWhatHelp?
Hamid Raza
onJune 30, 2010 5:06 am
Thanks, this supposed to work fine.
Jon
onJune 30, 2010 5:09 pm
It would be great if I could get just $1 Groupon Buck (or something) for referring a friend to a deal- even when that friend is already a member. Anything to reward me for getting people to buy a deal!
Kristi Anderson
onJuly 21, 2010 6:40 pm
I referred a friend and never received my $10 reward after they have made several purchases. I may have done something wrong….please help.
Erin
onJuly 24, 2010 7:52 am
I referred 2 friends who both immediately made purchases, but never received $10! Scam!