Groupon-type services for small communities?
Economy of scale dictates launching services like Groupon in cities where you have plenty of potential merchants and potential consumers to market to.
At what point will someone play with the math and figure out how to tap the hundreds of thousands of smaller communities, allowing local businessess and consumers to tap this targeted social media discount phenom?
They need writers and locally savvy talent to make a new community deployment work – http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/business/29groupon.html?_r=1
Every local community has such talent and could turn Groupon or a similar service who recognizes the potential in smaller communities for long term stable business.