"run a deal" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to negotiating a business transaction. For example, "We ran a deal to secure a lower price from the supplier."
Ravikant tells me over 50 different Syndicate leads have already successfully run a deal on AngelList.].
Like even stupid things we were doing, like we could have run a deal on porn and there probably would have been 80 other sites that would have run a deal on porn the next day.
And if you're a merchant who has run a deal and wants to share your story, email me at [email protected]
Naturally, if, for example, LivingSocial happens to run a deal for that new restaurant in your neighborhood you've been meaning to try, Matchbook will send users a notification allowing them to buy the coupon.
Update: A Groupon spokesperson tells us the following: "Since we're no longer a daily deals site in the sense that merchants run a deal for a week and then go off the site, most of these businesses build a deal that lives in our marketplace on a continuous basis.
In December 2010, Hugh & Crye, a men's dress shirt company based in Washington, ran a deal on Living Social and sold 280 coupons.
Academic research has consistently found that running a deal using Groupon (or one of its competitors) has two main implications for a business: more customers in the short term but lower favorability ratings.
Co-founders Chu and Moon also discovered that the percentages of businesses who would return to a daily deals model varied between different types of businesses, with health and entertainment services like personal trainers experiencing the best results from Daily Deals sites and food and drinks merchants restaurants experiencing the lowest numbers of people saying they'd like to re-run a deal.
Amazon is running a deal on the Panasonic DMP-BD35K with four Warner Blu-ray titles through December 13.
Right now, Newegg is running a deal where you can buy the drive for $84.99, with free shipping.
A BuyWithMe sales rep personally visits each merchant that runs a deal (building a local marketing business, even one online, requires a lot of legwork).
