{"id":633493,"date":"2010-01-18T07:51:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/18\/wahanda-aims-to-become-yelp-meets-groupon-for-health\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T07:51:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:51:44","slug":"wahanda-aims-to-become-yelp-meets-groupon-for-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/633493","title":{"rendered":"Wahanda Aims To Become Yelp-Meets-Groupon-For-Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We first covered Wahanda<\/a>, a social network for people who use spas and other \u201cwellness\u201d products, way, way back in 2008<\/a> but they’ve been busy. After raising \u00a31.5 million to become the ‘Amazon of wellness’ it’s now built the world’s biggest vertical database of health and beauty spas via their Yelp-like social network. Wahanda now has 10,000 venues listed globally (4,600 in the UK alone), while main competitor, the US-based SpaFinder<\/a> has just over 6,000. Wahanda soft launched in the US in October 2009. Oh, by the way, the global spa economy is worth an estimated $60 billion. <\/p>\n

Today Wahanda combines this database with the fashionable-but-profitable business model of group buying power with time-limited daily offers, along the lines of Groupon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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