No wonder then that some in Britain are considering what this country could do to copy that model.
The Groupon model is easy to copy, so dozens of local clones will eat Mr Mason's discounted lunch.
Amiss said the Australian model, where there are only six or seven top regional sides and far fewer professionals, was often being held up as a model for England to copy.
Those that copy the mayoral model will get the most independence and those that stick closely to their current scheme will receive the least.
Perhaps the answer to this dilemma is for teams to behave more like the ever-popular Arsenal, which recently posted pre-tax profit and boasts about having a self-sustaining financial model that every team should copy.
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An army of clone websites that copy the daily deal model and dilute the brands that are legitimate, Weintraub says.
At the same time, the firm cannot copy Apple's model completely.
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In fairness, everyone seems to be trying to copy the Germans in using alphanumeric model designations, and most of them are awful.
The revenue model behind Groupon is simple to understand but, according to critics of the company, easy to copy.
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The Seed.com content-farm model, meanwhile, is currently only facilitating one aspect of freelance content production, which is advertising assignments and collecting copy.
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