Online Coupon Company Offers Daily Capital Deal
July 19, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
LivingSocial, which offers online coupons for discounts at restaurants and other businesses, launched Tuesday in Sacramento.
The livingsocial.com site, managed out of Washington, D.C., offers daily deals at local restaurants, bars, spas, theaters and other entertainment/service venues.
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Ways to Save Money on Groceries
July 15, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
The average manufacturer’s coupon is now worth $1.20, according to food marketing analyst Phil Lempert of SupermarketGuru.com. That’s a nice amount, but serious savers combine these coupons with in-store coupons and good sales.
Sites like CouponMom.com (free) and TheGroceryGame.com ($10 for eight weeks) offer weekly sales-tracking services for most states and major grocery stores. They’ll tell you which items are on rock-bottom sale and alert you to manufacturers’ coupons you can use.
Manufacturers’ coupons abound in most Sunday newspapers and at sites like Coupons.com, SmartSource.com and Redplum.com.
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PennySaverUSA.com Launches New Contest
July 15, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Press Release
BREA, CA–(Marketwire – July 15, 2010) - Online coupons are the theme of Harte-Hanks PennySaverUSA.com®’s (NYSE: HHS) new PennySaver of the Month contest. Users are encouraged to find a new coupon every day in July and submit it to the contest entry form for a chance to win a free Apple iPad in addition to a $250 cash prize.
Each month, the online contest honors a unique winner with the best anecdote relating to the PennySaver. Many readers have expressed stories praising the PennySaver for being their source for local online coupons and now they can extend their search to the web and find printable online coupons on PennySaverUSA.com. By submitting information about their search for online coupons, readers can enter for a chance to win the grand prize.
“Readers no longer have to wait for the PennySaver to come in the mail to find coupons, they can just browse all the online coupons on PennySaverUSA.com to find what they need,” says Loren Dalton, President of PennySaverUSA.com. “We are a key source of coupons for PennySaver readers and now they can find the coupon instantly with the click of a button.”
PennySaverUSA.com is home to a large database of online coupons from thousands of local businesses that advertise in the PennySaver. Readers who are familiar with the PennySaver mailer can find online coupons in their area from an array of businesses. A simple search on PennySaverUSA.com can lead users to auto repair coupons, pizza coupons, restaurant coupons, grocery coupons, and more online coupons in their local neighborhood.
Online coupons can be found on PennySaverUSA.com and throughout the websites listed on PennySaverUSA.com. To participate in the contest for a chance to win a free Apple iPad in addition to the $250 cash prize, visitors should submit a brief description of each of the online coupons found. Entrants must include the coupon type, the business name, the website, and whether or not they would redeem the coupon at the place of business.
The online contest ends July 31, 2010 and is subject to certain rules and restrictions, available at http://www.PennySaverUSA.com/contest.
PennySaverUSA.com is one of the largest-circulation single publications in the U.S. The print version of PennySaverUSA.com has published in California since 1962. It is delivered weekly via direct mail to more than 60% of addresses in California and has more adult readers than any other print publication in the state. The print version of TheFlyer.com, its sister Harte-Hanks-owned shopper publication in Florida, has published in Florida since 1977. TheFlyer.com and PennySaverUSA.com web sites include the online classifieds of the print publications in a variety of popular reader categories, including garage sales, pets, used and new cars, and real estate, as well as thousands of coupons and deals for restaurants and events. Also, the web sites are supplemented by local advertising listings nationwide. Other publications outside of California that carry the “PennySaver” name are not affiliated with Harte-Hanks.
About Harte-Hanks
Harte-Hanks® is a worldwide, direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Visit Harte-Hanks on the Web at http://www.harte-hanks.com.
ShopRite Launches Loyalty Card Coupons
July 15, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
ShopRite shoppers can now load coupons to their loyalty cards.
It’s all part of a partnership between Wakefern Food Corp. and Coupons.com. After registering their ShopRite Price Plus Club card information at www.shoprite.com/coupons, shoppers can select the coupons they want and when their ShopRite Price Plus Club card is entered or swiped at checkout, coupons are automatically deducted from the total.
Get the Most Out of Online Coupons
July 14, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Designer boots, Texas barbecue, Droid phones, diet plans: you name it, you can likely find an online discount coupon for your purchase.
Whether printed off the computer and carried into a store or used while shopping online, the use of Internet coupons is soaring.
Want $30 off at Banana Republic or free shipping on Levi’s jeans? You got it. Looking for 10 percent off your next Verizon cell phone purchase? It’s yours.
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Phone App Lets You Get Your Coupon On
July 14, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Saving money in and around Houston is about to get a whole lot easier, that is, if you own the right kind of cell phone.
Forget about the ‘cuttable’, ‘clippable’, or printable kind of coupon. These days, all you need is a smart phone to cash in on bargains. It’s Valpak of Houston new way of offering savings to consumers.
Valpak is offering a downloadable program that’s attracting up to 7000 new users to the company’s website every month.
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Franchise Food Company Embraces Social Media
July 14, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Press Release
(PRWEB) July 14, 2010
Leading franchise group Franchise Food Company (FFco), the company behind Cold Rock Ice Creamery, Pretzel World and Nutshack has signed on with start-up social network for coupons Myzerr.com to promote their in-store coupons.
The partnership will allow users of the Myzerr website and iPhone app to download coupons from FFco brands.
According to Stan Gordon, CEO of FFco, ‘One of the main reasons the Myzerr solution is attractive is that customers can use the iPhone app to find our stores on a map. So someone walking down Glenferrie Road can see that our Cold Rock store is offering a discount coupon and then come in and claim the discount instantly’. As a social network, Myzerr also let’s users share coupons with their friends via social media like Facebook or Twitter and customers can also comment on or rate promotions.
Myzerr has developed a range of features for Franchises including reports and tracking for businesses so franchises can get detailed information on redemptions per store. ‘The platform allows us to engage with our customers and community groups through an integrated social media strategy as Myzerr is like a one stop shop for managing your Facebook and Twitter page promotions’ says Gordon, ‘We are excited to be part of this new opportunity’.
It’s free for businesses to promote their coupons on Myzerr and the company makes it’s money from Myzerr Ads ‘sponsored links’ not unlike Google Adwords or Facebook Ads.
Planning Family Summer Vacations on a Budget
July 13, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Preparing well in advance of all your family summer events spares you the money and the stress usually associated with traveling (and ironically, vacations in general). Here are my favorite tips for saving a buck:
1. Find the best hotel deal
Just because you’re on a budget doesn’t mean you can’t stay at a nice hotel. I usually begin my search at Hotels.com, Priceline.com and eBay (yes, they offer hotel bargains too!).
2. Be a coupon hound
If you’re planning to visit a theme park, search special ticket deals online.
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Australian Company Launches Coupon Social Network
July 13, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Press Release
(PRWEB) July 13, 2010 — Myzerr.com a new Social Network is offering businesses and community groups to opportunity to promote loyalty rewards to customers and members via coupons.
Like Facebook, Myzerr is free for all users and adopts principles of other web2.0 sites like LinkedIn or YouTube. Any local or online business can setup a page for their business and promote coupons for free. Users can then download their coupons, follow their favourite business, share the coupons with friends and even ‘cheer’ good coupons and ‘boo’ poor offers.
Myzerr takes these community principles one step further by allowing groups to setup a page for their local community members. So the local school parents group or sporting club can establish a group, then invite businesses to provide an exclusive deal for their group members.
Myzerr was founded by rewards industry insider, Slade Sherman who previously setup My Rewards, one of Australia’s leading coupon rewards programs. Sherman says, “Social Networks can connect people with each other when they have a shared interest in specific objects. Some social networks are about celebrity gossip, others centre around business reviews. Others focus on religion. At Myzerr we are about connecting people and businesses through coupons or rewards. Special discounts and coupons have more meaning when they are accessible because of the groups we belong to, and so we are trying to give community groups as many tools as possible to connect with businesses in their area and offer relevant local reward coupons to their group.”
Myzerr launched in late February and has attracted over 100 groups and 3,500 business coupons from Australia, US, UK, Canada, South Africa and Malaysia since launch.
The site also has an iPhone app that allows users to find coupons using a map showing the users’ location and nearby coupon icons on the map. Users show the coupon on the iPhone to businesses who can scan the coupon in-store.
In keeping with social media principles, the site is ‘open social’ and allows all coupons to be shared on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. Myzerr also has widgets and applets for groups and businesses to easily download and promote their coupons.
Schooled in Coupons
July 13, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Kay Height and Ellen Wilson, of Gloucester, have a few coupons stashed in their purses, but they never imagined the power behind those clipped slips of paper.
They came closer to enlightenment on Thursday evening, after attending Laura Oliver’s “Frugal Chick” class in Virginia Beach.
Oliver, 31, is the author of the blog afrugalchick.com, and she travels the Hampton Roads area giving public and private classes to inquiring barganistas. She focuses on coupon strategies, hitting on topics such as stockpiling, stacking and BOGO — buy one, get one — sales.
