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GROUPON – Collective Buying Power Coming to Your City

Jason Bean — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:31:27 +0000

My wife shared a link with me this evening that looks pretty interesting. It’s a coupon and discount site called Groupon, but it’s more than just coupons. It’s a marketing tool as well and the idea is to swarm a location or establishment with business. What company wouldn’t want that kind of attention?!

With coupons, you did like I did tonight and save a few bucks on a variety of different grocery items. Groupon let’s you save real money on some really great stuff that you’d like to do, but you didn’t want to spend the full price on it to do it.

Groupon was started by some folks in Chicago, just a short drive to north of Indianapolis and they did it so they could “enjoy all the great stuff in our hometown of Chicago”. Sounds like a good enough reason for me.

Groupon has grown to over a million users who have collectively saved more than $25 million with the service. That’s a pretty good track record for a site that hasn’t been around very long at all.

Have some fun, save some money. Groupon continues to expand, soon it will be in your city if it’s not already there now: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Nashville, New York, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, and Washington DC.

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Inexpensively – Tips On Living Under Budget

Jason Bean — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:52:00 +0000

Following on a little bit of a pattern, I keep coming across some great websites that are focused on the topic of saving money and improving your financial situation. The Inexpensively website is a blog network of bloggers focused on living inexpensively.

A friend of mine has recently started blogging as The Queen of Free and she’s knocking it out of the park for being a new blogger. There’s a focused niche of people that are really on fire in this arena and the Inexpensively website puts many of them together into a network and brings you the best of their information and their posts.

Inexpensively gives you opportunities to save, the latest alerts on great deals available both online and off, getting the most out of your grocery budget and capitalizing on coupons. You can also see frugal bloggers organized by your state.

It’s hard to change a behavior that’s been cultivated in your life over a period of years. It’s even harder when you realize that just about everything you read, watch on TV or see on the Internet is trying to sell you something.

Getting into the habit of seeing things a different way and saving money is what needs to happen for you to change your life. The Inexpensively website will keep feeding your some of the antidote for the consumer mentality.

Uncover some more of your own money with Inexpensively.

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Disney Family Online

Jason Bean — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:46:00 +0000

Like many other households in America with young children living in them, our house is a Disney house. If the kids are awake and the TV’s are on, they’re usually tuned to The Disney Channel. We have a stack of Disney DVD’s that we regularly enjoy over and over.

With the summer approaching and school out of session, it will be time to keep the kids entertained and busy with their days ahead. In addition you can find resources for meals, coupons for saving money and a few resources for making a trip sometime over the summer break.

Disney Family was created to help parents with the most important job of their lives: raising their family in the best environment possible. We are committed to creating a nurturing, safe, and well-informed environment for guests and members to expand their parenting knowledge in a fun, entertaining way — just what you’d expect from one of the most trusted names in family entertainment.

The Disney Family.com website provides all of this information for you. It’s also part of a network of sites that provide more detail and content on specific topics that may interest you and your family.

Image: DisneyFamily.com website homepage

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Upromise

Jason Bean — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:03:53 +0000

I just received an e-mail from Upromise talking about a new $25,000 Upromise Scholarship Prize.

If you’re not familiar with Upromise, it’s something like a frequent shopper or “Points” program, but you don’t have to do anything special to earn money to put towards your kid’s education. All you do is register your credit/debit cards and when you buy stuff at your local grocery stores and restaurants, you earn money back that can be put into a variety of investments, 529’s and other savings plans to use towards college.

You can also make purchases through their online store links and earn more money. You can save money on items like:

Save 4% at Target.com
5% at LandsEnd.com
3% at JCPenny.com
2% at HomeDepot.com
5% at Overstock.com

And many, many more opportunities.

I’ve been signed up for awhile and haven’t even thought about what I’m doing. Just from the various groceries that I buy, I’ve already started a nice little “college egg” for my two kids. The other nice thing is that your family members or friends can register their credit/debit cards with your account and you can get credit for their purchases as well.

Visit the Upromise site for all the details.

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