Growing Your Facebook Fan Page Series, Part 4

Yesterday we discussed responding to your customers through Facebook. Being responsive, having engaging status updates, and tagging will gain help you grow your page. You will have to continue to do all of these things to sustain growth. In addition you can create a community and offer exclusive content to help boost your fan base and keep fans as customers. Create a Community You want more to build more than a page you want to build a community. This may sound like a lot of work but the more engaged you are with your customers the more fun this process … Continue reading

All You 2009 Grocery Challenge! Will You Win?

Today is the last day to enter the All You magazine 2009 Grocery Challenge. If you haven’t heard of All You, then you haven’t been clipping coupons for very long. All You is a magazine that is published by Walmart, and distributed in Walmart Stores and through subscriptions. Rather than confining the focus to Walmart, All You features articles of general interest about food, clothing, shopping, and lifestyle. It is a premier source of high value coupons, and pays for itself with these savings. The prize for the Grocery Challenge is a $1000 grocery card and a year’s supply of … Continue reading

Summertime Savings

There are a number of good deals out for summertime. Great savings opportunities are headed for your grocery store, so check them out! First of all, for a very limited time, you can join the Kraft First Taste program. This is a signup that enables you to receive free or high value coupons to try new items. Membership is limited – when they reach their target number, they close access, so sign up soon. Next, be sure to look for a tearpad of rebate forms entitled “You Pick We Pay” in your grocery store. This is for either a free … Continue reading

Dollar Store Deals and Steals

So what can you buy at the Dollar Store with coupons? Plenty. Family Dollar and Dollar General, two large dollar store chains take coupons. They print coupons in their flyers. They encourage you to use coupons. Now, your mileage may vary on that – you may find individual managers who give you a hard time. So it pays to ask, especially on other chains or local dollar stores. My experience at Family Dollar and Dollar General here in Florida is that they do accept – and promote – coupons. Sometimes your run into the silly “one per purchase” cashier who … Continue reading

Do You Have a MySite?

Not to knock on MySpace just because it’s old news, always broken, and has flashing text and graphics that really hurt my no longer teenage eyes … but do you have a MySite yet? One of the many great features here at Families.com, MySite is your own personal profile that aggregates your photos, journal entires and forum posts all in one. Unlike some profile sites, MySite has great privacy options, giving you total control over who you share your personal information with. When you upload an individual (or group) of photos, you always have the option of choosing to share … Continue reading

Cheerios Racing – Pay Me! Get $10 Gas Card with Purchase of 10 General Mills

You could do this deal straight up and it would be a bargain. But I know that some of these items will be on sale in the next month or so. I didn’t want to wait, plus I already had some of the coupons. If you don’t have the coupons, you might think about purchasing them from a clipping service. Fees vary, but most charge a nickel or a dime apiece to find and clip them for you. If you don’t yet have your coupons organized, it can be worth it. If I had bought a clipping of ten coupons … Continue reading