Awesome Hank
I cannot believe how much I detest shopping for groceries. The only reason why I do, is because unfortunately my body needs food to survive. If I had my way, I wouldn’t eat and therefore would be able to save significant amounts of money daily to be able to spend it on what I actually want to spend it on. Am I venting? Well yes, it looks like you may have caught me in a moment of weakness where I have just returned from grocery shopping and my wallet is feeling significantly lighter. In this financial recession where money is so difficult to come by, coming back from weekly grocery shopping disheartens me somewhat. In fact the thought of having to shop for the groceries depresses me. Do any of you feel like that? Bottom line, many families are now struggling to make ends meet and to be able to put food on the table.
However in recent times, I have discovered a few key ideas that companies are engaging to not only help the consumer but also help their own back pocket (basically a win/win situation for these companies). There is no point pricing products out of the reach of the masses because in the end they will suffer themselves when they need to report on earnings. The 2 concepts which I am referring to are coupons and free samples.
Coupons: This has become a multi-million dollar concept with companies willing to offer discounts or freebies in attracting new patrons whilst trying to keep current customers loyal. There are a number of sites that offer coupons across a large range of categories.
One of the top websites that offers coupons on a daily basis is coupons.com. Check it out. From $1 off and upwards to sometimes offering substantial savings, coupons combined with sales at large stores like CVS and Walmart can often mean free stuff. It is considered part and parcel of these cutting edge and ruthless times. In fact coupons are being used through social media like Facebook and Twitter by a number of major companies. By creating a buzz around their company, businesses are trying to gain relatively cheap promotion using Facebook groups and fan pages. If you don’t use coupons when shopping for your groceries, then I suggest you begin using them to save yourself some serious coin.
Free Samples: This is the other concept that has grown in status over the past couple of years and definitely more during the recent financial economic crisis. By providing minute samples of their goods, businesses are able promote their products at a relatively cheap rate than advertising on television or radio. By releasing new products to the community via freebies also allows for feedback and whether or not they need to tinker with the product or marketing. By surfing the Internet, there are a range of free stuff sites available including FreeStuff4Free.com which allows you to trial products without any obligations, often saving you money and trips to the stores as the samples are posted to you.
Engage with these 2 concepts and start saving now!
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Posted in Budgeting · February 25th, 2010 · Comments (0)
A question that I think we will forever be answering is why free samples? Why would companies give away their product for free? Don’t they lose money? But bottom line free samples makes good business sense.
Intense rivalry in the market of consumer products is higher than ever in history. For almost every product or service offered, there are several different companies that manufacture the exact same functional product. For customers, this can be seen as both a blessing and a source of nuisance.
From one side of the ledger, a wide range of products is available to the consumer. However, on the other hand, determining which brand is right for you can be a time consuming and also expensive exercise. Therefore the use of freebies becomes integral in helping customers deciding on the products or services in which they will use to suit their lifestyle.
Traditionally, companies will just market by having attractive packaging and if you were sucked in and the product itself was poor, you wasted your money. This form of advertising removes that waste.
Most large companies spend copious amounts of money on their marketing budget covering aspects like advertising, coupon campaigns, and free samples to get customers to try their products. Many consumers have also grown wary of websites that offer free products or free samples because the majority of them require you earn your free products by signing up for paid offers. Legitimate free stuff DO NOT require credit card details and the team at FreeStuff4Free spend hours scouring the web to find the best legitimate freebies on the Internet.
As free stuff and free samples are wildly popular, often links to these great deals become inactive after a few days. Therefore to limit the number of dead links, the site is updated every 24 hours.
FreeStuff4Free.com was launched in 2009 to bridge the gap between consumers and companies by providing a free resource to the best and legitimate freebies and coupons.
Freestuff4free.com also holds an important and eye-catching feature: by signing up to the daily newsletter, members place themselves in the running to win items such as gift cards and electronics products. This provides a further incentive for people to join, as they now have the potential to gain products of considerable quality without actually doing anything.
FreeStuff4Free.com is a site for consumers who would like to try free samples and make informed decisions about individual products and services. It provides a win-win situation for both consumers and brands. Consumers have a “one stop shop” to find and try products that they have sampled via free samples and freebies.
More about FreeStuff4Free
FreeStuff4Free.com is a website that specialises in finding coupons, free samples and freebies. This site is visually compelling and easier to navigate than text based free sites. The site is updated daily and dead links removed regularly. There are no scams and all freebies are 100% legitimate.
Tags: budget, free samples, free stuff, freebies, frugal
Posted in Budgeting · December 17th, 2009 · Comments (0)