Jiffy Lube has Sudden Deals-- In a way...

Recently, I read an article in the Twin Cities Business Magazine talking about Jiffy Lube and how they offer discounts on oil changes to the passing motorists:

http://tcbmag.blogs.com/stateofthebrand/2009/07/jiffylube.html

Essentially, when business is slow, Jiffy Lube sends their employees to stand by a busy street holding a sign offering a discount if the passers by get their oil changed right away. In a sense, Jiffy Lube is offering passing motorists a Sudden Deal-- though limiting themselves to a small area and making the employee really work for his $x/hr!

SuddenDeals.com has been and remains a leader and what we do is starting to be understood and is catching on.

Look Mom, We're On TV!!!!!!!!!!

On Tuesday, November 4, 2008, on Election Day, KSTP's Twin Cities Live show selected SuddenDeals.com as John & Rebekah's Web Picks of the week.

http://www.twincitieslive.com/article/10895/

Thank you John & Rebekah!!!

SuddenDeals.com: We're Growing!

Here's a quick snapshot of where things are at SuddenDeals.com...

Over the last month we've experienced a 50% increase in site conversions (visitors/signups). This was ahcieved largely to a local ad we placed inviting public beta testers.

Additionally, the number of deal requests has increased by roughly 30-35%.

Our user demographics, to date and,as provided by new SuddenDeals users when creating their account look like this:

Sex
M - 55.98%
F - 44.02%

Age
14-19 - 2.87%
20-25 - 17.70%
26-31 - 18.18%
32-37 - 16.27%
38-43 - 16.75%
44-49 - 11.00%
50-55 - 11.00%
56-61 - 4.31%
62-67 - 0.48%
68-73 - 0.48%
74+ - 0.96% (really?! :-)

Ethnicity
African - 0.48%
African American - 3.35%
Asian - 2.39%
Caucasian - 54.55%
Hispanic - 1.44%
Indian - 1.44%
Mediterranean - 0.48%
Middle Eastern - 1.44%

Cell phone promotions and alerts begin gaining U.S. momentum.

Visitors to V's Martini Bar in Clearwater have their fingers on the pulse of 21st century marketing - coming soon to a cell phone near you, if you haven't seen it.

"It works great," said Vincenzo Longo, the bar's owner, who for a year has been using text-message marketing to tell his clients what's new at the V. "Nobody complains, and it's cost effective."

Longo sends short messages to the cell phones of about 450 of his customers once or twice a week, telling them about drink specials or upcoming events. Sometimes they get a coupon for a free drink. At 8 cents per message, it doesn't take too many customers buying that second drink for Longo to get his money back.

"While European and Asian cell phone users have let advertisers send information to their mobile phones for years, the practice is only now catching on in the United States."

Read the rest at SPTIMES

MNCUP - We made the cut!

SuddenDeals.com was chosen among 844 to advance to the second round in the MNCUP!

29 others were chosen as well (30 total) and we're excited to be in the top 3.5%!

This is a huge compliment for us and we're stoked to be involved with the MNCUP.

We entered the MNCUP while putting a few finishing touches on the site. The homepage was redesigned to better reflect the application (Check out the new homepage!), the user UI was redesigned as well (see here), and we ironed out a few more bugs and made several enhancements.

Julian has been drilling out more and more designs for increased function and we hope to release a new version in the coming months.

During the month of July, we're opening the site up to the public so grab a friend, create your free Sudden Deals account and start saving money.

We'll be making weekly posts as we progress!

Thanks again for your support!

The SuddenDeals.com Team