Tag: Deals

From Closing the Business to Generating $5,000 in a Week: How a Yoga Studio Used SaveLocal to Bend Back to Success

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A sense of community and an atmosphere of peace and laughter—that’s the type of experience that Stephanie Pope Caffrey and her sister Jennifer have worked to provide at their New York City yoga studio since opening for business in 2008. Voted one of the best yoga studios in America in 2011, Bikram Yoga East Harlem [...]

6 Things You Need to Know When Running Your First Local Deal

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If you own a small business, there’s a good chance you still have some questions about deals. Don’t worry—you’re not alone. While deals (or daily deals, as they are sometimes known) have been around for a few years now, there are plenty of business owners who still have big questions about whether or not running [...]

Why Small Businesses Should Expect More from Online Deals (During the Holidays and Beyond)

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Over the last year, we’ve heard some jaw dropping stories about what small businesses have been able to achieve when given control over their own online deals. From a yarn shop in Minnesota to a restaurant in Florida to an indoor rock climbing business on the east coast of New Hampshire—business owners across the US [...]

Holiday Shoppers are Going Mobile: Create a SaveLocal Deal to Cash in on this Trend

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It’s no surprise that more and more people are turning to the web to do their holiday shopping, but it might be a surprise to know that a lot of this shopping is taking place on people’s mobile phones. In fact, prior to Thanksgiving, Digitas did a study that determined 28% of smartphone or tablet-owning [...]

This Week’s Free Small Business Webinars 12/10 – 12/14

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For many, this is the “most wonderful time of the year.” We all know it’s a time for giving, so how about giving yourself the gift of improving your marketing skills. Can’t spare the time for one of our live sessions? Don’t worry! We have a sleigh-full of on-demand, recorded webinars on a wide-variety of [...]

It’s Not too Late to Run a SaveLocal Holiday Deal!

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With some of the larger deal providers, if you wanted to run a holiday deal, you might have had to make that decision back in September or October to get contracts in place and your deal approved in time. Not with SaveLocal! With SaveLocal, you can set up your deal in minutes and have a [...]

My Funky Holiday: Getting Customers to Love Your Deal

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As usual, Thanksgiving has come and gone without my having a plan for holiday gift buying. On Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I was like a reindeer in the headlights with all the options available. Lots of turkey, lots of mashed potatoes, and lots of time with family left me in a food coma and [...]

This Week’s Free Small Business Webinars 12/3 – 12/7

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The mad rush of the holidays is upon us! Why not take a little time and give yourself a gift by learning new ways to improve your email marketing, events, or deal offers? Can’t make one of our live events? Not to worry—we have plenty of on-demand best practice webinars you can watch anytime, whenever [...]

2012: The Year Small Business Took Control of Their Daily Deals

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When we launched SaveLocal earlier this year, we had high hopes for what the future of “daily deals” could look like for small businesses. Fueled by a fundamental belief that business owners, not deal companies, should control the terms of their own deals, we rolled out a product to help businesses take back the control, [...]

This Week’s Free Small Business Webinars 11/26 – 11/30

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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and are ready to dive back in to your marketing efforts renewed, refreshed, and revitalized. The holiday season is now in full swing—certainly a busy time for all of us. But, why not take some time to learn new ways to improve your marketing efforts? Give [...]