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MAY is Canada’s National Deals & Coupons Month

MAY is Canada’s National Deals & Coupons Month

For the first time ever in Canada, the retail, deals and coupon industries have come together to establish Canada’s National Deals & Coupons Month! It takes place throughout the entire month of May. It’s a new shopping celebration bringing awareness to the incredible amount of savings, rebates, deals and coupons available to Canadian consumers.

Over 60% of Canadians regularly use deals, coupons and offers and the demand continues to grow. Establishing a month-long shopping event like National Deals & Coupons month in Canada is a way to celebrate both consumers who enjoy and benefit from the savings, and brands/retailers that understand special promotions drive value and attention.

DID YOU KNOW

  • 14,000,000 CANADIANS USE DEALS OR COUPONS
  • 63%+ OF US SUBSCRIBE JUST TO GET OFFERS
  • 70% OF CANADIANS USE COUPON CODES
  • Moms THE #1 USER OF DEALS & COUPONS

I’m proud to be a part of this exciting and growing industry. I can’t thank you enough for continuing to read and support my deals blogs. I truly love what I do and enjoy scouring the net for the best deals and sharing them with you. I hope you find the deals, coupons and freebies that I blog about useful and has helped you saved money.

Click here for more details about Canada’s National Deals & Coupons Month.

Blog News: Website Downtime Update

Website Downtime Update

My web host HostGator.com experienced major networking outages for about 12 hours yesterday (Wednesday, April 16, 2014) and caused all of their 9 million hosted websites to go down. Here’s more details about the issue if you’re interested.

This issue caused all of my blogs/websites to go offline. I pretty much spent the entire day clicking the refresh button every couple minutes hoping my websites would be back online. It was very disappointing, but it looks like HostGator has finally fixed the issue 🙂

During the afternoon of April 16, 2014, the data center in Provo, Utah experienced a networking issue in some server clusters that affected some VPS, Dedicated and Shared server customers of Hostgator, Justhost, Hostmonster, and Bluehost. The outage began at approximately 11:00 AM PST and wasn’t yet resolved at 10:49 PM PST, affecting not only dedicated servers but also email delivery.

Thanks for your patience and continued support.

Raymond Lau

REMINDER: BabyMomDeals.com – Hot Deals and Lots of Freebies for Baby & Mom

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Reminder Update: I originally posted about this on Wednesday. Here’s a friendly reminder if you missed it or haven’t had a chance to check it out yet. The response has been overwhelming. Thanks for the support and encouragement!

My wife Le and I are proud to announce the official launch of our brand new site BabyMomDeals.com!

Baby & Mom Deals will be updated frequently and feature the hottest deals and lots of freebies, coupons and tips for baby & mom! The goal of the site is to help parents save money and get as much free stuff as you can!

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Le, Baby Emma and Raymond

A little over a year ago, my wife and I were blessed with a beautiful baby girl (Emma). She has showed us a new world as we watch her grow and develop into a toddler. As new parents, we were lost and overwhelmed with our new bundle of joy. On top of all the new responsibilities that come with being new parents, it is also very costly. Being avid deal hunters, we spent hours researching for deals and coupons to help us with our budgeting. As we kept looking into things, we were surprised by all amazing freebies, coupons and deals for almost everything you would need to purchase. So that drew the conclusion of how we would be able to help new moms to be or current moms with saving money!

BabyMomDeals.com will feature the best deals and freebies for baby and mom. There will be posts regarding sales on baby and mom stores, any coupons we come across and of course as mentioned previously, lots of freebies for baby and mom. Basically anything we can think of that will be able to benefit all the baby and moms out there.

We are extremely excited to share what we know with you. This is a new journey and we hope that this will help you as much as it helped us.

Please do us a huge favour and tell all your mommy friends and soon to be moms about BabyMomDeals.com!

Click here to view all the latest deals and freebies posted on BabyMomDeals.com

Cheers,

Raymond, Le and Baby Emma
Baby & Mom Deals
www.babymomdeals.com

BabyMomDeals.com: Check out my brand new site!

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My wife Le and I are proud to announce the official launch of our brand new site BabyMomDeals.com!

Baby & Mom Deals will be updated frequently and feature the hottest deals and lots of freebies, coupons and tips for baby & mom! The goal of the site is to help parents save money and get as much free stuff as you can!

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Le, Baby Emma and Raymond

A little over a year ago, my wife and I were blessed with a beautiful baby girl (Emma). She has showed us a new world as we watch her grow and develop into a toddler. As new parents, we were lost and overwhelmed with our new bundle of joy. On top of all the new responsibilities that come with being new parents, it is also very costly. Being avid deal hunters, we spent hours researching for deals and coupons to help us with our budgeting. As we kept looking into things, we were surprised by all amazing freebies, coupons and deals for almost everything you would need to purchase. So that drew the conclusion of how we would be able to help new moms to be or current moms with saving money!

BabyMomDeals.com will feature the best deals and freebies for baby and mom. There will be posts regarding sales on baby and mom stores, any coupons we come across and of course as mentioned previously, lots of freebies for baby and mom. Basically anything we can think of that will be able to benefit all the baby and moms out there.

We are extremely excited to share what we know with you. This is a new journey and we hope that this will help you as much as it helped us.

Please do us a huge favour and tell all your mommy friends and soon to be moms about BabyMomDeals.com!

Click here to view all the latest deals and freebies posted on BabyMomDeals.com

Cheers,

Raymond, Le and Baby Emma
Baby & Mom Deals
www.babymomdeals.com

Toronto Deals Blog: Upgraded to a New Powerful Dedicated Server!

Blog is now Hosted on New Powerful Dedicated Servers

You should have noticed that the blog loads a lot faster now. That’s because I upgraded my web hosting to a powerful new Dedicated Server about a week ago! I’ve been contemplating the upgrade for a while, but decided it was finally time to take the plunge. Thanks to your continued support, my traffic growth required me to make the move. You may have noticed my blog used to temporary go down ever so often whenever my traffic spiked.  

It was a big investment on my part. I went from paying $100/ year for a basic shared hosting account to well over $100/ month now for a private dedicated server. At the end of the day, I want what’s best for you – the best user experience possible by having an extremely reliable and fast loading website.

I hope you like the upgrade! I’m always looking to improve the site so let me know what I can do. I would love to hear from you and welcome any “positive” or “negative” comments or suggestions. You can email by clicking here. There’s also a “Contact” link at the very top of the blog.

If you’re looking for a dependable web host, check out HostGator.com. All of my sites are hosted on HostGator.

Cheers,

Raymond Lau 

Free Draw Announcement: The 4 Winners of the ‘$25 Groupon Gift Card’ is…

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Free Giveaway: FREE DRAW: Groupon – Win 1 of 4 ‘$25 Groupon Gift Cards’ (Feb 13)

Congratulations to Tricia L., L. Niemi, Melanie J., and Jitka K.!

You are the 4 lucky winners of the free giveaway draw! You have each won a $25 Groupon Gift Card! I randomly selected your name out of my database of email subscribers, Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers! Please check your inbox for my email with details of how to get your $25 Groupon credits. Thanks for reading my blog and enjoy the credits!

Join my Daily Deals Mailing List, become a Fan on Facebook or Follow Us on Twitter now and you’ll be automatically entered into all future draws and contests! If you’re not familiar with my mailing list, I send out one email a day featuring the latest deals in a clean and easy to follow format so you can stay on top of all the deals and never miss a hot deal again.

I’ve got more free give-aways and great prizes coming in the near future so stay tuned!

Click here to join to my Daily Deals Mailing list now and ensure you’re automatically qualified into all future give-aways.

FREE DRAW: Groupon – Win 1 of 4 ‘$25 Groupon Gift Cards’ (Feb 13)

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Groupon has generously donated $100 worth of Groupon Gift Cards for me to give-away to the loyal readers of this blog. Instead of giving away a single $100 prize, I’ve separate it into 4 $25 Gift Card prizes so there’s more winners. With most daily deals on Groupon ranging from 50-95% off, $25 in free credits will go a long way.

Groupon.com is the largest daily deals site and one this blog’s top supporters. I’ve saved a lot of money thanks to all the Groupon deals that I’ve bought over the years.

They recently launched a new “Best of Groupon” page that features all top selling and most popular deals in Toronto. There’s a lot of amazing deals so check it out!

I will make the free giveaway draw this Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 6pm MST.  I will randomly draw 4 names from my database of email subscribers, Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers.

Here’s how you can enter the Free Giveaway Draw:

  1. All you have to do is sign-up for our Free Daily Deals Mailing List. If you’re already subscribed, you’ll be automatically entered into all give-aways.
  2. Get a Free Bonus Entry if you become a Fan of our Facebook page.
  3. Get a Free Bonus Entry if you Follow Us on Twitter.

You’ll get one entry into the draw for each task. If you do all three of the things above, you’ll get three entries into the draw and increase your chance of winning. I will contact the 4 lucky winners and email each of them a $25 Groupon Gift Card.

Good luck! I’ve got more free draws and great prizes coming in the near future so stay tuned!

Click here to join my free daily deals email list.

Click here to view all the latest deals on Groupon.

Why All Trips Become “Groupon/TeamBuy Trips”!

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I like to travel a lot, and Las Vegas is one of my favourite destinations.  As a deal hunter, I like get the best value for my money.  I book flights when there’s a seat sale, I book and re-book hotels if there’s a better promotion, and check out Groupon and TeamBuy every day to see what kind of deals are available.  I’ve coined this as my “Groupon/TeamBuy Trips”, where I try to fill all my meals and activities with Groupon and TeamBuy vouchers, and Las Vegas is probably the city with the most options available.

During my most recent 6-day Vegas trip last week (January 2014) to attend a conference for bloggers and internet marketers (Affiliate Summit), I had the privilege of meeting up with representatives from Groupon, and our conversation eventually lead to whether I used Groupons or not.  This is when I reached into my bag and brought out a stack of Groupons I purchased, printed, and planned on using for the trip!  Here’s the breakdown of what me and a friend used during my last trip and how much we saved!

Restaurant and Buffet Deals:

Total Spent: $210.99 ($411.98 value)
Total Savings: $200.99

Activity and Entertainment Deals:

Total Spent: $307 ($777 value)
Total Savings: $470

 

By planning all my meals and activities ahead, we managed to save $670.99!  The best part of all of this is most of the restaurants and activities are highly rated, and we would’ve eaten at most of these places, and done most of these activities at full price anyways!

So whether you’re trying to find things to do in your local city, or travelling to Las Vegas, Vancouver, Toronto, LA, New York, San Francisco or wherever, try to plan ahead and see what Groupon or TeamBuy has to offer. They’ve got lots of great deals in every city and can save you 50-95% off! Hopefully, you can save as much as I did on your very own “Groupon/ TeamBuy Trip”!

Click here to check out all of Groupon’s latest deals.

Click here to check out all of TeamBuy’s latest deals.

Cheers,
Raymond Lau

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