Community Coupons Online in the press
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Gina Clifton, Managing Director
Direct Phone: 610-395-0540
Direct Email: gina_clifton@communitycouponsonline.com
Coupon Website Offers Value to Lehigh Valley Businesses, Savings to Consumers
Allentown, PA - - September 8, 2006 – An Allentown, Pa.based company has launched an innovative online coupon Website that makes it easy and affordable for advertisers to create coupons that consumers can conveniently access to enjoy savings from their local businesses.
CommunityCouponsOnline.com lets consumers download and print coupons at no cost and redeem them at participating restaurants, retail stores, sporting events, etc. Although search capabilities are available by interest and zip code on a national level, most of the coupons will be posted from companies that are in the Lehigh Valley region, including the towns of Easton, Bethlehem and Allentown, Pennsylvania.
The new Website fills an important niche in the electronic coupon market, according to Gina Clifton, managing director of Community Coupons Online, Inc. “There are many large, national coupon sites, but none adequately meets the needs of the local community,” Clifton explains. “And the few local sites that exist, do not offer the range of services that Community Coupons Online does in terms of fully-automated coupon building capabilities and value-added services.”
Community Coupons Online gives businesses the benefit of having a direct marketing channel to promote their products, services and brand image to customers. Using the Coupon Builder feature, advertisers can create attractive print-quality coupons in minutes without any special knowledge, skills or equipment. A variety of coupons, discounts and special offers can be generated through the site, including percentage coupons, 2-for1 awards, reduced admissions, free access/VIP admission, special event access and upgraded service benefits.
Web-based reporting tools will also be available for campaign tracking purposes to provide statistics such as, total coupons posted, total coupons downloaded and total opt-ins/outs. Spotlight advertising also will be available to prominently feature companies on the site. And in the near future, value-added services like voice, fax, email and text blasting will be added. “The wide range of services provided by Community Coupons Online will empower service providers with valuable tools with which to directly communicate with their target markets,” Clifton says. The Community Coupons Online enterprise was founded by Clifton to create a user-friendly, secure resource that provides value to both advertisers and consumers.
Community Coupons Online helps advertisers and consumers more fully capitalize on the billion-dollar coupon industry, according to Clifton. In 2004, manufacturers and retailers spent $275 billion dollars on coupons. Of that number, only 1 percent—$3.3 billion worth—of these coupons were actually cashed in by consumers. However, Websites like Community Coupons Online allow for greater targeting of coupons and market penetration than traditional newspaper inserts. “A large majority of the coupons end up being discarded with the rest of the newspaper, unlike Internet coupons that the consumer searches for and requests using online networks,” she adds.
Community Coupons Online will be making its introduction and showing its support as a sponsor at the Power of Women’s Luncheon, in Allentown, Pennsylvania on September 19, 2006.
For more information about this inventive online coupon resource please visit www.CommunityCouponsOnline.com or contact Gina Clifton directly at 610-395-0540.