New Ways To Find Deals

Finding great deals has always been a sought after euphoric feeling that all people love to come across. The same endorphins your body releases when you find a great deal or something on sale are released when you have "crush" or "fall in love." With new technology on a constant rise, finding great deals are easier than ever!  Not only are companies changing their marketing campaigns to indefinitely fit into our world of bigger, better, and faster, but they are using the tools that us as consumers use every day to target our individual interests.  

Especially in a stressful economic time such as this, consumers are always looking for a deal. People want more for less. The new websites such as GroupOn, Living Social, and Bloomspot are all sites that offer select items for a short amount of time at an extreme discount. In September of this year, the top 10 grossing "deals" were a $400 seven night stay in a nice resort, a $5 movie and soda, and a $70 Cirque de Soleil ticket.

66% of Americans use coupons. However, the days of clipping coupons are long gone as of recently. Coupons require extensive planning, and are just plain old fashioned. Deals now are more attractive, including where and how they are offered. Smartphones make your discount easily accessible and instant.  Over half of smartphone owners have used a mobile coupon and have found it easy, convenient, and useful.

It has never been easier to find the best of the best in just an instant. Websites such as Yelp and Google and emerged in the market as front runner for rating businesses. Not only do these websites offer daily discounts like the top "deal" websites, but they have users rank businesses and products while giving detailed accounts of what people found, liked, or disliked. This has changed the way businesses operate for the better. Mediocre (or less than) businesses will no longer survive if they don't step their game up, because now consumers can instantly scan through and find the highest recommended businesses.