Voucher code Websites
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Hi,
Not used these voucher code sites as a service provider or commercial entity but use them all the time for buying deals. Groupon (myCityDeal) is one of my favourites and I buy way too many vouchers.. I have seen some items sell in excess of 5,000 vouchers in a 24 hour period.
In terms of free ones, if your voucher or offer is decent you can probably get it listed on moneysavingexpert, even if all you do is post in the relevant forum. That's a good way to test the water and see what interest there is before you stump up cash to someone like Groupon.
Good Luck!
Not used these voucher code sites as a service provider or commercial entity but use them all the time for buying deals. Groupon (myCityDeal) is one of my favourites and I buy way too many vouchers.. I have seen some items sell in excess of 5,000 vouchers in a 24 hour period.
In terms of free ones, if your voucher or offer is decent you can probably get it listed on moneysavingexpert, even if all you do is post in the relevant forum. That's a good way to test the water and see what interest there is before you stump up cash to someone like Groupon.
Good Luck!
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If your talking about voucher sites like myvouchercodes.co.uk then.....
The challenge of cause is having the aspect of having affiliate commission and offer a discount to your buyers so where you'd normally being one or the other on transactions with these sales you have to pay both.
If your a massive player, you can push down the affiliate amounts but for the smaller people I would be surprised if many really are making much/ anything from the sales and have never spoken to any SME on them that are sophisticated enough to talk about LTV for their customers etc
The challenge of cause is having the aspect of having affiliate commission and offer a discount to your buyers so where you'd normally being one or the other on transactions with these sales you have to pay both.
If your a massive player, you can push down the affiliate amounts but for the smaller people I would be surprised if many really are making much/ anything from the sales and have never spoken to any SME on them that are sophisticated enough to talk about LTV for their customers etc
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I was looking into this earlier this week...
Spoke to someone from myvouchercodes which is one of the uk's biggest. They were looking for £500 a month, for 3 months to be listed on their site, and you could put up to 5 vouchers on there for users to use. You can also register keywords on the site, so people searching for your widget can type into the site "widget" , and you show up as a seller who is selling widgets, and what discount you are offering on these widgets.
After not much negotiating they dropped from £550 a month to £380 a month, and then again without asking they said I can come back to them with an offer of so much and they can ask their manager if they'll be able to do it for x price.
In the end I decided: 1. they were a little too desparate to get the sale. 2. there were far too many companies on the site who's deals had expired and they'd obviously not renewed their adveristing with them so it can't have worked out for them. 3. i didn't like the idea of paying up front with no idea whether it would work or not. 4. the way i use these voucher sites is to find what im buying on google, go through the checkout proceedure on the necessary web site, see a voucher box, then look on the voucher web sites for a voucher for the site im on - i dont believe people look on the voucher sites first. 5. what finished me off was finding a company on there who's domain name had expired and been re registered and they were still trying to tell me the site was up to date!
just my 2p.
hth
Spoke to someone from myvouchercodes which is one of the uk's biggest. They were looking for £500 a month, for 3 months to be listed on their site, and you could put up to 5 vouchers on there for users to use. You can also register keywords on the site, so people searching for your widget can type into the site "widget" , and you show up as a seller who is selling widgets, and what discount you are offering on these widgets.
After not much negotiating they dropped from £550 a month to £380 a month, and then again without asking they said I can come back to them with an offer of so much and they can ask their manager if they'll be able to do it for x price.
In the end I decided: 1. they were a little too desparate to get the sale. 2. there were far too many companies on the site who's deals had expired and they'd obviously not renewed their adveristing with them so it can't have worked out for them. 3. i didn't like the idea of paying up front with no idea whether it would work or not. 4. the way i use these voucher sites is to find what im buying on google, go through the checkout proceedure on the necessary web site, see a voucher box, then look on the voucher web sites for a voucher for the site im on - i dont believe people look on the voucher sites first. 5. what finished me off was finding a company on there who's domain name had expired and been re registered and they were still trying to tell me the site was up to date!
just my 2p.
hth
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It's nice to hear something positive about these sites. I'm sure as an affiliate scheme they can work... Affiliate commissions are reward driven. Paying to be listed on the site seems like a no go.
What affiliate scheme do you use?
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I submit to the following sites:
http://www.voucherhub.com/
and
http://www.retailmenot.com/
They both bring a little business and are both free.
http://www.voucherhub.com/
and
http://www.retailmenot.com/
They both bring a little business and are both free.
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Voucher sites add no value and will simply cost you money, they are parasitic, we have banned them all.
See threads here:
http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=164558
and here:
http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/fo...d.php?t=160087
See threads here:
http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=164558
and here:
http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/fo...d.php?t=160087
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