Holiday season can indeed be stress free!!

Holidays season is here - which means, Christmas trees, lights, decorations, travel plans, presents, gifts, chocolates, toys and the list goes on. Oh boy, as much as fun it sounds like, it is indeed a stressful deal. Organizing all these laundry list of tasks itself is a big assignment as one cannot afford to forget anything or anyone as it might lead of a lot of misunderstandings.

Shopping is major task during holiday season. Searching for deals and coupons on gifts to save some money is indeed a stressful process. Wouldn't it be helpful if one can get a helping hand during such an important season of the year? Why not! Certainly an app like EzCouponTracker will have its share of benefits assisting you at every stage of your shopping - right from planning stage of your shopping ( by creating coupon requests ahead of time) until the day of shopping by making the coupons available at your finger tips.

With the numerous collection of coupons (yes we use 'crowd sourcing' concepts to pool coupons at one place), your shopping experience will certainly be delightful and you will definitely have a wider choice to shop.

EzCouponTracker currently has a full fledged Web and Android app and our Apple app is only a couple of weeks away from deployment. Our app is currently available for free.

I conclude by wishing you happy holidays - hope you will have a fun filled and stress free holiday season.

Best wishes from,

EzCoupon Tracker team


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How to be organized and save more?

Recently, I started noticing that every shopping site has a "subscribe to our coupons and promotions" section and I very often hear and notice that my friends and family are really hesitant to give their personal email address not knowing what happens to it after they click on subscribe button.

In the process, a lot of savings are being sacrificed while the customers who subscribe to these coupons do receive good deals from time to time. Another challenge is when these coupons are sent to the customers and how they manage them to have them available at their finger tips when they need them most.

EzCouponTracker has a solution to the above problem. Here is how:

When you sign up with EzCouponTracker, you will be assigned a dedicated email address which we encourage you to share with all the stores and shopping websites to receive their coupons and promotions. It gets only better now, as we separate coupons and promotions while organizing them based on the expiry date making them available for your at your finger tips when you are out for shopping.

While these features have proven to be very handy for all the coupon users, we went an extra step and came up with several other features. Listing a couple of other features 

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- Requesting coupons within the user community.

- Importing coupons from your personal email accounts.

- Sharing coupons with other users by marking them as public 

AND, in the process you would achieve the following:
- Save enormous amount of time and energy.
- Never miss a coupon you already own as they are all available on your finger tips.
- Peace of mind, because you are not sharing your personal email with anyone.

I would finally conclude by saying - Save time and money while protecting your privacy with EzCouponTracker. Sign up and start saving right away.

EzCouponTracker team

Coupon Fatigue? Don't give up now!

 

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U.S. consumers who share email with stores (or) use daily-deal services say they feel "overwhelmed by the number of e-mails they receive about deals on a daily basis".

 

Survey conducted earlier this year by PriceGrabber, a division of Experian Plc. About 60 percent of people surveyed said they feel the email promotions is too crowded.

 

You might be wondering that you are one of those 60% consumers who receives these coupons which are either totally lost in your emails, sent to the spam folder or you might delete them without even giving them a look. However, one need to realize that a good percentage of these emails hold some real value.Let’s pause here for a second and think of an ideal way of how we can solve this problem: 

 

How about:

• You have a dedicated email account which you share with all the stores and at online website to receive their coupons and promotions?
• All the coupons/promotions you receive to this account from these avenues are sorted, tracked, organized by expiration date and are available for you at your fingertips.
• When you are at the checkout while shopping, just search for the coupon you want using the search tool, find it and scan it to redeem it.
• Mark the coupon as used if it can be used only once so that you don’t confuse with this coupon anymore. 

Does this all sound like an ideal way of couponing for you? Well, EzCouponTracker offers all the above features to you. These are only some of the basic features the tool offers, check it out to explore all the features and let your ideal couponing come true.

Our first public appearance experience

Our first public appearance experience

 

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We reached the event hall an hour before the event started. Several start up booths were already set up by the time we reached and some were arriving along with us. We quickly looked around to find the most strategically positioned booth for our set up. We luckily found one close to the dais which we thought will have a lot of visibility. We quickly grabbed it before others could get to it. Then we quickly set up our laptops, hosted our banners displayed our brochures and business  cards. Our set up was done more or less in less than 15 mins. Then we looked around to see what other booths were doing, almost everyone had freebies ( some had T-Shirts, some giving away water bottles and several others giving away chocolates). We did not have any freebies to give away and we knew it would be very difficult attract people to our booth given that most of others were giving away stuff.

 

But then, we did not give up, we had almost 30 to 40 visitors during the peak one hour session. Shortly after 7:30 pm, announcement for one minute pitch came in and we were geared up for this presentation. We had successfully delivered the pitch and were very confident that we would be rated number one based on the positive comments we have heard after our pitch. To our surprise, we came number three and later found out that the voting system was somewhat faulty and they have results that were manipulated.

How did we prepare?

As this was our first ever public appearance, we made sure we took extra care not to miss out on this opportunity and a lot of preparation went into the mix. We made a list of everything we wanted to have ready for this big event ( brochures, business cards, banners, banner stand, scotch tapes, laptops, extension cables, surges, push pins etc.). We made our presenter rehearse the pitch several times and corrected him every time he made the presentation just to make the presentation more effective. Not only presenter rehearse, we rehearsed user Q & A session too. We dig out all the questions asked by our beta testers (or) early adopters, refined our answers for those questions.

All in all, we are very happy with the outcome of this event although the results were not handled properly by the event managements. We are contented with the way we have projected ourselves and we are looking forward to participating in more such events.

Wish us all the best!

EzCouponTracker Team!

Shopping using coupons can be so much fun!!

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Shopping using coupons can be so much fun!!

With the advancement of technology, shopping online (or) at store continues to get easier. At times, getting the ultimate deal could be bit of a challenge, especially at the check-out stage of the purchase when a prompt suddenly appears asking the customer if they have a discount code.  

1) Consumers, who are unfamiliar with the perk, are left asking what are those codes and how can they be found 

2) Consumers, who are bargain hunters may spend lot of time searching for them online (or) paper clips.

 

EzCouponTracker helps both types of consumers by providing coupons at  fingertips when they need them the most.  

 

"You know when you can get a deal it's always great," said bargain shopper Adam Winstead.

And in a matter of minutes, with the help of EzCouponTracker, you could be saving big bucks.  All you have to do is let your fingers do the walking.

 

"It's pretty much why I go online so you don't have to pay full price," said Scott Markley, who also is a bargain hunter.  

 

Explore EzCouponTracker and see how you can make your shopping experience fun.

Best regards,

EzCouponTracker  team.

Ways to pool your coupons in EzCouponTracker

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Ways to pool your coupons in EzCouponTracker

 

Have you ever felt that your coupons are everywhere - there are some in your gmail account,some in your yahoo and some printed coupons at home etc., and you are not able to keep up with coupons and their expiration date? EzCouponTracker solves this problem and will never let you waste your time organizing them.

 

Here is how it works:

 

We assign you an email ID when you sign up with EzCouponTracker.com. You may use this email-ID everywhere you shop to receive coupons and promotions. By sharing your ezcoupointracker.com email ID at the stores, you are protecting your primary email address from spammers. The incoming coupons to EzCouponTracker will be sorted based on their expiration date in a tabular format and also separates coupons and promotions.

 

Question:  Frequently we hear from new users about why there are no coupons in “My coupons”?

 

Answer: If you are first time user, no coupons are pooled to your inbox yet, which is why your “My Coupons” are empty.

 

Question: How can I pool coupons to my inbox?

 

Answer: You can pool coupons to ezcoupontracker.com primarily in 3 ways:

 

1) Share your ezcoupontracker.com email ID with stores. This is the most preferred approach. By using this approach, you don’t need to share your personal email with stores and no need sacrifice privacy.

 

2) Enable mail forwarding:

If you have already used your personal email address to receive coupons and promotions from stores, then you simply forward those coupon emails to your EzCouponTracker email ID and let it do its sorting job for you.

Following are links if you would like to enable forwarding from Gmail (or) Yahoo.

Automatically forward emails with Gmail

Automatically forward emails with Yahoo

If your provider is other, please refer their documentation.

 

3) Import emails:

EzCouponTracker.com also offers a cool feature - “import” functionality.

Import Email Screenshot

 

 

 

You can simply log into EzCouponTracker and click on “Import” to import your coupons from your Gmail account into EzCouponTracker using keywords.

 

For example, if you wish to import your “sears” coupons, then type sears in the keyword textbox and finish the import process. All your sears coupon within last 7 days will be imported into your EzCouponTracker account.

How to manage coupons better

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How to manage coupons better 

This week we will make it short & sweet. Less stress and get more done are some of the advantages with better task management. Interviews with several coupon users (including us), revealed that, coupon management/tracking is daunting task. Coupon users always had issues with managing coupons. Here are few samples from our interviews with coupon users:

 

1. I cannot keep track of my coupon

2. I cannot distinguish between coupons and promotions

3. I'm unsure when my coupon expires

4. How can I share my coupons with my friends and family.

 

Our EzCouponTracker handles all these commonly faced problems by coupon users, which reduces stress. Not only that, Ezcoupontracker provides easy to use interface that makes coupon management seamless for coupon users and helps in getting more done. We strive to make coupon users life better managed.

 

One of the most powerful features that our  application offers is enabling users to create circles and inquiring for coupons with-in circle as well as public. But EzCouponTracker does not stop there, it also provides a mechanism for the users to share the coupons to those who have inquired. With these and many more features, EzCouponTracker makes your coupon management a pleasurable experience. So why wait, just sign up to enjoy these and many more features.

Why should we use Ezcoupontracker.com?

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Why should we use Ezcoupontracker.com?

As Benjamin Franklin quoted, “Time is Money”. If you can save both  time and money by using a service, isn’t it double bonanza? That is exactly what http://ezcoupontracker.com does. You will save time and money by using Ez Coupon Tracker.

Very often we observe people perform tasks innovatively in order to save a little bit of time in their busy schedule. Many of us don’t hesitate to even shell quite a bit of money just to save a few minutes in a given day. 

We innovated coupon management with Ez Coupon Tracker, we have done all the hard work so that the users will NOT have to do much work, which in turn, will save everyone a tremendous deal of time and money in the process. We have taken special care and paid a lot of attention to detail in making Ez Coupon Tracker a one stop shop for all the coupon management needs.

Here is high level view of how Ez Coupon Tracker works:

• Users can register directly on our website or they can use their existing Facebook or Google accounts to register.
• Upon successful registration, the users will be provided with an e-mail ID username@ezcoupontracker.com.
• Users can then start sharing this email address with several vendors and deal websites to receive various coupons and promotions.
• Ez Coupon Tracker not only separates coupons and promotions but also sorts them by expiration date.
  Users have ability to create their own personal communities or circles with in the app and do a lot of interesting actions like sharing the coupons with in their circles, inquiring for coupons they are in need of to name a few.

Isn’t it exciting? Why wait, sign-up at http://ezcoupontracker.com to save time & money.

Why and how we started ezcoupontracker project?

One of the famous proverbial sentence in startup world is, “Necessity is mother of invention/innovation”, our (and most of the coupon users) necessity motivated us to innovate ezcoupontracker.com, innovative solution for coupon users tracking/managing coupons.

A while ago, we had a gathering at my friends place where all the housewives gathered and started to discuss how difficult it is to manage the coupons, track them and share them across the streams. Here we go, we have identified a need where we can innovate.
 

Though necessity motivates us it invent, it is team who plays critical role in executing and making innovation success. The team at ezcoupontracker.com were quick in realizing the potential problem and started discussion on how we can address these coupon user’s concerns and challenges. In this digital world, where most of the things are on finger tips through mobile and computers, we thought an online application can answer all the concerns..

 

We had several meetings, discussions, debates, fights and customer interviews (trust me it was not fun) and finally came up with a prototype which turned out to be outstanding. We realized that outcome not only answers issues, it adds more value by saving user time and money. Which, in our perspective is perfect solution to go to market. We implemented MVP for our prototype and it is open for all. Please check out our MVP at http://ezcoupontracker.com

 

Here is a little bit of information about my team:

 

Sireesha -- Expert in user management skills and helped vigorously in validating feedback.

 

Srivalli  -- Expert in product management skills and extensively helped in defining the product.

 

Giri -- Expert in coding, designing and development. Prior startup experience helped in getting MVP ready.

Success may differ but learning is same

Every team will have their own definition of “success”. Some teams define success as earning money, few others define success as earning knowledge and others may have some other definition for it. Here are few things we have (ezcoupontracker team) learnt and remember every day: :

1. Go an extra mile
2. Flexibility
3. Collaboration
4. Pivot or preserve

Our team at ezcoupontracker.com would always like to go an extra mile to come up with innovative solutions for common users and always think of alternate ways to make user experience more rewarding. We are proud to project ourselves as innovators.

Our team has never hesitated to pull up their socks to meet our tight deadlines. Our teams experience and expertise in multiple areas (programming, marketing, product strategy) gives us flexibility to back each other up and be more effective.

We are open to collaborate with external parties to take our vision to next level and make 35% of retail consumers couponing experience smooth and organized.

Ezcoupontracker.com team listens, learns from our mistakes and evaluate themselves constantly to make stratagic decisions about preserve or pivot. We always listen to our customers and market to keep ourselves in competition.

We, at ezcoupontracker.com, are excited to start our startup journey. We are aware that our journey will have a lot of turbulences, sudden surprises, sleepless nights, frustrating days and weekends, missed friends & family occasions to name a few. But we are confident, determined and ready to navigate through these unknown hurdles.

Wish our team good luck!