personal finance in a coupon blog

We know our smart, savvy community knows how to find great deals online, and it looks like others are joining the revolution. Last week (Thursday, February 19th) the Chairman of ComScore (Gian Fulgoni) gave his review of online retail from the 2008 holiday season. He was very clear that he believes online coupon sites have reached the "tipping point" and have achieved mass acceptance. He highlighted "coupons" as one of the largest growing search terms with 157% growth from December 2007 to December 2008. In this same time period, Savings.com grew over 300%. It's great to see the entire industry growing and to know our community is helping people find the best deal on whatever they're looking for. It's even better to see us growing faster than any other major coupons site....

We are growing like crazy, and we're looking for a couple of rockstars to join our team. Well, maybe rockstars isn’t the perfect analogy since they’re usually irresponsible, strung out, and unreliable, but you get the idea. We've got several open positions at the moment, but the two we're most aggressively searching for right now are listed below:

We launched a Savings.com account on Twitter a few weeks ago, and we've received an overwhelming response from the Twitter community. To date, we have over 850 followers who receive a couple tweets each day from us about new and exclusive codes, new blog posts (like this one!), and anything else we think they might like to know about Savings.com, coupons, and online shopping (follow us at: @savings ).

Hello and welcome to our new blog. My goal with this is to openly communicate with you and to get feedback on how we can improve. This has been a tremendous ride for all of us and we've seen savings.com grow from 4 full time employees to over 30 in less than two years. In that same period of time we've seen traffic go from a few thousand visitors in a month to a million visitors per month. We are thrilled that our "little" idea has taken off. I still remember the first time one of our employees told a stranger he met at a bar what we did and the guy said, "really, I love your site!" That was about a year ago and we still didn't think anyone knew who we were. Since then I've had countless experiences where friends and strangers have reached out to me and told me what savings.com is doing well (and also what we can do better). People seem to love the simplicity and honesty of our site, "all the best deals as voted by you."