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Search Engine for Saving Money Sale Locator

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Searching, Searching, Searching, I’m always looking for something. Be it in the house, the car, I wouldn’t be able to find my own hands if they weren’t attached to me. I’m also always looking for things on-line, I use my search engine as a spell checker, find coupons and now, to find where the local sales are in stores.

You all know how much I like to save money while shopping. I love combining coupons with sales at the stores to maximize my savings, but if you are a couponer like me, you know it takes time to track down the sales let alone save up the coupons for it. I have to track down all the store ads and compare them to each other and match them up. Well imagine having a search engine that finds the sales for you cutting out a major step in saving money.

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Meet the sale search engine SaleLocator. SaleLocator is a shopping and sales search engine that optimizes the shopping experience and makes consumer’s lives easier. SaleLocator is also available on the iPhone as an on the go Sale Locator app for saving money.

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Checking out the local sales, I can see that SaleLocator helps bargain hunters find the best ongoing sales near them including an average of 225,000 local retail sales daily. I even noticed that certain malls are mentioned for having items on sale. After clicking on the link to one of my favorite local malls, I can then see what each store has on sale right now.

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So it is exactly like having the local ads right at my fingertips. I can plan out my trip to the mall and have an idea on which stores I’m going to drop into for the bargains and when towing around kids with me everywhere I go, having a game plan will save me a lot of time and headaches. If searching by store isn’t enough for you, you can also find local sales by keyword and in nearly 20 popular categories including Clothing & Apparel, Baby & Toddler, Toys & Games, Furniture, Health & Beauty, Sports & Fitness and much much more. Plus you never have to miss a sale event. All you have to do to stay in the know is sign up for daily, weekly or monthly email sales alerts and share sales via Facebook, Twitter and email.

 

Follow SaleLocator on Facebook and on Twitter @salelocatorcom to learn about new sales and new SaleLocator features.

 

 

 

This is part of a sponsored campaign with Mom Bloggers Club on behalf of Sale Locator.

Goby 50.00 American Express Gift Card & iPad 2 Giveaway

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Oh, I’m quite happy to announce that I’m hosting another giveaway for Goby.com again. Last year, I had the opportunity to introduce you all to them. Goby is an excellent site for families or anyone looking to go on a trip, and it’s almost summer!!!. Goby is a search engine all about finding things to do. I found the searches to be accurate and fun. I also feel that with google and other search engines you have to be specific for travel, and it’s hard sometimes to create the results you are actually looking for. Goby organizes your query results in a meaningful way instead of spitting back a series of web pages that happen to contain your key words. For taking trips and finding things to do, Goby is the place to go.

goby logoIn other words, goby.com is an activity search engine for finding cool things to do with your family.  Whether you have an afternoon to spend or a whole vacation, goby has over 6 million things to do in every city and town in the United States.  Now, goby has released version 3.0 of the goby iPhone app.  The new goby app introduces the goby fun feed.  The app syncs to your Facebook profile and automatically puts together a stream of events and activities for you in your location. 

To celebrate the launch of the goby app and fun feed, goby is giving away a brand new iPad 2 and a $50 gift card to put towards your next adventure.  There are two main ways to enter and a few more for fun:

Enter to Win:

50.00 American Express Gift Card

iPad 2 (possible entries across all participating bloggers)

To Enter:

Go to goby.com.  Use the what, where when fields on the homepage to find and adventure near you.  Post the link in the comments of this blog along with why you chose your adventure.

Extra Entries:

List this giveaway on any giveaway site, dig, stumble, like or share on Facebook (or use any of the share options listed below)

Tweet & include the giveaway link:

Enter to Win an iPad 2 @MomStart #Giveaway http://networkedblogs.com/hxmLI

50.00 American Express Gift Card #Giveaway @Momstart http://networkedblogs.com/hxmLI

for 5 entries –

Go to the iTunes store and download the NEW goby app for iPod Touch/iPhone You’ll receive an emailed receipt – email this receipt to emily (at) goby.com for 5 ENTRIES toward an iPad!  Be sure to mention that MomStart.com sent you.

You must leave a comment for every entry. This Giveaway Ends June 15th. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

50.00 American Express Giveaway sponsored by Flit.com

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To Flit is to move quickly and lightly from one store to another.

Flit.com was built by a team that loves shopping online but wanted to make it easier and more fun. They were a team of people that found themselves spending a lot of time and effort trying to recall the good stores, get to their sites, then enter the same searches over and over again. I find myself doing the same thing. Going to the same site to do the same search over and over again.

Some stores, like RestorationHardware.com, have urls that are longer than your arm or longer.

Flit.com was designed and built to give online shopping a makeover by delivering an easier and better experience. Features from the site:

  • Shop inside™ – enter what you’re looking for just once then a single click initiates a search inside all the stores you want
  • Favorites – a personalized tab to keep your favorite stores easily accessible and share them with friends. If your friends then send you theirs, your favorite lists will all grow in synch.
  • Search history – allows you to reuse earlier searches without retyping
  • Search trail™ – a visual record of the stores you have visited and an easy way to search them again. The Store Tagger option lets you mark stores that have things of interest.
  • Save my session – a simple way to save your entire shopping session so you can come back to it at anytime.
  • Category index – lets you jump quickly to new categories and discover new stores

My Views:

I decided to give flit a twirl. So I went to the flit home page and took it for a test drive. In the search box I entered “Tinkerbell”. Then came up a window full of store options, 10 to be exact.

flitThen the super cool thing for me was that you can click on each button and it takes you to that website and pulls up your search. Then there are tabs that separate the stores into different categories, like electronics, Women’s clothing, sports and Men’s clothing. Each button that comes up under each tag still takes you to your search phrase. So it’s quite an efficient way to do a specific shopping search.

Flit.com is the easiest way to find this season’s hottest toys such as the Zhu Zhu Pets, Twilight Dolls, DJ Hero and Elmo Tickle Hands. Unlike other shopping sites that return a disorganized jumble of products, Flit.com creates a virtual shopping mall that lets you visit each store with one click and puts the item you’re looking for upfront and center on each site. Plus, the site will save your search – so you can resume your lunchtime hunt after the kids go to bed. Flit.com provides a one-click search platform across more than 275 leading retail brands spanning 30-plus popular categories including toys, fashion, home goods, jewelry, electronics, sports and gourmet foods

 

Flit is offering a 50.00 American Express Gift Card to use for shopping while searching their site.

To Enter:

Visit Flit and tell me if they have the store you like to shop at listed and if not what you think they should add.

Extra Entries:

Advertise this giveaway on any giveaway site and tell me where you advertised it. 10 Extra Entries
Subscribe to my blog
Follow me on twitter tell me your twitter ID
Blog about the giveaway include a link to me and to the sponsor for 10 extra entries
Tweet the giveaway (every time you tweet you get an entry) Link to the giveaway please!!!
Comment on any other non giveaway post and come back and tell me you did
Use any of the Share options at the bottom of this post: Dig, Stumble, or fav me on Technorati (two entries for each one)
Add my button/blog to your blogroll/friend list 3 extra entries

Leave a comment for every entry

The contest will run until January 4th 11:59 pm Pacific. The winner will be selected by www.random.org. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.