Special Offers Bulletin Board  Advertising Opportunity for Locally Owned Retailers & Service Providers  Grow your business using Local Search, Special Offer Coupons & Crowd-Initiated Email    Attn Small Business Owner- How would you respond if you were approached  by a Crowd of local shoppers... ...and invited to list a special offer coupon in their local search engine and send it in a monthly email to their membership?   What if their system could identify which shoppers were interested in your products & services...  ...what if their system created a targeted list of hot prospects for your business without violating the privacy of the their members?   The Special Offers Bulletin Board is a FREE monthly listing of special offers and  giveaways from locally owned businesses in each participating community. Local subscribers can view coupons online using the Special Offers Search Engine and they can register to have the Special Offers Bulletin Board sent by email each month. The Special Offers Search Engine enables shoppers to view special offers in their local community and also in other communities when they travel for business, visit friends or go on vacation. The Special Offers Bulletin Board encourages shoppers to strengthen local economies by supporting locally owned businesses as well.    Now you can use Special Offers Coupons, Online Search and Crowd-Initiated Email  to drive foot traffic to your location, grow your customer base and increase sales. You are invited to join our Crowd Sponsored Marketing Cooperative . We have designed a system that helps you and other locally owned businesses in your community to compete more favorably with the national chains. The Special Offers Bulletin Board is usually sponsored by a local real estate or mortgage professional in a local community and promoted by a crowd of local participating shoppers that love getting discounts and special offers. In addition to placing you on the Special Offers Bulletin Board, we will list you in our Special Offers Search Engine and provide you with a counter display that reminds shoppers how to view your online coupons.   If you want to be even more aggressive in registering shoppers to receive their monthly Special Offers Bulletin board listing of coupons, you have the option of placing a point of sale registration boxe in you establishment to harvest email addresses of local shoppers. We will provide an online method of imputing the contacts into an online database. This will register shoppers for the Bulletin Board and also flag them for your own targeted contact list to be used for more targeted marketing offers in the future.   The Special Offers Search Engine makes it easy for local shoppers to find your coupons using a coupon code OR the name of your business OR descriptions of your products and services. They can even enter a city and state to get a listing of coupons in a designated area. Each time they visit our website they are invited to register to get a FREE listing of special offers in their community sent to them.   The Special Offers Bulletin Board is usually sponsored by a local real estate or mortgage professional. It contains a free listing of all of the offers from locally owned businesses in your community.     When the Special Offers Search Engine directs shoppers to your online coupon,  they are also invited to subscribe to the monthly Special Offers Bulletin Board. The Special Offers Bulletin Board is emailed to Club Members each month or periodically and can also be accessed via the Special Offers Search Engine.     You can even put a video message about your products and services on your online coupon page! Click here for details The cooperative involvement of all of our local business advertisers enables us to generate a huge permission based email list that all of our advertisers can all benefit from. EXAMPLE: If 100 participating businesses in your community each collect just 20 email addresses per  month from their registration box, your community will have over 20,000 Members within one year! By identifying who registers at your location AND who clicks on your coupon link in the email, we are then able to identify those who are interested in your products or services. The enables us to create a more targeted marketing contact list for your business! And this is done while maintaining the privacy of the Crowd! A Turn-Key Marketing Service to Help you Grow your Business One of the most valuable assets a small business can have is a targeted contact list of hot prospects. Unfortunately, very few small business owners have a really good marketing contact list to use for direct mail and email marketing. Although email marketing is very effective and inexpensive, most small business owners don't have the time or expertise to create email campaigns, collect permission based emails from customers/potential customers and manage an email contact database. Our turn-key marketing service provides you with- Monthly Exposure to thousands of local shoppers Increased Customer Loyalty and additional repeat business Referral Marketing from Club Members & local employers A Targeted Contact List of hot prospects is created for each advertiser Increased sales from first time customers and repeat business from existing customers Shoppers Love the Bulletin Board! Shoppers love to get their monthly listing of the Special Offers Bulletin Board. In a recent beta test 62% of the Club Members viewing the Special Offers Bulletin Board demonstrated a high level of interest by opening the email at least 3 times OR clicking on at least one link! See additional stats below- 59% Clicked on at least one link 37% clicked on 3 or more links 25% clicked on 5 or more links 21% Clicked on the contest results to see if they won a prize!   The Special Offers Bulletin Board opportunity enables you to partner with hundreds of other locally owned businesses in your community. List a Special Offer on the Bulletin Board Today! Join the Crowd as an advertiser and list a special offer on the Bulletin Board! We will provide you will a turn-key solution that will list your special offer in our search engine and on the Bulletin Board each month. If you have a local Crowd Coordinator in your community, please place your order with them. If not, please register with us via this shopping cart. There is a one time set up fee of $95 which includes your online coupon with monthly updates, coupon code, point of sale signage (registration boxes and forms are optional) and management of a targeted contact list of hot prospects for targeted email promotions. The monthly fee for our service is $9 per month. Once your local crowd of subscribers to the Special Offers Bulletin Board reaches 5,000 the monthly service fee is $18. At 10,000 registered shoppers the monthly fee is $27. (payment schedules may vary according to marketing area) Our shopping cart allows you to pay via Paypal or credit card. Please allow up to two weeks to get your coupon code, custom coupon page and point of sale signage. Order here to list a monthly Special Offers Coupon on the Bulletin Board!   Mission Statement  "Cooler Connections™ is a network of community coupon clubs that publishes the Special Offers Bulletin Board™ & markets the Special Offers Gift Card. We are a Crowd Sponsored marketing cooperative composed of locally owned businesses, employers and shoppers throughout the US. Our Mission is to strengthen local economies by promoting locally owned businesses and encouraging consumers to act responsibly and in the best interest of their community by shopping at locally owned businesses whenever possible. Our turn-key marketing solution enables our member advertisers to increase sales from new and existing customers and nurture customer loyalty. We help locally owned businesses to compete more favorably against national retailers & service providers through the synergistic partnering of our members and by the strategic use of gift cards, discount coupons, contests, free giveaways, educational online games, invitation based b2c email marketing campaigns & targeted marketing contact lists."