Door to Door Coupon Advertising, The Right Way..
I don’t know if anyone has experience with receiving bags of coupon’s on their front door, but it can be very useful for saving money all around town by using the many coupons stuffed in the bag. The problem is that you only get one coupon to use until the next distribution, and that you might not always have the exact coupon you need, when you need it. For suppliers of such a service, it can be rather costly to print that many coupons over and over again, as well as getting them to each and every front door in town.
An idea we’re working on is utilizing barcoding to not only distribute the re-usable coupons, but using the coupons as well. Instead of printing, and handing out bags of individual coupons, you could simply distribute one 11×17 folded paper with all the advertiser’s along with a barcode that the consumers could scan with a small piece of free software on their mobile phone and get several re-usable coupons that are redeemable at the merchant. Better yet, just deliver a monthly text message chocked full with money saving coupons that are re-deemable at the merchant by simply scanning the barcode.
The consumer could simply hang the coupon sheet on their fridge, and whenever they get the notion to go out, they could simply scan the sheet for somewhere they like, scan the barcode, and take several coupons with them to save a little money. They’re never stuck without coupons, because everyone always has their phone with them. If they’d rather, they could enter a three digit pin on a simple website, and get a long sheet of printable coupons to print and take with them.
This is great for advertiser’s because it will bring the consumer in over and over again instead of just when they have that one coupon for the month..
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I think your idea is terrific and that would be much more efficient and user friendly for the consumer. People are becoming more and more computer savvy every year and I think evenually the door hanging coupon bags will come to and end and everything will be printed out electronically.
I definitely think that’s the way to go. Physical coupons are a thing of the past and electronic version will become more and more popular over the next few years to come.
OK – came across this site, so we’ll comment. First, we like your idea.
We just launched our new instant mobile ecoupon GripOffs mobile site for advertisers to do their own posting and review real-time metrics for instant analysis featuring the ability then make instant changes and a site that’s free to users on their mobi simply by going to the site.
Users register the first time they use it and from then on their logged in at their preference. No instrusive text messages or sms messages as the advertisers have the luxury of changing their ads at will and should cause the users to check back often to keep up on specials and savings.
Thank you for the opportunity to share our wonderful new paperless system as we think that the more people that know about it the better it will become and we can all learn to rely on having the benefit of all of the local bargains available right on our mobile devices. These GripOffs eCoupons contain the barcode for redemption at the point of purchase allowing for instant savings for the users. Who? Why, all of us, of course. GO GREEN GET A GRIP!