Tips to identify a good offer

(How this blog can make you smarter and richer?)
I am afraid; you become smarter after reading this.

If you are new to this blog, I request you to read this open letter. I started this blog to track some offer / deal related advertisements in India. After a couple of months of blogging, I am trying to better understand what and how I am posting. Here is what I find on how my blog can help you.

1. Know the message of an advertisement. By removing the glitter (images, celebrities, fancy words etc.) from the post, you will come to know the proper contents given in an offer advertisement.

2. I read the * first before publishing an offer. Know what conditions apply on an offer. Advertisers keep them small and unreadable (most of the time). By highlighting the conditions, I try to provide transparency on the offer. You will not fall in the traps of the advertisers’ tricks.

3. Know the contact numbers. Call them up and find out if what you are looking out is available in the store. This helps you save lot of time in traveling. When is the last time you got your favorite color and brand from the first store you visited?

4. See other offers available in the same store or category or city. This makes you knowledgeable about the market rates going on. When you know the price in the other store, you cannot be cheated.

5. Big brands offer big advertisements, small brands offer small advertisements. The size and number of repetitions of an advertisement is a matter of their budget. The ground rule is every one wants to sell their stuff. By treating every offer as equally important and competent, this blog saves you from the Show off of the biggies. This helps a genuine offer to come up and stand out.

6. See all the offers advertised from a store. This is the only blog/ website that tracks all the offers placed by a store. Have you spotted a store which advertises “last two days only offer”, but says it every week?

7. Know what others say? The very purpose of this blog is to enlighten you with the opinions of others regarding a particular offer or a store. Can you vote on a few offers and give a couple of comments on the offers published? The more you say, the more you get.

8. Never miss a good offer. Give your email address and hit the subscribe button. Don’t be scared, you will not get any other mails except the posts in this blog. You can access the posts even it is blocked in your company.

9. As of now (11th November 2007) this blog published plenty of offers from around 200 stores covering 20 categories in four cities. Check it frequently, you will always find some thing useful.

10. Do you know how to impress your girlfriend/ boyfriend or even your spouse? Know the deal, be smart and don’t burn your pocket. They will be impressed. All the best.