Coupons may attract enough attention to be printed, however, they can sit on the kitchen counter or in a wallet until they expire or are forgotten. They most often do not turn into immediate cash. Also, you never know how a particular promotion was received until the coupons are redeemed.

myGroupOffer builds an immediate call to action because email recipients can see how much time they have left to purchase the offer, and how many offers have already been sold. They know that to get in on the offer, they must purchase NOW. After making the purchase, your customer may print a redemption certificate.

The email we design for you to send your recipients lets them purchase your offer on your terms with a click of their mouse. You set the price of your offer and how long you want it to run. You can limit how many of an offer you'll allow one customer to purchase. You determine the redemption period and all restrictions for redemption.

Every redemption certificate bears a unique bar code. We provide you with an online redemption page that lets you scan the bar code on the redemption certificate or enter in on your keyboard. Our system then lets you know if the certificate has been presented before (eliminates copying and redeeming certificates) and lets you know if the certificate is genuine and valid (eliminates redemption of forged certificates).

We use Authorize.net as the Internet Gateway Processor for handling credit card transactions. If you already have, or would like to obtain an account with Authorize.net, we'll process credit card transactions so they are deposited into your own bank account as they're processed. Alternatively, credit card transactions can be processed through our account, and we'll write you a check within one week.

You've spent considerable time and money making your business stand out from your competitors. You want your special offers to continue to promote your business, not that of an online group offer company. Most companies that offer group purchasing capabilities send out emails to their distribution list. They offer your good deal to their customers, not your customers. You get stuck fulfilling offers to their customers with your goods and services, AND they want you to accept 25¢ on the dollar for the privilege of doing so! They've been getting away with it, because they have the tools in place to get the emails out and to process the offers that are sold, and of course, the promise that they'll obtain new customers for you. The reality is that many businesses, business managers and owners have been hurt in the process.

When you work with myGroupOffer, your brand is always what the email recipient will see. When the recipient clicks in the email for more information, they will be taken right to a page in YOUR website (which we design for you) that more fully explains your offer and facilitates the purchase. It's all about YOUR business, not ours.

The benefit to you that is always sold by the other group offer companies is that they'll email your offer to thousands of people on their email list and will get you tons of new customers.

In reality, the people on their email list are bargain seekers looking for today's special deal - whatever it may be. They aren't interested in finding a new retailer from which to purchase, they're simply looking for "today's deal". They will come to your business to buy your loss leader offer, but by and large, they won't return to continue purchasing from you at full price. They're focused on the next "today's deal". In fact, what these companies accomplish is taking your hard earned dollars, sticking half of them into their own pockets, stuffing 25% of them into their customers' pockets and leaving you with 25% to run your business on with no or very few new repeat customers.

It's MUCH better for you to reward your present customers. These are the people who've been supporting your business right along. We make it possible for you to reward these people while at the same time, encouraging them to spend their discretionary money with you, rather than somewhere else. Get them to play golf at your course instead of a different one. Get them to buy your hamburger rather than one at a restaurant down the street. Get them to spend their money with you rather than anywhere else. Get them to buy a new shirt from you rather than from the store across town. They'll feel good about you putting a good offer in front of them and will increase your revenues at the same time. Offer a special deal at normally slow times. Make a deal on inventory you may be long on. The whole idea is to maximize your revenues in a way that benefits you and your loyal customers. It's business and relationship building taken to a whole new level. And - it provides you with a level of revenue that will sustain your business, not 25% of normal.

Give us a call and let us know if you already have an Authorize.net account or want one, or if instead you'd prefer that we collect the proceeds from your sales and settle with you weekly. We're happy to do it either way. We'll send you a simple order form which you can review, indicate your payment handling choice, initial and send back to us. You'll see that there is no payment due to us up front and that there's no minimum term. You can terminate our relationship any time you want to, without penalty of any kind.

On the order form, we'll ask you to provide us with the contact information for whomever is responsible for maintaining your website. We'll contact them to get a new page built and functioning to handle the promotion and sale of your offer. We'll do all the heavy lifting. They just need to build a very simple new web page (a 5 minute job) with a blank area where your offer information will appear. We'll customize the appearance of the offer content to your colors and overall web look and feel.

Decide if you'd like an unlimited account with us, which permits you to create as many offers as you like for a flat monthly fee where you keep all revenue generated, or if you'd like to run offers paying us a fee of 10% of the revenue generated rather than the flat monthly fee. It's totally up to you, and we're happy to do business with you either way. Just note your decision on the order form. You can change your mind at any time you feel you'd be better off with the other plan. AND - either way you can run offers as often as you like. There's no waiting in line to be the featured offer of the day in your area like there is with other group offer companies.

We'll work closely with you to make sure you like the overall appearance of your new web page, the offer itself, etc. It's your business - we're working for you, not the other way around.

Our goal is much the same as we imagine yours to be. We want to grow our business with happy, repeat customers. We want to establish relationships with those customers that last for years. We want our customers know their business is appreciated. And, we'd like you to be one of those customers. Give us a chance to earn your loyalty, and you'll never be sorry you did.

Most group offer companies insist that you offer at least a 50% discount from your normal price, and then they take 50% of the selling price as their fee, leaving you 25% to pay your merchandise cost, payroll and fixed overhead.

There's little question that this formula works - for the group offer company and for their customers. The retailer often doesn't do so well. How can you? To take an extreme, you can't drop all your prices by 75% across the board and still pay for your merchandise, payroll, rent, utilities, insurance, etc. If you can't get by on 25% for all your sales, why should you let ANY of your sales return only 25%? The answer the other companies will give you is that should be considered your cost to obtain new customers. That's fine, as far as it goes, but experience across the board is showing that those customers who purchase a heavily discounted offer DON'T become repeat customers at full price, leaving you with nothing but expense.

myGroupOffer is sensitive to these issues. First, we do not insist that you offer 50% discounts. The larger the discount, the more offers you'll likely sell, but that's your business. The best part is, the lion's share of whatever you net from the sale of an offer through myGroupOffer is yours to keep. If you prefer to pay us a percentage of sales, we charge you 10%, not 50% and we send you your money within a week. With our monthly plan you'll run your credit card transactions through your own Authorize.net account for a flat fee of $899 per month to us. Authorize.net will charge you based upon their current fee schedule for credit card processing services.

You want to instill a sense of urgency to act in your email recipients. Our system does this the same way the other group offer companies do it. You set a maximum number to be sold. After this number is reached, the sale of your offer will stop. You set the start time you want your offer to be available for purchase and the end time when you want the sale to be over. You also determine how many of an offer a customer can purchase.

The important difference here is - it's YOUR business - we don't dictate how your should set your parameters for an offer. We've seen group offers that have sold through our competitors in the thousands in less than a day. We don't know how the retailer could possibly deliver goods and services to that many people in the time allotted. The end result is confusion, angry customers, stressed employees, and sometimes, businesses teetering on the brink of failure. Remember, since the other group offer companies get paid large percentages on your total sales, it is in their best interest to neglect to counsel you to set reasonable maximums. We don't operate that way. All parameters are made very clear to you, and you'll always get our best advice. The final decisions about your group offers are always made by you at myGroupOffer.

There is little question that the group buying concept works. Just read the papers about the valuations of some of the companies that are in the business of putting together group offers. We do all the same things to create attractive offers that our competitors do. The difference is, we don't charge usurious fees and we promote your business through your website, not ours.

We never charge you anything before we go to work for you. Whether you choose to pay us a flat monthly fee of $899 or 10% of the sales of your offers, all design work of your email appearance and the design of the webpage that comes up inside your website is undertaken by us at no upfront fee to you. If you choose the 10% plan, we deduct our 10% from the check we send you within a week of your offer running. You never pay us out-of-pocket. If you choose the monthly plan, we'll bill your credit card just prior to turning on your offers for the month. Either way, you don't pay us upfront for our time or expertise.