One of the greatest things about the Internet and the rise of eCommerce is the ever growing number of websites that provide their clients with discounts, coupons and free services. Only a decade ago the only way to find a bargain was to walk around your local shops or get on the telephone and ask for prices (and you would not even know if they had the item you wanted in stock before calling).
Now you can get the latest prices from all the major suppliers for any product in seconds with the help of your search engine alone. And if you want a discount, all you need do is head over to one of the many discount/voucher code websites and see if any of the stores that are selling your chosen product have given away voucher codes.
Why do they do this? It is simply a marketing tool. There is now so much competition online that companies provide discount vouchers to third party websites so that they can assist with product advertising and marketing. Some companies take this one stage further and provide free products to encourage clients to sign up. This is a great way of winning new clients and beating the competition.
Discount Voucher and Coupon Sites
Discount codes and vouchers/codes have been around for a while now and are one of the preferred marketing tools for affiliates (websites that have built their revenue model on marketing other companies’ products). One of the most established voucher code sites is Latest Discount Vouchers which was set up by Nick Gandy in 2005. It started out as a small voucher site but quickly grew in popularity and is now used by thousands of bargain hunters everyday.
Sites That Offer Free Products
Of course, a discount is only so good. Why not offer your products totally free to entice new customers in? Just like time share salesmen that offer free food and drinks to prospective clients, many sites now offer free products to new customers. One of the best examples of this are photo printing sites.
There are now so many options when it comes to photo printing with high street stores, online companies and high quality home printers. However, many people now chose not to print at all any more, instead just keeping their photos on their PC and sharing on photo sharing sites like Google’s Picasa, Flickr and Facebook.
So photo printers have had to offer free printing to entice new customers to experience traditional photography. If you are cunning you can get free photos from many different stores before ever having to pay to have any printed, and Free Photo Printing provides that very service. On their home page at the moment are a list of 15 companies that between them are giving away 580 free photos. This is enough to keep most people in free photos for a few years. Freebielist.com is another site that deals with free products and services. It is certainly worth checking on a regular basis to see what is available.
So many people are still too afraid to shop online to take advantages of these fantastic deals. If you do one good thing today, tell your friends and family not to fear the Internet and instead embrace the technological revolution that has brought equal and fair competition, and lower prices, so all areas of commerce.
