New Pricing On SuddenDeals.com Merchant Accounts

SuddenDeals.com announces new prices for merchant accounts. We now feature a flat $0.05* per SMS message rate for any level of account.



*Prices subject to change.

If you are a Bar, Restaurant, Nightclub or Live Music Venue in Twin Cities, sign up today!
https://www.suddendeals.com/main/merchantSetup/merchantInfo.php

New Merchant Account Prices Coming Soon

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! SuddenDeals.com will soon be announcing new prices for merchant accounts.

Please stay tuned to our blog or send us an email if you want to be notified of the new rates by going to:
http://www.suddendeals.com/feedback.php

SuddenDeals.com Team

Jiffy Lube has Sudden Deals-- In a way...

Recently, I read an article in the Twin Cities Business Magazine talking about Jiffy Lube and how they offer discounts on oil changes to the passing motorists:

http://tcbmag.blogs.com/stateofthebrand/2009/07/jiffylube.html

Essentially, when business is slow, Jiffy Lube sends their employees to stand by a busy street holding a sign offering a discount if the passers by get their oil changed right away. In a sense, Jiffy Lube is offering passing motorists a Sudden Deal-- though limiting themselves to a small area and making the employee really work for his $x/hr!

SuddenDeals.com has been and remains a leader and what we do is starting to be understood and is catching on.

SuddenDeals.com is now on Twitter

SuddenDeals.com recently joined Twitter.

Follow us at http://www.Twitter.com/suddendeals_com

SuddenDeals.com now has shopper demographic reporting-- does your advertiser do that?

We have recently implemented an ability for merchants to view general non-identifiable demographic reporting on the shoppers who receive their Sudden Deals. Merchants are now able to see and sort by Age, Gender, Education, Income and Occupation. That's the power of SuddenDeals.com!

Kip's Authentic Irish Pub Joins The SuddenDeals.com Network.

If you like Irish food, you'll love Kip's Authentic Irish Pub and Restaurant. They feature great food, live music and special game nights.

Get on their FavoritesList and receive exclusive Sudden Deals!


Kip's Authentic Irish Pub and Restaurant
Phone: 952-367-5070
9970 Wayzata Blvd

St. Louis Park, MN 55426
Driving Directions

Get On Their FavoritesList (text message list):

NON-Members Use These Links:

Kip's Loyal Customer List: Sign Up!

Kip's Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner List: Sign Up!

Kip's Live Music List: Sign Up!

Kip's Game Night List: Sign Up!

Kip's Happy Hour List: Sign Up!

SuddenDeals.com Members Use These Favorites Codes:
Kip's Loyal Customer Code: KIPSLOYALTY
Kip's Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner Code: KIPSFOOD
Kip's Live Music Code: KIPSMUSIC
Kip's Game Night Code: KIPSGAMES
Kip's Happy Hour Code: KIPSHAPPY

Help on FavoritesList

Our Latest Shopper Demographic Statistics

As SuddenDeals.com grows, it becomes more and more interesting to see how the shopper demographic pans out. SuddenDeals.com is so easy to use, that the stigma of SMS text messaging only being useful by18-24 year-old's is simply no longer true.

Take a look at the numbers by clicking on this link:

http://www.suddendeals.com/merchant_lounge.php?faqId=9

SuddenDeals.com on Fox 9 Twin Cities

SuddenDeals.com on Fox 9 Twin Cities March 31, 2009 5pm

See the video segment on the Fox 9 Website:

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/Cheap_Chick_Does_Entertainment_March_31_2009

Erin Schneider of CheapButNotEasy.net Thinks We're Genius!!! :)

Erin from Fox 9 Twin Cities runs a great blog at CheapButNotEasy.net that helps Minnesotans save money all around. You should check it out! We did and were floored when we saw that she called us "Genius"! I mean no one has ever called us that!

Thanks Erin! The whole team is blushing :)

Best of the Twin Cities 2009: VOTE FOR US!!!

City Pages is holding it's annual Best of the Twin Cities 2009 contest. Submissions are taken until March 30, 2009. One of the categories is Best Local Website. Please go out and vote for SuddenDeals.com and tell your friends to do so as well. All fields on the City Pages form are optional, so if you want to only submit your vote for the website, that's allowed.

Add SuddenDeals.com to item 6: "Best Local Website"

http://polls.citypages.com/polls/min/bestof09/

Please vote only once and vote today.

SuddenDeals.com was chosen as FM 107.1's Jason Mattheson Fab Pick

On February 10th, 2009, SuddenDeals.com was chosen as FM 107.1's Jason Mattheson Fab Pick. Jason Mattheson and Alexis Thompson spent a while discussing how cool SuddenDeals.com is and why everyone should use it. Here is a link to the MP3 recording of that conversation from FM107.1- Living life out loud!

http://www.suddendeals.com/siteIncludes/sounds/FM107_1_2_10_2009.mp3

Bhangra Chills Party at The Lounge in Minneapolis Friday Dec 19!

The Lounge nightclub in minneapolis is hosting the Bhangra Chills Party featuring Bolly Remix, Bhangra and Hip Hop. All are welcome.

Log in to SuddenDeals.com to be first to know of this and other parties in the future.

To get on the Lounge nightclub's SMS message list and receive information of events on certain nights, use the following FavoritesCodes when you log in to your SuddenDeals.com account:

For Thursday nights events, use code: loungethr
For Friday nights events, use code: loungefri
For Saturday nights events, use code: loungesat
For Sunday nights events, use code: loungesun

A list of Bars, Restaurants and Live Music Venues in Twin Cities

For our users of SuddenDeals.com, we have added a page of the Twin Cities' Restaurants, Bars and Live Music venues. We hope this new guide page helps everyone find new venues in the Twin Cities. Check back often as we will be adding new bars, restaurants and music venues as well as nightclubs on monthly basis.

http://www.suddendeals.com/twin_cities_restaurants_bars_nightclubs.php

SuddenDeals.com in Twin Cities Business Magazine

Denise Logeland of the Twin Cities Business magazine was kind enough to include SuddenDeals.com in to her Tip Sheet Great Finds column, November 2008 edition.

Thanks!

SuddenDeals.com

Sudden Deals @ MinneDemo and in Finance and Commerce Newspaper

On Wednesday, November 12, 2008, Sudden Deals, LLC was very excited to have the opportunity to present our application in front of a sold-out audience of the MinneDemo.org. We were given 7 minutes and a projector-connected laptop to go though SuddenDeals.com and show the audience how it works. There was a lot of positive head nodding and interested looks in the seats. Overall, the presentation went great. The local newspaper, Finance and Commerce chose Sudden Deals, LLC as a company for their piece called: Land of 10,000 ideas: Innovations presented at high tech Minne Demo event

In the case the article is no longer available on the Finance and Commerce web site, here it is:

November 17, 2008 4:58 PM CST
Land of 10,000 ideas: Innovations presented at high tech Minne Demo event
by Arundhati Parmar Staff Writer

Sudden Deals: Local restaurants, bars, nightclubs and light music venues can post messages about current deals on the website that are sent via text messages to users. Users sign up for free and exert full control by deciding in what frequency they want to receive promotions on their cell phones from local merchants.

In the summer of 2002, when Julian Reytel was working on a project in Manhattan, he was struck by how sales associates from little boutiques in the Soho district would step out into the street and holler, “Sale!” Stores that were empty a minute before would suddenly fill up with people. “Everybody just plowed in,” he recalled. That was the germ of Reytel’s new Mendota Heights company, Sudden Deals, LLC. The philosophy is simple – instead of sales staff coming out and announcing a sale, local merchants can send text messages promoting their latest deals to customers’ cell phones. Users can sign up for free on SuddenDeals.com, and can control when and how many messages they get. Sudden Deals was one of 10 innovations featured last week at Minne Demo, a Twin Cities technology demo and networking event. Co-organizers Ben Edwards and Luke Francl hold similar events two or three times a year along with a larger event in the spring. Reytel and others provided seven-minute demonstrations in front of an audience comprised largely of their technology peers. Sudden Deals officially launched in June 2007, although Reytel started three years ago. Reytel continues to work on his company while working full time as a programmer for a national bank that he declined to name.

Initially, he wasn’t sure how many people would be willing to part with their cell phone numbers. “Any time you talk about text messaging or giving up your cell phone number, the first thing that everyone worries about is that will this turn into spam like it does in e-mail.” he said. But he has been pleasantly surprised to see people sign up with their cell phone numbers “left and right.” (He assures customers that their numbers are never sold to third parties.) Nine local merchants have signed up to use the service, including Envy Nightclub, Big Ten Pizza and Saffron Restaurant. Merchants pay a monthly fee and get a number of credits to post messages and can buy more if they use it up. There are four monthly plans that merchants – for now Reytel is focusing on restaurants, bars, light music venues and nightclubs – can choose from. With the current 50 percent off promotion being offered, the fee ranges from $15 a month to $30 a month. The merchants are based in downtown Minneapolis, near the U, Dinkytown, Highland Park and downtown St. Paul. Sudden Deals is not profitable yet, but Reytel hopes to reach that milestone by mid 2009. More than 350 users have signed up to get merchant promotions. “I would say success is when we are going to many different (merchants), not just restaurants, and when people are signing up daily and coming back daily and when you hear people mention SuddenDeals.com when they are thinking of going out,” Reytel said.