FLBYU RETAIL ROYALTY AWARD

This is our Retail Royalty Award we share or pass this along to companies, websites, blogs etc on the internet that we think are great! We share our thoughts on why they are so great, meeting certain criteria........

The criteria for this honor includes very strict guidelines:

• GREAT PRODUCT OR SERVICE
• EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE
• POSITIVE FEEDBACK from members (FREELANCERS our members) to "owner"
• SOMTHING GAINED FROM SITE OR COMPANY that is FREE : Knowledge/Reward/Sample/ or other For Customer LOYALTY AND /OR PROMOTION by members (FREELANCERS)
  

I have sent this reward to display on site and/or pass along to another site that deserves the "honor" of this BADGE! :) because it is so "exclusive" and not given to a million sites or "pass to 10 other sites" to get your link posted somewhere It is only sent to "the CREAM OF THE CROP! "



RECIPIENT #1 of this award was TRUE LEMON JUNE 2005 they are still doing GREAT and making great offers
CURRENT OFFER HERE
GET A FREE SAMPLE AND DO A RAOK AT THE SAME TIME!
For every new person that registers for free samples on our website we will donate 10 packets to Operation Gratitude. Our goal is to donate 1,000,000 packets for the 50,000 care packages they are going to send to our troops in May and June. (That's 20 packets of True Lemon per care package.) We've done pretty well ourselves promoting this and right now we have donated about 700,000 packets in the last six weeks but I would like to get the last 300,000 packets donated in the next two weeks (or 30,000 people)!

I am including the NOTE I sent to our 2nd recipient who has since "gone" or "went defunct" from the internet :( this saddens me but is the ONLY company that is no longer in existence that we have given this exclusive award.


I will post other "recipients" as I catch up this blog I no longer have the letters to the older companies except this one that I published in the newsletter, many of them were posted on an older forum that I lost information from.

***INSIDER PAGES!***

we started out LUVING this site with their FREE starbucks gc offer.... "gift card reward 5 reviews for $5 starbucks" and we grew to luv them even more......and now they are back to offer us........ the offer AGAIN! woohooo! here are the details.... and how you can earn them too! *there is no monetary reward for anjie for this nomination and opinion, so there is no bias in any opinions expressed in this review and interview

ANJIE'S LETTER TO INSIDER PAGES ABOUT THEIR NOMINATION AFTER they sent FREELANCERS THE NEW OFFER, I HAD TO DO IT THEY WERE THE OBVIOUS CHOICE FOR OUR 2nd RETAIL ROYALTY NOMINATION! :) CONGRATS INSIDERPAGES.COM

What a Great Site "INSIDER PAGES" is! I love it! I stumbled upon it quite by accident while surfing for some things of interest for our newsletter at Freelancebyu.com. What first caught my attention is your generous offer for a FREE STARBUCKS GC for writing reviews about local businesses and services. Immediately I decided to participate, write some reviews and get qualified for the $5 GC! After seeing how easy it was I shared this with my newsletter group of 10,000+ people with similar interests to me. I didn't realize that there was a reward available for doing so at the time, but was THRILLED to learn through your friendly and informative staff that there was! :) I jumped on the opportunity to join in on more fun and asked my readers (that had not previously signed up) if they would mind if I referred them as well. I ended up sending out over 400 requests for referrals, some of which named me as a referral and sadly some of which signed up without. INSIDER was GOOD ENOUGH to tell others about even without the reward and then even better with! :)

I learned even more about the site and the advantages of using INSIDER PAGES as I explored more carefully! I was able to help out friends who started new businesses that needed an extra boost in spreading the word. (of course I did this only for those that I know to be trust worthy and have good business ethics) and they too quickly came to the site to check out the action! All were most thankful that I wrote them a review! :) nothing like making your friends happy, huh? NEXT I was able to share your site with businesses that offered a little something extra! I visited a campground and was so happy with what they offered and their great customer service that I shared with them that I would write them a REVIEW on this GREAT SITE CALLED "INSIDERPAGES.COM" they wrote it down with great interest and was THRILLED that I would do so! (more friends here!) Another example is my daughters dance studio, that is in TOUGH competition locally with several studios in our area, well this particular studio offers much more than DANCE and I wrote a very positive review about them and their mission to be mentor's in the personal lives and dance as well, I told the studio director about insiderpages and they were very thankful for the Positive review! I have also used the insider pages to read reviews about places I intend on visiting! I have several out of town trips planned this year and what a great experience it is to read reviews about a place, before I go to know what more to expect! :)

Insider pages made some changes to help us in our efforts to be even better reviewers and community leaders very soon after I joined the program! they included some YELLOW PAGES look up features that enabled the reviews and leaders to complete their reviews in a much shorter time than when I orig. started! WOW how impressive for a staff and company to continue to look for ways to improve and help out its customers even before they asked! I continued to promote and encourage my members to try it out! within 2 weeks of writing my first reviews I rec'd my starbucks card! WOW again this company is on the ball! I again wrote to my members telling them about the promptness of their rewards! YOU JUST CANT GET BETTER THAN THIS!

THE STAFF: quickly answered questions, let us know about other features of the site and always was so complimentary of our efforts at Freelancebyu! They even offered extensions to a few Freelancers that had issues beyond their control that prevented them from meeting original deadlines!

INSIDER PAGES has so impressed me that FREELANCEBYU has decided to honor them with a RETAIL ROYALTY DISTINCTION ! We have only given this to one other company and INSIDER PAGES is our 2nd company to earn this at FLBYU! We will be adding INSIDER PAGES to our Forum under RETAIL ROYALTY next week!

The criteria for this honor includes very strict guidelines

• GREAT PRODUCT OR SERVICE
• EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE
• POSITIVE FEEDBACK from FREELANCERS (our members)
• REWARD For Customer LOYALTY AND /OR PROMOTION by FREELANCERS

As you can see this criteria is a TOUGH one to fill! and INSIDER PAGES HAS DONE IT!
congratulations on being a FLBYU RETAIL ROYALTY CHOICE!

Smart Spending Coupon Organizer

FLBYU PRODUCT REVIEW
"SMART SPENDING COUPON ORGANIZER"

This is the BINDER that I took on a test drive (monthy shopping run last week) here is the REVIEW by the Creator, freelancer, FAYE...........
The Smart Spending Coupon Organizer is exactly the tool you need to get all of your coupons under control so you can spend more time saving and less time searching. I have been couponing and teaching others how to coupon for over 4 years and I now save 50 - 95% off my grocery bill every time I shop! One of the keys to that kind of savings is an excellent system for organizing my coupons. I was stopped so many times in the grocery store by people wanting an organizer like mine that I finally decided to start selling them. This high quality, 3 ring zipper binder organizer holds thousands of coupons that are easy to find and easy to file! Whether you are a serious couponer or just getting started, this organizer will get your coupons in order so you save more money than you ever have at the grocery store. You will more than likely save the cost of this organizer in just the FIRST trip you make to the store using this system! The easy to flip through and easy to see pages allow you to take better advantage of unadvertised sales because you don't have to waste time searching endlessly for the coupon you want. It is right there at your fingertips - no more searching! The organizers fit perfectly in the baby seat of your grocery cart, which makes it easy to flip to the coupons you need. Each organizer has room for your sales flyers, calculator, store rewards cards, grocery list and pen as well. Each organizer comes with a three ring zipper binder (choose from a variety of styles), 24 tabbed, pre-labeled product section dividers (divided by product group such as Baking, Bread, Dairy.), 24 coupon pages with 9 pockets in each page, a one page Guide to Using the Smart Spending Organizer and a pen! The organizers cost $17.99 , BUT if you say you saw them through FLBYU, your organizer is only $16.99 plus shipping! Simply let me know you were referred by Anjie at FLBYU to receive your discount. For more information including pictures of the organizer styles, visit the Smart Spending website at www.smartspendingandcouponing.com . Click on Products and Services for all the organizer details. And Anjie, you are AWESOME!! Thank you for all the amazing deals you offer us in every newsletter! I tell all my students about FLBYU in EVERY Smart Spending class I teach! Oh FYI - went to Harris Teeter grocery store last weekend. They were tripling coupons up to 99 cents and will triple 20 per visit. On one visit, my subtotal was $105.23 before sales and coupons. After coupons were tendered, I ended up paying them $12.30! That's a savings of 88% - Whoooo Hooooo! And some of the coupons I used came from Dabs Forms (who you recommended to us) and some of them were from the Frusion contest you clued us into!
Freelancer, FAYE

****FAYE WILL ALSO SEND YOU A PACKET OF COUPONS TO GET YA STARTED! WITH YOUR ORDER**********

ANJIE REVIEW:

The first thing that I noticed about the binder is the quality! it is BUILT TOUGH for long time usage and to use often! IT IS MUCH MORE BEAUTIFUL than the pictures show, they just don't do it justice!

The pockets are GREAT and I fit into them, scissors, calculator, pen, pad of paper and more! I love the size (fits in a grocery cart perfectly) and the ability to SEE my coupons more easily.

I started transferring coupons from my "old" file into the new one and noticed a few things.

#1 no meat category, not a problem, made my own! the tabs are easily changed to fit your personal needs. I added MEAT, FREE, B1G1F categories

#2 the pockets are SMALL (baseball card size) and many of my coupons are large, so I quickly learned that I could take a utility knife and separate the glued dividers to make them larger (wider) now this fits my personal needs better but doesn't allow as many spaces to fit as many, faye recommends folding your coupons, I personally prefer the larger size pockets I can fit multiples in there much better, see front and back and the exp. date too. This was easy to do and HANDY DANDY too!

#3 LOVE THE DENIM and love the butterflies, GREAT QUALITY & no spilling coupons EVA EVA EVA again with the full zipper!

#4 USING THE BINDER was a great experience, easy to carry, easy to see, easy to organize

#5 EASILY ADAPTS to your own needs! while shopping I am constantly looking for unadvertised savings and SMP to add to the newsletter, I keep a pad and pen with me, usually this is in ADDITION to my coupon box, with this organizer It is ALL IN ONE! LOVE THIS! my scissors, for the deal where you buy a product get a product on package to REDO in one trip , another purchase, how many times have I wished that i had scissors? 10000's of times, with this organizer it is ALL IN ONE right there with me! Added ADDY LABELS to the binder too, just in case there was a coupon doubling as a contest, easily slap on a label from your organizer!

#6 ON THE GO.......... easy to transport, fits anywhere in your car without intrusion or worry! EASY to grab and go, and LARGE ENUFF to not forget in the store! I go to several stores on my monthly run and keeping the rec'ts is imperative, I put all of my rec'ts in the back pocket and they were easy to retrieve when filling out my rebates when I got home!

#7 IDEA for the binder: I think I am going to look for those bookbag tags to hook one on my zipper that I can add my NAME AND ADDY to ....... I also needed to have some business cards with me, I think they sell those business card, 3 ring binder inserts so that would be a welcome addition for me

#8 AT THE STORE, easy to see, plan & use this system, I moved my "using" coupons to front pocket so when I was at checkout everything was "neat" and organized, usually I hand them a giant stack, lol that isn't exactly "neat" I am sure they appreciated at check out!

#9 COST....... Faye is selling these binders at a $1.00 discount to freelancers! The $16.99 plus S&H cost is well worth it , based on the savings I encountered from ONE TRIP and the TIME SAVING it is priceless! Of course if you cannot afford the price of this binder you could always make your own
but this one is a VERY GOOD PRICE for the quality of the binder, pages, pockets etc. SHE DOES TAKE PAYPAL and also checks, MAKE SURE YOU LET HER KNOW YOU ARE A FREELANCER if you are going to order to get your discount. I am NOT making money from the sales, so I there is no reason for me to promote for financial gain here, just a great product by a freelancer and for freelancers! :)

UPDATE:
I JUST SPOKE WITH FAYE WHO WANTED ME TO PASS ALONG IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC CATEGORY NEEDS REQUEST THEM and SHE WILL TAILOR TO THAT! ALSO IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC COUPON WANTS FOR YOUR PACKET BY BRAND OR PRODUCT NAME SHE WILL DO HER BEST TO FILL THOSE REQUESTS AS WELL IF YOU LET HER KNOW YOU ARE A FREELANCER!

FAYES BOOK IS SLATED TO BE PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER! STAY TUNED FOR A GOOD READ! :)