Saving money takes time and sensible planning. As for an online business owner saving money leads to further funds for the business. Brick and mortar shopping and online shopping have their own positives and negatives. With careful research, a shopper can find many deals when combing both brick and mortar and online shopping.
When choosing to shop online or at a brick and mortar store, a customer must start by weighing the pros and cons of each established method of shopping. When shopping online, a consumer is able to browse multiple stores while sitting in his or her pajamas, no driving from store to store, and there is no need to deal with overcrowded stores. When shopping online time is not an issue, browsing online for a pair of shoes might start at three in the morning or five at night. Online shopping brings the global market place directly to a shopper’s front door. Under normal circumstances, the common person would not be able to browse or make purchases from stores in far away international markets.
When shopping online there are piggyback sites that give credit for using them and buying at particular stores. Particularly, there is a site called Ebates. It is a free to use site. When following Ebates links to participating stores and making a purchase, Ebates will send a cash credit back. The credits vary with participating stores, but some may offer 2% up to 10% back. This further increases the discount total. An additional piggyback site called SmartyPig. Smartypig bases its site around saving money, creating goals and keeping the money at a return of 1.00% APY. This is a piggyback site, because when reaching the financial goal the option is to either cash out with a check or load to a gift card based on participating stores. When choosing the gift card option, SmartyPig will add 5 to 10% cash on the card. Again, this further increases the discount.
When researching future purchases a