http://www.storyofastartup.com The ongoing story of how a hobby site became a successful business narrated by Ryan McKegney Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:31:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We were acquired a couple months back :)  We did a follow up interview here. http://www.storyofastartup.com/?p=101 It's something that we've talked about for a long time, but we finally have a presence in the Francophone market with our new deal site, TrenteSous.ca! With our recently launched US coupon site up and running as well, the only place left for us to tackle in North America is ... http://www.storyofastartup.com/?p=99 Just a quick note, the Future Shop 2009 Boxing Day Flyers, the Best Buy 2009 Boxing Day Flyers and the Dell Boxing Day 2009 flyer have been released into our Boxing Day flyers section! http://www.storyofastartup.com/?p=96 Boxing Day is in full swing at RedFlagDeals.com!  We've started posting the first boxing day flyers! In other news, we've got over 400 coupons now listed on MrsCoupons.com. Busy, busy, busy! http://www.storyofastartup.com/?p=93 One of the benefits of building your own platform is that you can easily adapt it for other projects.  We had that in mind when we built our Coupons platform for RedFlagDeals.com and we've now used it to launch a US coupons site, MrsCoupons.com.  We're going to spend the next ... http://www.storyofastartup.com/?p=89 If you didn't see the press release that went out about a month ago, we've partnered with United Sample to build a Canadian online survey panel.  It's an interesting project for us, because usually we're on the other side of the white label with our various PriceCanada.com co-brands.  We've worked ... http://www.storyofastartup.com/?p=87 Much of what we've been working on over the past few months has been making the various sections of our site more modular and platform based.  For example, we've redone the credit cards comparison section so that it can operate as a white label solution (we added a credit card ... http://www.storyofastartup.com/?p=85 The Future Shop Beat the Clock thread on RedFlagDeals.com isn't a pretty place... basically FS is running a promo where they have a great deal at a specific time that they announce on Twitter.  There are only a few actually in stock at the promo price though and the flood ... http://www.storyofastartup.com/?p=82 A couple of short notes. We've been working with some content partners and have added over 200 GTA restaurant coupons to our Coupons Section.  Worth a look if you're dining out in Toronto. We've decided to focus the RedFlagDeals.com blog on ecommerce news and consumer issues.  We plan to update it more ... http://www.storyofastartup.com/?p=79 The big news today is that we've launched the redesign of our deals for women subsite, Scarlett Lounge.  I'm not directly involved with the project, but I've watched our team work hard over the past several weeks to conceptualize, build, and launch the site.  Congratulations team!  I think the new ... http://www.storyofastartup.com/?p=78