Bargain Babe turns one month old on Thursday! I am celebrating the 1,451 subscribers who signed up by setting a goal of helping twice as many people save money next month. Please help me find my next 1,451 readers!
How: tell your friends to sign up for free Bargain Babe Email updates at http://www.bargainbabe.com/email-updates-and-rss/
Why: because you think my tips are fabulous
Also: because you want to pay me back for all the money I have saved you (if I haven’t you are excused now)
And: because I am giving out two $25 Starbucks gift cards, one to an existing reader and one to a reader who signs up in the next four weeks! The two readers will be selected at random among the emails subscribed in four weeks.
Here is a sample email you can send:
Hi —friend name—,
A blog I read called BargainBabe.com is giving away $25 Starbucks gift cards to readers who sign up to receive emails about the latest deals. It’s free and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Bargain Babe has saved me money and is fun to read. By signing up you are automatically entered to win a $25 Starbucks gift certificate. Sign up at http://www.bargainbabe.com/email-updates-and-rss/
Thanks!
Your friend
Welcome to Bargain Babe! I’m Mara, and I’m so glad you’re here. I am an obsessive bargain hunter and penny pincher, and I am determined to live a full life without EVER paying full price. 
Julia, I just signed up. That Feedblitz looks like a pretty good service.
You’ve definitely got a lot of good elements at work in this blog: you’re using WordPress’ Pages feature, you have AdSense and Sitemeter, and you’ve got Facebook and Twitter hooked up.
How do you do the Top 5 page? Is that a WP plugin?
Thanks for signing up Steve! I hope you will ask your friends and family to do the same. Who doesn’t love Starbucks? For the top 5 page we use a widget called Popularity Contest. I believe it’s version 1.3b3. Are you looking for something similar for your site?
It’s SO_CAL_RETAIL_SLUT here.
We’ve been slutting around Seatlle and Bainbridge Island the last three weeks or so….I know in February no less, but the weather has not ben so bad..no snow unlike December when Seattle had the BIG snowstorm.
Talking about Seattle, did you buy the gift cards from Costco to take advantage of the 20% percent discount? Please tell me you did, then you are the REAL Bargain Babe…lol
Ironically, my hubby has been working on a project indirectly related to Costco and their executive offices in Issaquah. I expected a Costco-like warehouse type building as their corporate offices, and was simply stunned by the beauty, scope and size of their campus.
Costco being Costco even has one of their stores next to their corporate campus.
Talking about Vons, here in Seattle, Vons parent company Safeway has also been busy promoting some real hot deals on several price-impact items, so much so they are plastering the entrance door with several of these “Hot Buys” as you walk-in.
Kroger owned Ralphs and it’s two sisters here QFC (more like the old Hughes in Los Angeles) and Fred Meyer (Freddy’s, similar to a nicer Wal-Mart Supercenter) have also been promoting the hell out of several feature items.
As far as overall pricing, as compared to hyper-competitve Los Angeles, grocery pricing is higher here in Seattle.
Gas is comparable to Los Angeles, anywhere from 2.13 to 2.25 per gallon, depending on neighborhood.
Airfares have been the real bargain! $59.00 one-way for non-stop flights out of LAX on Alaska, United Express and Virgin America. I haven’t seen fares like this since the early 1990’s!
SO_CAL_RETAIL_SLUT in Seattle
Welcome back SCRS! I was wondering what happened to you. Thanks for joining me at Bargain Babe and sharing your two cents. You are right, the flights are amazing to Seattle right now. Enjoy the rest of your trip, and hope you will check back frequently. Don’t forget to sign up for my free email updates for a chance to win a $25 Starbucks card (and yes, I will buy them at Costco.) Join at http://www.bargainbabe.com/email-updates-and-rss/
Hi, we just signed up with Google Reader. Keep up the great work,
ross and taya
Hello, I just signed up. Looks great, this blog. $25 Starbucks card – I would love. Thanks so much.
Hi, I just signed up for the updates. Would love to win the $25 card.
I just signed up…can’t wait for more posts!
I cant figure out how to send you emails of people who will subscribe to Bargain Babe and at the same time get eligible to win the “Win a Starbucks card in Bargain Babe’s email subscriber drive” – please email me directions. There should be a “button” one can press to go directly to this function, am I missing it?
Thanks,
Marie
Marie, if you have friends who want to sign up that’s great! Please ask them to sign up at http://www.bargainbabe.com/email-updates-and-rss/
Or, your friends can email me a request to sign up at julia@bargainbabe.com. But it is easiest if they sign up themselves. Thanks for helping me spread the word!
nice web log, wonderfull blog.
I just signed up through Google. Thanks for the chance.
Internet marketing is really a great way of promoting a website. I found good results when I started internet marketing my website.
is this still open? i so want to join. my birthday is in three days and it’ll be such a good birthday present if i win this contest. replay back asap! thanks. :]