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This is my final posting for Smarter.com as my last day in the office is this Wed, November 26th! I have enjoyed writing this weekly newsletter and getting the responses back from you as well!

I want to take this opportunity to thank those of you who have opened accounts thru me in the past for your partnership with Smarter.com – I wish you continued success in your relationship with Smarter as well as great success with your online business overall!

For those of you who still haven’t begun an account with Smarter, I’d love for you to open your account with me this week! In fact, I wasn’t planning this, but as a farewell offer, if you sign-up a new account before 3pm tomorrow, I will extend our $50 in bonus-clicks offer to you! I’ll be sure your account is credited as soon as you let me know that you’ve completed the registration process here:

https://sam.smarter.com/register/sign_up_step_1.php

I’m starting my own boutique marketing agency, so if you’d like to stay in-touch, please feel free to request to link with me (Georgia Sanders) thru LinkedIn. For information about beginning an account with Smarter after the 26th, please feel free to contact Melissa Rivero at mrivero@mezimedia.com. She is the newest addition to the Smarter sales team and will be happy to help you!

How’s your Halloween marketing going? Great I hope! On Smarter.com we have a homepage feature called, “What’s Hot” - so, if you haven’t seen it yet, please check out some of the best Halloween decorating buys and creative costumes online by visiting this area of Smarter! This is what our “What’s Hot” Halloween area looks like from our homepage:

Only a week and a half until November!

I hope you’ve been able to visit and download the Holiday Survival Kit that I gave out the link to awhile back! If anyone missed it, it’s an annual guide put out by National Retail Federation and its full of great information and tips for maximizing your site’s potential during the holidays! You can find this kit for free downloading at the NRF “Holiday Headquarters” here:

Click here to find the full Holiday Headquarters report for downloading!                                                                                 

Also available on the NRF site is the latest Holiday Shopper survey, if you haven’t seen it yet!

2008 Holiday Consumer Spending Survey

Smarter.com is looking forward to working with you for the holidays! In fact, as a little pre-holiday gift (for those of you that have read this far!) I am offering an incentive to any account that signs up before noon on Oct. 31st! We’ll be having our office Halloween party that day, so make sure your account is in-place before noon and I’ll credit you with $50 in bonus clicks! Here is our account sign-up link!:

Sign Up Here to Begin a Smarter.com Account!

No Trick, just Treat!

Every so often I am authorized to offer a special “$50 in bonus-clicks” sign-up offer!

In honor of Memorial Day, this is your week! If you have been thinking about opening an account with Smarter.com, there is no better time to do so. To take advantage of our limited-time offer, just complete our online sign-up process before May 31st here:

Register for a Smarter.com account today!

Once you have received your auto-generated confirmation email from us, send me a quick note and let me know that your account is in-place! As soon as I verify the account I will authorize the bonus-clicks to be added to your deposit! It’s that simple!

Remember, our minimum deposit is only $100, so if you deposit $100 and we add $50, you will have $150. in clicks to give Smarter.com a try! It’s so easy and to-boot, we also can take feeds that have been designed for other major online sites and can use them to populate Smarter with your products!

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Also!

Don’t forget, if you’re going to Internet Retailer ’08 let me know! It’s coming right up, (June 9th – 12th). Smarter.com will be displaying at booth #1014, so I want to invite you to stop by and say hello! My booth schedule will be 2 to 7pm on Tues, the 9th and 9 to 1pm on Wed, the 10th. For more information about the upcoming Internet Retailer conference, click here:

http://www.internetretailer.com/IRCE2008

 Happy Spring!

If you’re in Southern California as we are, you’ll know that we are enjoying beautiful spring weather – I think it was a very nice 80˚ yesterday for Easter Sunday : ) I hope you enjoyed a beautiful day as well!

Continuing on from last week’s newsletter where I wrote about our new Ad Deck Display Advertising opportunities, now it’s on to our Blogs, Videos & Coupon Sponsorships. All three of these areas are located on our Homepage: http://blogs.smarter.com/official/wp-admin/www.smarter.com

For our Blogs, there are six separate blogs to choose posting sponsorship from, all written by our own blogging staff:

Fashion
Sports
Home & Garden
Gadgets
Beauty
Babies & Kids

With this sponsorship, you are free to give direction toward a product or event that our writers will include in their post.

Our Videos present an awesome opportunity since our merchants are free to submit their own videos that they have created themselves! These videos will display for an entire month on our Homepage and merchants are free to change them out up to once-a-week during that period. Please give me a ring if you’d like pricing and specs for this area.

Our Homepage Coupon area is also available for month-long blocks, with the option to change out the coupon up to once-a-week. This area provides a great way to call attention to your stores special offers as well as to highlight up to six different categories that your products appear in on Smarter!

Remember, several of these areas for sponsorship are four weeks of advertising time, so beginning April 1st, we’ll be taking bookings thru the end of ’08. Now is the time to plan ahead for your Twice-Yearly Sale, Back-to-School event or Holiday Special! Once the dates on the calendar are reserved, they will no longer be available.

I look forward to hearing from you soon, please feel free to email me at the addy on this page!

Image Source: (Daily Mail Online)