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Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

The Natural Hair Academy - social media education deals

The Natural Hair Academy

Like Facebook, Appsumo, and Udemy for women with natural hair
We are a social network and online resource for women with natural hair. We make natural hair easy by focusing on customizing your hair care, supporting you with a large community of similar women, and educating you about hair care with high quality online courses ...

Cardley - payments coupons loyalty programs deals

Cardley

Automated loyalty + customer acquisition tracked via payment data
Cardley is an automated marketing tool that helps merchants increase customer loyalty. Customers sign up by swiping their existing payment card in store. From there, we use their payment data to automatically track progress toward loyalty rewards. Cardley helps ...

Deal Umpire - marketplaces small and medium businesses deals disruptive models

Deal Umpire

Lending Tree for Daily Deals - Increases transparency and power for merchants
"Deal Umpire is not a deal site, not an aggregator, it's different." Deal Umpire puts power back into the hands of merchants by providing transparency into the offerings of daily deal sites. DU is an auction platform where merchants post a deal and the deal sites ...

Generous Deals - e-commerce ventures for good social commerce deals

Generous Deals

VERY productive, no cost, passive fundraising service giving consumers sweet deals
Generous Deals is a daily deal online fundraising platform. We partner up with charity and non-profit organizations to help them with their fundraising efforts. We use the daily deal model to provide charities and non-profits with a fundraising vehicle while ...

Dealavue - deals

Dealavue

A game changer in the deal space.
Launched in Jan 2011, Dealavue.com, a Chicago-based deal site is the fastest growing company in its space. Dealavue.com links consumers with nearby businesses and professional services to make it easier and faster to find savings located directly around them. Dealavue.com ...

Drink Deck Destination Guides - sales and marketing restaurants deals travel & tourism

Drink Deck Destination Guides

A destination guide for foodies & bar enthusiasts.
Drink Deck is a discount & travel guide cleverly designed as a deck of playing cards. Each card in the deck represents a different bar scene representing a curated list of the best food, drink and entertainment establishments in Chicago, IL; Portland, OR or New ...

DealTracker - e-commerce local local coupons deals

DealTracker

Relevant daily deal aggregation; done right.
With hundreds of daily deals offered every day, it's easy to get lost searching for the perfect deal. With DealTracker, tracking your favorite online deals has never been easier! We aim to find and gather all the greatest daily deals available, and display them ...

Lowcost Email cheap flights alerts

NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

My Personal Shopper - consumer internet e-commerce deals shopping

My Personal Shopper

Scalable Personal Shopper
Do you use Groupon or Living Social? Do they send you a ton of emails about stuff you don't want? We wanted a site that would only show people discounts on the things actually care about. When users register they get a personalized store that pulls in all the ...

Liive - music reviews and recommendations deals concerts

Liive

Interactive Concert App for Fans & Artists
Our app lets you interact with artists and friends at concerts. Get exclusive deals, share media, connect with similar users and much more!

Dealster - marketplaces social commerce deals local businesses

Dealster

The Deal Marketplace
For Consumers, Dealster is a one stop source for local offers, online deals, and other in-demand deal verticals. For merchants, Dealster is Merchant Platform that allows them to acquire new consumers, rekindle old ones, and manage their online marketing promotions ...

Groupon - retail deals discounts travel

Groupon

Daily Deals. Delivered.
Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in 45 countries, and soon beyond (read: Space). We have about 10,000 employees working across our Chicago headquarters, a growing office in Seattle and Palo Alto, CA, local markets throughout ...

Blackmark-it - e-commerce small and medium businesses deals african american

Blackmark-it

African American Groupon
Blackmark-it is a new deal site exclusively featuring black owned businesses in the Chicago area. We provide attainable advertising to small businesses and attractive discounts to shoppers. Our business model has reconstructed the formula of larger deal sites by ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

MobManager - retail technology deals

MobManager

A google analytics for daily deals.
Mob Manager is a Software-as-a-Service platform that helps small businesses manage daily deal (or “group buying”) campaigns by providing tools and services to process the influx of daily deal customers. Mob Manager’s customer loyalty platform enable business owners ...

Dealavue - e-commerce social commerce deals

Dealavue

A game changer in Groupons own back-yard!
Dealavue is a progressive digital marketing company that offers consumers major discounts on useful things consumers want to do, buy or experience. Unlike the competition, Dealavue does not base its model on a daily deal but rather builds on the concept of a daily ...

BowFix - automotive marketplaces bridging online and offline deals

BowFix

OpenTable for vehicle service
"What is BowFix?" OpenTable for vehicle repair. An online booking and deal network that connects traditional vehicle service providers to financially-minded, eco-conscious consumers. For Consumers: One-stop vehicle maintenance & repair Crowdsource ratings & referrals ...

Cityposh - local auctions deals

Cityposh

Brand advertising using casual social gaming
Cityposh, a Y Combinator funded startup, is a new way of advertising using branded games to deliver orders of magnitude higher engagement.

DealsGoRound - mobile marketplaces coupons deals

DealsGoRound

StubHub for daily deals.
DealsGoRound was a secondary market connecting millions of daily deal consumers to facilitated the purchase, re-sale and trade of vouchers including Groupon, LivingSocial and Google Offers via web and mobile. Our Deal Wallet was an industry leading product which ...

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