Category: Blog News

Blog News: Dealfind’s Yamato Japanese Restaurant deal becomes Calgary’s 2nd Top Selling Deal


Yesterday’s DealFind “$20 for $50 Worth of Sushi and Drinks at Yamato Japanese Restaurant” has become Calgary’s 2nd All-Time Top Selling deal! Yamato Japanese Restaurant sold an incredible 5,123 vouchers in 24 hours on Tuesday, March 22, 2011.

The “Teatro Restaurant – $35 for $80 Worth of Food and Drinks” deal still holds the honor of being the top seller as they sold 6,025 vouchers just a week earlier.

Sushi Motto’s $20 for $50 Worth of Food and Drinks has now dropped to 3rd place on Calgary’s All-Time Top Selling list when they sold 4,112 vouchers.

Based off my records, here is Calgary’s All-Time Most Popular and Top Selling Deals:

1. [DealFind] Teatro Restaurant $35 for $80 Worth of Food – 6,025 vouchers sold
2. [DealFind] Yamato Japanese Restaurant $20 for $50 Worth of Food – 5,123 vouchers sold
3. [DealFind] Sushi Motto $20 for $50 Worth of Food – 4,112 voucher sold
4. [LivingSocial] Bikram Yoga: $20 for 20 Yoga Classes – 3,957 vouchers sold
5. [DealFind] The Hot Yoga Lounge: $20 for 20 20 Yoga Classes – 3,690 vouchers sold.

Congratulations to everyone who got in on the Yamato Japanese Restaurant deal and a special thanks to everyone who clicked and purchased the deal from here! I purchased 5 vouchers myself and can’t wait to use them. Since they sold so many vouchers, it’s probably a good idea to wait a couple weeks and let the crowd die down a bit before trying to use the vouchers. They’re going to be very busy for the next little while and there’s really no rush to use the vouchers since you have a full year to use the voucher. For those of you who missed out on the deal, luckily for you, I bought an extra voucher and will give it away in a draw to a random reader in the near future so stay tuned!
Thanks,
Raymond Lau
Calgary Deals Blog

Blog News: Random Daily Deals Notes – Fujiyama DealFind Deal, Google Offers, TeamBuy Credits Giveaway

Calgary’s All-Time Top Selling Deal Update
Yesterday’s DealFind “Fujiyama Japanese Restaurant” deal was a very hot seller. It ended up selling a total of 3885 vouchers in 24 hours! It was however, not enough to beat out DealFind’s “Sushi Motto” deal which currently hold the title as Calgary’s All-Time Top Selling deal when it sold 4,112 vouchers on December 7. Based off of my records, the Fujiyama Japanese Restaurant deal currently ranks as Calgary’s 3rd Top Selling deal. It’s slightly less then “Bikram Yoga Calgary South – $20 for 20 Yoga Classes” 3,957 vouchers.

Google Offers – Google ‘Deal of the Day’ site coming soon
After Groupon rejected Google’s $6 Billion offer to buy the company, it looks like Google is starting their own Daily Deals of the Day site. They’re calling it ‘Google Offers‘ and they are already in the testing phase. I wonder what Groupon thinks about this. I’ll keep you guys posted and let you know if and when they launch into Calgary.

TeamBuy.ca 4 X $25 Credits Draw Giveaway
In case you missed my post about this yesterday, I’m giving away $25 TeamBuy credits to 4 of my lucky readers. Click here for more information about the free giveaway and how you can enter the draw.

Have a great day everyone!

Regards,

Raymond Lau

RedFlagDeals.com: Launches New Daily Deal of the Day in Calgary today!

RedFlagDeals.com has joined the Daily Deals of the Day revolution and launched their first ever Daily Deal of the Day in Calgary today (Wednesday, January 19, 2011).

RedFlagDeals.com is the leader in providing Canadian shopping information with over 2.2 million monthly unique visitors. Designed with Canadian shoppers in mind, RedFlagDeals.com features daily hot deals news, a popular community bulletin board, a weekly newsletter, comprehensive coupons section, and much more. When Canadian consumers want to buy, they check RedFlagDeals.com first!

RedFlagDeals.com’s first ever daily deal is a ‘$8 for $16 of Food and Beverages at Fats Bar & Grill‘

I haven’t decided if I’ll add and feature all of their daily deals here on the blog yet. I’ll definitely keep a close eye on them and post some of their best and top selling deals. If you’re interested in following their deals, I just added their link to the right-hand side column under the heading “Calgary Deals of the Day” so you can easily follow and keep track of their deals that way.

Click here to visit RedFlagDeals Deals of the Day site or for more information about their daily deals.

Press the “Like button” at the top of this post if you like this deal.

FREE DRAW: 20 Class Pass to The Hot Yoga Lounge Winner Announcement


FREE DRAW: 20 Yoga Class Pass to The Hot Yoga Lounge ($240 Value)  Winner Announcement!

Congratulations Christy N!

We randomly selected your name out of our database of email subscribers, Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers! Please check your email inbox for the voucher! Thanks again for supporting Calgary Deals Blog and enjoy the free the 20 Class Pass to The Hot Yoga Lounge located in Hotel Arts!

All “Christy N” had to do to enter the draw was simply subscribe to our Daily Deals Mailing List, become a Facebook Fan or Follow Us on Twitter. All active subscribers will be automatically entered into all of our draws and contests. For those unfamiliar with our mailing list, we send out one daily email featuring the latest deals posted on the blog in a clean and easy to follow format so you can stay on top of all the deals and never miss out on a deal.

Click here to subscribe to our Daily Mailing list (if you haven’t already done so) and ensure you’re automatically qualified into all future giveaway draws.

In case you weren’t aware of the Free Draw, click here for more details.

I’ve got a lot of other free giveaway draws and great prizes coming in the near future so stay tuned!
Regards,
Raymond Lau
Calgary Deals Blog

FREE DRAW Reminder: Win a "20 Class Pass to Hot Yoga Lounge ($240 Value)" on January 5 from Calgary Deals Blog!

FREE GIVEAWAY DRAW Reminder: 20 Yoga Class Pass to The Hot Yoga Lounge ($240 Value) on January 5, 2011 at 8pm.

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and a happy new year! I originally posted about this free giveaway draw a couple weeks ago. Here it is again for those that have yet to enter and qualify for the draw. I will be making the draw tomorrow evening (January 5, 2011 at 8pm) where I’ll randomly pick one lucky reader’s name from our database who will win a free ’20 Class Pass Voucher to The Hot Yoga Lounge located in Hotel Arts ($240 Value)’.  This could come in very handy if your New Years Resolution includes getting fit and losing weight.

To qualify for the free draw, all you have to do is sign-up for our Daily Deals Mealing List. Once you do, you’ll be automatically entered into all future draws and giveaways. If you have already registered, click here to read my original post on how you can get up to 3 Bonus Entries into the draw and dramatically increase your chances of winning!

Click here for more information about the the draw and about the voucher that I’ll be giving away.

Good luck everyone and thanks again for reading and supporting Calgary Deals Blog! I’ve got a lot of other free draws and great prizes coming in the near future so stay tuned!

Regards,

Raymond Lau
Calgary Deals Blog
www.calgarydealsblog.com

Happy New Year from Calgary Deals Blog

Happy New Years everyone!

I would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous new year! Thanks for helping make 2010 such a great year for Calgary Deals Blog. Thanks to your support, we’ve been able to grow very quickly in a short period of time. I have some exciting news and a lot of free giveaways coming soon so stay tuned!

Thanks for reading and supporting Calgary Deals Blog!

Regards,

Raymond Lau

Calgary Deals Blog was on Global Calgary News!

Tony Tighe and Global Calgary News just aired a news clip about how popular collective buying sites are in Calgary. They mentioned DealFind, Groupon, LivingSocial and Calgary Deals Blog! They interviewed Elka Spencer (one of our email subscribers) and showed her reading a daily email of the deals and her surfing on Calgary Deals Blog! New’s anchor Linda Olsen then gives the Calgary Deals Blog a shout-out at the end and tells their viewers to go to the Global Calgary News website to get the links to our blog. There’s two links on the Global News website linking to the Calgary Deals Blog. The links can be found here and here.

The news clip was very well done. It was informative and well researched. It was great to see them talking about how amazing the sales are on these daily deals sites and how it has changed the way people shop for deals. The Calgary Deals Blog makes it very easy for you to buy and take advantage of all the great deals by finding and featuring the best collective buying sites and shopping sales in Calgary. The blog’s traffic has spiked liked crazy ever since it was on TV and we’ve had a ton of new email subscribers (Welcome to Calgary Deals Blog everyone!)

It was a very nice surprise to watch the news today and see them talking about the blog. I wasn’t expecting it. As soon as it aired on TV, I quickly jumped on the computer and re-watched it about 10 more times before I emailed the video to all my friends and family 🙂

In case you missed it, here’s the video clip:

Click here to watch the news clip directly on Global Calgary News website (larger and higher quality).

Thanks for the support Global Calgary News! You rock!

Blog News: Dealfind’s Sushi Motto deal becomes Calgary’s New Top Selling Deal



Sushi Motto is Calgary’s New All-Time Top Selling Deal!
Based off of my records, I believe yesterday’s DealFind “Sushi Motto- $20 for $50 Worth of Food and Drinks” deal is the new Top Selling Deal in Calgary! Within a 24 hour time frame, Sushi Motto sold 4,112 vouchers! This just beat out LivingSocial’s “Bikram Yoga Calgary South – $20 for 20 Yoga Classes” deal who sold 3,957 vouchers and DealFind’s “The Hot Yoga Lounge -$20 for 20 Yoga Classes” deal which sold 3,690 vouchers!

Congratulations to everyone who got in on the deal and a special thanks to everyone who clicked and purchased the deal from here! I purchased 5 vouchers myself and can’t wait to use them. Since they sold so many vouchers, it’s probably a good idea to wait a couple weeks and let the crowd die down a bit before trying to use the vouchers. They’re going to be very busy for the next little while and there’s really no rush to use the vouchers since it’ll never expire. For those of you who missed out on the deal, luckily for you, I bought an extra voucher and will give it away in a draw to a random reader in the near future so stay tuned!

In the meantime, don’t forget about our current draw for a Free “$40 Dinner Voucher to the Metropolitan Grill Restaurant.” I’ll draw a random reader this Sunday. All you have to do to enter the draw is subscribe to our Daily Deals Newsletter. If you’re already a subscriber, you’re automatically entered into all of our draws. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can click here to sign up now.

Thanks,

Raymond Lau
Calgary Deals Blog