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Posts Tagged ‘shopping’
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
 So… what is Lifest? Beginning in 1999, Lifest has grown into a 5-day festival that features both music and ministry. This year’s Lifest features over 60 music artists including Skillet, Newsboys, Superchick and more! Not only will you hear great music and speakers, you can also participate in the many activities that are offered. Lifest truly is so much more than a music festival; it’s a place to reconnect with old friends and meet new friends.
Even though RTownShopper.com is already sold out of Lifest tickets, they’re still available at the Lifest website. And if you can’t buy tickets, volunteer! All you have to do is apply online. A 4.5 hour shift will get you access to the entire event. And when you’re in Oshkosh for Lifest, RTownShopper.com is a great resource to get discount restaurant gift certificates or even find a place to stay with our discount lodging gift certificates.
At RTownShopper.com, we love our customers and in turn we want our customers to love our site. Our customers come back time and time again for the amazing deals we offer. You can find so many incredible deals ranging from discount festival tickets to discount dining gift certificates to discount hotel gift certificates. RTownShopper.com is where you can get more bang for your buck by saving 50% off at hotels, restaurants, golf courses, salons and more.
Tags: Activities, discount, discount dining, discount family activities, discount gift certificates, discount offer, discount restaurant coupons, golf courses, hotels, kids activities, Lifest, local, Oshkosh, Recreation, restaurant coupons, Restaurants, salons, shopping, Wisconsin
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
A phrase we live by at RTownShopper.com is “Everything in moderation.” It seems to hold true for the businesses we work with as well as the consumers that shop on our site. At RTownShopper.com, “Everything in moderation” serves a dual purpose:
- To give you, (our customers) more discount gift certificates to choose from.
- To allow the businesses who participate on our site the opportunity to moderate the extreme discounts used to garner new customers.
When researching other discount certificate sites, we found that featuring one discount certificate a day created many problems for the business as well as the consumer. Imagine yourself as the owner of a nail salon and you employ 2 other estheticians. To drum up some business, you decide to sign up with a company that features your services, a manicure/pedicure on their site for $30 – normally priced at $60. Your company is the only feature for 24 hours. Within 24 hours, 2,000 people buy a discount gift certificate to your salon. That same day, one of your two employees has to cancel her afternoon appointments just to answer the phone. Nine hundred people call  that afternoon, many complaining that the line was busy for hours. You now find yourself overbooked and understaffed with half of your profit from the 2,000 certificates sold going to the service you used to promote this discount.
Over the next few weeks, customers complain because the service they receive is lacking. Your employees are overbooked and rushed which leads to an unfavorable costumer experience. Within a month, you have collected most of the discount gift certificates and business is starting to slow down. One of your employees comes across your Yelp.com reviews and there are over 150 from the past month, most of them unfavorable because of the rushed services your employees had to provide.
At RTownShopper.com, we want to give businesses more than just 15 minutes of fame. Most small businesses do not have the capacity to handle a major increase of customers in a short period of time. If that is the case, it will reflect negatively on your business and sour the experience for the customer. We want your customers to be happy and that’s why we offer many different discount gift certificates everyday on our site!
Tags: business owner, businesses, coupons, customer, discount, discount certificates, discount coupons, discount gift certificates, Health and beauty discounts, shopping, Wisconsin
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Shopping at your town’s locally owned stores is something that just isn’t done by many people today, at least not on a regular basis. We, as Americans, like to go to our huge chain stores, where we can find everything we need, with one stop shopping and what appears to be lower prices. But what is this really doing for our community, and how are we really helping out our locally owned businesses?
Local businesses are crucial to the survival of our economy. On average, local businesses give back to their community 80% of each dollar, fueling growth and connectivity. They also employ about half of all our nation’s workers. Not only that, local businesses give more to the national economy than the big chain stores do, simply by way of the “trickle down effect.” When we shop locally, most of that money comes back to the community, which then trickles up to the national providers. Therefore, if we want our local and national environment to thrive, shopping locally is the way to go.
There is a program out there, called the 3/50 project, (check it out at www.the350project.net) that is all about supporting our local businesses. Plain and simple, it says that if we start spending more money at our own brick and mortar stores, good things will happen. RTownShopper does it’s own part to support the local mom and pop shops we all love. RTownShopper deals in what they call discount gift certificates. The local business gives these to RTownShopper to sell. This in itself is what the local business is charged for being on RTownShopper’s site. They work with the age old system of barter. No actual money ever exchanges hands between RTownShopper and the local business. When RTownShopper sells these gift certificates, which are at least 50% cheaper than average coupons, this brings in new clients, as well as revenue, to the store. RTownShopper also lets you print these gift certificates, instead of mailing them, which adds the incentive of efficiency to shopping local. Check out RTownShopper’s site to learn more about them.
So the next time you are looking for a good restaurants, retail stores, or hotels remember to support your community, and to always check out www.rtownshopper.com, because going local is the best way to go.
Tags: businesses, discounts, hotels, local, Restaurants, shopping
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
One of Northeast Wisconsin’s outdoor gems is the WIOUWASH State Trail. Formerly a path of railroad ties and steel tracks, it has been transformed into a booming recreational trail named after the four Northeast Wisconsin counties it connects – Winnebago, Outagamie, Waupaca and Shawano.
The rural path runs through state wildlife areas, traverses tall grass prairies and crosses over multiple rivers. It is completely free to use and is popular for hiking, biking, and snowshoeing as well as horseback riding in the summer and snowmobiling in the winter.
The trail is separated into two sections and is just over 45 miles in total length with numerous places for visitors to park the car and jump on. The first section extends 22 miles from Oshkosh to Hortonville, passing by Neenah and Appleton. The south trailhead of this section starts near downtown Oshkosh where trail-goers can meet outside of the local boutiques, restaurants and salons to plan their adventure.
The second section takes WIOUWASH visitors from Aniwa to Split Rock and intersects the Mountain-Bay Trail which starts in Green Bay and moves west to Wausau. This 23-mile section crosses Shawano county and the communities Birnamwood, Eland, Wittenberg and Tigerton. The trail doesn’t stray far from State Highway 45 making it simple to get there and back.
When a break is needed from the hustle and bustle of the big city, a day trip on the quiet and picturesque WIOUWASH trail is a perfect fit. The nearly 50 miles of gravel path is always minutes from a place to rest or lodge and a restaurant to eat at, and RTownShopper has discounted gift certificates to keep it well under budget.
Tags: local, Northeast Wiscon, Recreation, shopping, Travel
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
In Northeast Wisconsin there is nothing like starting a sunny Saturday summer morning at the local famers market. A tradition that brings communities closer, the farmers market is the place to get fresh produce, fine meats, and fun knickknacks and crafts from your rural neighbors. With limited family budgets, shopping at a farmers market keeps your costs down while supporting your local community.
It doesn’t matter where you reside you can bet that you’ll be welcomed by friendly faces at any of Northeast Wisconsin’s farmers markets and you’ll probably be amazed at how unique each market’s atmosphere and offerings are.
Below is a listing of farmers markets in Northeast Wisconsin for you to plan a little adventure for the family and by picking a different location to visit throughout the summer. This will create opportunities to learn about new places and let you find items exclusive to that market. Also, before the plans are final, be sure to check RTownShopper’s discount gift certificates for things to do in the area.
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Algoma
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Legion Park
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Appleton
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College Ave. from Appleton St. to Durkee St. & Houdini Plaza
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Brillion
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Main St. Square
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Denmark
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Behind village offices, Main St.
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Door County
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Market Square (Michigan and 4th) in Sturgeon Bay
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Fond du Lac
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Western Ave. & Linden St.
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Green Bay
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Downtown on the parking lot just east of Monroe Ave.
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Kaukauna
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Parking lot located behind Second Street Shops
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Kewaunee
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Downtown on Highway 42, near harbor
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Manitowoc
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Eighth & Quay Streets
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Menasha
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Main Street
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Neenah
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Bank One parking lot Wisconsin & Commercial
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Oshkosh
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City Hall parking lot, 215 Church Ave.
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Shawano
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City Hall parking lot off Sawyer St.
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Two Rivers
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1710 W. Park St.
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Waupaca
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Public Square, East Fulton St.
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