Other than food, I probably order everything online. Us techs always try to find the best deals. In this article I will be explaining some quick tips to finding what you need, for cheap. First, lets start it off with some general links to coupons/deals.

Popular:

• Google Product Search – Our first stop most of the time.
• RetailMeNot – Where we find quite a bit of coupons.
• Slickdeals – Very popular deal finding website.
• Pricewatch – Know your product? Search for it here too.

Now lets do an example. One of our customers wanted us to purchase Quicken Deluxe 2010 for them and install it on their laptop. Our first stop was to Google Product Search.

1) Goto Google.com
2) Click on “Shopping” at the top left (Or Click Here)
3) Search for your item (Here we will be typing in Quicken Deluxe 2010)

Wallah! Cheaper than heading down to the store. The bad part is, your going to have to possibly pay for shipping and wait for the item. The customer needed it the same day. Since Quicken has a download from the website, we had to purchase it there. This is where the coupon comes in handy!

1) Head to RetailMeNot.com
2) In the search box above, enter the website your purchasing from. (Ours was “quicken.intuit.com”)
2) Search bellow for the matching product. (We clicked on “CLICK HERE TO CLAIM” $20 off)

There we go, saved the customer $20 on the product with a couple clicks. Depending on your coupon… You might either have a code to type near the product checkout screen from the website your purchasing from, or a link you clicked from RetailMeNot that Redirected you to the website with the coupon applied automatically.

Sometimes RetailMeNot might not have a coupon for your product, so we just do a Google search instead. Example: “Quicken Deluxe 2010 Coupon”. When searching for coupons: Try not to go past the first couple pages on google. Don’t download and install anything. If it’s too good to be true, probably is.

Another thing to look at is deals. I gave a couple links above (Pricewatch & Slickdeals) where you can browse for some cheap deals. Most of the information is submitted by people like you, and confirmed the same way. I may choose to update this article at a later time with more websites, but this should get you started!