When I read the title, Best Practices for Coupon Sites, I thought: ooh, I wonder if there’s something in here I don’t know about running a coupon site. I agreed the review this e-book, thinking: hey, if I learn something, great! If I knew everything already, that’s OK, too, but I’ll be able to tell if this book would be good for a new coupon blogger.
Best Practices for Coupon Sites is published by NightFire Publications. It is sold at Amazon.com for Kindle download. According to Amazon, the book is about “Affiliate ABCs hosts Deborah Carney and Vinny O’Hare joined Kim Salvino, Amy Ely, and Jeannine Crooks of buy.at to talk about best practices, tools, and ideas for coupon sites in the affiliate industry.”
What isn’t clear from the description is that this is an (apparently unedited) transcript of a teleconference call. Another thing that isn’t clear from the description is that their definition of a coupon site is different from mine: this book has tips for running an online coupon code site, not a coupon/deal blog. Even from an extended description of the book, it’s hard to tell that this is the focus of the book.
Once I waded through the transcript, I did find some useful information and resources. However, I felt like the information would have been better presented in an edited form where the details and resources were stripped out of the transcript. I would have liked to see some of the quotes from the participants, but I felt like I ended up reading a lot of extra material that did not contribute to my increased knowledge of the topic.
Here is the link to my review
for the Kindle
