Wizbang
Best Practices to Maximize Your Listing

Wizbee Cares – and so can you
We’ve mentioned the importance of reviews in online shoppers’ decision to purchase a product or service. And Wizbee.com has always offered the option for your customers to leave you a one- to five-star review on your Wizbee.com listing. Now, it’s even more important to ask everyone to leave a review.

At the top of every page, you’ll see the Wizbee Cares logo; click and you’ll find that for every review posted during the month of December Wizbee and 15 other businesses will each donate five cents to Pikes Peak United Way. That’s a total of 80 cents donated for every review! So get online and take a few minutes to leave reviews for the Wizbee.com businesses you’ve had experience with. Time is limited to make a big difference and it couldn’t be simpler. Do it today!

How can I leave a review?
First, be sure you’re signed in. Then, find the Wizbee.com listing you wish to review. Click all the way through to their page, then click the 'leave a review' tab within a merchant's business description to rate a company based on a 5 star rating and type your written review. Don’t forget to click the appropriate star! 

How can my business get involved?
Our goal is to reach $1 per review so we just need four more businesses to be willing to donate five cents per review. If you’d like to be a part of the Wizbee Cares program, send an email to info@wizbee.com.

Get on board the Deals page!
Now it’s easier than ever to find deals on Wizbee.com. Visit any page on the site, and you’ll see a new “Deals” button on the main navigation bar, in green right beneath the Wizbee. Click on it and you’ll go to a brand new page that lists all the categories offering any deals. Click on any category – for instance “Painting” – and you’ll see all of the Wizbee.com businesses offering deal within that category.

If you don’t have your deal up yet, now is the time! Particularly with the holidays in full swing and the tax return season coming up, people will be planning where to spend to get the best deal. So get your highly searchable great deals up now!

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Where’s Wizbee?
Wizbee.com Marketing News

 Wizbee’s Wired!
While you’ve probably seen Wizbee.com’s TV commercials, heard radio spots, and caught billboards and other outdoor ads, we’re also on the Internet. In fact, President Ryan Unseth says Wizbee.com was recently indexed on all of the major search engines and the search engine traffic to our website has increased by 400 percent.” In addition to being prominently featured on KKTV.com , The Wizbee Word blog is also submitted to online content aggregator Digg.com and you can follow Wizbee on Twitter. Finally, be sure to search for Wizbee on Facebook and become a fan – like our Twitter followers, you’ll receive regular notices of deals on the site, as they’re available! You can invite local friends to join the Wizbee.com’s Facebook Fan Page and to follow us on Twitter too. 

Where’s Wizbee?

• 33 restaurants
• 20 bus benches
• 13 radio stations
  
• 6 billboards
• 3 websites
• 2 social networking sites
  
• 1 television station

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Wizbee.com Winners
Spotlight on successful Wizbee.com listings

Steaksmith shows Wizbee businesses how it’s done
If you want to find the model for how to successfully maximize your Wizbee.com listing, look no further than Steaksmith. The steakhouse has 11 reviews (and counting), photos and four different deals. And, according to a spokesperson, business has increased by 10 percent since listing on Wizbee. In November alone, after emailing out a link to their Wizbee Deals page, the page received over 240 views! And, in a single day, over four coupons were brought through the door.

Wizbee.com works! Just ask Steaksmith.

Wizbee now has 179 listings!

 
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Wizdom
Rotating Topic of Interest to Core Wizbee.com Businesses

The Frugal Company Christmas Party
This year we could all really use a good party. And, for companies, hosting the annual event doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Here are eight ways to save and spread cheer.

• Hold it on-site – If you have the space, this will offer the biggest savings of the entire budget. There will be time enough in the future for the offsite venue.
• Send Evites – Skip the time and expense of printing formal invitations; there are numerous options for sending – and tracking RSVPs – using email.
• Serve a buffet – This dining option is always less expensive than a sit-down meal. You could opt for a hot and cold mix, which saves even more.
• Buy libations in bulk – Whether it’s a keg or a case, purchasing spirits in quantity will save money.
• Pre-record music – Rent a decent sound system – sans DJ – and pre-record an hours long party mix on an ipod for continuous holiday atmosphere. You might even consider a Karaoke machine.
• Make simple table decorations – Buy votives or pillar candles from the craft store, and visit your local Christmas tree lot for evergreen clippings. Arrange together on each table and, viola, you have simple, elegant décor.
• Do gift drawings – Rather than purchase gifts for every attendee, have everyone place their business cards in a bowl and raffle off two or three more exceptional gifts – it will create excitement and be more appreciated than a lesser gift for everyone.
• Play games – You can find plenty online, like “Employee Trivia”; give simple prizes such as the most desired parking space for a month.

The important thing this year is to let employees know you care by giving them a fun – not over the top – time. No doubt they’d rather have a scaled back party than a blowout that could jeopardize your bottom line.