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How do I use my own custom website address?

by startagroupbuy on February 22, 2012

One of the very first things new customers want to do is setup their own website address. After all, who wants to use a generic web address, right? Even though we give you a website address that looks like http://sitename.startagroupbuy.com, it doesn’t look too professional. In this video, we show you how easy it is [...]

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Getting started with StartAGroupBuy

by startagroupbuy on February 20, 2012

Lately, we’ve been getting several questions about what it takes to start a daily deal website. We’ve put together this short video to show you step-by-step on how to get signed-up and started. This video will be the first of many video guides that will walk you through going from an idea to a full-blown [...]

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Is the “No access unless you sign-up” rule a good idea?

by startagroupbuy on November 9, 2011

This morning, I was working with site owner and successful entrepreneur Ryan at Hunterdonbucks.com on our new Welcome Page feature. Ryan owns and operates the newly launched venture specializing in big savings on food and entertainment in the Hunterdon and Bucks county area. The question came up “Do we force users to signup, or should [...]

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Build your email list FAST with a Welcome Page

by startagroupbuy on October 27, 2011

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One of the biggest challenges daily deal websites face is building their email list. Most of you guys are already doing the marketing to send visitors to your websites. But if you aren’t capturing that visitors email address, you are wasting your hard-earned marketing dollars. How to waste marketing dollars I’ll explain using an over-simplistic [...]

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How To Integreate MailChimp with StartAGroupBuy

by startagroupbuy on October 27, 2011

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Your StartAGroupBuy website can be integrated with Mail Chimp, which provides the following benefits: Visitors that signup on your website will automatically be added to your MailChimp list. You can use Mail Chimp to broadcast your deals to your contacts. Reduce the chance that your deals get sent to spam. To set this up, follow [...]

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How to create a Welcome Page

by startagroupbuy on October 27, 2011

If you haven’t already read our post about the benefits of a Welcome Page, you can check it out here. In this post I’m going to show you how easy it is to create your own Welcome Page on your StartAGroupBuy website. Step 1. Enable an Email Marketing Provider In order to use a Welcome [...]

Constant Contact Setup

October 22, 2011
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Your StartAGroupBuy website can be integrated with Constant Contact, which provides the following benefits: Visitors that signup on your website will automatically be added to your Constant Contact list. You can use Constant Contact to broadcast your deals to your contacts. Reduce the chance that your deals get sent to spam. To setup Constant Contact, [...]

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Design Your Daily Deal Website In Just Five Steps

October 12, 2011

So you just started your daily deal website in 60 seconds. Now it’s time to design it with just a few more clicks. Designing your StartAGroupBuy website is extremely easy.  It requires absolutely no coding experience, and all you need is a tiny bit of creativity.  In this tutorial, we’ll show you how easy it [...]

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How to Setup Facebook Automatic Status Updates

September 28, 2011

StartAGroupBuy can update your Facebook status for you every time you post a deal. Once you enable this feature, a status update about your deal is posted to your wall along with a link for your fans to check out your deal. Now your fans will see your deal instantly on their walls every time [...]

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How to Setup a Custom Domain

September 20, 2011

You may use a custom domain for your site, such as example.com, instead of the default address you get when you sign up, like example.startagroupbuy.com. Step 1: Create an ‘A’ Record with your Domain Host This process may differ depending on your domain host (i.e. GoDaddy vs Yahoo etc.). You may need to contact your [...]

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