Canadian Freebies & Free Stuff

We’ve just updated our small business resources section with two questions and answers from small business coach Warren Coughlin. This edition features a question about incorporation and taxes.

These two questions were submitted by RedFlagDeals.com readers and you can do the same and have some of your questions answered.

If you haven’t taken a look at the Small Business Resources section before, there’s some great starter tools to help your business stay organized and on track. From a cash flow spreadsheet to a breakeven calculator, they’re all free for you to download and use.

The Coupons App was a big success, so we decided to create a Facebook App that let’s you share Free Stuff from RedFlagDeals.com’s Freebies section with your Facebook friends!  It’s super easy to use, so share it with your friends!

Just click here to add the app to your Facebook profile!

If you want to connect with other RedFlagDeals.com readers on Facebook, you can join The Official RedFlagDeals.com Facebook Group.

When you register for the Golf Links Prince Edward Island eClub, you will receive regular special offers and golf promotions by e-mail, as well as a free green fee on your Birthday! The free offer is valid up to one week prior and one week after your birthday.

About them: “Golf Links Prince Edward Island Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary corporation of Tourism PEI. Golf Links PEI was incorporated in l998 and is responsible for operating four golf courses on behalf of the Province. These courses are the Links at Crowbush Cove, Mill River Golf Course, Brudenell River Golf Course and Dundarave Golf Course.”

Entrepreneurs face many challenges when starting and running a small business, so in addition to our Small Business Deals section, we’ve also added a number of Free Tools for Small Business owners that will help entrepreneurs manage cash flow, set and measure goals, and manage employees.  The tools were prepared by award winning small business coach Warren Coughlin.  Warren will also be answering questions submitted by RedFlagDeals.com readers in the Ask an Expert section.  This being RedFlagDeals.com, all of the tools and advice are free!  You can find a link to the Free Tools on the left side navigation bar under Small Business.

A bit about Warren:

Warren is a business coach with ActionCoach, who is committed to helping entrepreneurs and executives grow themselves and their businesses so they can live the lives they seek.  He has been recognized as the Canadian Coach of the Year Award (2005), The Top Performing Coach Award (2006) and as one of the top 10 coaches among the 1000+ coaches around the world in ActionCoach.

I launched RedFlagDeals.com way back during the holiday shopping season of 2000.  When the site first launched, during the first few months, we only had about 50 people per day visiting and I wondered whether it was even worth continuing on. Back then I could never have imagined that one day we’d have more than 100,000 members interested enough in what we’re doing to sign up and share. Now the numbers speak for themselves: over 100,000 members, over 750,000 monthly unique visitors, and over 18 million pageviews a month!

Almost everything on RedFlagDeals.com is free to use and accessible without registering, so to me it’s an amazing achievement that so many of you have taken that next step and signed up to be involved. There’s no way we would be able to stay on top of all the deals and have cross-Canada coverage without your member contributions – and to that I thank you!

Thanks to everyone who has ever mentioned RedFlagDeals.com to any of their friends, family, or co-workers. The site’s popularity has always been driven by word of mouth and without everyone out there talking about the site, there’s no way we could have reached this milestone.

There’s no question that this is Canada’s Bargain Hunting Community and I couldn’t be prouder of the site and everyone who is part of it. This is an incredible group of people who all share a passion for shopping, sharing, and saving money and I’m just glad to help facilitate it. If you’re not a member yet, now is a great time to sign up as the deals heat up for the summer. I’m looking forward to adding even more tools, content, and features (hint: check back later this week…) to help you save money in the future and I can’t wait till we hit 1 million!

-Derek Szeto
Founder, RedFlagDeals.com

In one of the more creative initiatives we’ve seen lately, HistoriCanada has released a downloadable modification for Civilization III for the PC that they describe like this:

The History Canada Game lets you relive, replay and even rewrite Canada’s history. Play as the English to expand your empire. Play as the Huron to defend your homeland. Wage wars, make peace and explore new lands...the future of Canadian history is in your hand.

If you don’t currently have a copy of Civilization III, they plan on making 100,000 copies of the game available to K-12 students soon through schools and direct distribution.  You can find a few more details from this GameSpot article.

Sign up for the newsletter at BostonPizza.com.  In return, you will be sent a coupon for a FREE starter!  Thanks for the deal, salt_26!

The latest in “free” music from the internet has an interesting twist that may have you hooked; it’s free for you but the artists get paid. That’s right, the musicians profit from the same music you get for free on we7.com, a new advertising-driven website for media downloads. It’s a great idea - bands sign up and get paid royalties every time their song is downloaded. Meanwhile, we7.com can afford to pay them by selling the ad. space around the site. In fact, the ads. are at a very sophisticated level; a technology called MediaGraft ‘grafts’ a highly pertinent audio or video advert onto each digital entertainment track selected that accompanies it off the site and onto your player in a 5 second advert clip, or similar. But the music remains clean, free and legal.

There is a catch though - we7.com is new and needs your help. While you can register now to begin downloading very safe, legal, and - dare we say it - ethical music, it will take a little while before you hear the latest tracks on this service. Says the CEO, Steve Purdham - ”By the summer you will see us introduce a full community site where you will be able to hear new bands, decide which music gets published and communicate with other fans. As we gain momentum we will dramatically increase the number of tracks and genres available to you to download free, safe and legally.” So, this may be a deal that is “in progress” and the support of a savvy audience will be the key to its success.

Check out the tunes so far (which right now include Dave Matthews, Herbie Hancock, and Coolio) and let us know what you think!

Trying to target an audience?  Or maybe gather some information?  Through Zoomerang.com, you can create your own personalized survey, invite your contacts to participate and then analyze the results.  Sign up for their Basic package, and you won’t pay a cent.  This package, of course, has limits:

• Limited to 100 responses per survey
• Maximum 30 questions per survey
• See survey responses for 10 days

Perfect for small businesses looking to gather some information from their clients or customers.

PageFlakes.com is one of the leading customizable startpages allowing you to customize your Internet experience with Flakes that contain content from websites across the Internet. Read RSS feeds, check e-mail, browse photos and video, check the weather, and now keep track of the latest content from RedFlagDeals.com through the new RedFlagDeals.com Flake! PageFlakes is totally free to use and there’s lots of other Flakes to choose from as well.

We’ve created a RedFlagDeals.com Flake to help you keep up to date on the latest Deals, Coupons, Freebies, and Hot Deals Forums headlines in addition to being able to search RedFlagDeals.com and do some comparison shopping all within this one little Flake.

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