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Birthdays

Debbie Topper — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:27:00 +0000

November. Birthday month. Never heard that before? Probably because September is the most common month for births.

For my family, though, it’s November. My son, my brother, and my mother all have birthdays this month (my dad and I were left out of this somehow). Today’s my brother’s, so I thought I’d write.

Fortunately, lately, with each passing year, it seems like Christmas specials are starting earlier, and so gift-buying is less expensive. Three important birthdays this month, coupled with Thanksgiving and Christmas not too far from now, has made it difficult to make each special.

Thankfully, as time as gone on, we’ve discovered the art of the joint family birthday “party.” What this really amounts to is a family gathering with turkey, football, and presents. It’s our Thanksgiving birthday party.

Anybody else do some creative combining of holidays and other events?

New Beginnings

martinbird — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:51:36 +0000

I’m so excited to begin a new chapter in my life. I just started my new job as the office assistant at DealTaker a couple of weeks ago, I’m getting married next Sunday and Ill be turning 29 at the end of this month. With anything new there comes added stress but that can be a good thing in life; when a challenge is presented the best way to handle it is with a positive attitude.

I am learning that the key do the best job that you can do, after that it’s out of your hands. There is no point in worrying about something you can’t change. Everyone needs ways to relieve the tensions of everyday life and lately my stress relief comes from the gym. My favorite method of torture is the spin classl. The more brutal the better. It feels so good to push the limits and leave all my stress back at the gym when I head for home.

With all that being said Ill leave you with a quote that sometimes helps me deal with life (I have it stuck to my bathroom mirror).

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Emerson

Happy Birthday DealTaker – I Can’t Believe You are 5!!

kstraw — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:03:46 +0000

Where has the time gone? Granted I was not with DealTaker when it began back in 2004, but I do remember when it began. Shortly after it’s inception I was working at JCPenney.com managing their affiliate program. In the midst of rebuilding that program and trying to make it as efficient as possible, we had closed it to invitation only. With DealTaker just down to road from the JCP HQ, the founder made a good attempt to get in as an affiliate, but alas they did not meet our minimum threshold for acceptance and I denied them entry.

I still defend the action at the time- DealTaker was just not ready yet for Prime Time. However, a few short years later as DealTaker found it’s community (built on seekers of Black Friday Ads) and began to grow, my successor let DealTaker into the program (as have 1,600+ merchants now) and the rest is history.

DealTaker has been blessed to attract such a great and loyal community of users (over 180,000 registered users – amazing) and has found top quality merchants that want to partner to provide great deals and online shopping experiences.

This week, our merchants and community get to come together to celebrate in good, old fashioned birthday party style. Online we are having games and contests and here at the office we are actually inviting our fellow building tenants to have some cake and celebrate. Many thanks to all of our merchants that contributed birthday gifts that our users will get a chance to win. Happy Birthday DealTaker – 5 years down and many, many more to go…