About Our Company:

Keycode - Using technology to help people save money

Keycode specializes in helping shoppers save money by providing the finest offer comparison service available today. Additionally, we help retail companies save money by providing highly targeted consumer advertising strictly on a pay-per-sale basis. We also help a large and growing network of website publishers create new streams of revenue by managing the most flexible syndicated retail offer service on the net.

The concept of the company emerged in late 1999, when the founder, Kurt Lohse, recognized an opportunity to create a bridge service between the Internet and the real world that would allow shoppers to create custom, printable offers for their favorite local stores based on their unique spending value and nothing more. In less than 5 years the company evolved into the largest pay-for-sale promotional network for in-store marketing and is now responsible for saving millions of shoppers tens of millions of dollars each and every year.

The mission of the company is to use technology and the Internet to make relevant real-time offer comparison available everywhere, so that anyone who wants to save money can easily find and use the best available promotional offers whether they are at home, at work, in the mall, or on the go. Our commitment to our retail clients is to turn a growing piece of their advertising budget into a proven and sustainable profit center – one that produces new customers and higher average orders without any financial risk.

Whether you are a shopper, retailer or website publisher; we invite you to use our services freely, explore our site, and save as much money as you possibly can.

About Our Website:

To savvy shoppers, Keycode.com is known as the Internet’s leading Offer Comparison Site. Similar to product comparison sites like Shopping.com, PriceGrabber.com, and Shopzilla.com, Keycode.com is unique in that it focuses on offer and channel comparison as opposed to product or price comparison thereby addressing the final decision shoppers need to make before completing a purchase: where to buy.

If a retailer has an offer available, it is likely you will find it on Keycode.com first. We maintain relationships with dozens of national retail chains that operate over 15,000 physical stores as well as hundreds of online merchants. All of the offers you will find on Keycode.com have been authorized for our use – we do not pull or “scrape” any codes that were not intended for our promotional purposes. Additionally, every offer you find on Keycode.com has been checked and verified by human content editors (not automated programs or “spiders”) to make sure we are only delivering the highest quality offers.

We provide our savings service free of charge to shoppers and allow Keycode users to remain completely anonymous if they choose while using our website at all times. By popular request, we make available an e-mail alert service to notify shoppers of the latest deals as soon as they become available in our system. We also have RSS feeds for all of our offer categories that can feed the very latest Keycode offers directly into your MyYahoo and MyMSN start pages – just look for the MyYahoo and MyMSN icons at the top of our category pages.

Other Keycode owned websites under development: ShopBetter.com DealTech.com CouponMaker.com.

About Our Business:

Our business is simple: we generate sales in-store and online for retail clients on a pay-per-sale basis. We only get paid if and when shoppers use our codes or links to complete their purchases. In addition to pure net sales, we provide a large and affordable channel for continuous customer acquisition, and we specialize in helping our clients increase their average order size through a unique (and patent-pending) form of dynamic offer generation.

In the e-commerce world our industry is called Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate marketing is essentially the business of employing web publishers as commission only sales agents for other websites. Since we focus on in-store offers as much as we do online only promotions, we have become seasoned veterans in the growing niche industry known as Cross-Channel Affiliate Marketing – the practice of generating in-store sales through online advertising.

Most people are familiar with the tremendous financial success of companies like Google and Yahoo Search (formerly Overture). These companies helped to bring performance-based online advertising into the mainstream by making bid-for-placement, pay-per-click advertising a popular and effective traffic builder for millions of online advertisers.

But pay-for-click advertising does not provide the same value for offline businesses since “clicks” can be very difficult to turn into actual sales. Online businesses face financial risk as well with pay-per-click search advertising especially as it relates to the issue of click fraud.

By comparison, pay-for-sales advertising is far superior to pay-per-click advertising because it represents the least risky of all the performance-based advertising models. Unlike pay-per-click forms of advertising where advertisers pay for “clicks” that may or may not produce any sales, pay-for-sale programs such as Keycode’s simply have no financial risk at all – if a pay-for-sale advertising channel does not produce profitable net sales, the advertiser pays nothing.

Even though pay-for-sales advertising strategies played a vital role in the rapid growth and success of several multi-billion dollar online enterprises such as Amazon.com, Dell.com, OfficeDepot.com, Sony.com, BestBuy.com, Target.com, as well as hundreds of other major e-commerce companies – the model is only now being put to use by offline businesses. Since paying for “clicks” is somewhat irrelevant to brick-and-mortar advertisers, our goal at Keycode is to bring the single most cost-effective form of advertising yet invented to the brick-and-mortar world and make our pay-per-sale model as accessible and meaningful to companies with physical locations as Google and Yahoo made their respective pay-per-click models to online only businesses.

If you are an advertiser looking generate new sales, attract new customers, and increase your average order size all on a pay-for-sale basis, you need to list your promotions on Keycode.com today - there is potentially tens of millions in sales to gain and absolutely nothing to lose.

Keycode - your key to making money.