We turn one year old today and took the opportunity to reflect on what we accomplished in the past 12 months, as well as look forward to another fun and fast-paced year ahead. Below is the press release with the details:
DealBase.com Celebrates Its First Anniversary: Great Hotels Now Within Reach of All Travelers
Hotel deals website has helped over 1 million travelers find insider savings and “in-the-know” discounts.
San Francisco (PRWEB) November 12, 2009 — DealBase.com, the source for insider hotel deals and offers, celebrated its first anniversary today, capping a phenomenal year of growth. Since launching last year at the 2008 PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit, DealBase.com has become a trusted resource for hundreds of thousands of travelers. Key milestones the company accomplished in the past year:
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Today we announced our picks of the best Labor Day hotel deals. Here’s the press release, and we hope you take advantage of the great deals out there to have a wonderful Labor Day vacation.
DealBase.com Reports on Top Five Labor Day Hotel Travel Deals
Hotel deal site scours thousands of sources to reveal the top Labor Day hotel deals.
San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) August 11, 2009 — DealBase.com, the next-generation hotel deals web site, reported the top five best Labor Day hotel deals for the holiday weekend, from the Hotel Triton in San Francisco ($99 a night) to the Hotel Affinia in Chicago ($160 a night). With a combination of low rates, high savings and luxurious hotels, these five hotel discounts reflect the best options for popular Labor Day travel destinations, offering four and five star hotel rooms at discounts nearly 60 percent off, according to DealBase’s team of researchers.
Yesterday we launched (what we humbly think is) the world’s best travel deal email product. We’re really excited about bringing this product to market, and here’s why we think it’s important and something you will enjoy:
DealBase Alert Email
It’s endlessly customizable to your interests. Unlike other travel deal newsletters which send the same content to everyone, you get to choose the destinations and types of hotels that interest you. This means you’ll receive deals that are far more relevant and interesting, as they match your preferences. And you never get deals for places you have no intention of visiting. For example, my wife hates going to Las Vegas – so her alerts include many great places, but never deals for Vegas.
It’s an alert, not a newsletter. You’ll only hear from us when we have an interesting deal for you, and then you’ll hear right away, not on a certain day of the week (so you can get deals before they sell out.)
It taps into our huge database of deals. DealBase has the world’s largest collection of hotel deals, promotions, offer codes, and insider savings – currently more than 27,000 deals. More than 100 new deals are added on any given day, about ten-times more deals than other sites.
You’ll get the best deals, not just sponsor deals Our alerts are not advertorial, like the other guys – so you’ll be alerted of the best new deals, not just the deals from hotels that can afford to pay.
We have big plans for DealBase Alerts. Coming soon are more customization and delivery options. Sign up now, and we’ll keep you posted of new developments, right within your alerts!
Meanwhile, we’d love to hear from you about what you’d like us to add to make the “ultimate travel deal alert product”.
Today we released an important new way to find great deals using DealBase.com – our Deal Alerts feature. Here’s the release, and you can sign up now at www.Dealbase.com/alerts.
DealBase.com Announces New Hotel Deal Alerts: World’s First Personalized Travel Deal Newsletter Customized Alerts Report on Best Deals That Match Travelers’ Preferences
SAN MATEO, CA–(Marketwire – July 1, 2009) – DealBase.com, a next-generation hotel deals web site, today released hotel deal email alerts that are fully customizable to a traveler’s preferences. Travelers tell DealBase.com which destinations they want to visit (out of over 700 destinations), the star ratings of hotels they prefer, and the maximum nightly rate they want to pay, and DealBase.com sends email alerts about deals that match their preferences.
“In this time of amazing travel deals, everyone wants to be the first to know about the best savings and insider discounts,” said Sam Shank, CEO. “DealBase.com’s comprehensive deal alerts empowers travelers by sending relevant offers and insider savings opportunities, so you can get these deals before they sell out.”
For example, for a traveler that indicated an interest in Las Vegas and New York City hotel deals at four and five star hotels under $200/night, DealBase would send deal alerts for the Hard Rock Casino at $55/night (70% savings) and the Westin Times Square at $199/night including breakfast (37% savings).
“DealBase.com’s innovative hotel deal alerts are the 2.0 version of travel deal newsletters,” commented Howard Love, Chairman. “Unlike traditional hotel deal emails that send the same content to every subscriber, DealBase Alerts will only send you information on great deals for your favorite places and hotels while bypassing deals you don’t care about.”
About DealBase.com
DealBase.com is a next-generation web site for finding great hotel deals. DealBase.com scours the web to provide travelers with the world’s largest database of hotel deals, special offers and packages, currently numbering more than 27,000, culled from over 5,200 unique sources. The Company’s innovative Deal Analyzer functionality compares deal prices to regular prices, so travelers can determine if they’re getting a good deal or not. DealBase.com launched in November 2008 and is based in San Mateo, California. For more information, visit www.DealBase.com.
Today we’re excited to announce our Series A funding, which will give us the resources to continue to expand DealBase.com and fulfill our vision for building the world’s greatest resource for finding great travel deals. We’re especially excited about the great group of investors who are joining the expanded DealBase.com Team. Meanwhile, we’ll get back to work finding some super deals for the summer travel season. Here’s the full release:
DealBase.com Announces Series A Funding: Hotel Deals Website Raises $1 Million from Prominent Angel Investors
– Features More than 20,000 Hotel Deals –
SAN MATEO, Ca. – May 5, 2009 – DealBase.com, a next-generation hotel deals web site, announced it has closed Series A funding, totaling $1 million from prominent angel investors. Notable individuals participating in the financing include Russ Siegelman, an Affiliated Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Bob Zipp, Managing Director of Amicus Capital and Josh Hannah, General Partner at Matrix Partners and former CEO of eHow.com. The funding will be used to continue the development of the DealBase.com online service, including category expansion and the addition of international travel deals. Read the rest of this entry »
This week we updated our site with a couple new filtering methods on our city and hotel pages, that our users have been asking for:
- Filtering by a deal’s minimum required nights: If you know you’re only staying for 2 nights somewhere, make your browsing more efficient by leaving out any deals that require stays of 3 nights or longer. For example, if you’re planning a quick jaunt to Hawaii for the weekend, enter Hawaii in the search bar, and then use the dropdown list as shown below.
Hi DealBase Readers! I wanted to introduce myself as the latest travel-crazed, deal-obsessed, member of the DealBase team. I’ll be the “go-to” gal for providing interesting, new travel-related content starting this week: budget travel, travel destinations, travel trends—you name it, I’ll be researching and writing about it. Like much of the DealBase team, I’m struck with wanderlust and love to travel: I recently returned from a (very affordable) six-month stint through Latin America and Mexico; I spent one sangria-induced year “studying” abroad in Barcelona, Spain; and I am constantly marking maps of where to daydream about traveling to next. I’m excited to join the DealBase team and look forward to sharing insight into the travel world and how to travel affordably, one deal at a time.
Feel free to email me at jessica@dealbase.com for comments, questions, suggestions, etc.
-Jessica
We’ve had a busy March filled with product releases and improvements and wanted to share with you the highlights and how it makes DealBase.com even easier to find hotel deals:
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