Collective Bias, Whrrl and 20 Bloggers…Bring you Black Friday Deals.

Collective Bias is an interactive marketing company that fits the brands with the bloggers (or those of us who actually do the shopping). They accomplish this by building relationships with us. Pretty cool. Collective Bias has partnered with Whrrl. Whrrl is the application that I have been using to make these great slide shows. You can do them directly from your iphone or blackberry phones. They are working together to help you find great deals on Black Friday.

They have chosen twenty bloggers (I’m one of them!!) led by the Consumer Queen, Melissa Garcia and Courtney Velasquez of Giftfully Simple. What we are doing is searching for the best deals for you. We are putting them on the www.mybfdeals.com site and also whrrling them. On this Black Friday we are going to be out in the masses whrrling the craziness just for you!

We are wanting visitors to check the website frequently up through Black Friday and then throughout the day on Black Friday which is November 27th, 2009. You will have the best chance to find the best deals….and then follow right along with us. Hopefully you are out there yourself…and you can whrrl your own story by going to www.whrrl.com and signing up. Visitors can vote for the deals they like the best, and the participating blogger with the most votes on a deal will receive Google Analytics training or tech/design assistance for his or her blog. (so vote for my whrrl story because I can REALLY use the training! LOL

Quote from John Andrews who is the Managing Partner of Collective Bias, “We wanted to integrate a strong social media campaign to show the power that the average person or blogger has to reach so many others. By working with bloggers, Whrrl and social media sites, we can effectively spread this idea like wildfire.”

You can also find My Black Friday Deals on channels like Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

About Collective Bias
The first company of its kind, Collective Bias offers an alternative to the traditional agency model. Formed at the nexus of and Social Media and Shopper Marketing, we address the need for a comprehensive approach to facilitate ongoing conversations amongst brands, retailers and consumers. Our philosophy is to build true relationships between brands and consumers that make those consumers “part of something” and engender a sense of ownership that manifests itself in advocacy.

About Whrrl
Whrrl v2.0 lets us take pictures as they happen and share them with a wide based group of people, via our phones or computers. Whrrl is a product of Pelago, a Seattle-based company led by an executive team from companies including Amazon, RealNetworks and Yahoo. Pelago is backed by pioneering Internet and mobile investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bezos Expeditions, T-Venture, Trilogy Equity Partners and Reliance Technology Ventures.

Disclosure: Collective Bias has reimbursed me for my travel time to do my Black Friday shopping. This post was based upon the information that went out in a Press Release that I have permission to use.

Organize for Black Friday Shopping

Check out my Whrrl Story for some great deals. Also go to My Black Friday Deals and check out what others are finding for you.

Organize and Prepare for Black Friday Shopping.

I will be updating this link frequently over the next couple of weeks, up to, during and just after Black Friday.
I will be taking my camera and whrrling from the depths of…yes…you guessed it Black Friday shopping!
There will actually be 20 of us from Collective Bias who will be doing the “crazy”.
You can follow all of us on My BFDeals.com and also on twitter with hashtag #bfdeals
So follow along for some great ideas on how you can be ready for the busiest shopping day of the year!

click on the picture to see the whole #whrrl Story.

Collective Bias Dinner at Las Vegas…and More

Click on the screen to see some more of my pictures from Vegas.

Honestly I haven’t forgotten you!

I’ve been really busy…oh wait….or taking pictures with Marilyn!  This was taken on one of my tours around Vegas with Melissa @consumerqueen and Kim @craftymamaof4.  Kim has never been to Vegas before.  I am presently at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas and have been having a great time along with learning lots!

I have so many ideas in my head!!   I have had the priviledge  of being able to meet with several really great brands and although they may not necessarily fit in the Organizing part of my life….they fit in other areas of my life.  I really want to be able to bring some more information to you and reach out to some other readers in more ways than just organizing (although you know that is my passion).

So what other aspects of my life do I have that may relate to your life?  Let me count the ways….. aging, children ranging in ages 26 down to 8 years old, triplets, step children, divorce, remarriage….how is that for starters?  So when I talk to Genesis Today about all the excitement they have going on and I hear Dr. Lindsey Duncan’s story and all the health benefits for people…I want to tell you.

When I hear  Deb Friar from Catalina Marketing  (they put the coupons on the back of the store receipts) talk about wanting to help you us meal plan or have a system for our coupons or better yet figure out how to match up the sales and coupons to get the best deal…..I want to tell you!

When I talk to E.L.F. cosmetics (Eyes Lips Face) discuss their cosmetics (and of course I am thinking….help me with my ever increasing wrinkles)…I want to tell you.  Or Crocs or Healthy Choice,  Whrrl, USA Weekend, Soy Joy, Natures Choice….I want to share!!

I am in a unique situation that through my blog and through Collective Bias, networking and social media  I  am getting the opportunity to meet some really cool people. These are the  people behind the products or services that either invent, own, run, or represent a  company or Brand.  So what is so great about that?  Because if you know the people BEHIND a product or service and build a RELATIONSHIP with them…then you have a LINE OF COMMUNICATION.  They really do care what you and I think about their products….and believe it or not they want to improve it many times based on the feedback they get from you and me! the product….or the people BEHIND the products/services.  I want to bring that to you.

So…..my mind has been going a thousand miles per hour while I have been here……and I think we will both be able to benefit from what I am learning and what I am thinking.  But as always….I will be honest with you.  I am not going to bring you a product or service that I don’t think is worth telling you about.  Just thought I would share with you….now I have to think of a fun name……

The Second full day at Type A Mom Conference

Today was a very full day. Loved it! I feel like I REALLY learned a lot today. Great speakers with some really valuable information.

Shabby Apple was nice enough to provide me with a dress to wear while I was here. What better place to wear it than to the Speaker dinner with Amy Lupold Bair and Shannan Powell at Savoy Restaurant.