Savvy-Discounts.com

SavvyDiscounts.com

Consumer Guides And Tips For Frugal Living

Pay Less Everyday

This frugal website (content, domain name)

is for sale to the highest bidder.

After 20 years Rick Doble, owner and editor, is retiring. Included in a sales agreement will be an understanding that Rick Doble will help rework pages, sections etc. as needed for the new demands of the Internet such as updating information and designing pages to be mobile friendly. Sale price and terms are negotiable.

OVERVIEW

For 20 years SavvyDiscounts has been about frugal living. The website concentrates on everyday expenses and covers a wide range of expense categories such as: groceries, utilities, clothing, insurance, automobile expenses, travel, Christmas giving, borrowing, telephone & cell phone costs, stock piling, when to buy used and when to buy new, free and low cost government services, home improvement, healthcare and medicine. The information at SavvyDiscounts has been fully documented and uses real numbers based on extensive research. SavvyDiscounts contends that the average household can save more than $5000 a year with no change in lifestyle once they learn the information available at the SavvyDiscounts.com website.

The information at SavvyDiscounts has been used extensively by the media for the last 20 years. Rick Doble has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, a segment on ABC-TV's 20/20 was devoted to his money saving tips, and he was interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR). See the next section for more detail about coverage nationwide in magazines, TV and radio.

In addition to the content on the web, SavvyDiscounts was published on paper for a number of years; 20 16-page issues were published for a total of 320 pages. This content will also be included in the sale of SavvyDiscounts.

CONTACT:

Rick Doble (Richard Degaris Doble) M.A.
PO Box 117, Smyrna NC 28579
Tel: 1-252-729-8691
E-mail: savvydiscounts@yahoo.com
Newsletter web site: www.savvy-discounts.com

SAVVYDISCOUNTS WAS FOUNDED BY RICK DOBLE:

Editor, publisher, founder, owner Savvy-Discounts Newsletter, since 1994.
Planned, created, designed and published newsletter from scratch. Originally printed as hard copy.
Web master for Savvy-Discounts Internet site since 1996: www.Savvy-Discounts.com
One of the early companies to have a site on the Internet.

PUBLICITY ABOUT SAVVYDISCOUNTS:

Print Media:
Articles using Doble’s information or interviews with Doble have appeared in:

The Wall Street Journal, PC World, NPR, Reader's Digest, Woman's Day (6 times), Bottom Line/Personal (12 times), Mademoiselle, Woman's World (6 times), Men's Health, Best of Bottom Line/Personal, plus newspapers and regional senior and parenting publications.

Television:

ABC 20/20: TV crew traveled to Doble's home town to interview him and ran his interview as part of a 20/20 report on frugal shopping. The segment aired on April 11, 2008.
Interview: MSNBC (National Cable TV): interview about cutting clothing costs. This report also aired nationwide on local NBC stations including WTVJ, Miami, FL.

Information and research: used on ABC TV's TheView on the subject of supermarket shopping.

Interviews (2): Sweepsfeed 1997-2000, a syndicated television service. Interviews were about supermarket shopping and prepaid calling cards. Reports aired in: San Diego, CA, Detroit, MI, New Haven, CT, San Francisco, CA, and Pittsburgh, PA plus many other stations nationwide.

Interviews: regional television: WCTI, New Bern, NC (2 times) and WBT Charlotte, NC.

Over 60 radio interviews:

National Public Radio (NPR) Interview: Strategies Available to Fight Credit-Card Fees, aired Feb. 9, 2007.
Interviewed on radio from Florida to New Hampshire, Vancouver, Canada to Arizona, including Clear Channel Radio, (reaches about a third of the United States).

AUTHOR

BOOKS BY RICK DOBLE:

Cheaper: Insider Tips To Saving Money On Everything: Save money on save on groceries, gasoline, utilities, healthcare, home heating fuel, insurance, travel, prescriptions, phone expenses and more. New York: Random House.
This book was rated a full 5 stars by three different reviewers.
https://www.amazon.com/Cheaper-Insiders-Tips-Saving-Everything/dp/0345512081

Savvy Discounts: The Best Money-Saving Advice from America's #1 Cost-Conscious
Consumer. New York: Perigee.

How to Get the Best Buys: The Bargain Hunter's Guide to Food, Clothes,
Utilities, Health Care. Boca Raton: Globe Communications Corp.
Note: over 500,000 copies distributed throughout the USA and Canada at virtually every Wal-Mart, Kmart and supermarket.

$avvy Discount$. Boca Raton: Globe Communications Corp.

The Everything Digital Photography Book, 2nd Edition, Avon: Adams Media Corporation.
This book contains substantial consumer advice about buying cameras and photographic equipment.

REGULAR FRUGAL COLUMNS BY RICK DOBLE:

"Money Wise" for www.myprimetime.com 2000-2001.
Featured writer (byline, portrait) at Internet site for the Money/Savings section.

Author - regular series of articles:
Regular column for these three publications -- ThriftyTraveler.com newsletter, Clearwater, FL, 2000-2002; Freebies, Carpinteria, CA, 1995-1999; Health & Money, Grass Roots Publishing, New York, NY, 1997-1999.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT RICK DOBLE:

RELATED PAST ACTIVITIES OF RICK DOBLE:
TEACHING, WORKSHOPS, PUBLIC SPEAKING

---Teacher, college level English, Craven Community College, Havelock Branch, Havelock, NC, 2006-present.
---Teacher, Internet workshops for small business, Carteret Community College, Morehead City, NC, 2007 – present.
---Teacher, small business, photography, journalism and creative writing, 1972-1994. Taught at Duke University, Durham Community College, Carteret Community College.
---Workshop director for multimedia, Durham School system, 1979.
---Director, Durham Historic Photographic Archive Project, 1978-1981, principle public speaker for community project.
---Director, Durham Restoration or Renewal, 1977-1978, principle speaker for project about preserving Durham architecture.
---Chairman, Board Member, Saint Joseph's Historic (& Art) Foundation, Durham, NC, 1977-1983. Public speaker on behalf of this community organization.

33 Years Experience With Computers Since 1983:
Member of the Raleigh, NC, Radio Shack Color Computer (CoCo) Club (1983-1988), wrote numerous programs in Basic, created original system for digitizing photographs, fluent in HTML, experienced in digital photography.

BACKGROUND OF RICK DOBLE

Listed in Marquis Who'sWho in America, Millennium Edition.
Born July 24, 1944, Richard Degaris Doble, Sharon Connecticut.
72 years old, married (wife Janet Harriman), no children.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
1994-present: Editor, publisher, founder, Savvy-Discounts.com
1975-1993: Professional freelance photographer:
Taught independent classes in beginning, advanced, darkroom photography, plus courses at Duke University, Durham Technical Institute, Saint Joseph's Historic (& Art) Foundation; directed 12 multimedia instructional slide shows for area schools; photo journalism assignments for North Carolina State Government, Duke University, Carolina Wren Press, Durham Chamber of Commerce, Central Carolina Bank, regional newspapers; book and record album covers.
1977-1980: Director of the Durham Photographic Archive Project
Wrote NEA grant, ran 3 yr. project; researched, copied, compiled a permanent archive of historic photographs.
1976-1977: Director of Durham Restoration or Renewal
Wrote grant, obtained funding from the NC Humanities Committee for multimedia show about preserving Durham architecture.
1972-1975: Director, Durham Photography Workshop:
Founded workshop for teenagers "at risk."

EDUCATION:
M.A. -- Master of Arts in Communications
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1975.
B.A. -- English, Honors in Writing
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1966.