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Young Entrepreneur<br />

Success Story<br />

Award<br />

Leah Walker<br />

Bismancoupons.com<br />

Bismarck, N.D.<br />

By <strong>City</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> Staff<br />

Young Entrepreneur Success Story<br />

RECOGNIZING ENTREPRENEURS UNDER 30 WHO ARE CULTIVATING<br />

THE SPIRIT OF INNOVATION IN N.D.<br />

Bismancoupons.com is a company<br />

that, according to owner Leah Walker, is<br />

about to revolutionize the way we shop<br />

and clip coupons. An environmentally<br />

friendly, efficient and no-hassle way to link<br />

businesses with new and old customers,<br />

the site allows users to search and<br />

print coupons by category including:<br />

restaurants, bakeries, gas, automotive,<br />

health and beauty, fitness, lodging,<br />

hobbies, party supplies, dry cleaning<br />

and agriculture. Efficiency matters to the<br />

26-year-old entrepreneur and mother of<br />

two whose typical day includes making<br />

dozens of sales calls, doing laundry,<br />

making lunch, proofing coupons and<br />

changing diapers.<br />

“Go green and save green”<br />

Leah Walker, owner of Bismancoupons.com.<br />

worked as a sales representative. Working<br />

for others, I had no control of the product<br />

I sold or what percentage of the sales I<br />

received. Bismancoupons.com allows me<br />

to be in complete control of my business<br />

while doing the things I love–working with<br />

people and sales.<br />

Tell us about yourself. I’m a wife and<br />

mother of two small children (2 ½-yearold<br />

daughter and 9-month-old son).<br />

Family is the most important thing to me.<br />

Bismancoupons.com allows me to put<br />

my family first while having the freedom to<br />

control my family’s financial destiny.<br />

Tell us what your company does.<br />

Bismancoupons.com assists advertisers in<br />

Tell us when and why you began your putting their coupons and daily specials in<br />

company. I graduated from Minot State the hands of new and existing customers.<br />

University in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree Bismancoupons.com puts coupon clippers<br />

in marketing and management. Coupling on the cutting edge. Consumers benefit<br />

my love of people and sales together, I by having more than 50 local businesses’<br />

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