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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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