Listings and links to awards won by Shel Horowitz's https://www.frugalfun.com website. All text that follows is quoted directly from the respective award notifications. In keeping with our format, we are displaying links rather than banners.
Website Awards
FrugalFun.com & FrugalMarketing.com have been awarded the Substance Award for well connected, well promoted sites! Current award ratio is 128:10.
Substance Books: Online Book Publicity Network; providing Book Marketing Ideas and Opportunities to over 250 authors and publishers since 2001.
FrugalLiving.tqn.com Pure Gold Award
FrugalFun
Shel Horowitz is a 'penny pinching hedonist', and this site proves it. How about slashing the cost of your next vacation or romantic dates for penny pinchers?
If that doesn't grab you, maybe you're more interested in tightwad weddings. There are over 170 free files at this site that will help you live a full and happy life without having to spend all your money to do so. Take a look at the back issues of the Frugal Fun Tipsheet, then you'll want to sign up for it.
This is one of the first sites I found 'way back when...I was new to the Internet. I was so pleasantly surprised to find the quality of information, mostly for free.
That's a great way to keep a little more of your own gold.
Pat Veretto, Frugal Living Guide
Brookbrowse Updates Newsletter - Recommended Website
RECOMMENDED WEBSITE : FRUGALFUN.COM
"This a great site if you run a business and need advice on how to be more profitable for less investment. However, it's not just for businesses - there are also hundreds of tips on how to save money on all the best things in life - everything from how to avoid credit card fraud to how to have a $300 wedding.
"As Shel Horowitz, the owner of FrugalFun.com writes 'this site will help you enjoy a better quality of life, run a more effective business, and save a BIG pile of money.'"
Davina Morgan-Witts
CEO
BookBrowse LLC
Shel Horowitz: "...for surpassing our criteria of excellence for
concept, design, layout, rich content and easy navigation." Congratulations once again for producing a World Class Website. Your site has been added to our Honor Roll and can be viewed at Award Winners.
Congratulations! Your web site is being featured in my new book from Shaw Books. WriterSpeaker.com is a wonderful Internet research and marketing guide for all writers and speakers.
In writing this book I reviewed thousands of web sites with the hope of creating an indispensable guide for writers and speakers. Your site was selected because it has potential longevity, shows a new and different way of being online, and is packed with helpful information for writers or speakers.
Congratulations! After reviewing your site, we are pleased to present you with the Market-Tek Design Award!
This note is to inform you that GLOBAL ARTS REVIEW has been selected for a Music Site Tip of the Day. The daily e-mail product is produced by TipWorld (www.tipworld.com), which serves a worldwide readership of nearly four-million subscribers...
Congratulations, and thank you for providing such a fine online experience.
As a columnist, Brad Hill writes about cybercultural trends and online destinations. He authors the weekly "On the Infobahn" column for ComputorEdge Magazine, the "Investor 2000" column for Raging Bull (www.ragingbull.com), and the "Trader" column for Online Investor Magazine. Hill produces eight daily information tips for TipWorld (www.tipworld.com).
Congratulations! You're site has gone through some serious testing here at the webcenter and it has passed with honors. Please pick up your seal of approval.
Congratulations on your site! Your site has been awarded the Cool Reality Award. This award is given to sites that have elegant graphics, content, and a cool sense of being about it. I really enjoy your site. Keep up the good work!
Your site, which has been chosen by Chris McClean, contributing editor for Online Promotions, as one of the <"a href=https://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/822 ">"Best of the Internet..." We know the effort, time and dedication it takes to be the "Best..." As part of one of the most comprehensive directories on the Internet today, your site is now one of over 25,000 hand-picked and selected links on over 800 topics in our Best-of-Web Directory.
We would like to thank you for taking the time to make the Internet a better place. Without you and others like you, the Internet wouldn't be what it is today. We appreciate your hard work and effort and would like to give you our award. To pick up the award go to: https://www.submissionpro.com
Testimonials from Visitors
"You have changed my life in so many ways,I have even forwarded it to so many friends about your tips and hints. I would be lost without you.
Thank you for your advice and help."
Patricia Lees
"There have been so many great suggestions over the years! Some ideas I would have never thought of... I plead with you to continue your newsletter!!! Your suggestions are in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-read format. And your genuinely caring attitude comes across loud and clear...in other words, I trust you!! I feel that I would lose a friend if I no longer received your emails."
Elizabeth Kinney Woodbridge, VA
"The entire website of Horowitz's "Frugal Fun" is worth
exploring."
Pat Holt, Publisher, 'Holt Uncensored' and former book columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle
"Dear Shel,
Out of 70 or so newsletters I subscribe to, yours is one of about a dozen that I actually read regularly.
I truly enjoy the instructional articles about Marketing and the 'tips & tricks' you've discovered and relate to us in your life experience articles.
Its your unique slant on marketing that makes the newsletter interesting. I receive enough newsletters that that are headlined 'Top ten marketing mistakes' or 'Top ten copywriting secrets' etc. These get to be so repetitive that they are filed into my marketing folder for future reference, never to be read again."
David Walker, U.K.
"Shel, I looked your site FrugalFun. Wow.... You have an AMAZING website. Congratulations on such a fine piece of work and contribution to your field. Holy cow! I'm looking forward to spending more time with it. Thanks."
Jackie Woodside, MSW, LICSW
www.jackiewoodside.com
Psychotherapist, Consultant, Trainer
"Shel Horowitz's FrugalFun.com site--what a treasure it is! Chock full of useful articles and information on marketing and business."
Frances Keiser
Sagaponack Books
"This site is indeed "frugal fun" -- *PACKED* with information *without* glitzy graphics! Visit and be amazed by this masterful frugal marketing genius! Horowitz -- and his site -- "walk the talk"... quite impressive!"
Neal R. Voron, author, "The Obstacle Course"
�You have a very interesting website; it's very well thought out and quite informative. I like it a lot.�
John W. Mann, Author of "Basic Car Info Every Driver Needs To Know"
"I really do love receiving your free e-mail newsletter. I have come to expect that you always delivery honest, good advice in this newsletter. Your tips are very sound."
Susan Nichols
"Hi Shel, Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed your site - it is extremely informative and interesting and definitely the best one I've seen of its kind."
Faith Waude
"I really do love receiving your free e-mail newsletter. I have come to expect that you always delivery honest, good advice in this newsletter. Your tips are very sound."
Susan Nichols
"I have just spent nearly and hour on your web site. I have laughed and been encouraged beyond words! Two and a half years ago I suddenly became a single mom after 10 years of marriage. All those years we never had a decent place to live, let alone a vacation, although we both worked full time at decent paying jobs.(I am a nurse) Over the past two years I have spent much of my time trying to cope with life and pick up the pieces. But this year life is settling down and I began to plan a vacation, only to discover that the cost of the trip was way out of my budget, despite all the 'good deals' that were offered. As I read about Homestays I was encouraged. (We like to camp, but you never know who's around in a strange place.) I had discovered the benefit of our local state parks already, and have two camping trips planned but they are short trips with a purpose, not just 'gun in the sun'. The many frugal entertainment ideas have really blessed me and motivated me to get busy! I have some children that are about to embark on the best summer of their lives! Thank you for you research, so many of us had no idea where to start! I hope to be able to get your book soon. Keep writing, we'll keep reading! Thanks again, from Mid-Missouri! Sincerely, Kimberly Myers"
Other Awards
Shel wrote copy for the Amherst-Area (MA) Chamber of Commerce Visitors' Guide, which won the Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau marketing award for 2005.