Daily-Deals Profile: Q&A With Sharing Spree

This continues our series profiling daily-deals companies. The purpose of these Q&A profiles is to give merchants, marketers and others in the industry a glimpse into what some deal providers out there are doing. These profiles are also meant to offer different outlooks on the future of the industry.

This week we’re profiling Sharing Spree, a company that combines daily deals with donations to nonprofits and schools.

Read on to learn about Sharing Spree’s growth since its start, along with its take on the attention given to Groupon and its desire to sell products, a la Groupon Goods.

Please introduce yourself.
My name is Ron Sapp, and I am the CEO of the daily-deal site with a big heart, Sharing Spree. I am married to my beautiful wife, Megan Sapp, who is the COO of Sharing Spree. We enjoy spending time with our four amazing children, Makenzie, Brantley, Bella and Peyton. Our home is in Portland, Ore., where we enjoy spending time outdoors doing activities like skiing, hiking and wine tasting.

How would you describe Sharing Spree in one sentence?
A daily-deal site that gives back to nonprofits and schools.

Tell us about how the company began and how the name was chosen.
Sharing Spree started after recognizing an opportunity to connect socially responsible local businesses with like-minded local consumers. In the summer of 2010, the company started as MyEZDeal. The first goal was to create a deal site and, secondly, give back to charities. The site built up some momentum and donated more than $30,000 to schools and nonprofits during roughly six months. But we knew we had only just begun to accomplish our larger goals, and wholeheartedly believed the company was capable of reaching an even larger audience and achieving greater results. We rebranded and created Sharing Spree in January 2011, because today, consumers would rather buy a deal from someone who gives back to their local school or nonprofit.

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