The Coupon Network Advisory Board is the first formal organization of the biggest names in couponing best practices. Developed to create an environment for knowledge exchange, the Coupon Network Advisory board was assembled to help consumers connect with and identify the most dynamic and trustworthy names to help them save. This group will participate on the Smart Living Blog, gather for online events and help drive future innovation and savings opportunities available on CouponNetwork.com.

Members

Amanda Carlisle – A Few Short Cuts
Amanda Carlisle is a stay at home mom of 3 and blogger at A Few Short Cuts & Moms With Crockpots. Saving money is a big deal for any family, but Amanda has become an expert through couponing, deal shopping, and meal planning on a single income. She shares not only how to save money with coupons but great time saving recipes in the kitchen. Which include Gluten Free and Dairy free since her children have allergies.

Melissa Carlisle – MelissaStuff
Melissa Carlisle is the author of the MelissaStuff blog – helping people save money so they have room in their budget for others. Melissa is mom to three little boys who keep her very busy. She is married to her best friend and feels she never gets enough alone time with him. Blogging has allowed Melissa to combine her Creative Writing degree and her Master’s Degree in Youth Ministry from Dallas Theological Seminary. She enjoys teenagers and actually looks forward to when her boys become teens. Melissa volunteers with a local group of moms in a low-income housing area every other week, and enjoys doing things to help others.

Jill Cataldo – Super-Couponing & JillCataldo.com
Jill Cataldo is the founder of Super-Couponing® workshops and author of the nationally-syndicated newspaper column and video series “Super-Couponing® Tips,” enjoyed by over 20 million people each week. Jill enjoys using coupons to get great deals and free groceries. In response to everyone who’s ever asked her “how can I do that?” she developed her Super-Couponing® workshops, which teach people how to track sales and use coupons to their fullest potential. Jill is the author of Super-Couponing® Tips” a weekly syndicated newspaper column devoted to couponing. Super-Couponing® Tips is read by over 20 million people nationwide. In 2010, she launched a video companion series to Super-Couponing Tips, featuring weekly, one-minute video coupon lessons that are widely syndicated online.

Amy Edmiston – Saving with Amy
Amy Edmiston is a wife and stay at home mom to her 4-year old Addie and baby girl, Britton. She grew up learning the value of a dollar and loves to teach anyone who will listen. You can find Amy sharing money-savings tips and other deals for spending wisely on her blog, Saving with Amy. She also enjoys spending time with family and friends, cake decorating, and trying out new recipes.

Nathan Engels – WeUseCoupons.com
MrCoupon as he is known online, Nathan is from Cincinnati, Ohio and is passionate about coupons. Odd, but true, coupons have changed his debt-ridden life, into a nearly debt free one.  A husband and father to a toddler, Nathan started WeUseCoupons.com in 2008, which quickly turned into one of the largest online coupon forums on the internet. Nathan considers himself one of the luckiest people on the earth, getting to talk and write about something he loves:  helping people save money.

Jolyn Felten – Bargains to Bounty
After several years in the elementary classroom, Jolyn Felten redirected her career path to become a stay-at-home mom and – by necessity – a strategic shopper. Raised in Michigan on a steady diet of garage sales, frugality and general resourcefulness, reducing the family budget barely presented a challenge. When a friend desperately needed assistance in navigating the ways of penny pinching, Jolyn shared her favorite tips and websites. Yet there wasn’t a resource specific to metro Detroit that provided relevant information. Bargains to Bounty grew out of that need and now helps many families bridge the gap in a challenging Michigan economy, enabling them to survive on a tight budget while providing extra to share with others in the community.

Zack Gaddy – Coupon Dad
Zack Gaddy, more commonly known in the blogosphere as Coupon Dad,  spends most of his time sharing all the great deals and coupons he finds to help his family save money. Coupon Dad also features tips and information showing readers how to quickly save 50% or more off their grocery bills, saving on just about any purchase. Zack is married to a wonderful woman named Sandy and has four amazing kids. With such a large family, he is always looking for ways to save a buck or two (or thousands).

Melissa Garcia – ConsumerQueen.com
Melissa is a mom of 2 and savings specialist who enjoys getting a good deal. She uses her site as a ministry to help moms fight the rising costs of the economy by showing them ways to cut costs through couponing, shopping for sales and frugal tips. She believes that couponing is a privilege not a right and works closely with manufacturers and retail storesto bring couponing to a level that is beneficial to both. Melissa also enjoys working on Social Media campaigns for major brands. She believes in creating a personal relationship between the brand and their consumers. She is very much into taking the corporate out of the brand and bringing it down to the level where consumers can feel comfortable interacting and taking the brand seriously. Melissa has been married to her husband Daniel a.k.a. The Consumer King for almost 15 years and her family is very much involved in her blog.

Rachel Singer Gordon – MashupMom.com
Rachel Singer Gordon is a former librarian, now mashing up a new career as a blogger, author, workshop leader, editor – and mom. At MashupMom.com, she discusses money saving and money making strategies for moms, as well as for everyone else interested in deals, couponing, work-at-home opportunities. She also provides advice on mashing all of these strategies up in the combination that’s right for readers and their families. Rachel’s most recent book, Point, Click, and Save: Mashup Mom’s guide to saving and making money online, discusses ways to use online resources to both save and make money. Her upcoming Complete Idiot’s Guide to Couponing (early 2012) serves as a blueprint for beginning couponers who want to find the best ways to get started on the path to big savings.

Deidre Gunnels – Cuckoo for Coupon Deals
Deidre is a married mother of 2 girls, ages 2 and 4. She is up-beat, kinda goofy, and known to post some random ramblings sometimes. Her goal is to post deals for the regular moms like her; she finds deals 75% off retail value or more to make the deals worthwhile. She started the Cuckoo Deals Map to connect deals to the states they are in, and to connect readers to local bloggers. She adds new store coupons to the list weekly.

Jasmine Idley – Help My Budget
Jasmine is a young spunky mom who enjoys sharing her money-saving tips and strategies online. She blogs at HelpMyBudget.com where she posts online and in-store deals, grocery sales, video tutorials, frugal recipes, and how to effectively use coupons.

Heidi Kennedy – HotCouponWorld.com
Heidi and her family have honed their saving skills and were able to get out of debt, save money and purchase their first home with a 20% down payment, all because of coupons and learning how to live a frugal lifestyle. Heidi’s passion is to help others learn how to save money using coupons with a strong focus on ethical and honest couponing practices. She also provides users with the tools they need like the Internet’s largest coupon database, as well as an online home and community for like-minded frugal and deal seeking folks at HotCouponWorld.

Cindy Livesey – LivingRichWithCoupons.com
Cindy Livesey is the force behind LivingRichWithCoupons.com which provides its readers with all the resources they need to shop smart so they can get life’s necessities for a lot less. Her passion for helping others save comes through each and every day on Living Rich With Coupons as well as at her Couponing Workshops. She is a married mom of 3 with 2 currently in college. She resides in the great state of New Jersey and affectionately refers to herself as The Frugal Housewife of NJ. You can usually find her cooking up a great Italian meal, gardening, decorating, blogging, couponing or playing with her puppy Bogo.

Jenny Martin – Southern Savers
Jenny Martin is the writer behind SouthernSavers.com, one of the leading frugal living websites in the South. Her goal is teach a purposeful, relaxed approach to saving money on almost everything you buy. As a mom of three little girls six and under, Jenny’s focus is on finding ways to coupon, deal hunt, and shop in the quickest, most time conserving manner – that way you can get back to whats truly important, like playing games and coloring with the kids! In the blogging world, Jenny has seen Southern Savers grow into a community of over 1.5 million users. While running a large community takes a lot of time (and help), Jenny balances blogging time with puzzles and dress up. She is passionate about mom’s not getting lost in coupons and forgetting their focus. Really anything you start doing to save money is better than what you were doing, so come and learn the simple and rewarding method to shopping!

Collin Morgan – Hip2Save
Collin Morgan is a young mom to three adorable kiddos, two boys and a girl, and wife of a U.S. Marine. The Morgans are a typical American family, struggling with finances, budgeting, and the challenges that come with raising children in today’s fast-moving world. Collin began blogging, under the name of Hip2Save, as a way to chart a new path for herself and to get her spending habits under control. Blogging has given her the courage to try out new behaviors and explore new possibilities. At the same time, it helped her shift her priorities: Family and the simple pleasures in life came to the forefront, and material things took a back seat. Through it all, Collin has learned that it is Hip to Save and a whole lot more fun and rewarding than overspending and dealing with debt.

Shannon Shaffer – For the Mommas
Shannon Shaffer is the mom behind forthemommas.com, a website dedicated to helping families spend time and money wisely. Shannon understands the need to make every dollar and every moment count. From grocery store deals to time-saving recipes, she encourages her readers to save money on things they need, so they can afford the things they want. She is passionate about her family, finance, cooking, and shopping – as you can see regularly in posts. One of her favorite things about ForTheMommas.com is the opportunity it allows her to interact with her readers. She resides in Philly with her husband, son & golden retriever.