About Me

Welcome to Coupon Cravings! My name is Erin Gifford and I am a working mother of four children, including three girls and a baby boy who was born in August. I launched Coupon Cravings in May 2008 and truly enjoy the opportunity to share fantastic deals, freebies and coupons with my readers to help them save big in this economy.

I live in the Washington, DC area and spent most of my career in public relations working with and for the best at Fleishman-Hillard, Ogilvy PR Worldwide and in-house at AOL. Today I split my time between Coupon Cravings and handling PR for a new grocery-related start-up called ZipList.

Coupon Cravings receives more than 300,000 visits each month. This blog has more than 26,000 feed and email subscribers, as well as 6,600+ Twitter followers.

Through Coupon Cravings, I am a part of Walmart’s Eleven Moms social media campaign and am a DealPro with Savings.com. I was also selected as one of a handful of mom bloggers to work with Oscar Mayer, Frito-Lay and A Full Cup on various social media initiatives.

Previously, I wrote weekly posts on WalletPop, AOL’s personal finance site. I also contributed to All You magazine’s Daily Savings from All You and Working Mother magazine’s Mom Blog.

I have written numerous freelance articles that have appeared in such publications as Pregnancy, ePregnancy, Natural Health and GRAND. My work has appeared in regional parenting magazines as well, including Big Apple Parent, Coastal Family, Pittsburgh Parent, Tulsa Kids and Washington Family.