This Giveaway is Closed. The winning suggestion comes from Caryn at Rockin’ Mama, who suggested:

My friends and I love to go to coffee shops. I am suggesting to Starbucks and Coffee Bean and Peets to maybe set up a small area (like a table) with some toys, books, etc. for the kids!

Congratulations Caryn!

Have you ever wished you could give suggestions to a company as to how they could improve? Let them know exactly what you don’t like or what you think they could do better? Some businesses have a “Suggestion Box” where you can drop in a piece of paper, but who KNOWS what happens to those, right? You want to be able to see the suggestion you’ve made and what the company’s response is, right? Well, you can! SuggestionBox.com is the online site where companies create their own virtual “Suggestion Box”. Here’s what Founder Jeff Whitton has to say about the site:

“SuggestionBox.com was founded on the principle that ‘the customer is always right’. While customers have great ideas and companies want to listen to what they have to say; there has never been a place where those ideas could easily be submitted and followed – from idea to implementation,” said Jeff Whitton, Founder of SuggestionBox.com. “The number of Suggesters and suggestions on SuggestionBox.com continue to grow daily. Suggesters have already created suggestion boxes for several hundred companies of all sizes, demonstrating an incredible interest in providing valuable insights to the companies they interact with on a daily basis.’’

You can view your own history of suggestions (click on My Suggestion tab, then My Suggestions again), but it’s up to the company if they want to make suggestions public and allow everyone to see them. In addition, every Suggester has the option to make his/her own suggestion private or public. To give you an idea of what it looks like, Addison Avenue is an example of a company that has made its suggestions public.

How to enter for the chance to win a $100 gas card:
- Visit www.suggestionbox.com and take a look around. There are Featured SuggestionBoxes as well as Popular Suggestions. You can vote for, comment on, and follow your favorite suggestions to see how the company is responding!
- Come back here and leave a comment with a REAL first name or blog alias, no keywords please, and tell me your suggestion to any company. If you could get a company to change something, what would it be?
– I’ll vote for the best suggestion and determine the winner! Who gets a $100 gas card! w00t!

Rules: You must use a real name and valid email address when leaving your comment. You must leave your suggestion in your comment as well. Comments that do not include a suggestion will not be counted towards the prize of a $100 gas card. Enter by Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 9:00 AM EST. The determination of the winner of this contest is solely up to me and my personal opinion. If there are several that I like equally, I will use random.org to choose a winner. I will then email the winner for their mailing address, if I don’t get a reply in three days, I’ll choose a new winner. Good luck everybody!!!