Ryan Duques and James Warner from Madison, Connecticut have just hatched SavingsClique.com along the shoreline.

Duques and Warner have known each other since the fourth grade, they’re now in their mid 30′s. I have known them since they were in high school and when you saw one you most always saw the other, not joined at the hip, but close enough. They were seated next to each other as youngsters in class and that was the beginning of what would become a lifelong friendship that would grow into a business partnership which continues big time today. If you ever see them out chatting, say in a diner, just know that the wheels are turning on something new.

At the age of 18, the pair started a hometown newspaper which turned into Shore Publishing. They sold that business in January of 2008. Along the way they formed a parent company called WD Enterprises, Inc., a place where all their future businesses would be listed. They’re involved in an energy company, they’re in the throws of forming a new community bank, they own Interactive Digital~ IDTV (The TV’s you see at Connecticut gas stations while you’re pumping gasoline). Also Guidezilla.com (yes, it’s a guide to events) Wine Encyclopedia and now comes Savings Clique.com. This latest venture is a way to help small businesses get ahead by offering time sensitive coupons (three days to redeem) to get folks in the door.

These guys are all about hometown and local, they always have been since growing up in small town America. Think Opie in Mayberry.

Along the way Ryan got married and is now the father of two daughters. James is single.

These two do most things very quickly. They get an idea, strategize, and then launch it as is the case with Savings Clique.com. From start to finish this idea went live on the web in about 4 weeks.

~Postscript~ In keeping with the fact that Ryan and James never stop, Ryan has described how they launched the Savings Clique business in a quick read book called “37 Days to Launch.” It’s written from the heart. He tells it like it is in very plain speak, he was very kind to include me in his tell all tale.

This is a folksy down-to-earth read in which he includes his wife and kids and friends and of course his dear friend and partner, James Warner.

Duques has never churned out a book before, somehow given his track record this will probably be a first in a series, that’s just how he rolls. Thank heavens we have him and Warner here in Connecticut.

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