Nashville Startup textLIVING Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary with 500,000 Consumer Uses
Nashville, TN (PRWEB) August 13, 2013 -- In the past 12 months, textLIVING has experienced tremendous growth having successfully launched in Nashville, Clarksville and Bowling Green. textLIVING is currently making plans to expand into Murfreesboro, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis markets.
Mr. Brannon stated, “The response to our program has been fantastic. To have 62% of the population of Bowling Green actively using textLIVING is a milestone we never thought we would achieve so quickly. At textLIVING, we believe in inspiring local businesses to successfully engage customers more efficiently and with our virtual loyalty program I am happy to say we are making a genuine impact in local business communities.”
textLIVING specializes in increasing quantifiable customer loyalty in the coffee shop, c-store, restaurant, grocery and retail industries. Mainly working with local independent businesses textLIVING has also partnered with local franchise owners of several national franchises including Chick-fil-A, Famous Dave’s, Little Caesars, and Once Upon a Child, to name a few. textLIVING makes a difference in local communities with their virtual loyalty program that offers a fast and simple way to reward loyal customers, reengage non-loyal customers, and communicate to customers efficiently.
Customers simply sign up for the program at the in-store iPad Kiosk, they then check-in at iPad Kiosk on each visit and when they qualify for a loyal customer reward they receive a text message notification which they can redeem on their next visit. Businesses can also send out three-group text communications per month to their loyalty database highlighting products, events or running one-day promotions.
In today’s technology savvy world, local business have lots of options when it comes to how they market their business and communicate to customers and potential customers. One of the unique qualities about the textLIVING virtual program is the ability to deliver infrequent communications via text and to track and quantify all results.
“At textLIVING, we offer a solution that allows local businesses a cost effective way to communicate to specific customers and increase revenue through increasing their loyal customer base. Recently, one of our partner restaurants sent out a one-day product offer using the textLIVING program. Over 1500 people read the communication and over 100 people visited and purchased within a 12-hour period. We are not aware of another program that can offer such strong results,” states Murray Allan textLIVING Partner and Director of Marketing
Some of the highlights of the textLIVING virtual loyalty program include:
• Simple and fast way to Reward loyal customers: No need for swipe cards, punch cards, key fobs or QR codes.
• Re-engage and drive back non-loyal customers: Communicate incentives specifically to customers who have not visited in 30 days or more to return within 7 days.
• Contact Customers: Obtain a 98% open rate by communicating promotions, events or products to loyal customers via text message.
• Quantify results: Unique redemption codes and custom analytics allow all aspects of program to be tracked and the success and ROI to be quantified.
• Fraud prevention: Dramatically reduce employee and customer fraud with the use of individual unique customer redemption codes.
Unlike many technology startups, textLIVING has been generating revenue from product launch and is on track to exceed year-end projections. In the past 18 months, textLIVING has raised over $250,000 in early stage funding and is currently seeking $1 million dollars to expedite company growth into other markets.
Co-Founder Joe Brannon stated, “A lot of recent technology startup companies have adopted a freemium business model in an attempt to scale quickly. However, we made a decision to try and develop a profitable business as quickly as possible and have kept a strong focus on growing our paid customer base rather than devaluing or product and simply giving it away.”
About textLIVING
Have you ever asked yourself WHY you do what you do? We believe in inspiring local businesses to successfully engage customers more efficiently.
HOW do you make a difference? We make a difference in local communities with our virtual loyalty program that offers a fast and simple way to reward loyal customers, reengage non-loyal customers, and communicate efficiently.
WHAT are doing to change the world? We help consumers discover new local businesses, earn rewards, and receive awesome discounts. We help merchants increase revenue by quantifying and increasing their loyal customer base.
Visit http://biz.textliving.com for additional information.
Joe Brannon, textLIVING, http://biz.textliving.com, +1 6152553199 102, [email protected]
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