Online Savings Site Joins Forces With SMS Text Message Marketing Agency

July 30, 2010 - PRLog -- Online Savings Site Joins Forces With SMS Text Message Marketing Agency





Deal Dog, LLC, a social media and online couponing company and WhizFish Inc, an SMS text message marketing agency have joined forces to offer a one-of-a-kind benefit for customers. The joint venture is the first online savings site to bring social media, mobile and online marketing together in one place for local businesses to reach local consumers. With money-saving deals, coupons, specials and/or giveaways, consumers are being reached through a multi-channel approach. WhizFish has been serving markets across the nation since 2007. The first Deal Dog site launched this month in Toledo, Ohio.

Deal Dog, through WhizFish, also offers text marketing, an extremely actionable advertising avenue, which complements the online aspect of Deal Dog’s strategic social media branding and promotion. Industry studies show, over 80% of cell phone users are willing to receive opt-in text messages.

Deal Dog founder and president, Faith Megna, and WhizFish founder and president, Betsey Duggan, said the marriage between the two companies makes perfect sense. Megna said,"An advertiser's message needs to be delivered through several channels to ensure success. All of those channels need to be online and viral. We are the first to provide that multi-channel delivery." Duggan added, "Gone are the days when consumers spend time clipping and saving paper coupons. They want to use their phones to go online and find relevant information or to receive that same information via a text message in real time."

Megna is the founder and president of Deal Dog and Duggan is president and co-founder of WhizFish. Both say plans are to expand in markets across the Midwest and beyond.

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Deal Dog is an online savings portal that uses web, email, social media and mobile marketing to help consumers save money. WhizFish is an SMS text message marketing agency that builds and manages mobile marketing programs for business owners.