Friends w/ Benefits

Friends with Benefits helps business grow with its unique linkage of social media, QR codes, discounts, and traditional advertising media.

  • Stage Concept Only
  • Industry Marketing / Advertising
  • Location Round Rock, TX, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Website fwbonline.net

Company Summary

Small businesses need a powerful, cost effective way to harness the power of social media. FWB uses coupons and discounts via a QR code which spreads virally through social media marketing and feeds customer information back to the business. FWB is the first in the industry to provide viral coupons which can be used in conjunction with both the business’ and the customer’s Facebook page and also can be used on virtually any advertising medium.

Team

  • Geneva Wheeless
    Partner

    Geneva Wheeless is an entrepreneur with experience operating and running her own business, including a successful hair salon, a successful toner cartridge business, and a forex trading website. She has been involved in the startup of another successful online startup business, a subscription trading service, and has a variety of part-time entrepreneurial interests. She is well aware of the value of social media in promoting a small business, an

  • Colleen Bitner
    Partner

    Colleen Bitner has an extensive background with over 20 years in corporate human resources, supplemented by recent experience in executive recruiting. In addition, she has run her own book display business, and currently in involved with s forex trading website and blog. She is also aware of the importance of social media, and uses it as a recruiting tool.

  • Austin Brown
    Partner

    For the past 8 years, Austin Brown has embarked on a journey that has taken him to New York City, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and China. His mission has been to help entrepreneurs and business owners all over the world evolve their unique ideas into tangible products. His experience in New Media Development, Social Media Marketing, and Web/Mobile Application Design has allowed him to direct teams of talented individuals to achieve this mission.

  • Cameron Wheeless
    Partner

    Cameron Wheeless is a college student majoring in Film. He had a successful baseball career with the University of New Orleans, and will finish his degree in the fall of 2012. Like any red-blooded American college student, he an extensive social network and uses Facebook, Twitter, and other social media extensively.

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