Missoula, February 3, 2009 – Vann’s Corporation, a national electronics and multi-channel retailer, today announced a partnership to utilize Goomzee’s text-message marketing platform, Goomzee Connect.  Vann’s, with over $100,000,000 in annualized sales, is among the growing number of partners nationwide to adopt this interactive marketing and advertising platform. 

Vann’s interest in text-message marketing was fueled by its initial encounter with Goomzee’s Realty Connect service that leverages text message technology to create a unique and quantifiable link between real estate sales professionals, their sellers and prospective buyers.  As a result, Vann’s recognized the power of integrating text message marketing into their traditional advertising.  

Vann’s intends to use the Goomzee Connect platform for a wide range of purposes: discount offers, specific product promotions, special events, access to customer service information, as well as to engage consumers with their brand.  The company (Vann’s) will immediately begin using Vann’s branded text codes in their ads to prompt buyer interest.   

“The Goomzee Connect platform provides us with the ability to engage customers with a level of interactivity that is targeted and quantifiable.  The flexibility, control, and simplicity with which this product allows us to reach consumers at the point-of-interest and on their mobile device is exciting,” said Matt Ranta, Marketing Manager at Vann’s. 

“In today’s market it is important to reach your customers anywhere and at anytime.  Our unique mobile marketing solution provides Vann’s with a cost-effective and targeted way to reach prospective buyers and connect them with the lifestyle products and services that Vann’s is well-known for,” said Jordan Lind, VP of Business Development at Goomzee. 

ABOUT VANN’S
Vann’s, an audio, video and appliance specialist based in Missoula, has been serving Montana since 1961. Vann’s, Inc. consists of six retail stores—located in Billings, Bozeman, Flathead Valley, Hamilton, Helena and Missoula. Vann's also operates a thriving e-commerce business, as well as a custom audio/video design and installation department. Vann’s strives to provide a best-in-class customer experience and became a 100 percent employee-owned company in 2005. To Learn More About Vann’s Inc, please contact George L. Manlove, President and CEO at 406-541-6005 or go to http://www.vanns.com.

ABOUT GOOMZEE
Goomzee Corporation provides a mobile marketing technology platform that connects buyers and sellers at the point-of-interest.  Goomzee’s flagship product, Realty Connect, and now Mobile Virtual Tours, specifically assists real estate professionals to win more listings, acquire more leads and close more sales.  The Company was established in 2003 offering hosted online storefronts to small businesses as well as consulting for some of the world’s largest companies and brands.  Goomzee is an industry leader in text message marketing and continues to innovate from a client first perspective.  We connect buyers and sellers at the point-of-interest.  To learn more, visit us online at http://www.goomzee.com.