Today’s Startup: Front Flip

Today’s internet startup Front Flip is the next generation of loyalty marketing. Front Flip is not just another punch card on a mobile app. Instead, it helps businesses to create profitable, long-term relationships with their customers through fun experiences, instant promotions, rich customer analytics and targeted mobile campaigns.

As a store owner you can delight your customers and keep them coming back for more. You can give your guests the chance to win instant prizes every time they visit, and send them targeted mobile offers to drive them back to your locations more frequently.

With Front Flip you can capture new customers in your loyalty program using social promotions, digital ads, direct mail, email and much more. You can easily put together an integrated marketing campaign for your business, complete with design services and reporting.

The platform provides customer insights like you’ve never seen before. Understand your guests by visit frequency, gender, age, location, day part, offer redemptions, social activity and more. The online and email reporting puts actionable customer data at your fingertips.

For the customers it is just simple. They can look for the Front Flip code at their favorite places, scan it with the Front Flip mobile app to unlock a Digital Scratch Card as the secret to instant savings. Scratching the received card can unlock a prize like a 1/2 price appetizer, a free lunch or whatever you have in store for you loyalty program. A customer can also join a store’s Front Flip program. With these programs you can send your customer gifts in the mobile app to thank them for being a loyal customer.

Front Flip was founded in 2011 by Sean Beckner and Matthew Beckner and holds office in Leawood, Kansas, USA.

Today’s Startup: Instabridge

Today’s internet startup Instabridge is a really groundbreaking and simple way to use and share Wi-Fi. It deals with the annoying problem of getting WiFi passwords at e.g. a friends place. You simply log into your Facebook account and Instabridge automatically sets up your phone to use WiFi when visiting the homes of your Facebook friends.

Instead having to go into settings, choosing a network and finding the password (typically forgotten or hidden under a router) all you need to do is log on with your Facebook account and Instabridge automatically configures your phone to use Wi-Fi when you’re home at any of your friends on Facebook. To add a network you need to connect to it and then input the password to confirm that it’s yours.

The people at Instabridge take security and privacy very seriously. It is designed around the idea that you should have full control over who you share your Wi-Fi network with. They will never share access to your router without your consent. Normally when someone wants to use your Wi-Fi, you have to show them the password. And once you have shown it to them, you can never take it back. With Instabridge you just allow them access by friending them. They can then connect to your Wi-Fi network without ever seeing the password. If you want to stop giving them access, you can just unfriend them.

You can really say the Instabridge is unlocking the world of Wi-Fi. It is building the world’s largest Wi-Fi network built on the social graph. Instabridge was founded in 2012 by Niklas Agevik and holds office in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Today’s Startup: Maily

Today’s internet startup Maily makes email for kids secure, simple and fun. Maily is email re-invented for kids and allows them to control their own email account, with a little help from the parents. For example the Maily accounts are created and constantly supervised by the parents who also decide who your children can communicate with.

Kids have their own inbox where they receive mails from friends and family, and can reply right away. They can create emails using five tools adapted to their needs: pencils, brushes, photos, backgrounds, stamps and their own words.

Paint
The paint brush lets kids to freely express themselves on white canvas, and unleash their creativity in their own e-mails.

Write
This pencil is ideal for kids to share their thoughts in their own words, or use it to draw anything they want.

Take photo’s
With the Maily camera, kids can take instant shots and add, rotate and scale them into any e-mail they are creating.

Backgrounds
Over 30 amazing backgrounds to apply themes in their e-mails. If it’s their birthday or if they are leaving on vacation, Maily has the tools to create the mood for any story they want to tell.

Place stamps
With over 30 cool stamps, carefully designed for kids, they can create stories in their e-mail.

As a parent you have complete control over what your child sends and receives. If you need to, you can check and approve messages silently using the Maily dashboard, and your child will never notice. If an approved contact receives an email from your child, it will be send to a normal email account. Them if someone wants to reply they have to login on Maily and form a reply using the Maily editor.

Maily was founded in 2012 by Tom Galle and Raphael Halberthal