It is an app-based marketing platform that allows businesses to bypass the big-name marketing systems namely Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Through the Amigoes platform, businesses can market straight to their consumers and friends can connect with each other to find fun things to do in their community. Our vision is to become the number one digital marketing provider for small and medium size businesses and consumers worldwide.

The Problem

Digital marketing is expensive and requires a lot of skill to use.

The greatest struggle for small businesses is to be discovered by new customers. Big names like Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon control nearly all digital marketing. They act as gatekeepers to any business wanting to market services online. Businesses are expected to rely on these daunting platforms if they want to see any success. The problem is the tools they provide cost a lot to use. Businesses pour exorbitant amounts of money into these platforms that may not even get them the clicks or conversions they want. This method doesn’t connect businesses to consumers and ends up being a wasted cost.

On top of this, using these digital marketing platforms is complicated and confusing. The common business owner doesn’t know how to use Google Ads or Facebook Ads Manager. These bulky tools require months of training, learning, and luck just to figure out how they work. That’s a lot of time wasted for a business that’s trying to stay afloat. This is why 80% of small businesses in the United States don’t use digital marketing. It’s out of their budget and out of their expertise.

The Solution

An intuitive and affordable marketing platform.

Amigoes is simple, affordable, and powerful. This is thanks to our unique app-based marketing platform paired with a community of consumers. Amigoes is extremely accessible, including an intuitive user interface and affordable costs; Businesses only pay for the customers we send their way. Our platform delivers clear marketing statistics so that businesses know exactly how much gross profit the app is generating for their business.

Amigoes’ direct marketing appeal comes from its consumer side. Consumers can browse the Amigoes app as a simplified marketplace and share deals with their friends. This makes it possible for small and local businesses to be seen and attract customers. With Amigoes, local businesses and consumers will be more connected than ever before.

How it Works

Making marketing fun and easy for businesses and consumers

Amigoes is a platform that benefits both businesses and consumers like no other platform on the market. For businesses, Amigoes makes digital marketing easy, affordable and powerful. A business can create an Amigoes account in minutes, publishing their services on the app’s activity page for everyone to see. Whenever someone schedules an activity on Amigoes, business owners are automatically notified so they can see exactly how well Amigoes is working for them. Business owners can see trends concerning their Amigoes marketing efforts such as detailed analytics.

On the consumer side, users create their profile, invite their friends, and browse an array of local food, recreation, art, and entertainment options. When they find something that interests them, users can schedule that activity with their friends and download coupons available through Amigoes. Consumers are able to connect with their friends and explore their community to find new things to do. Amigoes makes it easy for users to discover and support local businesses in their area, or plan activities for a trip in another state.

How It’s Different

More accessible for consumers and more impartial for businesses

Other online marketing platforms are designed to keep people scrolling and clicking on ads. Amigoes is designed to help people discover businesses in their community. The visual and browsable design of the activities page makes it easy for users to discover and support all different kinds of businesses in their area.

Most platforms that provide business coupons take a large percentage of the sale, leaving less profit for the business. Amigoes offers businesses complete customization on the coupons they want to offer to users. Unlike other marketing companies, which require users to buy into the service before they can use offered coupons, Amigoes will only require users to watch a quick advertisement before being able to claim coupons. Compared to its competitors currently on the market, Amigoes is more accessible to consumers and more equitable to businesses.

The Market/The Vision

Amigoes targets an underserved, dissatisfied market

We know that by focusing on an underserved area of the market and businesses that do not currently use digital marketing, Amigoes can disrupt the market and offer value to a dissatisfied community.

48% of businesses feel they are not getting a positive return on investment from their digital marketing campaigns. That means $75B worth of businesses are looking for a better way to advertise their business to users. Amigoes will end the search for these businesses.

The digital marketing industry grows exponentially every year. Because of this, the price to compete also grows. This makes it difficult for businesses to survive. Amigoes will focus on this cost-concerned market and help them find success while staying financially safe.

Traction

Businesses are committed

99.9% of all businesses contacted have committed to using Amigoes to help their businesses grow. In less than one month of cold calling business owners, we have been able to raise $200K in annual recurring revenue (ARR). With a sales team of only three people, we could contract $2M in ARR in just five months.

The U.S. spends $150B on digital marketing every year. By adding Amigoes into the mix, we conservatively calculate $12B in total annual opportunity in just 2 years. Seizing that opportunity starts with businesses that are motivated to use the Amigoes platform.

Business Model

Amigoes makes money by helping businesses make money

Our business model centers on helping businesses attract more customers. Through Amigoes, users watch advertisements, download coupons, and book activities through the activities page. When this happens, businesses make money by gaining new customers. Businesses then pay Amigoes a monthly fee based on how many customers have come in through the platform.

The app is free for consumers and businesses only pay for the customers we send their way. This low-risk, high-reward system is what makes our business model successful.

Amigoes will also host thirty-second advertisements that will play before users can claim coupons. Businesses whose services don’t align with the platform’s Activities Page (like dentist offices or landscape services) can still find success through Amigoes by having their ads on the platform. Amigoes is committed to helping all businesses market themselves, and successfully doing so is how Amigoes will make a profit.