Yowza!! Joins the Second Annual Small Business Saturday® to Drive Business to Small Businesses - PR Newswire - sacbee.com

Yowza!! Joins the Second Annual Small Business Saturday® to Drive Business to Small Businesses - PR Newswire - sacbee.com:

Yowza!! Joins the Second Annual Small Business Saturday® to Drive Business to Small Businesses

Aims to Unite and Inspire Consumers to Shop Small(SM) on November 26, 2011

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Published: Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 - 8:54 am

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Nov. 14, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Yowza!!, the leading location-based mobile coupon app, today announced its participation in the second annual Small Business Saturday® on November 26, 2011. Yowza!!! is supporting the Small Business Saturday Coalition by offering two free months of service followed by a 50percent discounted monthly rate to the first 15,000 merchants who join by Nov. 26, 2011. Details can be found at getyowza.com/amex. Small Business Saturday is a day for dedicating a portion of holiday shopping to local, independently owned small businesses.

American Express, founding partner of Small Business Saturday, is gearing up for the second annual event that is built on last year's inaugural program. Last year, small businesses saw a 28-percent increase in sales on American Express Cards on Small Business Saturday compared to the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2009.(1)

Yowza!! recognizes the importance of small businesses throughout North America, the jobs they help create and the culture they instill in local communities. As of 2007, small businesses had

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