A Little About Us

Very Short History as to Whom We Are: TexTivia started as a fun text-to-win trivia game between friends. Slowly but surely our core group of friends introduced it to others, others introduced it to more people, and very quickly we had to expand services in order to keep up with the demand of our players. Increased services also incurred an increased price tag we had to pay personally to keep the game going.

We had two options: We could make TexTivia a monthly subscription and use the money to cover the cost of operation OR break the growing users down into a zip code radius and attach a local discount to each correct answer thus charging for advertising and not charging the players.

The decision was made to keep TexTivia free and fun for the growing trivia players – (TexTivia will always be free, however as every texting company has to tell you legally “standard message and data rates may apply”. This basically is a non-issue because everyone including my Grandmother has a texting plan…if you don’t – c’mon Zack Morris, get with the 2000′s.) We started to really compile users and target our marketing into the cities we had the most users in. We then utilized “back end coupons” for our players to use at local businesses. We were also able to give away daily and weekly prizes to our players. We have had winners from New Mexico all the way to Alaska, and we grow every day.

Local Discounts as of April 12 2011: We have added increased functionality to our local discounts. You can now access them right through our website by clicking “GET” next to any discount you like. Some may have a minimum amount of people that need to “GET” the discount before it can be valid, some might be ready to roll right from the beginning – we made it 100% up to the business.

Sharing A Discount You Love: You can click the FACEBOOK icon where it says “SHARE THIS DEAL” you can then post a message along with a link to the discount you like and share it to all of your friends.

Gifting A Discount You Love: Right underneath the green “GET” button you can see a little Wrapped Gift. If you click on the gift you can email it to your friend(s), or print out a few to give personally.

Group Buy Discounts: It seems like everybody and their brother is offering “group buy discounts” and of course we get asked about this a lot. We actually have created a platform that allows our clients to save 60-80% compared to other services, and we encourage our clients to literally GIVE good deals and high percentages away to their local community residents. We also (unlike almost every group buy website) encourage our clients to do many deals during the month. If you REALLY love Bob’s Pizza Pagoda, why should you be a slave to a discount that can only be offered once per year? If it works for you, and it works for Bob and his Pagoda…then why limit it? Bob should do it every week…and maybe you could join a gym with all of the money you’re saving on Bob’s Amazing Pizza.

The truth – most companies that try group buying end up losing money. This is because every group buy business model for almost ALL of the companies out there MAKE the client cut his prices in half (good for you, and a great discount), but they also TAKE 50% of the remaining money. Thus leaving Bob with 25% of his original value of his Amazing Pizza. This is not fair and this is not how TexTivia offers group buying to your local favorite places. So you can buy with confidence, they can promote with confidence, and we can sleep easy at night knowing that everyone is happy.

The Future: We strive to create new products for our clients and our customers. Our loyalty is cut 50/50 down the middle. We want our players to feel that they are being treated to cutting edge discounts to the businesses they like. We want to help grow small business and local communities. But most importantly we strive to create a fun and affordable method for local companies to introduce themselves to the people that live within their community.

We’re in this for the people, we’re in it for our friends, family, and strangers that are finding it harder and harder to save money. We believe if you treat people good, good things will happen.

Thank you for checking out our site and we look forward to growing with you -

Chris Baumgarden – C.O.O. – TexTivia, Inc.