Lollicup ® Tea Zone Juice Bar Franchise Banks on mUrgent Email Marketing

Santa Ana, CA – Shaun Ito, Orange County regional manager for the popular Lollicup® Tea Zone™ juice bar franchise, has launched a permission-based email marketing campaign, using mUrgent Corporation's (http://www.murgent.com) EMPACT software. The email campaign is the first since Lollicup franchises opened in the U.S. three years ago.

"We started low cost guerrilla marketing with the standard techniques - money mailers, clipper coupon packages, campus and door-to-door leafleting, health fairs and other event sponsorships with high foot traffic. We quickly saw that our target market was more than 90 percent internet-savvy young adults. We'll continue to use these more traditional marketing techniques, but have added permission-based email because of its hyper-efficiency and it's natural appeal to our target audience,' says Ito.

Ito's initial advertising reached more than 10,000 local residents, but more importantly, he has captured over 1,500 personal email addresses from shop visitors. He and Chan collect new emails daily with a voluntary sign-up sheet at their service counter. Customers can also register their emails directly on the Irvine Lollicup website. They expect to see their current email list of names to grow at least five percent each month. By using EMPACT, Ito expects to reach up to 2,500 potential customers instantly through email containing the Lollicup logo banner and a variety of possible promotions including discount coupons and special drink offers.

"Email marketing has become the new standard in guerrilla promotion. It's faster, more efficient and more personal than display or broadcast advertising. We'll always keep up our community affairs activity, but we believe personalized email, sent only to people who have given us their email addresses voluntarily, can turn the internet into the most effective marketing tool we use,' says Ito.

They selected the Lollicup Tea Zone juice bar franchise based on its rapid spread from its Taiwanese origins into more than 60 U.S. sites in seven states. They started a new Lollicup company trend with their high-technology expertise and relatively young ages. Both Ito and Chan are under age 25.

ABOUT mUrgent

mUrgent, an e-marketing authority, delivers EMPACT, a proven, easy-to-use e-marketing solution businesses can rely on to automate more frequent, personalized communication to your customers for a higher return on your marketing investment. For more information visit http://www.murgent.com.

###