 Call now toll-free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at 727-873-7618 Welcome back folks to doubt now is up a 528 with an Aztec of 122 S&Ps are up 52 yesterday folks is Sharon Ferguson Sharon is the CEO of fan saves fan saves the digital platform that features discounts and deals from sponsors affiliated brands sports teams organizations all the above their website is fansaves.com Sharon welcome to TFNN Hi Tom Shannon here Shannon sorry shame on me it's all good you know you it's pretty bad you it's pretty bad about that my my niece is Shannon in Amirah so I should know Shannon upside down shame on me so hey tell us tell us about fan saves tell us how this works yeah sure so fan saves is a digital platform that offers fans discounts and deals from sponsors of their favorite teams and basically my co-founder and I were working in minor professional hockey selling sponsorship and we recognized and this was four years ago and we recognized that a lot of businesses in the community actually wanted more out of their sponsorship than just a ring board or scoreboard on they wanted something that was digital that they could actually drive people in and track analytics and demographics so that's how the idea of fan saves came about and yeah we've been growing across North America ever since so it figures that you're an advertising business I you know and I learned a long time ago so so pitch to this channel this is this is a crazy story I've been doing this since 1994 but on the air and my neighbor um I just moved to this place and I didn't know this guy owned one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country so he asked me what business I was in I told him he says oh I feel sorry for you he says people don't buy advertising you sell it right I mean we know how this goes which is really cool I just want to get the aspect of how I can see how you got here there's no doubt about that so what type of money do fans save how does how does that work let's let's say that you know I'm going to you know I don't know Florida State or something like this how how would it work yeah so how it works you can think of fans is like Instagram needs Groupon but for sports teams and organizations so you download the free app or go to our website and sign up for your free account yes and then you follow your favorite teams um or community organizations okay um and once you follow them you have access to different deals from their sponsors so say Pizza Hut is a sponsor yes you actually get a deal from Pizza Hut so 10 off or a free slice or anything like that that really drives fans into their their business which if you think about the last you know sporting event you went to where watched you went watched on tv you know everyone knows their sponsors all over the walls and the boards and the field and the ice but we all know that once the game is over you're remembering who won who lost how you felt during the game you're not remembering who those sponsors are and that's what fans is is really helping with nice so let me ask you and you know I'm sure that you got to stay on the phone quite a bit how do you get sponsors outside of calling calling calling I guess what you have to do right actually our business well actually our business model is really unique so we actually have to have boots on the ground um cells in the cities the teams that we're working with so we actually our customers are the teams when you get the team you're going to get the sponsors with it so like me if I sign up and I get the team that I then I can go to Pizza Hut I can go somewhere else that that's really that's a great idea I mean I think it's fabulous so and you know there's no doubt like there's sponsorship yes and and there's no doubt that I mean I would say that you know when you have fans with teams they like to sponsor them right I mean you like to follow me like to take care of them yeah and I can see if you might have a good game and you know particularly myself I like to basically take care of the people that are taking care of what we like that's what it comes down to you know what you talking about small world I know you come out of the minor league but we have a lot of listeners in Canada also and I forget it's it's craft craft runs something for the AAA every year the big like whatever AAA city can get the most votes they get a new rank or something and so for three or four years in a row this goes back like seven or eight years we front loaded this deal it was great because what ended up happening the listeners up in Canada all the hockey players they're calling down here I have everyone voting down here right it was it was great I mean it was you know because of course their town was so excited because I think that it was you know they were smaller towns and there was a there was a good prize at the end of the prize and so going going forward what are you looking for going forward yeah so you kind of hit the nail on the head what we're really doing is creating the first couponing network so we're giving fans a way to really come together and support those sponsors so right now we've proven our product in you know the minor leagues and we're we're we're in discussions with major league teams we were just in in Florida you know talking with a bunch of teams down there so for us Florida is is huge growing in Tampa Champa Bay of course sure it's so big with all the schools and the amazing pro teams getting a footprint in Tampa is really on our on our list yeah you only need a couple of these Florida teams man I mean I've been here for 25 years but these Florida schools they are so huge it's like it's amazing yeah it really is collegiate athlete collegiate athletics are definitely big on our list as well because you know those schools and their teams they have sponsors but again students why do students care who's sponsoring a team unless again if they're getting a deal so yeah hey listen it's a great concept I wish you a lot of luck I'd love to have you on again and hopefully you're gonna be ringing that bell at the NASDAQ three or four years that's the goal and we'll definitely let you in on that and we'll have you we'll have you there if it happens that's a beautiful thing well Shannon you have a great one a safe one we look forward having you on again thank you so much and have a great day you also have a great one have a safe one