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Send a Real Gift to a Mobile Phone via SMS with Tigerbow

Now you can send a real gift to a mobile phone via SMS with Tigerbow (http://tigerbow.com).  In addition to sending real gifts to virtual places including email addresses, Facebook profiles, and Twitter IDs, now you can enter a mobile telephone number as your gift destination and we’ll get your real gift to your recipient.  When you choose the Mobile Phone / SMS option for delivery, your recipient will receive an SMS with your personalized message and a mobile-friendly link they can click to accept their gift and tell us (and only us) where it should go - right away and on the go.

So make that vibration in someone’s pocket even more exciting by sending a real gift to a mobile phone today!

Send Gifts at a Safe Distance…. (excerpt from Thrillist)

In the online world, it’s always good to be cagey and keep things private — but then how’re your thousands of colleagues on LinkedIn supposed to send you wonderful gifts? With Tigerbow, that’s how.

The perfect accomplice for all your romantic conquest/casual stalking needs, TB’s a confidential gifting site helmed by two UPenn grads that lets you browse for and send real stuff to people you know only virtually (via email, Facebook, Twitter, etc), by acting as a proxy for the giftees’ physical addresses, letting you mail them a present without ever knowing their digs, so they won’t get freaked out until after your pasta sculpture arrives….

Use Tigerbow for Dating! The eFlirtExpert tells you how…. (excerpt)

Men Cannot Survive on Wit Alone

A little chivalry can go a long way with a woman - opening a car door, draping your jacket over her shoulders or sending her flowers unexpectedly, to name a few. Merging chivalry and online dating is a tricky thing though….  How do you make an impact greater than your charming wit?

The eFlirt expert, of course has a solution. And it’s called Tigerbow. Tigerbow allows you to send real gifts virtually. You don’t need to know a match’s mailing address to send them a token of appreciation any more! In fact, you don’t even need to know their EMAIL address, which is key to your safety when you date online. All you have to do is choose a real gift, select “Just gimme a link, I’ll handle the rest!” and provide payment. You send the link to the recipient. Tigerbow provides a secure “stalker proof” platform for your match to enter his/her address, and ships the product. You look like a hero because not only have you put the thought (and funds) into sending your match a gift, but you have proved that you’re on the cusp of technology by knowing about this gem of a website. Tigerbow will even send an email announcing the gift for you if you happen to know your match’s FaceBook, Twitter or email address….

Real Gifts - Anywhere you want to send them…. Only from Tigerbow

Effective immediately, you can send a real gift to ANY virtual place by using our new “Just gimme a link…” function.  If you’d like to send a real gift to a virtual place other than an email address, Facebook profile, or Twitter ID, click the “Just gimme a link…” button when you check out.  When you use the “Just gimme a link…” method for delivering your gift, we’ll provide you with a gift link that you can copy and paste anywhere.  Here are a few ideas….

• Send a real gift to someone you like on Match.com….
• Give a real gift to a friend on Second Life….
• Send a real gift to someone you know on MySpace….
• Share a real gift with a business contact on LinkedIn….
• Post a real gift link on your blog and see who’s first to accept it….
• Shoot a real gift to a friend via instant message….

Get creative and visit http://tigerbow.com to send something today!

Send a real greeting card to anyone anywhere in the world for $3.99.
No address required.

Now you can send a real, honest-to-god 5x7 folded greeting card to anybody anywhere in the world for $3.99 ($2.99 + $1.00 for shipping and handling) without knowing a single thing about your recipient’s physical address.  Choose a card from our growing collection, choose your recipient’s virtual address (e.g., an email address, Facebook profile, or Twitter ID), and we’ll handle the rest.  Click here to see our cards: http://bit.ly/skST9 or, if you have an idea for a card, put it up on twitter with the subject “#tigerbow” and we’ll try and add it to the catalog (or just email us at bizdev@tigerbow.com).  Send Real Gifts. Be Real Happy.

New and Smoother Send and Receive Functionality on Tigerbow.com

The Tigerbow user interface has improved.  Now, when sending gifts you have the option of showing your recipient the gift you are sending (in the message they receive) or “virtually wrapping” your gift and keeping it a surprise until your recipient receives the Real McCoy.  More helpful features are on the way.  Visit http://bow.me to send real gifts to virtual places.

Tigerbow Powers Passions Network’s ‘Real Gifts’ Program

Tigerbow has partnered with Passions Network (http://passionsnetwork.com) to power Passions Network’s ‘Real Gifts’ program.  Now, members of Passions Network’s collection of 100+ dating and community sites can send real gifts to other members without knowing any of the other member’s personal information. All the member needs to know is the gift recipient’s username.  The ‘Real Gifts’ program lets members stand out by sending someone real flowers, books, movies, candy, baked goods, t-shirts, and more.  No personal information is ever available to either member in the process. The sender of the gift will never be given access to the recipients name or address…and likewise, the recipient will never be given the personal information of the sender.

Here is how it works:

1) On any Passions Network site, click the ‘send a real gift’ button on a member’s profile page.  You will be taken to a catalog of gifts.

2) Once you choose a gift, you will enter your billing information and a message for the recipient.  ***Please note that you will not be charged unless the recipient agrees to accept the gift.

3) A message will be sent to the Passions Network member via the Passions internal email system letting them know you would like to give them a real gift.  If the recipient accepts your gift, they will then enter their shipping information so that we know where to send the gift.  At this point, your credit card is charged.

4) Finally, we ship it.  We won’t tell you (the sender) where it’s going, but we will let you know when it’s been accepted, shipped, and received; i.e., when you should expect your recipient to return the favor and send you a thank you gift.

Again, at no point will either the sender or the recipient have access to the other party’s personal information. Even when tracking the package, no information about the sender or receiver will be provided.

Tigerbow is working with several other communities to power their properties and will announce these partnerships as they go live.  To learn more about becoming a Tigerbow partner or to learn more about the Tigerbow API, please email bizdev@tigerbow.com

Tigerbow Gets “Busted” - Send T-Shirts as Gifts, No Address Required

We are pleased to announce our newest gift category.  Tigerbow has partnered with BustedTees so that you can send gifts from a collection of hundreds of real t-shirts and hoodies (and a few other things) to your friends via email, Facebook, and Twitter.  As usual, no physical addresses are required.  Browse our collection here - and be sure to mouseover the images to see the t-shirt prints more closely:  http://bit.ly/8IRq2

BustedTees opened in 2004 and is entirely run by the guys from CollegeHumor.com.  They decided to start making t-shirts because they want people to have fun, laugh, look good, feel comfortable, get good jobs, get sweaty dancing, and go home with someone who also did those things.  We couldn’t have said it better ourselves (so we didn’t - we just copied it from their website).

Most of the t-shirts are around $10-20 or so.  Here are a few we already own ourselves - so don’t send them to us (and if you send them to your friends, tell them to call us before they wear them out)….

For Old School fans:  http://bit.ly/1PrjyQ
For Seinfeld fans:  http://bit.ly/WwPIr
For The Big Lebowski inclined:  http://bit.ly/146VnX
For the Napoleon Dynamite lover:  http://bit.ly/dQDg
Don’t Fear the Reaper:  http://bit.ly/mm9X5