Promoting and marketing the goods and services of others by distributing advertising material, coupons and discount offers via text messages; Promoting the goods and services of others by means of the issuance of loyalty rewards cards; Promoting the goods and services of others by providing a web site at which users can link to to merchant profile information including business name, logo, location, contact information, customer reviews, customer ratings; Promoting the goods and services of others by providing a website featuring discount vouchers, rebates, price-comparison information, product reviews, discount information; Promoting the goods and services of others by providing an interactive website where users can increase the current value of an online discount being offered by purchasing the goods and services associated with that discount in the form of an online coupon, voucher or gift card; Promoting the goods and services of others by providing hypertext links to the web sites of others; Promoting the goods and services of others by providing a community-driven web site featuring user-submitted content in the nature of coupons, rebates, price-comparison information, product reviews, links to the retail web sites of others, and discount information; promoting the goods and services of others by providing a community-driven website, distributing coupons, providing hyperlinks to websites of others; Promoting the goods and services of others through the distribution of discount cards; Promoting the sale of goods and services of others by distributing advertising material, coupons and discount offers via text messages, via email, via Web site, and/or via downloadable files