SMS marketing is catching up fast with the marketers for both small and medium sized businesses. Before getting on to launch a SMS marketing campaign, it is important to understand the nuances of it which include bulk texting, SMS short codes and SMS solutions. The latest mobile phones have now become something more than a mere tool of communication with a number of value added services. In today’s world more and more people are using mobile phones and looking at this scenario, SMS marketing becomes more apt. Bulk texting is one such application of mobile marketing which allows the company send same message to multiple receiver at one go. This cuts down the hassle of typing the same message again and again. In today’s time, the ratio of mobile phone users is more than the people accessing internet or people reading newspaper or watching television. This revolutionary fact offer great SMS solutions to the marketers to reach out to the wider audience.
Smart marketing professionals and experts have come up with extremely powerful channel to promote products and services and that’s called SMS marketing. With the advent of the new feature of bulk texting, it has become easier for the marketers to send one message to multiple users simultaneously. These days SMS text messaging is becoming popular with the companies that want to reach out to the wider set of people and to make it happen in a much smoother manner, SMS short codes can be used which is a kind of short telephone number. This form of marketing has attracted most of the marketers as it is considered as the most convenient and cost-effective way of advertising. Through variety of SMS solutions as part of SMS marketing, reaching a wide customer base in one go is made possible.
The SMS short codes have carved out a special place for themselves in the mobile phone industry as well as in the commercial market. These codes are now being used by the brands to engage in value added services. SMS marketing or mobile marketing is something more than simple short messages, it also comprises of MMS, Bluetooth marketing and infrared marketing. Among all the SMS solutions, bulk texting is the most preferred one by the businesses as it saves a lot of time, money and other resources. The corporate can use SMS solutions to ensure that the customer remains loyal to a particular corporate. Through SMS, the customers can easily be informed about the new product launches and other innovative products. High level of interactivity can be seen in SMS marketing wherein the client gets a feedback and response from the user. Through SMS short codes and bulk texting, messages can be send easily and instantly to the target audience. While looking at the wider perspective of SMS marketing, it is found that bulk texting is extremely useful for the government as well as for initiatives which target a large number of citizens. In case of SMS short codes, the keyword is unique to each company which thereafter directs the message to that particular short code which is like a small telephone number.
Source: http://localbiztext.com by admin1 on 29th June 2011
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Thursday, 7 July 2011
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
UK - UK Consumers 'Prefer Brands that Use Text Messaging'
British consumers value brands that use text messaging to engage with them, according to a survey by business text service provider Esendex.
The survey questioned consumers about how they prefer businesses to communicate with them.
Goods-delivery services are improved by text messaging, with 97 per cent of participants saying that they prefer to buy goods from companies who text them with a time and date for their delivery.
The survey also found that 87 per cent prefer to deal with businesses who use SMS to remind them of details of their appointments, and 88 per cent of respondents said they would be more likely to attend an appointment if they received a reminder via text message.
Geoff Love, marketing director at Esendex says: "Mobile consumers represent an intriguing target for UK marketers, particularly as technology and behaviours are constantly shifting. With there now being more mobile phones than consumers in the UK, more and more marketers are beginning to realise that SMS is quite possibly the most cost-effective mobile communication tool that enables them to talk directly to their customers."
Just under 50 per cent of participants said they would be willing to pay the standard text message charge for certain items, such as travel tickets, to receive updates.
Source: http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk By Andy Penfold
The survey questioned consumers about how they prefer businesses to communicate with them.
Goods-delivery services are improved by text messaging, with 97 per cent of participants saying that they prefer to buy goods from companies who text them with a time and date for their delivery.
The survey also found that 87 per cent prefer to deal with businesses who use SMS to remind them of details of their appointments, and 88 per cent of respondents said they would be more likely to attend an appointment if they received a reminder via text message.
Geoff Love, marketing director at Esendex says: "Mobile consumers represent an intriguing target for UK marketers, particularly as technology and behaviours are constantly shifting. With there now being more mobile phones than consumers in the UK, more and more marketers are beginning to realise that SMS is quite possibly the most cost-effective mobile communication tool that enables them to talk directly to their customers."
Just under 50 per cent of participants said they would be willing to pay the standard text message charge for certain items, such as travel tickets, to receive updates.
Source: http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk By Andy Penfold
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Pakistan - Pakistan is largest SMS sender in Asia
ISLAMABAD (APP): Pakistan enjoys largest text messaging in Asia and around 151.6385 billion text messages were exchanged during the Year 2009, which is 1532 Short Message Service (sms) per subscriber, while the messages exchanged from July-Sep 2010 were 48,846 Million. Pakistan has seen a stunning and remarkable growth in both, the mobile subscriber base and the SMS traffic during the past few years and the mobile subscriber base is touching the figure of 100 million by the last quarter of Year 2010. Around the world, SMS is used by four billion mobile users, who sent five trillion messages in 2009 which is approximately 105 SMS, per person per month, which are less than 128 SMS per person exchanged per month in Pakistan. According to a percent research, SMS traffic will grow double in coming four years and it is estimated that by 2013, the volume of messages will double to 10 trillion. According to report of International Telecommunication Union(ITU), in Year 2010, a total of 6.1 trillion SMS have been exchanged worldwide from 5.3 billion mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide, including 940 million subscriptions to 3G services, which has jumped from 1.8 trillion SMS in the Year 2007. According to officials in Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), text messaging has leapt three folds in the past three years, with almost 200,000 text messages exchanged every second.
Souce: http://nation.com.pk || 5th July 2011
Souce: http://nation.com.pk || 5th July 2011
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