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Retail

Create a substantial opt-in list of loyal customers by enhancing your advertising campaigns with text message marketing.  Fast and effectively send coupons, discounts, product announcements, and exclusive offers directly to your customer’s cell phones and watch your profits soar.   Text messaging is a simple, inexpensive, yet powerful tool to develop customer retention and draw in new business.  Text message marketing can be used by any retail outlet large or small.  You can send a mass text to your entire list or just a selective few, immediately or at a scheduled time.  The key is to building your opt-in list and getting your customers excited about your text offers. 

Grocery example:

Text and Save at Grands Grocery!  Text  Grands to 41513 and get 20% off your next deli purchase!.

Bakery Shop example:

Happy Holiday’s from Baked Rite!  10% off your next purchase.  Text bake to 41513 for coupon.

Maximize your donation proceeds by allowing your donors to text to give from their cell phones.  Text messaging your cause is a vital and contagious form of donation campaigning.  People want to give but in today’s society they’re busier than ever and sometimes forget or simply just don’t have the time.   This is where text messaging can help your organization, because everyone who has a cell phone carries it with them most everywhere they go.  This offers your donors little excuse and plenty of reason to respond to your donations request.  Capture your donor’s cell phone numbers to start building a database to use as part of your communications, fundraising programs, and to generate new contributions from donation campaigns!  It would also be beneficial for certain campaign offerings that you request customer demogaphics.   There is a shared short code that’s approved by carriers specifically for mobile donations.  You choose a keyword that is associated with your organization.

Save the Earth needs your support! Give $5.00 and receive a free t-shirt.   Text EARTH to 41513.

The donor is automatically charged the $5.00 and the proceeds are calculated and sent to your organization in one monthly check.

Medical & Dentist offices

Text messaging is a quick, cost effective way to improve your communications with your patients.  When you utilize text messaging to remind your patients of their upcoming appointments you will drastically reduce your number of no-shows.   People will immediately receive your message can call back to confirm no matter where they are.  It’s personal, convenient and can save you valuable time and resources.   Some other benefits for using text messaging is to notify your patients of their prescription renewals, care reminders and even birthday wishes.

APPT REMINDER!   For Sara at 1:30 with Dr Jones to confirm & receive 10% off next cleaning text TOOTH to 41513

Radio Stations

Your listeners today are on the go!  They’re in their cars, shopping, visiting friends or at the office and probably have little contact with the media other than the radio and their cell phones.  This is where text message marketing comes into service.  You can reach your listening audience anytime, anywhere.  By using Text Marketing, you will be interacting on a more personal level with your audience by creating campaigns such as, contests, play lists, favorite band voting, trivia questions or song requests then offer prizes or giveaways to the listeners who respond.  You can build an extensive loyal listener database by sending out pre-broadcasted concert announcements or special events to subscribers only.  Text messaging is quick and effective with no more busy signals when calling the station.  You also can charge your advertisers an additional fee to add a keyword in their radio spot for your listeners and their customers when they text in.  You charge for the airtime and your advertiser receives cell phone numbers to add to their own customer text marketing database.  Everybody wins, even the caller.  This is a powerful advertising weapon that radio stations need to be utilizing now.

 DJ announcement:

Station WANT giveaway!   1st 100 listeners to text mytickets to 41513 wins 2 Free Concert Tickets!

Colleges, Universities, & Schools

Text messaging empowers colleges, universities, and other educational institutions to communicate with their entire campus instantly.  It is a vital interactive application in the event of an emergency.  Text messaging allows students and faculty to review your alerts instantly with their cell phones making this a key feature in building an extensive knowledge based subscription list.  Within seconds you can send alerts, announce meetings, and increase attendance at special events by sending text to their cell phones.  As your building your subscription list, you can divide it into separate groups, such as, students, faculty, or parents.  Then you have the option to send a mass message to everyone on your list or to a specific group, immediately or at a scheduled time.  Encourage students, parents and faculty to join your text messaging list to ensure they’ll receive up to the minute announcements by text on their cell phones.  A unique keyword will be assigned just for your school.  Text Marketing Services guarantees your message will be delivered promptly to all the major cell phone carriers including: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, Nextel, Alltell, US Cellular, and others.

Video Game Rental

Text marketing has a personal touch and addresses each customer individually. When you enable text marketing to become your main advertising means, you’ll be steps ahead of your competition.  Your marketing campaign is permission-based (opt-in) which means your messages will only be sent to those who have agreed to receive them.  By utilizing text messaging your greatest benefits are increased profits and happy repeat business.  Ask your customers to sign up to become eligible to receive exclusive discounts and promotions.   Sample advertisement from your location might read:

New Nintendo Wii's are in! 10% off new game with this AD this week!  Text playntrade to 41513

Tanning Salon

Text message marketing is a powerful tool to advertise your services and promote your business.  It’s affordable and can reach hundreds of customer’s by sending attention grabbing offers.  It can help reduce missed appointments by sending text message reminders to your customers.  It helps you stay in touch with your customers and generate new and repeat business.  You can post an advertisement in your salon asking your customers to sign up to receive exclusive discounts and promotions sent directly to their cell phones.  You can send them appointment reminders and occasional specials, or offer them a free visit for recommending your business to a friend.  You can collect hundreds of customer’s cell phone numbers and start building a dynamic marketing database.  Here is an example:

Welcome to Sunny's Salon?   Text MYTAN to 41513 & show this ad to get 1 free session this month!

Employment Agencies

Designed to facilitate hiring of individuals who previously applied for a specific position within your organization, but did so at a time when no openings were available. This allows immediate notification of each applicant that the job for which they applied previously is now open and instructs them on the next portion of the procedure for hiring.

Fair & Festivals

Whether it’s to remind people about the horse show that's about to start at the county fair or about the Spanish band beginning to play at the music festival, text messaging can help event planners keep attendees updated about what’s going on during the events so they don’t miss anything. You can also conduct text-message contests and sweepstakes that build excitement while promoting the fair.

Tradeshows

Prior to any event, send out public notices that allows the attendees to register join your subscription list from their cell phones for real-time notifications on schedule of important functions.

Employment Agencies

Designed to facilitate hiring of individuals who previously applied for a specific position within your organization, but did so at a time when no openings were available. This allows immediate notification of each applicant that the job for which they applied previously is now open and instructs them on the next portion of the procedure for hiring.

6.3 Billion Text Messages were sent in January of 2008....... And the coming months and years promises to be an explosion of Text Communication between advertisers and their customers via this new advertising medium. Never has there been an opportunity to interact, engage and promote to your customers than now. Whether you provide a product or service there is no better way to offer and inform your customers then through this proven effective delivery method.