Bringing the convenience of SMS to the desktops of North America's businesses. SMS is the most direct way to communicate with your customers without picking up the phone and without spending a fortune. i-Text provides a fully scalable, web-based SMS platform for communication with customers, suppliers, prospects, remote personnel or anyone with a compatible mobile device. Text messages can be sent to or from individuals, groups or bulk lists, and message delivery can be immediate, automated as a response to a mobile marketing campaign, or scheduled for future delivery at a later date and time.
With such a user-friendly and direct way to communicate, it is no surprise that thousands of organizations throughout the world have harnessed the power of browser-based text messaging.
Why SMS? It's Direct - Consumers take their mobile phones with them everywhere they go, and always keep them on. In addition, 95% of all text messages are read. It's Interactive - Instant response mechanism delivering true one-to-one communication. Response rates are typically 10-20%. It's Memorable - 71-96% recall rate - the highest recall rate of any advertising or marketing medium. It's Viral - Up to 25% of people will show or forward a message to a friend or colleague. It's Permission Based - Companies must always request and gain the consumer's permission prior to sending SMS. |
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Text Online and Text Scheduler
Text Online is designed to improve or augment the customer service provided by a brand or business to its customers via the mobile phone. Typically consumers are invited to register their mobile phone number with the company or brand in question and agree to receive text message alerts.
The Text Online service allows you to login and send SMS messages from any PC with web access. No software is required, and the interface is simple to use. Bulk SMS messages can be sent to unlimited numbers of mobile users simultaneously.
Text Scheduler allows for the scheduling of messages to be delivered at a future date and time, ideal for reminders regarding medical appointments, oil changes, hotel or other booking confirmations etc. Text Scheduler also allows for the input of frequency for messages that must be delivered at regular intervals (i.e. daily, weekly, monthly).
To activate a free trial of Text Online, please contact us. You will receive 10 free credits to try the service.
Text Campaign
Text Campaign enables clients to conduct high volume, personalized, two-way SMS text message-based marketing campaigns from their internet-connected computer. Whether you are sending 100 messages or one hundred thousand messages, Text Campaign will deliver your message to your audience, swiftly and reliably.
'Text & Win' accounts for the majority of mobile marketing campaigns, and has proved extremely successful as a tool for building a database of mobile numbers for future use. To enter a 'Text & Win' campaign a consumer texts an answer to the question to a dedicated 5 or 6 digit number, known as a Shortcode, assigned to the competition. Other features / benefits:
EduText
Text messaging has become the everyday method of communicating for millions of young people. It is quick, cheap, direct and inclusive. Not every student has access to a home computer, but the vast majority have their own mobile phone.
EduText allows schools to instantly send secure messages to pre-defined groups with just one click. By using SMS schools can instantly distribute information regarding emergency situations, weather related school closures, class cancellations and event reminders. EduText is an effective, instant and economical way to communicate with today's tech savvy students, parents and staff.
Virtual Coupons
With Virtual Coupons customers can receive a coupon on their mobile phone that can be redeemed in your establishment. Customers won't have to worry about clipping and remembering to bring paper coupons, resulting in higher redemption rates. Other features / benefits:
Emergency Communication
The i-Text Emergency Communication service enables critical messages to be conveyed to a pre-defined list of recipients’ mobile phones. This service gets critical information to the palms of those that need to know, quickly and reliably.
Up until now, automatically generated e-mail alerts remain unseen unless the recipients are physically reading their e-mail. In emergency situations this is clearly not an ideal method of conveying critical information. With i-Text's Emergency Communication service a new way of getting critical alerts and important information to the right people is now available.
Premium SMS
Premium SMS is a two way messaging system which allows you to generate revenue from sending messages to recipients mobile phones. Message recipients are billed a pre-determined amount for entering a contest or receiving information (i.e. weather alerts) and the charge is added to the recipient's phone bill. Generally you will receive 50%-60% of the amount charged for each message.
Premium SMS makes use of a five digit Shortcode. We can assist you in applying for and obtaining the necessary shortcode.
Mobile Phone Demographics & Text Messaging Studies show that 95% of all SMS get opened (Aaron Watkins, Creative Mobile Marketing, May 5, 2006). The number of 15 to 19 year olds with cellphones increased from 30% in 2001 to 58% in 2005. (Solutions Research Group).
| Mobile Messaging - International 620 billion text messages were sent in the first quarter of 2007, up 50% from the previous year (160 Characters) The global mobile subscriber base will reach 3.75 billion by the end of 2008 (Mobile Data Association) ![]() ![]() ![]() Mobile subscribers that had ads sent to their mobile phones in July 2007: Spain 75.4%; France 62.3%; US 17.2% (M:Metrics)
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