It turns out that SMS is as popular as ever and SMS use in the US, Asia and Europe is still growing fast rather than shrinking as many pundits predicted. So SMS as a communication channel is here to stay for the foreseeable future.

So where does that leave business SMS services? 

Business SMS has always had some massive advantages over other communication channels. Firstly, over 95% of all text messages that are delivered are actually read and the vast majority within 5 minutes. Compare that with e-mail, where you’re lucky to get an open rate of 25%. Business SMS as a marketing tool is also five times more responsive than direct mail. (Source – Mobile Marketing Association)

In addition, SMS has the distinction of being the only instant messaging solution that works across all operating platforms and all makes and models of mobile. So business SMS is as solid, dependable and responsive as ever. The fact that you have to pay for business SMS means that we don’t all receive titanic quantities of junk.

Despite the massive growth of the use of business SMS in the UK, most companies still don’t use SMS at all, a fact that always surprises us industry types. Our estimate is that around 30% of companies use or have used business SMS in the last few years.

So if your company makes up the 70% that are new to business SMS, why not try it out today. Setting up an account takes just a minute or so. So that you can try the service at no cost, your business SMS account comes with 10 free text credits for testing. There are no setup costs or monthly fees and your text credits never expire.

Or you can always give us a call on (0117) 205 0202. We got some very experienced people who will be able to advise on the best way forward.

From what I could gather, we were about the fourth or fifth business sms company that he’d called that morning, so he’d already got a good grasp of what was on offer in the industry.

“What makes Text Marketer different from other companies that I’ve spoken to?” he asked. Now all bulk sms providers are well versed in answering that one, so I gave the chap a brief run down, emphasising that we only use UK networks for message delivery, we have a fantastic system with some really innovative tools, our systems are robust and resilient etc. I was quite pleased with myself, thinking rather smugly that I’d done a pretty good job.

“Yes, but all those things you’ve just mentioned are available with all your competitors,” he replied.“As far as I can see, bulk sms seems to be a commodity and basically I should be buying this type of service on price.” A what? Commodity? We’ve spent years trying to create points of difference and it seems that from this prospect’s point of view, bulk sms companies were no different from gas or electricity suppliers. They’re more or less the same product but priced differently depending on who you speak too.

To be fair, he had a point. His application for bulk sms was very straightforward and he simply wanted a reliable service at the lowest possible price. So we chatted further about bulk sms volumes and discussed the best price that we could offer.

It’s clear that the way bulk sms services are perceived by buyers is changing. It’s becoming harder to talk about the benefits of using UK networks or having reliable systems as if this was somehow unique. If we’re honest, we are all offering a very similar service with similar levels of professionalism, reliability and support. Increasingly, customers will be referring back to the strongest differentiator of all. Price.

This was however the conclusion of Juniper Research whose job is to wrestle with these issues and try and foresee the way of the future. The use of bulk sms as a way of getting a marketing message across will certainly become more popular but I think it’s other, non sales related sms, that will see the fastest growth. Increasingly we’ll be given options for sms alerts in any number of situations. So as well as appointment reminders, we could receive package delivery notifications, ticket confirmations etc. We’ll also have the option to receive a wide range of sms alerts triggered by events such as low bank balance, bill payment confirmation or traffic updates.

All of these bulk sms examples exist already, they’ll just become more popualar. As long as the opt out rules are observed, these types of services will be seen as useful and in many cases crucial, rather than spam.

Daniel Ashdown from Juniper said

“While SMS is one of the oldest value-added services, it has an enduring appeal for a number of reasons. In terms of text communication it is unrivalled on the mobile device in its ubiquity – virtually every handset in the world can send and receive it. This makes it extremely appealing for brands who want to enable communication with their customers, as unlike other messaging mediums, they know it will reach almost its entire intended audience.”

It will be intriguing to see if this prediction comes true. Talk to Text Marketer if you’d like to chat about how your business might adopt some sms communications. The bulk sms tools we’ve developed are easy to use and you can set up a free account to try it at no cost.

0117 2050202.

For many years Text Marketer has received enquiries from business telecoms companies. They are frequently asked by their clients if they know where they can get hold of a bulk sms service. This seems fairly logical. If you were looking for a mobile marketing service, a good starting point would be to ask the company that supplies your phone system and business mobiles.

So Text Marketer has launched a service that makes it easy for companies to offer sms services to their clients and create a new revenue stream.

Operations Director, Richard Hawley said:

“This new programme allows business telecoms companies to offer mobile marketing services in a structured and straightforward way, creating additional profit for the business . We know that as more and more companies adopt mobile marketing strategies, they’ll be huge growth in the number of texts sent by businesses. Our partner programme makes it easy for companies to benefit from the growth.”

The partnership programme provides companies with all the materials and support that they might need to explain what sms services are available and how they might benefit for them. This includes a series of emails that can be rebranded and sent to existing customers and prospects.

Cut out the admin.

The downfall of many ‘partner’ programmes is that they are just too complicated and end up by being an unwelcome distraction from the core business. Text Marketer’s package has been honed to make sure that all the admin systems including invoicing and payment of rebates are as slick and automated as possible. All customer support is handled by Text Marketer, so there’s no time wasted in account management.

The average life cycle of a customer using bulk sms is about 4 years, so the opportunity is to generate a long term revenue stream rather than just an initial rebate. Rebates are paid for the entire lifetime of the the customer.

Find out more about how your business can take part by calling Henry Cazalet on 0117 2050202.

The future looks bright for business sms?

At Text Marketer, we’re continually surprised how business sms is still really in the early stages of development. Most companies are still not using business sms as part of their communication strategies. Surprising really, when you consider how easy business sms services are to set up.

Why is the take of business sms so slow?

We believe it’s a kind of inertia really. Business sms is simply not on many marketing manager’s list of things to consider. People tend to be happiest spending money on the campaigns that they have always been involved in. Perhaps a href=”http://www.textmarketer.co.uk/sms-bulk.htm#features”>business SMS software is still perceived as only useful for companies that have a youth target market.

So what’s in store for the next few years?

Continued steady growth! We can expect Business SMS prices to remain fantastic value for money compared to other marketing channels. We’re looking forward to helping companies realise the potential of mobile marketing in today’s challenging business environment

Recently lapsed CIMA members are now sent an sms alert reminding them to renew their membership, with an incentive of a 50% discount

“Hi, Come back and regain your CIMA status. Half price re-reg until 31 May. Renew now at www.cimaglobal.com/ukrenewal or call 02088492251.”

Adopting a mobile marketing strategy to retain members is a very cost effective option for CIMA. Mobile marketing campaigns can be set up in a matter of minutes and there are no set up or monthly fees. Compared with any other direct marketing channels, mobile marketing has astonishing open and read rates. The IAB recently released mobile marketing research which revealed that 98% of text messages that arrive on mobiles are read within 4 minutes. By comparison, email marketers would be pleased with an open rate of 20%.

Thankfully, mobile marketing remains remarkably responsive and we are not deluged with spam as we are with email. Whether mobile marketing will remain as responsive in years to come is unclear, so now is the time to adopt a mobile marketing strategy to gain maximum impact.

Mobile is a very personal medium though, so care is needed on the approach that mobile marketers take. Using an sms service too frequently will result in annoying and alienating your customers. It’s also a good idea to use the sms service to send other messages rather then just sales or marketing messages. That way you’re adding value to sms campaigns.

If you like to develop a mobile marketing strategy, the first stage is to set up a free account. You’ll get 10 free text credits to test the sms service. Or please feel free to call us on 0117 2050202, we’re always happy to have a chat.

NEWSFLASH! Text Marketer launches lowest ever priced Bulk SMS system & updates competitor price comparison chart.

I finally admitted defeat though when I logged on at the weekend and saw that our latest new customer is a company called The London Christmas Tree Company. They are sending out bulk sms campaigns to last year’s customers, encouraging them to place their order with them again.

“The festive season is upon us once more, so order your Christmas Tree today! Order either online or via phone on 02071933039 quoting ‘TEXT’, and you will receive free mistletoe and holly when we process your order. Visit londonchristmastreecompany.com for more details or alternatively, reply to this text and we will call you back!”

With December just 2 days away, the retail frenzy now really begins to hot up. Everyone’s after our Christmas pound and using a business sms service is a very effective way of getting your message heard amongst the marketing clamour. So here are our top 5 tips to getting the most out of your seasonal bulk sms campaigns.

1. Get in early
Now’s the time to be getting your ideas into the heads of potential customers. Leave it much later and some people will have already finished their mad spending and will be relaxing smugly with mulled wine and minced pies.

2 Be clear
At this time of year more than any other, we’ve all got the attention span of gnats, so make sure your offering is clear and that the benefits of it are punchy and easily understood.

3 Make it easy
What people want is an easy life. Don’t make your customers jump through hoops to buy your product or service. See things from your customers’ viewpoint. Be cynical – think why your customers wouldn’t buy from you and fix those reasons.

4 Repeat your offer
As with any direct marketing channel, you need to get your message across more than once. You’ll get a far better return on your bulk sms campaigns if you send your message at least 3 times.

5 Don’t use text speak
Most of us hate it. If you need to use more characters to get your point across then you can send up to 612 characters. (Using more than the standard 160 character will use more than 1 text credit.)

So good luck for you Christmas bulk sms campaigns and if you’d like to discuss how your business might benefit from mobile marketing, please give us a call on 0117 9249207.

Their latest text to win competition is also a simple enough affair. Text in the code to the 5 digit short code and you have the chance to win a ‘Kinect for Xbox’. My hopes initially rose that this competition was going to be easier to enter. The instructions on the bottle collar were legible enough, although I would have liked to have seen them in a larger and more distinct typeface than the rest of the dull terms and conditions.

Show me the code

Now to the competition entry itself. Let’s hunt down that elusive 12 digit code ‘etched on the bottle’ and text it in to 88855. Sounds simple enough. Following my efforts earlier in the year I knew that reading the code was going to require good light and a fair bit of bottle tilting so that the digits could actually be read.

The long and sadly illegible 12 digit code

So off comes the label, easy enough, so good so far. Yup, here’s the code etched on the bottle, now to text it in. Reach for mobile, send message to 88855. Now the code itself NF HH 5 8 or is that a B, no I think it’s another H. WMHR 8 or B 4.

Right let’s try that.

An autoresponse arrives a few seconds later..

“Sorry, we didn’t recognise your code. Please check the code carefully and try again. For help visit cokezone.co.uk or call customer services on 0800 0288038.”

How helpful. At this point I lost patience and challenged my eagle-eyed daughter to correctly interpret the code and enter the competition. After 3 unsuccessful attempts, she helpfully suggested that if she drank the contents then we may be able to see the code more clearly. Failed attempt number 5 proved this wasn’t the case. So we all gave up.

So yet again it seems that a simple text to win competition has been truly ruined by longwinded instructions and illegible codes.

Who signed this campaign off for pity’s sake? I imagine the number of incorrect entries must be colossal and that the customer services number has been swamped with bewildered would-be entrants. I’d love to know the figures on this.

Coke have simply got come up with a better way of displaying codes. their ‘laser etched’ solution sounds cool but just isn’t practical. There’s also no need to have such a long code. This increases the chance of user error and challenges the endurance of even the most commited text to win fan.

I await the next Coke competition with interest.

The argument was supported by some pretty compelling evidence. At a recent event, the IAB and DMA released research that suggested that over 50% of people would be happy to receive sms alerts from companies that they already had a relationship with.

The article then went on to identify a few of the barriers to entry for accessing millions of mobile users by SMS, such as the lack of opt in data available and the disjointed nature of the data owners. Ronan suggested that there might be a way for all of the networks to work together to form some kind of single point, where marketers could access targeted mobile data from one place.

While it’s an interesting idea, I think it totally misses the point. The reason why mobile markeing is so responsive is that we are not all sent endless promotional text alerts (I hesitate to use the word spam.) The crucial point is that consumers would be happy to receive sms alerts “from a brand they already have a relationship with”. Had the question been, “would you like to receive sms alerts from companies who have purchased your mobile number and would like to send you offers?” then I suspect the response would have been quite different.

The proliferation of mobile lists that are available for marketers to purchase, will cause enormous problems. Delivery and response rates will drop, spam filters will be introduced, blocking messages from anyone that is not in the mobile’s address book and the whole channel will be dogged with the same problems that email has.

Mobile marketing works. It won’t continue to work if we wreck it.

The club has recently adopted Text Marketer’s web to sms service as a cost efficient way of securing short term warden cover for its huge range of sites.

Using bulk sms is a superb way of getting a message about a job opportunity to a large number of people. Within just a few minutes, an sms alert can be dispatched to any number of potential applicants, who can then respond either by text or by calling.

Compared to email, the open rates for sms are in a totally different league at over 97% and receipients receive the message wherever they happen to be. SMS can also be used as a way of drawing a customer’s attention to an email; so by combining sms and email you achieve a far higher open rate for your campaign overall.

With no minimum order for text credits, organisations can try sms software on a very small scale and on a very low budget. Text Marketer’s commercial director, Richard Hawley said:

“With a budget of just a few pounds, companies can start to explore what mobile marketing can do for their organisation. They can can easily measure the results and then decide upon a future strategy.”

Setting up an account is free and there is no monthly fee or contract. Your account comes with 10 free text credits so you can trial the sms service at no cost. You can also compare our sms prices against other companies with our sms price comarison table.

If you’d like to discuss how sms might work for you, please feel free to call us on 0117 9249207.

SMS as a response mechanic is also becoming considerably more mainstream, with most charities and car TV ads having a text ‘call to action’.

One of the restrictions with sms services is that you only have 160 characters in your automated response. So imagine that you’ve just texted in to get more information about a new car. You’ll typically get a text response back with a promise to call you in the next 24 hours or so. The trouble with this is that you’re enthusiasm for more information starts diminishing more or less as soon as you’ve made your initial contact. By the time the call comes you’re probably regretting texting in at all.

What’s needed is a way of getting more information to the consumer immediately, at the point at which they are most interested, when their likelihood of making a purchasing decision is at its highest.

Innovative new sms service now available

We’ve just launched a new sms service which will address this issue. Our Text to email Autoresponder allows you to automatically despatch an email to anyone that texts your keyword and their email address to 88802.

To demonstrate how this works, we’ve set up an example. Text INFO followed by your email address to 88802. (No charge.) As well as an sms reply, you’ll immediately receive a full email from us. It’s an incredibly powerful tool. As with all our services, we’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for non technical people to get the service up and running.

All you need to do is sign up for a Text Marketer account and add a free week’s trial of a keyword when you’re signing up.
In just a few minutes you will have the service working. Not only will be you collecting email data from your customers but you’ll be giving them all your contact details, straight to their phone and in box.

After the week’s free trial the keywords costs either £5.00 + VAT a month for budget keywords that start with a number (e.g 4hotels) or £25.00 + VAT for standard keywords.

If you’d like to discuss how this exciting new service could be used in your business, please feel free to call us on 0117 9249207.

The Group has over 120 dealerships and is committed to providing customers with unrivalled service, through its “Customers for Life” programme.

Their first web sms campaign is promoting the release of the new 60’ registration, with some fantastic offers on the Corsa and Astra.

Last 60′reg batch Sold Out in 3hrs! Ltd New Batch Available -Astra SRi 3dr from just £9999 & Corsa SXi from just £7999 -September Offer Only! Call 0151 2009000

Text Marketer works with motor manufacturers and franchised car dealerships, helping them to develop their mobile marketing strategies. Many dealers are now achieving impressive cost savings by using sms for service and MOT reminders.

By giving the customer the choice about whether to opt for text reminders instead of a letter, dealers can not only save a great deal in postage and admin costs but also save significant time in doing so.

“The biggest impact for me is that I now have time to concentrate on other elements of my job. We save money on our communications and generate more business.” – Jim Bailey, Lathams Torbay.

Most car dealers initially use bulk sms in Service Reception, as a way of letting customers know that their car is ready for collection. As there is no set up cost or monthly fee, dealers can get started at very cost. When the benefits of a text messaging service become clear then they also use sms across the sales and service departments.

If you’d like to start using sms in your dealership, set up a free account. There’s no set up fee and no minimum order. Compare our bulk sms prices with many of our competitors using our price comparison table. Please call us on 0117 9249207 if you’d like to discuss this further.

One of the main attractions is the low cost; An sms costs just a few pence and with read rates of over 97% it’s no real surprise that marketers are looking to develop their mobile marketing strategies.

Some Text Marketer customers are finding ways of further reducing their sms costs with effective use of the unsubscribe tool. By making it quick and easy for customers to remove themselves from an sms database, the cost for future business sms campaigns can be reduced.

To unsubscribe to an sms list, all a consumer needs to do is reply to the text with a unique unsubscribe keycode. That person’s number is then stored within the Text Marketer account which will not allow further texts to be sent to that mobile. It’s a failsafe system to ensure that if a user has unsubscribed, then he or she can receive no further texts from that organisation.

One Text Marketer customer now has over 55,000 customers on their unsubscribe list. The annual cost saving by not sending messages to people who do not wish to receive them is well over £10,000

Not only is this a sensible way of keeping customers happy but the Mobile Marketing Association guidelines state that you are required by law to include an unsubscribe option in your bulk sms campaigns.

Every Text Marketer account has a free unsubscribe tool so potential costs savings are available to all. If you’d like to find out more about this or any other sms marketing topic, please feel free to call us on 0117 9249207.

The data held on their database includes the postcode of the customer, allowing them to send news alerts to subscribers in specific geographic locations. So sms alerts can be sent out to readers in just one postcode sector which typically containes between 2 and 4 thousand households. (e.g EH13 2)

For example, a recent text informed local residents about a planning decision on a block of flats that would have an impact in the area.

“Fountainbridge flats set to go ahead. Read about controversial plan in today’s News. To stop, txt EXIT to 88802.”

By alerting readers to local stories, The Scotsman is engaging with customers in an innovative way and is proving a successful strategy in driving  newspaper sales. The Scotsman is also making good use of Text Marketer’s unsubscribe tool that allows readers to easily remove themselves from the list. Once a customer has unsubscribed, the sms system will no longer allow messages to be sent to that number. This is a failsafe function that means that a customer cannot accidentally send out a message to someone that has already unsubscribed.

Text Marketer is delighted to be working with The Scotsman and looks forward to helping them further develop their mobile marketing strategy.

For more information about how sms soutions could be used in your business, please feel free to call us for a brief chat on 0117 9249207.
Setting up a bulk sms account is free and your account comes with 10 free text credtis so you can test the service before you spend any money. Compare our prices with other providers using our price comparison table.

Choose your bulk sms supplier with care

If only sourcing the right sms software company was as easy as finding the lowest price and signing up. As usual, it’s a little bit more involved than that. Companies package their products and pricing in different ways that make differentiating all the possible suppliers a tricky business.

So here’s a list of simple questions that you should be asking of your potential sms software company. You’re after straightforward, waffle-free answers that give you confidence that they can deliver.

Is the bulk sms pricing transparent?

We know that some companies have a complicated credit system where it takes more than one text credit to send to a UK mobile. So what on the face of it appears to be a great price could actually cost you up to 50% more. Are there any set up fees, minimum orders of ‘price plans’? You should be able to set up a free sms account and then purchase as many or as few sms credits as you need. Also, watch out for expiring credits that get removed if they haven’t been used in 12 months.

Does the company use a direct connection to the UK Netowrks?

This is a popular topic amongst us sms software companies and has been covered thoroughly in a previous article. All you really need to know is that non UK sms gateways suffer reliability problems and often have poor or non existent delivery reporting. So a UK connection is the only option.

Where are the sms software company’s systems hosted?

How reliable are the servers that your business sms service will run on? What back up procedures are in place? Are there any guarantees on ‘up time’?
Granted this is all dull technical stuff but it’s important that you can rely on the service being up and running 100% of the time.

Does the sms service have an opt-out / unsubscribe tool provided at no cost at the point of setting up the account?

The best practice guidelines issued by the Mobile Marketing Association state that you need to have a text opt-out option on your text campaigns. This means that customers who no longer wish to receive your sms alerts can quickly and easily remove themselves from your list. If the sms software company is not offering this as standard, then you could find yourself on the wrong side of the law.

What are the payment options?

Flexibility is the key here. You should be able to make payments for sms text credits online and automatically. Are the text credits added to your account automatically or does someone have to add them manually. Can you pay by invoice if you wish without a price penalty?

What experience does the sms software company have?

How long have they been about and who have they worked for? Mobile marketing is not just about having an efficient sms solution but it’s also about getting the advice in getting the strategy right. Choose a company that want to get involved in helping your sms campaigns succeed.

In an idle 10 minutes, my eye was caught by Coke’s text to win competition where you can win an ASOS outfit every 30 minutes and I thought I’d see what it was like to enter from a consumer’s point of view. The answer was ‘terrible’. Have a look at the label and entry instructions below.

Impossibly small entry instructions

There are so many problems here, it’s hard to know where to start.

Let’s kick off with the font size of the instructions. It’s tiny. I could barely read it. The short code that I was supposed to text my code to was buried in a long paragraph; hardly attention grabbing. There’s also no contrast between the text colour and the white background, so you have to squint and turn it to the light to make sense of it.

Having read the instructions, my next task as an eager consumer was to identify my code which ‘is etched on the bottle under the label’. No it isn’t. I removed the label and there’s nothing there. Hang on, what’s that? You’ve got to be kidding. Barely visible in broad daylight, I could just make out the code against the dark contents.

Barely legible 12 digit code

The code is also absurdly long. It’s 12 digits! I tried to work out how may possible code combinations there would be and my calculator returned E.1.032282. So it’s basically trillions. I know Coke is a massive brand but we’re not all putting away 100 litres of the stuff a day. The National Lottery makes do with 6 numbers for goodness sake.

There are just so many reasons why you wouldn’t bother entering this competition. I’m not suggesting that it has failed but they could have at least doubled their response if they had made it easier to enter.

We’re currently working with regional brewery Wickwar, who are running a text to win competition on their bottled beer, Banker’s Draft. We’ve tried to keep the entry instruction as simple and as clear possible to try to maximise response.

I’m not suggesting that this is perfect and we obviously don’t have control of the creative side of things, but we do believe it’s better than Coke’s attempt, even having to work with tiny amount of space on the label.

The charity, which helps a million mums and dads each year through pregnancy, birth and the early days of parenthood, adopted sms as a faster and more responsive way of keeping in touch.

Members now receive subscription reminders by sms as well as receiving them by email.

More Organisations Using SMS Gateway

Many more UK organisations are now using sms as part of their communications strategy and integrating with Text Marketer’s SMS gateway, allowing them to send tailored messages to their customers, prospects and staff.
Using the sms gateway is very straightforward. Accounts are free to set up and come with 10 free text credits so you can test the sms gateway before you spend any money.

If you have any queries, please feel free to call us on 0117 9249207.

The report in its entirety is a little ‘dry’ but the general gist of it, is that sms is likely to continue and evolve over time rather than be taken over by some new form of communication.

This is good news for marketers wishing to capitalise on the success and responsiveness of sms by using an sms gateway to communicate with prospects and customers. Unlike email which has become increasingly frustrating to work with, using an sms gateway is still refreshingly simple, cost effective and responsive.

Low Spam Count

One of the keys to its success is the lack of spam that we all receive on our mobiles. It’s remarkable that sms has been around for over 10 years yet most people receive little if any sms spam. When was the last time you received a Viagra offer by text? According to the Mobile Marketing Association, the open rates for sms is over 98%, the same certainly cannot be said of any other communication method.

Free SMS Gateway Account

So if your business hasn’t yet taken the plunge and started using an sms gateway, now might be a good time to start. With Text Marketer’s account, there are no set up or monthly fees and your account comes with 10 free text credits so that you can test the system at no cost. As well as taking advantage of the lowest sms gateway costs, Text Marketer is the only sms provider that gives you a free unsubscribe tool so that your customers and prospects can easily remove themselves from your list should they wish.
We are always on hand to give you ideas and advice about how sms can work in your business. Please feel free to give us a call on 0117 9249207.

However, a hefty 67% of people would be happy to receive sms text alerts in the future.

Nearly 60% would positively opt in and 80% of people say they would be interested in text response service that requested a call back.

The results of this survey are in line with a report from the telecom regulator Ofcom, which found that the UK is the second highest texting nation in the world, sending around 83 billion sms messages per annum.

It’s always good to have some stats to back up what we know customers feel about receiving sms alerts. So if you’ve been feeling unsure about whether to use a bulk sms service, now might be the time the act.

How can you set one up, quickly & easily?

1. Get a FREE Text Marketer account
2. Order a keyword to enable your account to receive incoming messages
3. That’s it. You’re set up for your customers to text you, receive instant automated replies and then text alerts.

Need to integrate texting into your company software or web site?

No problem. We have a full two way SMS Gateway Service which would allow your web or software company to integrate full incoming and outgoing text messaging functionality into your CRM Software or Web applications. Send your developer to our SMS API Integration spec’ for them to see how straightforward it is. In many cases, it’s a matter of hours and you’ll have the same functionality as you do with emails but by text messaging.

Setting up an account is free and our message costs are the lowest in the industry.

If you’d like a chat about how business text messaging could be used in your business, please feel free to call us on 01179249207.

They are using their new sms service to communicate some fantastically tempting offers to encourage as many new enquiries before Christmas as possible. The current deal gives customers free sat nav on all orders before Christmas.

“Vansdirect FREE Sat Nav if you order before Dec 25th! Quote “Nav1t”. Order now for pre-Xmas delivery & Drive Now, Pay 2010! www.vansdirect.co.uk 08450210444″

The bulk sms service has no set cost or monthly fee, Vans Direct only pay for the messages that they send via their Text Marketer account. Different business sms supplier costs can also be compared on the sms price comparison table.

Please call us on 01179249207 if you’d like to find out more about how bulk sms could help your business generate more sales.