The first web SMS campaigns have been sent out to customers encouraging them to attend a weekend sales event.

“Sytner Birmingham would like to invite you this weekend for the last chance to buy a new 61 plate BMW at incredible prices, please call 0121 234 6000.”

The web SMS platform has been designed to be incredibly easy to use. Nicola Panton, who is responsible for setting up all the SMS campaigns, was able to send out their first web SMS campaign in less than 15 minutes.

When you first login to Text Marketer’s web SMS system, you are taken directly to the Quick Send screen. Using Quick Send you can send out a web SMS campaign from just one screen. All you need to do is paste your mobile numbers into a box, type your message and select the date and time. So new users can get to grips with the web SMS system in no time at all.

If your company has never tried using SMS to communicate with prospects customers or staff, now is a good time to get started. Research has revealed that over 60% of Brits want to be able to communicate with companies by text but only around 3% of companies actually offer this service.

Set up a free account here. There is no contract, setup fee or minimum order. Your web SMS account comes with 10 free text credits so you can try the service at no cost. Text Marketer’s SMS costs are incredibly low. We’ve put together a simple web SMS price comparison table that shows Text Marketer’s SMS costs compared with many other companies.

If you’d like to chat to us about how SMS might benefit your business, please feel free to call us on (0117) 205 0202.

With so many activities to choose from, it’s easy to miss out on some great offers such as the recent free ballot for free premiership football tickets or discounts at events at the O2 Arena.

SMS has an open rate of of over 98%, so there’s no more effective way of getting a message directly to someone. Compared to email where open rates are as low as 20% of less, a web sms service is an obvious and cost effective choice for many companies.

The web sms service is run entirely by John Lewis. They are able to upload the different groups of members that are then held securely in their account. It’s then just a case of writing the message, setting the date and time they want the message to arrive and hitting a submit button. Setting up the web sms service is done in seconds. Every new user gets 10 free text credits to try the web sms service for free before deciding if they want to buy more sms credits.

Each web sms account also comes with a free unsubscribe service which allows users who no longer wish to receive further texts, to easily remove themselves from the sms list. Users who unsubscribe can no longer receive message from that company. Using the unsubscribe service with a web sms service is not only best practice, it’s also a legal requirement.

Set up a free web sms account today and see how it could benefit your organisation. We’re always on hand if you’d like chat about this, so please feel free to call us on 0117 2050202.

When most people think of how their business might use a web sms service, they think of using it a marketing tool, a way of contacting thousands of customers or prospects with a sales message.

Well that it of course true but there’s also a much more mundane and down to earth use for a text messaging service. Think of the mobile phone simply as another way of communicating with people. In the same way that you might drop someone a quick email you can also send them a text alert. It doesn’t have to be all about selling, it could just be that you have an interesting bit of news that you’d like to let everyone know about.

Increasingly customers are using web sms as a way of keeping in touch with members of staff, particularly if they are home based or spend much of their time out of the office.

Sending someone an sms that requires the recipient to do something, creates a sense of urgency that sending an email just doesn’t achieve. It’s all too easy for people to say the email never arrived or got stuck in a spam filter. So if you need something done now, then sending a text is an obvious way to go.

Whether you’re sending a text to an individual or thousands of people, the whole process takes a minute or so and there’s no software to download or install.

As there is no minimum order or set up fee, Text Marketer’s sms software is the ideal tool if you’re looking to dip your toe in the water with web to sms. The text message prices are the lowest in the industry and there is a ‘best buy guarantee’ that ensures that you are getting the best deal.