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Two-Way text messaging platform for Automotive Retailers and Service Centers

Posted on 04/06/10 in Blog, No Comments

Promote your new and used inventory with mobile brochures and drive mobile customers to your website. Each vehicle is identified with a unique VINcode-add the VINcodes to your advertising (print, online , broadcast) and mobile shoppers automatically recieve vehicle-specific information with embedded links to your website. Interact in a two-way environment via text messaging to [...]

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Critical Action Step for your Text Message List Building

Posted on 04/06/10 in Blog, No Comments

The key here is action. If you are going to be ahead of the curve with this, you need to get going. Once the word is out everyone will start building text message lists and it will get harder and harder to get people to sign up. You want them on YOUR list first. Don’t [...]

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What to Send to Your List

Posted on 04/06/10 in Blog, No Comments

You may be thinking that you don’t know what you could possibly send via text message to a list of your prospects, customers or subscribers. After all, there are only 160 characters you can use. But the reality is there are lots of things you can send. Here are some ideas:
• Reminders of upcoming events, [...]

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Text Messaging is an Opt-In Process

Posted on 04/06/10 in Blog, No Comments

First, as my colleague Chris Torbit from Blast Companies always says, “Everybody starts at zero.” There are no lists of cell phone numbers you can buy to just get started sending out messages. Text messaging is a mandatory, no-exceptions-allowed-period, OPT IN process. If you are going to send a text message to someone, they must [...]

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Bars and Nightclubs

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For example, on a busy night at a nightclub, running a text contest for a no cover entry prize for those waiting in line outside would be a great way to generate a buzz and gather mobile numbers. Contests for free drinks or appetizers would work the same way – who doesn’t like free [...]

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Use a mobile contest to build your mobile marketing database

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Tying in a contest promotion is a great way to increase the power of your mobile marketing strategy. A text-to-win contest can generate a positive buzz for your company while building your database of mobile contacts. For a text-to-win contest, respondents have the opportunity to text in to a special number within a specified amount [...]

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