Text messaging (SMS) in Our Current Business World

Written on September 17, 2007 – 2:17 am | by Michael Boateng |

SMS 1Text messaging, or texting as it’s commonly known, became part of our daily lives because of mobile phone usage. It has even taken a bigger dimension and it is now one of the hottest marketing tools in the business industry.

Text message marketing has over the past few years proven to be a very efficient, effective, direct and personal marketing tool for selling products.

The marketing efficiency of SMS Messages has gone up so high that, even some media houses like CNN, BBC, CBS and many others have resorted to using SMS Mobile Alerts to drive traffic to their websites.

Having deployed high grade web and software applications with SMS in my carrier as a web developer, these articles will share some experiences and tips on developing SMS web applications, SMS software applications and also features on subscribing to any of the major Bulk SMS Providers.

The articles will also elaborate on easier ways and skills on deploying solutions for sending normal text messages either from a PC or a website using an SMS gateway.

There will be sections for marketing professionals who are looking at advertising their products using SMS.

Tips will also be given to ordinary web users who have the craze for looking for websites on the internet where they can send free text messages.

There will also be reviews on most of the Bulk SMS Providers to compare give the pros and cons of using their services.

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