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Bulk Texting Service
Business application for SMS text messaging from: Field Sales Team Communication: Ideal for broadcasting an updated promotion or special 'one day deal' out to your sales team - where it's needed. Simply setting up each team member's details into the system will allow instant bulk-messaging to be delivered to their mobile phones out in the field instead of costly and lengthy phone calls or slow individual texting from a mobile phone yourself. Taxi bookings by SMS Text Recent research shows that for many taxi companies over 50% of their customers make bookings via a mobile phone call. A text-connect number allows customers to order a taxi with a text
message, ideal when in a noisy bar or club. The customer gets a SMS
Text reply back from the taxi company confirming the booking along with
the estimated arrival time, place and vehicle details.
• Easy and stress free taxi booking for the client. Driving school clients enquire by SMS text. With a typical customer aged between 17 and 25 driving schools are set to benefit hugely from accepting text messages. It's fair to say this age group has truly embraced texting and turned it into an everyday form of communication. Young drivers can enquire about driving lessons without having to talk to anybody in a stress free way and never get an answer phone. The driving school should benefit from more enquiries with fewer lost
'lost' enquiries due answer phone 'put downs' - Research by a new
entrant in to the driving school market has shown that more than then
75% of callers hang up when they reach an answer phone.
Expensive 'No Shows' can be reduced by using reminder texts send to the pupil to remind them when and where their lesson is due.
• Enables easy 1st contact by young drivers Restaurant bookings by SMS text Many restaurants close during the day meaning that when customers call to book no one is available to make the booking. Using a SMS Texting number, customers can text their bookings day or night which can be confirmed back by text when the restaurant re-opens. SMS Texting will also save Restaurant management time by cutting down on
telephone interruptions - leaving busy staff better able to service
customers.
• Allows customers to make bookings 24-7 During our research for this market around 50% of the restaurants we called
during a weekday lunchtime were engaged Hair & Beauty Salons. Book appointments by text. Busy customers on the move or harried at work may struggle to find the time to make an appointment with you. A SMS texting number gives your customers a quick way of booking with you which they can use 'in between' tasks. Your texted confirmation of their appointment details ties everything down nicely, meaning you get more bookings and your customer has a little more spare time. Fewer bookings are lost due to answer phone 'put downs' and you can accept
bookings 24-7. Customers can text spontaneously overnight so that their
appointment can be confirmed at the start of the next working day. Many people find it hard to 'get around' to making medical appointments. Others are shy or are embarrassed about the reason for their appointment. SMS Texting numbers allows patients to make appointments in a discreet way
avoiding an 'out loud' verbal conversation. This combined with the
ability to make appointments while on the train or bus helps patients
overcome some of the barriers to making an appointment.
• Patients get better healthcare An interesting future application will be 'Repeat Prescription'
processing. Patients could text you their 'Repeat Prescription' -
because you can reconcile the incoming mobile phone number to a
specific patient you can be sure they are making the request and should
they need a review appointment details can be texted back. If not a
collection date can be confirmed. For busy working people this could be
invaluable, particularly for medication where running out is especially
troublesome. Sandwich shops get orders in advance by SMS text. Micro Payments beckon. With only a half hour or hour for lunch many workers would rather not queue at their favourite sandwich shop. Texting allows customers to text their sandwich orders in advance so that sandwiches can be freshly cut and ready for collection. It also opens the opportunity for a delivery service to local business on a 'pre order' basis. Shop manages can text customers informing them about today's specials. In
the future customers will be able to pay for their sandwiches by text,
with the cost deducted from their mobile phone credits, further
speeding the process.
• pre order sandwiches Organise casual staffing using text messages to advertise work opportunities. Companies and organisations with unstructured or short notice casual staffing needs will benefit from using text-connect to contact staff with work offers. SMS Texting numbers allows managers to text a work opportunity to pre
defined list(s) of casual staff who then text back their availability.
• Faster and more efficient than phoning lots of staff at short notice All of these services can be set up in minutes; you can even earn an
additional revenue stream when using Premium SMS Texting for customers
to reply to you, if that’s your requirement. If you require a demonstration of any of these services then please contact us .
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