Award winning SMS text message provider http://www.Txtlocal.com is witnessing the widespread adoption of text message communication by the mainstream UK businesses community.
[UKPRwire, Wed Oct 31 2007] With over 65 million mobile phones in the UK, nearly everyone has one with them virtually all of the time. This, combined with the personal nature of the mobile phone, makes it the perfect media for many types of communication.
Thousands of SMEs across the UK are now recognising this potential and are beginning to reap the benefits of communicating any news or promotion to a group of opt in contacts, generating very high levels of repeat business & customer loyalty within local communities.
SMS text is so versatile and low cost that it can be used for a wide variety of purposes, such as:
Promotions & Offers
News and Information Updates
Appointment Reminders
Lead Generation
Location Based Services
Brochure Requests
Darren Daws, MD Txtlocal says Mobile Marketing has become a vital business communications and promotional tool for many SMEs in the UK. Txtlocal offers any business the ability to easily harness this opportunity. With no set-up or monthly costs and prices starting from just £8.00 it also fits nicely within their budgets.
Caroline Tyler, Director of Willow Trading says "We run therapy rooms with self employed therapists. If someone doesn't show for an appointment the therapist is personally out of pocket. To reduce the number of missed appointments we use Txtlocal.com to send reminders to clients the day before. It's quick and easy to do and since we have used Txtlocal we have found that the "No Shows" have dropped by 75% which makes a huge difference to the therapists."
Carl Wormald, Marketing Assistant at The Royal Exchange Theatre says We initially trialled Mobile Marketing with Txtlocal in June 2006 with a sample of students who had opted in to receive text messages. The results were very impressive, with one campaign achieving a 26% response rate.
Mr Daws continues: 'SMS communication is an ideal tool for the smaller business and we've worked hard to make sure they can make use of it. SMEs have grabbed at the opportunity, and no wonder. Owners of businesses such as nightclubs, take-away restaurants and hair salons are telling us of superb results they've had from promotions & alerts sent by text. Another area showing significant success is the use of text reminders for appointments at doctors, dentists, garages and the like.'
For a free trial and to see testimonials from over 50 other SMEs on how they have benefited from SMS text communications visit http://www.txtlocal.com.
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