Promotions and Marketing

Need to promote your next event, new product or next clearance sale? Are you relying on a big turnout? Whether you have a bar or club, retail outlet, or anyone who sells products/services, you can take advantage of SMS promotions and marketing.

Benefits of using SMS for promotions and marketing:

-		Much more cost effective and less labour intensive than traditional marketing means.
-		Send out to thousands in a matter of minutes using bulk SMS.
-		Schedule to send out a bulk SMS batch on the launch date of your new product. Just set and forget.

SMS promotions and marketing Uses:

-		Promote your next big event or sale.
-		Keep customers informed of regular events.
-		Promote competitions and free give aways.
-		Keep in touch with customers and continually grow your customer database

Testimonial - Fuji Xerox

Understanding that involving customer interaction in the marketing process means a more effective marketing campaign, Fuji Xerox decided to use SMS as a medium to capture customer responses. This enabled customers to respond to the call-to-action by replying to an SMS message and Fuji Xerox could then immediately follow-up on responses.

directSMS was able to provide Fuji Xerox interactive SMS being able to support an ongoing conversation between the business and customer using our two-way SMS. Software integration was achieved using directSMS API suite. The API suite provides a user friendly toolset that any software developer can integration their software application to directSMS SMS gateway (SMSC).

"directSMS' customer service team have provided a high level of service and have been very responsive with all our support queries" - Eliot Harper - Fuji Xerox

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Testimonial - Girl Friday Solutions

Girl Friday Solutions provide marketing, promotions and event management for bar/pub venues across NSW, GFHS needed to use an effective marketing medium that is cost effective, easy and quick to use, Would appeal to the pubs/bars patron demographic and had a high response rate.

directSMS Web 2 SMS online service was ideal for theneeds of GFHS. Being user friendly as well as providing bulk SMS functionality, the Web 2 SMS online service also offered an online address book that allowed the team at GFHS to keep track of patron databases for the bars/pubs they were promoting for.

"I found directSMS so effective; we had a promotion on at one of our venues for state of origin. I sent the SMS off whilst on the phone to the hotel and a minute later my client started getting calls to the hotel with patrons making bookings. That is the most effective marketing I have ever witnessed" - Louise Uroda - Girl Friday Solutions

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If you have any questions about using SMS for promotions and marketing, please contact our friendly sales team at sales@directsms.com.au or 1300 724 387.