SMS Text Messaging

With 1 in 3 people globally owning a mobile phone - SMS provides the ideal route to reach the unwired, at any time anywhere. SharperEmail’s SMS gateway connectivity offers you access to a secure, dependable, high capacity SMS messaging system.

Professionals from Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America all consistently ranked customer service and support as the top business function that can benefit most from the use of text messaging.

In both Europe and North America respondents agreed that the greatest value and ROI of using text messaging was the creation of more satisfied and loyal customers, whereas in Asia, operational efficiencies were cited as bringing the greatest value and ROI to the enterprise.

Easy-to-use web to mobile phone messaging
Just login to SharperEmail, upload your list of Mobile telephone numbers (from Excel or text file), type your message and hit send. You can schedule sends for later and even personalize the text-message (SMS) content from your dataset fields.

1 Global network - 1 global rate

Send to users in any of 180 countries via 500 supported Mobile/cell phone networks. All destinations are priced at one low, global rate.

SMS or Email ? - send the message once
When sending text-messages (SMS), you can exclude recipients you’ve already emailed with SharperEmail, saving money by using the more cost-effective email route for sends whenever possible.

Possible uses
Advertisers: Connect with your target audience.
Agencies: Interact with consumers on the go.
Brands: Expose your brand to key demographics.

Who currently use this kind of messaging
Schools are using SMS for emergency broadcasting.
Airlines are using this to notify customers of flight delays
Companies are using this to communicate with their national sales force
Nightclubs are using this to communicate with people in the area and in the clubs for drink specials and events.

The study found that 70 percent of the 450 CEOs and CMOs surveyed had used text messaging to support some aspect of their business, primarily customer service. An even higher percent (83) agreed that SMS is a key means to send alerts and notifications. The respondents had a variety of job functions, ranging from marketing to operations to IT, and represented a large cross section of industries and global locations.