Marketing, Advertising & Promotion from e-txt
“I’ve been using e-txt™ since December 2007.
I’m the proud owner of two local night clubs and I’ve been using e-txt™ to promote events on those clubs. I think that I still have to find out how I can maximize the usage of e-txt™, because I know that its features go far beyond the simple sending of short messages to cell phones.
Probably I’ll look into the campaign creation feature and devise some kind of “Get here first and win a free drink!” campaign.
To sum things up, I really like e-txt™. Its ease of use is the best thing.”
Gonçalo Santos
Penta - Produção de Eventos Lda
Wolverhampton City Council’s Youth and Play Services are responsible for developing youth services to include regular activities, meetings and projects. The council has also used a unique text-in number on publicity and promotional material for summer activity programmes such as One Big Summer, and the Krash Project, a teen magazine. Other uses of an e-txt inbound number include a text-in voting mechanism within the youth council elections, incorporating an automated reply system to confirm the vote – and an Anti-bullying service.
“It (e-txt™) is really straightforward to use and makes getting in touch with young people so much easier. We get them to sign a consent form to say they’re happy to receive messages, and they can always opt- out - although very few do. It means I can write a text like an email in the morning and know that people will be at the centre for a meeting in the evening.”
Sommer Dillon, Wolverhampton Youth and Play Services
“It looks cool, young people expect to see that kind of thing now, and know that they can get in touch by text,”
Mr Potter, Wolverhampton Youth and Play Services
“I have to say that the effectiveness and ease off your text programming is fantastic.
It helps us to stay in touch in a very personal way with large sections from our database.
We get some great feedback from our customers and prospects when they receive one of our personalised e-txt’s.
We use it to confirm attendances at events, seminars. We use it to announce new products and special deals, and also to send out friendly welcome messages to our new students.”
Gerard O'Donovan
Noble Manhattan Coaching Ltd
“I use e-txt™ in a number of ways:
• to send out updates to members who have joined FORCES FITNESS
• to confirm appointments 24hrs before with prospective members
• to send out information to prospective members special offers and new services
My company has been operational since early January and I definitely made the right choice when deciding to go with Dynmark and use e-txt™, it has aided me in closing a number of sales and helps me keep in touch with my members regularly.”
Sean Molino,
Forces Fitness
écurie25 provides its members with exquisitely prepared, high performance supercars. In return for an annual membership fee, members of London’s most exciting automotive club are allocated a number of points with which to access a wide range of écurie25 vehicles, and around 35 days driving.
“Our first SMS provider had an interface which was difficult to use, and charged a significant added fee for our messages to appear on handsets as if they were sent from us, rather than from the provider themselves.
"I’ve been really pleased with e-txt™ so far, it has a much friendlier user interface, offers us more flexibility, and at a lower cost.
Every Thursday we send emails and texts out to our members about vehicle availability and discount points. Now we know that if they aren’t close enough to their computers to receive the email, they will receive the text message.
We plan to carry on using e-txt™ to communicate with our members, and are considering hiring an inbound number from Dynmark for our customers to text to. This would enable them to text us at any time to receive an automated reply SMS message with current vehicle availability.”
Flora Heathcote
Marketing Director of écurie25
Teamworks Karting is an indoor karting venue near Birmingham City Centre.
“We use e-txt™ to market to our database last minute specials and promotions, sending up to 5000 messages at a time.
We have found it to be excellent. Our first marketing campaign cost £260+VAT and brought back in excess of £3k! We were delighted. Our campaigns will now get larger and hopefully bring back results in this order.
I find it very easy to use. It’s easy to upload contacts, manipulate them into different groups and send different messages.
We’ll definitely continue using it, and more often. It has given us a new dimension to our marketing arm, and surprised us with the results. Most customers are happy to hear when we have a bargain event!”
Jo Quin,
Teamworks Karting
“We use it on thegadgetroom.com to text our customers. So as soon as an item leaves our warehouse, courier tracking numbers are text to customers and again when shipment is due out for delivery.
We plan to expand usage to include product alerts and other marketing offers.”
The Gadget Room
“e-txt™ has been a great solution for us. We’ve started using it to text regular customers offer codes which they can use at the online check-out to get money off certain items.
We’re also looking into implementing an automated system whereby online customers are notified when their items have been despatched to them so they can know when to expect their products.
Another idea to appeal to high street shoppers is to schedule messages to be sent at 10am on a Saturday morning, telling people about the offers that we have on in stores. Hopefully people will then forward these on to their friends too.
The possibilities of exploiting the software are extremely broad and the message rates themselves are very reasonable, so we plan to make the best use of it!”
Kris Bezdyk
Field & Trek
“We use e-txt™ for several reasons, mainly…
A) to inform customers of access code changes in our marinas – meaning customers not only definitely know but they can keep the new code with them on their phone
B) to remind customers of their early payment discount deadlines – encourages people to call and pay when they get their text – less easy to ignore/forget than a letter
C) to remind customers of forthcoming events – just allows us to hit a lot of people quickly and they can’t totally ignore a text!”
Lucy Thomson
Premier Marinas Limited