Voting & Competitions from e-txt

“I run a company that conduct prize draws and judges competitions for companies such as Coca Cola and McVities.

We have a network of freelance ‘auditors’ around the country, and we use e-txt™ to keep them up to date with the latest jobs. When we have a job in an area, we text out to all the local auditors and within a few minutes we are able to allocate one of them to the job and impress the client with our speed of response.

Emails are good, but they rely on you being near your computer, texts get you wherever you are!”

Jeremy Stern
Managing Director

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

“We use e-txt™ for our monthly event in asking people to confirm their attendance. It has been so popular that we are now shifting from using the telephone to make calls to merely texting reminders.

In the past we have also used e-txt™ for voting in a competition. Again it proved so popular with the participants that we anticipate to use the same method every year.

We are now looking to integrate e-txt™ with our Sage CRM system which will in effect allow us to roll out a complete solution for our clients.”

Jay Patel
Technology Innovation Centre