The Benefits of SMSs Unveiled

(prHWY.com) October 9, 2012 - San Francisco, CA -- Short Message Service (SMS) is a text messaging service, which is used for phones, web or mobiles. SMS use standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between fixed line or mobile phone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application in the world, with over billions of active users and almost 74% of all mobile phone subscribers. The term SMS is used as a synonym for all types of short text messaging in many parts of the world. SMS is also being used as a form of direct marketing known as SMS marketing.

Benefits of using SMS

There are several benefits of using SMS solutions to endorse businesses. There are many ways to promote business, but the use of SMS, especially mass SMS has certain exclusive benefits. Many SMS solutions like mass SMS, SMS polls, SMS service and surveys are used by modern businesses to endorse their businesses. Messages are very cost-effective and are very expedient to send or to receive; making it is easy for a promoter to use SMS as business campaign. Another big benefit of using messages to promote your business is that customers can be targeted. With the help of advance software like bulk SMS software, one can send messages to numerous people at one go.

SMS Service Provider

One should enquire properly when choosing an SMS service provider. An SMS service provider is a business entity that provides SMS messaging services. However the SMS service provider may not be a mobile network operator. It acts as a middleman between mobile network operators and SMS service users. An SMS service provider signs agreements with a lot of mobile network operators to obtain their permission to exchange SMS messages with their mobile networks, and offers an interface for users to send and receive SMS messages. Some of the interfaces are very simple to use since they hide most of the technical details of SMS messaging. Some others are more powerful that support more features. SMS service providers are also known as SMS gateway providers, SMS resellers or SMS brokers.

About Shortcodes.com

Being a customer-centric company, shortocodes.com has constantly strived to delight their customers with their outstanding products. Promoting their customers' businesses has been their consistent motto and they have done so with excellence at par! Increasing the revenues of their business partners, shortcodes.com has been empowering their customers with world-class short codes service. Businesses that value their time, money and customers incorporate text short codes into their communication and advertising channels these days. Mobile platform is the new mantra, and shortcodes.com has truly proved their potential to provide the right kind of platform to tap the true potential of it.
Real partners know how to rise to the occasion when times are tough, and true to this spirit, shortcodes.com are now even more focused on making powerful their partners with the tools that will not only sustain, but also grow their customers' businesses.

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