Premium Rate SMS and Bulk Premium SMS

SMS Text Messaging and Marketing

The widespread use of SMS and the portability of the mobile phone has resulted in a significant increase in the use of text messaging as a marketing tool. Integration with other formats such as Email and Instant Messaging (IM) provides business with greater flexibility in marketing promotions and in general communications.

SMS Marketing

SMS On-Pack Competitions are the ideal marketing tool for business by enticing customers with the chance to win a prize to become more involved with the product or service being advertised. Premium SMS means text marketing can also generate revenue for the participating business. The price point can be set so that the campaign self liquidates or generates an additional revenue stream.

Bulk Premium SMS

Bulk SMS is the ideal mechanism for informing large groups of recipients of company developments, product changes, staff announcements, and also for product campaigns using premium SMS.

X-on provides very competitively priced Bulk SMS for sending and receiving of large volumes of text messages, along with all the support and services needed for the largest of corporate bulk premium SMS campaigns and marketing promotions.

Premium MMS

Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) enabled mobile phones can receive images, audio and video. This is useful when describing new products and services given the visual aspect of MMS, and Bulk MMS can be an effective means of launching a new product for example.

Premium Rate MMS messaging is integral to a large number of mobile entertainment services such as the download of mobile phone wallpapers and videos, particularly for the adult market.

SMS Billing

Premium SMS billing can be used in a variety of situations adding flexibility to advertising media from print media through to TV promotions. X-on provides multiple price points using shared or dedicated short code numbers.

Premium SMS can be used to bill for a variety of products and services:

	On-pack and promotional competitions
	Voting for TV shows etc.
	Mobile content payment and delivery
	WAP and web site payments
	Text for information services

SMS marketing enjoys higher response rates than most other marketing mechanisms coupled with ease of access to the consumer.

Premium SMS Delivery

With data centres on several sites switching several million SMS and several million call minutes each month, X-on have the capacity and resilience to supply enterprise level corporate SMS solutions. X-on has extensive experience in providing hosted services to the UK's largest corporations and with direct connections to the UK Mobile Networks, and using UK routes, we ensure that your outbound SMS are delivered quickly and with extremely low failure rates.

Text, Voice and Data Integration

Email to SMS, SMS to Email, SMS to Voice, IM/SMS integration, SMS Vouchers, Text Order and Appointment Reminder services can additionally be used in a variety of business communications from alert systems to flexibility in staff communications. More detailed information on text, voice and data Integration can be found on the SMS-Messaging web site.