List based communications has become the most important part of any companies marketing. Building and maintaining a list of clients and leads is the most effective way to generate continuous business. SMS is a simple way to allow people to opt-in to your lists as well as a powerful and immediate communication method.
Run competitions, giveaways, polls, promotions and more. Receive SMS and automatically add the sender to your database. Opt in people complaintly to your lists, auto reply to their texts and even process their messages for use in your own applications. Each long code is dedicated and all yours. You can also use it when you send campaigns to process responses.
Long code rental costs $49 per month.

Running text marketing campaigns is a great way to build your mobile marketing database. Allow people to SMS a word to your dedicated long code and not only add their number to your database but auto send them useful information and links to mobile web pages. Use live mobile web links to send them rich content like images and video. You can also take their response and handle it yourself, for example receive the persons message and send it as an email or to a competition mechanism.

Spam compliance is extremely simple with Burst SMS. We have a shared long code and we allow you to send from this number. An sms opt-out instruction is automatically added to your message. This instruction tells people to reply STOP and the ID of the recipient list. This automatically removes them from the list and stops the number from being re-added in the future.

Its always good when you can deliver a personalised SMS message. With Burst SMS you can create custom variables that can be added to your outgoing messages and populated from your database.

Receive direct responses from your customers. Receive complex data that can be downloaded at analysed. Use a dedicated long code and auto respond to inbound messages to continue dialogue with the customer. Get continual feedback. Enable keywords to receive competition entries or instructions. Also directly opt-out recipients that do fail to use the STOP command when replying.
