Tri-Cities Area Businesses To Be The First To Use New Mobile Media SMS Responder Service

Nov. 1, 2009 - PRLog -- Tri-Cities eCommerce Business Solutions announced that as of November 1st their newest service SMS responder is now ready to be released for general use by local Tri-City area businesses. For two years this product has been in development and kept under wraps while the bugs in the system were worked out.

Mobile Media SMS advertising is not new and has been around for quite some time. However, for the most part the costs involved utilizing text messaging (SMS) has kept this advertising medium away from the small business owners. "One of my goals," said Rick Roberts the owner of Tri-Cities eBS, "was to be able to offer mobile media advertising at an affordable rate, no longer making it cost prohibitive to the region's small businesses."

"My other goal was to bring something totally new to the table that would make this medium more useful to the company as well as appealing to the consumers to want to use it.", said Rick Roberts. Typically SMS advertising has been limited to only "bounce back" or broadcast type ads that offered no means for scheduling at all.

"I wanted to offer area businesses that schedule appointments a more cost effective means of having appointment reminders than having the traditional live person calling the clients via the phone," commented Mr. Roberts. Another great use for the responder service is for any business that runs specials or close-out sales to be able to remind their customers of such events.

"For instance," he went on to say, "a restaurant that has a daily lunch special could notify their customers of the day's lunch special at a key time of day - say 12:05 just as most employees are getting to their cars in a parking lot and trying to decide on where to eat lunch."

Mobile media advertising has been used for years by big name companies such as Burger King, Starbucks, Pizza Hut and Coca Cola just to name a few, and even by Barack Obama during his campaign for presidency. But perhaps the most widely recognized use that consumers can relate to are what two TV giants American Idol and The Weather Channel are doing with it.

"Our products are exactly the same as what the big guys use", said Rick Roberts, "offer the same consumer/customer interactivity, but at a much lower entry point cost wise. Not to mention the savings we can offer the small business because of the no per message charges and unlimited subscribers features, something you just can't get from regular SMS mobile media providers."

Basically any business that schedules appointments for the clients or customers, such as doctors, lawyers, dentists could make great use of all of our services especially the new SMS responder service. Restaurants, night clubs, and even real estate brokers and agents can use most of these services as well to offer more customer/client interactivity.

For more information on how these services work and how they could benefit your company please contact Tri-Cities eCommerce Business Solutions via their website at http://tricities-ecommerce-business-solutions.com or call them toll free at: 877-434-9366

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