As wireless text messaging (SMS) has grown into a mainstream communication tool for consumers, reaching them via SMS marketing has become increasingly important strategy for businesses. In particular, premium SMS enables businesses to create new revenue streams. While premium SMS has been increasingly used by enterprises such as TV production companies or global businesses, mobileStorm Premium SMS is the first to make such a service available to the SMB market.
mobileStorm Premium SMS gives clients the option to earn money on certain text messages and content for which consumers will pay to send or receive. Clients can hold voting contests, like those on many reality TV shows, in which participants pay a small fee to vote for their favorite choices via SMS. They can also create campaigns in which subscribers will pay a monthly fee to receive premium content on a regular basis—such as daily horoscopes, a VIP program, or other instances where new information is time-sensitive, making that information valuable to the consumer.
Launch your premium SMS campaign within minutes! No waiting months for carrier approval.
Keep 100% of your revenue after carrier payout. mobileStorm is the only mobile provider who offers this.
Integrate with our APIs without having to log into an account
Campaign Creation
mobileStorm Premium SMS has a variety of options and features to help maximize your premium SMS campaigns:
Charge subscribers
- Clients choose which structure suits their needs.
Monthly subscription. This involves a one-time monthly charge for customers to access a company’s premium service and receive messages. Charges can happen either via a web sign up form or billed to the user’s mobile phone carrier.
Per message. This is a “pay as you go” strategy that gives a company’s Mobile Club users the option to pay for certain messages instead of a flat monthly charge.
Set your own price
- Clients set the price for premium content by selecting from a range of default prices that can be automatically attached when creating a new premium SMS campaign.
Text message builder
- Create your premium text message within a few minutes with our streamlined SMS creator. Make sure that your message meets the 160 character restriction with our character counter.
Personalization
- Add a personal touch to your SMS campaigns by inserting tokens such as “first name,” “last name,” and “city” into the body of your text message.
Campaign Management
mobileStorm Premium SMS offers many features to help manage your campaign and to ensure maximum delivery:
Direct Carrier Connections
- mobileStorm Premium SMS delivers campaigns via direct carrier connections (SMPP) with major U.S. cellular providers: AT&T Wireless, Sprint, T-mobile, Verizon Wireless, Boost, Midwest, Alltel, and Virgin Mobile.
View All SMS Replies
- The SMS Inbox is a list of all replies that have been received from your campaigns. It shows the keyword used and the list attached, and if you have tracked your campaign via Track Response, the campaign will show up as well. You can sort by all of these fields as well to better manage the results.
Campaign Analysis
After implementing your premium SMS campaign, it’s time to find out the results.
Revenue Report
- Know how much you are making on a per message basis before and after carrier pay out. Revenue is also broken down on a per carrier basis.
Tracking Responses
- Get detailed tracking information about a specific SMS marketing campaign during a chosen amount of time. Selecting this will indicate that you had a number of responses during this timeframe. This is particularly helpful if you intend to send out multiple campaigns within a short period of time so that you can accurately track to which campaigns people are responding.
Carrier Reporting
- Find out which carriers are the most receptive to your campaigns and diagnose any potential carriers that are blocking your messages.
