{"id":73,"date":"2010-10-11T23:45:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T07:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/?p=73"},"modified":"2010-11-03T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T06:36:00","slug":"text-me-a-promo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/2010\/10\/11\/text-me-a-promo\/","title":{"rendered":"Text me a Promo"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my phone. \"\"<\/a>I am really attached to it. I sometimes forget to put it away before bed and leave it on the pillow next to me. I’m sure a lot of people, even though they might be as in love with their phones as I am with mine, would say that they have an unexplained bond. They probably feel “naked” without the phone in their hands, or \u00a0feel a bit more socially awkward not having the device to play with when stuck in an uncomfortable situation.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t their unconditional bond with a device that can text, receive calls, and explore the internet be the perfect way to instant, effective marketing promotions?<\/p>\n

I was buying shoes the other day when the sales associate informed me that if I texted 5 digits to a certain number that I would be able to receive 20% off my purchase for the rest of the month! How genius! Noposters, no hand outs or brochures. Just tell your customers to text and buy. I was sold and ended up buying 2 pairs of flats.<\/p>\n

[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ojHfoRRW1SA&feature=player_embedded[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

I googled around and found out that there are companies that facilitate this type of marketing. One particular is Club Texting www.clubtexting.com <\/a> It’s like emailing, but instead people receive it through text. The above video demonstrates how one would go about setting up the texting feature. It outlines examples such as a restaurant scheduling special texts to valued customers with a promo code of some sort that only they would have access to while a general crowd would get a different message. \u00a0These texts can be customized down to personalizing each person’s name.<\/p>\n

It’s quite neat and thoughtful and might just be the catalyst in someone’s decision on where to shop or eat for that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my phone. I am really attached to it. I sometimes forget to put it away before bed and leave it on the pillow next to me. I’m sure a lot of people, even though they might be as in love with their phones as I am with mine, would say that they have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comm-296"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimmmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}