How text messaging assists in Real Estate Sales

Textboards is a great way to provide on demand information to house hunters who may be looking for a new home, they simply text the code on the Estate Agents Board and a text message will instantly come back to their handset. SMS text message technology reduces costs for Real Estate Agents and helps people to sell their homes quicker.

Textboards is the largest supplier of this technology in the UK and also offers Bluetooth Proximity Marketing solutions.

See this short video as an example or check out www.textboards.com for more inforamtion on how SMS text messaging can help sell your home.

Text Messaging on Menu at new VENUE

Have a look at this press release we did to show how restaurants and Gyms can use SMS text messaging to keep one step ahead...

Welsh technology tycoon Mike Harris has seen numbers triple for Sunday Dinners in his restaurant at Park Hall after harnessing the power of text messaging to contact diners.

Since opening the doors to his leisure complex Mike has seen numbers shoot through the roof, thanks to texting technology provided by txttouch. After only two text broadcasts, the number of diners coming through the doors had more than tripled from 70 diners to 240 diners.

Although the head chef and his team have to take some credit for the mouth-watering dishes which have already gaining an enviable reputation, the response from the texts has been very positive. Mike Harris said: ‘Texting is such a useful way to reach customers our Sunday dinners have become very popular thanks to the ease of communication using SMS. Txttouch is ideal if we have a promotion that we want our customers to hear about, we can contact them all quickly with the added benefit that it’s cheaper than printed materials, meaning we don’t pass costs onto our customers.’


Diners at The Venue can join the texting service by simply texting Venue to 80480, this automatically adds them to the special offer and alerts service.

Txttouch Managing Director, Nicholas Maguire, said: ‘We’re thrilled that The Venue at Park Hall is seeing success with text messaging. Txttouch is most suitable for restaurants as owners can contact all their customers at the touch of a button, with is ideal for dealing with the ebbs and flows of the trade.’

Mike Harris has already taken texting to the next level. He uses texting to contact his temporary and part time staff using txttouch. If The Venue has a sudden rush of customers he sends a message to all his standby staff with details of the shift, then the staff who are available contact him, saving the Venue countless hours trying to contact staff directly by telephone.

The Venue at Park Hall is an all-in-one leisure complex in the heart of Shropshire, which is also home to The New Saints FC, the current Welsh Premier League Champions. Other facilities include ten-pin bowling, bar and health and fitness suite.

Welsh school uses SMS to fight off cold winter.

Penglais School is a thriving, rural comprehensive in Ceredigion with nearly 1400 pupils aged 11 to 19. There have been times when the school has had to close unexpectedly due to snow. Teaching staff had to phone every parent individually to notify them of the closure, which was lengthy, costly and inefficient.

With txttouch, the school are now able to send one text message which reaches the mobile phone of every parent instantly when these unexpected events occur.

Penglais then expanded the txttouch solution for a range of other practical purposes; now they can inform parents if a school trip is delayed, send reminders of events such as PTA meetings and parents evenings as well as reaching the parents of individual year groups.

In order to make the solution even more efficient, the school created different ‘txttouch groups’ for each class within the school. For example, parents of children in Year nine are in a Year nine group so that any communication relating specifically to that year alone can be sent only to the parents it is relevant to. If Year nine were to go on a field trip and were going to be late returning, the school could simply contact all parents of the children on that trip.

Penglais is revelling in this useful technology, Melanie Goodwin, Headteachers Secretary said: “Txttouch is an easy to use and effective way that we can contact parents. Parents have been very positive about the texting service, stating to school staff that they are impressed that with this ‘ideal and wonderful solution’, which ‘reflects well on the school.’”

She continued “Since Penglais began using txttouch they have saved countless administration hours, decreased their printing costs and increased their contact with parents at the school.”

Penglais’ plan for the future is to get the text messages sponsored by a local business, so that they reduce their communication costs even further than they have already with the txttouch solution.

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More blogs on www.txttouch.com

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http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/10/churches_spread_the_word_by_text_and_bluetooth.html

The Times cover Bluetooth Proximity Marketing

The Gabriel Communicator from txttouch appeared in the Times Online:


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2647106.ece

txttouch featured in The church Times

http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=45972

David Beckham in Bluetooth Ad.

Motorola unveils glitzy Bluetooth gadgets


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Motorola turns to the flashy and famous to promote its latest and upcoming line of Bluetooth gear, from simple headsets and wireless headphones to music-playing sunnies.


Motorola snagged Posh Spice's hubby David Beckham to promote its Miniblue H9, an itty-bitty Bluetooth headset that comes with a range of earpieces to ensure a snug fit, a reduction in ambient noise and increased audio quality.

www.huetouch.com has great bluetooth accessories for marketing companies looking for a new idea, and you dont need to be David Beckham to use them.

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A SOUTHPORT estate agency is using innovative text messaging software to inform prospective homebuyers of the specifications of properties.

Oakleys Estate Agents, on London Street, is using a service provided by mobile technology company txttouch to text the details of properties to interested buyers at any time of day or night.

A textboard is displayed next to the For Sale sign outside a property and by texting a unique property code to Oakleys, the buyer will receive a text back in the form of 4 bed, 2 recp, glass rf consrv, lrg established gardens, lux oak kitchen with granite, oak hall, family bth with spa, CH, DG, 480k. Call 01704 512121.

Oakleys’ director Andrew Bolton has seen an increasing number of information requests from homebuyers since using the textboards. He said:

“The textboards system has increased the flexibility of our services and means that a wider group of people can now keep up-to-date with properties coming onto the market.

“We have sold a number of properties as a result of people using the textboards system and we envisage this will increase as the boards are used on our full range of properties.”

Nicholas Maguire, Textboards managing director, believes the service will become increasingly popular with estate agents. He said:

“People today lead very busy lives meaning they can’t always contact an estate agent for details of a property when the agency is open.

“The textboards system allows people to find out about a property when they are stood outside it, at a time which is convenient for them. This will increase estate agent’s chances of selling properties as the business is effectively open 24 hours a day.”

Education Sector embrace SMS

UK mobile technology company txttouch is reporting a huge increase in educational institutions using texting as means to contact parents and students.

Schools, colleges and universities are realising the benefits of reaching students and parents by mobile rather than traditional routes and most establishments prefer to use texts as an emergency contact tool opposed to a function in their marketing plans.

Nik Maguire, txttouch’s managing director commented on the rise of text messaging use within the sector. He said:

“We’ve seen a massive rise in educational establishments recognising the communication benefits of texting and using it as means to get to students or parents.

“It is estimated that over half of the population now own a mobile phone and the quickest way to get hold of people is through their phone. Often if there is an unexpected closure or evacuation it is difficult to contact people who are remote or in transit, especially with urgent time sensitive messages.

“For example schools often struggle to contact all parents when they close due to bad weather but with text messaging the head teacher could send one saying “school closed this morning due to weather, please stay at home!” and every parent even if they had already set off for school would get the message.

The txttouch has recently been used in helping save a private school. A Merseyside school which was due for closure used the system to contact busy parents on the progress of “saving the school” resulting in higher attendance at meetings and increased communication flow.

Nik concluded:

“The system we’ve develop enables authorised personnel to contact hundreds or thousands of students, via their mobiles, from registered mobile phones. If one text message is sent from these authorised phones then every student, parent or teacher can receive it almost instantly regardless of their physical location.”

For further information visit www.txttouch.com or call 08706 260684.

Textboards First Customer

Article in local paper in Southport for textboards first customer

Bluetooth Campaign Targets Theatregoers

Bluetooth Campaign Targets Theatregoers

The company installed a Bluetooth transmitter in the theatre. When someone with an active Bluetooth device walks past the transmitter, it sends out a message offering them a free video clip from the puppet show, 'Avenue Q', which is playing at the theatre.

In the first seven days of the experiment 9,595 active Bluetooth devices were detected and sent messages. Of these, 703 people accepted the offer of the video download – an average of 87 people each day.

IMHO these statistics would be more effective if they were using technology from Huetouch as the West End has certain geographical benefits which do not seem to have been maximised upon. This raises the question that for effective results a best of breed solution delivered appropriately would have produced better returns. Many tens of thousand people pass there every day, this could be a good example of ineffective capacity planning. There also seems to be accusations of Blue spamming in this deployment: