willay
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Hi mate,
I'm looking for some sort of service where people can subscribe to a SMS mailing list by sending a keyword to a number, does anyone know of this sort of service?
Essentially I want to text our walk in customers when we have a sale on and special offers - I've been thinking about putting cards out in the shop where they can write down their mobile number and put it in a little box - we would then have to process all the data onto a spreadsheet which I would then import into some bulk sms service but surely they could just text 'LOLZ' to a short number and add themselfs onto it?
Any information, experiences, or questions are welcome 
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gooner_47
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One of the companies we deal with at work has software that does that type of thing...
http://www.orbis-software.com/products/output-send-sms.php
That link is for outgoing SMS but I think they've developed incoming as well.
Basically an event (email sent in / SMS sent in etc) triggers a 'task', which can then do any number of things - in your case extract the number of the incoming text, then insert it to a table in your db / save it to an excel file.
No idea of cost etc, could potentially be quite expensive. Just throwing it out there.
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Sam
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U2U Whittie
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John
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http://www.icukhosting.co.uk/telecoms/sms_overview.asp
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willay
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Yeah I dont really want to get too involved with the technical side on this one, I'm happy to pay a GOOD firm to provide me the service and a interface to mass sms my mailing list.
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Dom
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As Sam pointed out, drop Whittie a U2U as he set up something recently 
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willay
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using: http://www.signup-onlinemarketing.co.uk/
Got myself a short number and a unique key word so people can subscribe. Lets see how it goes.
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Dan
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What sort of cost is it willay for the short no and the key etc? feel free to u2u me if you dont wanna post on here 
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willay
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Free. Only costs me to send messages out Costs a standard network message to text it and subscribe
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Dan
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You dont have to pay for the number or anything? Sounds awesome!
Whats it cost to send a message
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willay
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Depends on how many credits/texts you buy in one go, I got free 25 messages to start.
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