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SMS Competitions.

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Voting, Competitions and Reverse Auctions.

Textvertising provide SMS competition systems including "Text Voting" and "Reverse Auctions". These can be run using either standard messaging free to the customer or premium rate at 25p-£10.


What we can provide:
 
Text Voting and Competitions.
Text Voting and Competitions have been around for many years and have only become an accepted "household products" since the launch of programmes like the X Factor, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Popstars.

The idea of text voting is that the public can for example vote for their favourite singer or with text competitions that the correct answer must be text in to a question.

This is simply done by the end user simply "texting" a keyword and a their reply from their mobile phone - A, B or C, Paris London or Berlin are good examples.

Textvertising provide all of the following:
  • set a start time and an end time and the system starts and ends your service automatically.
     
  • Create a dynamic link and make your votes/entry results publicly available to users or forums on an ongoing basis.
     
  • Configure how many votes/entries each person can make.
     
  • Use reverse billing between 25p and £10 per vote/entry.
     
  • View all results online after closing or request the top 3 results be sent to your mobile automatically along with a pre-selected random winners phone number.
     
  • Our system can choose a winner for you - or simply download the results and pick them with an adjudicator.
     
  • Run up to 3 competitions at the same time.


Your account can easily be configured to send automated text message replies telling the end user if they are correct or not. You can also specify the reply to be free of charge or at a premium cost between 25p and £10.


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Voting by text message isn't limited to just corporate events or to TV and Radio shows - even smaller businesses like bars and clubs are using text voting for such things as "Battle of the Bands", "Miss Wet T Shirt" and "Karaoke Finals".

Many venues simply want to generate a revenue toward paying for events whilst capturing a database of mobile numbers for future text marketing. Others just wish to provide a fair customer interaction rather than having individual biased judges.

 

Reverse Auctions.
More recently "Reverse Auctions" have become ever popular with radio stations as a new fun and interactive way of giving away prizes with a twist.

The idea of reverse auctions is that rather than putting in a highest bid as with a normal auction, you have to put in the lowest bid. That bid also must be unique. At the end of the competition, the winner (with the lowest unique bid) either wins the prize, or pays the amount they bid.

The end user simply texts your keyword and a bid in pence to enter - your service will take control of letting each entrant know by text message if their bid is unique, not unique, is the lowest unique bid etc. When a user is outbid they are also notified.
 

More Information.
If you would like to discuss your idea, why not get in touch. Call us on 0845 27 82055 or chat to us live online by clicking here.

We are here to help and have a wealth of knowledge in the SMS industry and will happily talk you through the "pros and cons" of text services and advise on the best way to get your idea working.


Usage.

Competitions using Premium Rate Services must be operated under the guidelines and rules of the regulatory body, PhonePay Plus. There is a PhonePay Plus compliance document available to download here which explains how services must comply.

Our service automatically recommends settings to make to ensure you  comply wherever possible.


Getting started.

If you would like to start a text competition, you will firstly require at least a free starter account. Click here to sign up free online. Please contact our product support team who will happily upgrade your account to take advantage the services you require.


Costs
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Please see our pricing page for more information on pricing. We are extremely competitive on pricing and wherever possible we will not be beaten on price.

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