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What’s So Great about Online Texting?

Texting is just texting, right ? Maybe and maybe not. Online texting portal www.LookNoThumbs.com lists these as some of the things you can do from a computer that you can’t do - or just can’t easily do - when texting straight from your phone.

• Paste text straight from an email message, document or web page into an SMS message. LookNoThumbs business clients find that pasting eliminates errors when communicating detailed information like booking confirmation numbers, flight times, addresses, directions etc.
• Send a text message when you’re not there. Online texting allows you to enter a text message now, but schedule delivery for later - possibly when you’re asleep, travelling or too busy to send the text when you really want it delivered. Some users set up reminders for themselves or others; important ToDo items, deadlines, meetings, greetings, appointments, or insurance renewal dates. Others use it to remind business clients of scheduled maintenance due dates. You may not always be at your desk to receive an email or calendar reminder, but you’ll usually not be too far from your mobile.
• Start a message with a template to reduce typing. Set up templates in your online texting account at www.looknothuumbs.com, and use them next time to avoid re-keying similar messages.
  
• Send an alert to interested subscribers. Set up alerts, invite subscribers, then text all of them at once without having to manage their contact information in your addressbook.
• Share your text credits with others. Send someone in your team or family some of your prepaid text balance as a Voucher.
• Send yourself an email or text copy of every message. Useful as a permanent reminder of what you sent, to whom and when.
• Text from any Internet device without re-learning how to text. Most phones have their own unique way of entering text or getting to the screen for texting.
• Safeguard your address book with password protection and automatic backup. Ever lost a mobile and realised there were numbers on it you don’t have anywhere else?  Access to your online texting account is password-protected and SSL encrypted; your account data including your addressbook is automatically backed up for you by the service.
• Text from abroad without roaming charges. Going on holiday? Use online texting from your hotel and avoid the inflated cost of sending a text when you’re connected to a foreign network. This alone is reason enough to have an online texting account to supplement your mobile.
• Text when your mobile battery is dead. Or, save your weak battery for real emergencies by texting from a PC instead.
• Text when you forgot to bring your phone. Send your messages from any online computer; replies will still go to your phone so you can log out and walk away knowing you won’t lose touch.
• Text when you have no mobile signal. The mobile network simply can’t reach every location; you can still text out from any Internet-connected computer with your online texting solution.
• Send loooong messages. SMS was really designed for short messages, but online texting allows you to send a message as long as you like, by breaking it into parts. This can be done automatically by the service or easily by you.

That’s not a short list, or even a complete one, but one thing is clear; online texting has earned its rightful place in today’s mobile toolbox, right alongside your phone. Using the right tool for the job is the key to getting your business and personal messages out easily! When you’re truly on the go, maybe that’s your phone. But when you’re near a computer it’s increasingly more likely to be an online texting solution like www.looknothumbs.com !