Spread your New Year toast with Online Texting
Dec0
A couple of weeks ago I set up 56 scheduled SMS Christmas greetings at online texting site www.looknothumbs.com. I did this around December 18th. It only took about 10 minutes, and then I completely forgot I’d done it until Christmas morning when, in the space of about an hour I received 34 text messages on my mobile phone - replies from friends and family around the world who’d received my message, scheduled for 8.30am.
I hadn’t anticipated that, but it turned out to be a nice way to include everyone in our family Christmas morning as I watched gifts being unwrapped and my living room being trashed by small children. The replies included comments about similar mayhem in friends homes, which was also fun to share.
So for New Year I’m doing it again. Here are the steps, in case you have a few minutes and want to check this out:
1. Register on www.looknothumbs.com (or register interest first to get your invitation) and buy some text credit.
2. Import or enter some mobile numbers into your LookNoThumbs address book, and create groups if you want to send the same message to lots of people (ideal for holiday greetings!).
3. Send a text message to each group or person, setting the delivery time for 1/1/2008 some time in the morning. I’m sending to 2 groups - one for friends and one for customers - plus a few individual texts where I wanted to personalise the message.
Just for fun, leave your phone on around the time you’ve scheduled your message, and see who’s still up partying and responding to your greeting.
Remember, the great thing is that you can set up your greetings now for delivery on Jan 1st, so you don’t have to fumble with your phone when you should be spreading your toast.
Happy 2008 everyone!
What’s So Great about Online Texting?
Dec0
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 !
How Online Texting Is Spreading Seasonal Greetings
Dec0
Online texting has arrived! However, a new product at www.looknothumbs.com provides functionality that takes online texting further than before. In fact, it is so good that you can even automatically send your Christmas and New Year greetings without having to do it on the day.
www.looknothumbs.com provides a scheduling service that lets you set up your online texting messages in advance which allows you to relax, secure in the knowledge that your best wishes are being sent to all of your friends and family on the day at a time chosen by you.
Go on, check it out at www.looknothumbs.com and set up your schedule of your online texting messages. Make sure that you can reach out to those you love without the need to fiddle about with a mobile phone keypad while preparing Christmas lunch.
And here’s the great thing, once you are set up all online texting received from your looknothumbs account will, when received, appear to have come directly from your mobile phone.
Make sure you don’t forget anyone this Christmas and New Year. Make sure you have your scheduled online texting set up in www.looknothumbs.com.
Online texting is not just for Christmas … it’s for life! Remember to schedule your New Year greetings and next year’s family birthday wishes too.