The report says that 1in 12 of the parents polled by government education technology agency Becta were getting informed using texting. However, 68% of parents polled wanted schools to use online texting technologies to keep them up to date more frequently.

If your school doesn’t have online texting yet look no further than Looknothumbs.com, the home of on-line texting. We have the technology and scalability to support a school’s texting requirements:

- At LookNoThumbs.com we can send out a bulk text message to all of the parents. Very useful if the school has to close suddenly for any reason and the kids are being sent home early.

- At LookNoThumbs.com we can send out a text message to a sub-set of parents whose kids are in the same class, on a school trip or even not turned up for school.

- At LookNoThumbs.com we can send out a text message to a single child’s parents or guardians letting them know that their child is in trouble, injured, has won an award for the school … whatever and both good news as well as bad.

The main point is that our technology allows a school to manage its texts to parents using our online texting service very easily and efficiently and … of course … it can all be done without the need to fiddle about with a mobile phone text-pad. Our solution makes use of your PC to send out text messages while you are online!

Source Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7610028.stm

Did you know you can set reminders so you don’t forget important dates using online texting?

Do you get into trouble with your partner or family for forgetting anniversaries and birthdays?

Well we have the answer here at www.looknothumbs.com. We offer a personalised reminder service so you never forget using online texting from www.looknothumbs.com!

All you have to do is register your mobile phone details at www.looknothumbs.com, create looknothumbs alerts for the important dates and events you want reminding of and we’ll send you an online text message on the day to jog your memory.

It is a simple case of using online texting to build and maintain customer contact by keeping a real time direct marketing channel permanently open. How does it work? Easy, here’s how.

1. The restaurant buys some bulk text messages from www.looknothumbs.com.

2. With the right package, the restaurant also gets to advertise for free on the www.looknothumbs home page. It works out a lot cheaper than an advert in the local newspaper and the potential visibility is wider.

3. The restaurant sets up some Alerts within the looknothumbs web-site promoting their best deals for customers. For example, “Free Bottle of Wine per Table of Two”, or, “Kids Eat Free” which could be sent out during quiet periods.

4. The restaurant has to then promote the LookNoThumbs Alert to their diners. This could be easily done by adding a tagline to their till receipts. People will read these and with some gentle prompting will sign up to receive LookNoThumbs Alerts from the restaurant.

5. When the customers sign up for a subscription, they get five (or maybe ten) LookNoThumbs online texting messages from the restaurant to use as they see fit. Effectively, a “free gift” paid for by the restaurant.

6.The restaurant in building a LookNoThumbs.com subscription list opens up unbounded business benefits and opportunities in terms of future direct marketing promotions using SMS and online texting.

7. Reread this message. The opportunity offered by this online texting service will help grow your restaurant business faster than a “Kitchen Nightmare” makeover by Gordon Ramsay. Make sure you understand it ( yes ) and don’t miss out as competitors get in there first.

I told you it was easy. Try it now, it’s cheaper than an ad in the local paper.
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(1) For service and MOT Reminders: Send a text reminder, it is cheaper than postage costs.

(2) For Car Pick-Up Reminders: Send a text message informing the customer that their car is ready. Texting is cheaper than the cost of the phone call and time is also saved.

(3) For Parts Authorisation: Send a text message asking the customer to authorise an additional part. Why phone a mobile and talk for 10minutes when you could send a text and the customer will get back to you?

The cost of the text message is insignificant against the cost of the telephone call and the time spent away from other repairs. Adding up these two savings over a day, a week, a month or a year will show that online texting from looknothumbs.com will indeed save you a lot of money.

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Attracting new customers has never been easier or cheaper using an online text messaging service that allows potential buyers to subscribe to SMS text message updates when new properties become available.

With LookNoThumbs.com the online text messaging service can be subscribed to by home hunters who are super keen to hear from the estate agent whenever the type of property they are seeking in a particular area becomes available. LookNoThumbs.com provides its estate agent customers with the ability to publish Alerts to customer who have opted into receive them. The Alerts can be as generic or as specific as required. The more specific the Alerts the better the segmentation can be of the subscription list.

For example, an Agent who has 250 subscribers to the following Alert would have a good idea of the number of people interested in homes in his area.

“HomeMover Agency - New Properties For Sale. Call 0555-555-1234 for more information”

Nothing wrong with that and good information to have. However, the Agent who has 250 subscribers split up over a range of alerts broken down by Home Type, No of Bedrooms and Price would have a better idea of the current market interest in his area.

Online Text Messaging Alerts & Subscriptions Service:

- No more need to walk for miles and miles delivering flyers to doorsteps.

- No more worries that money spent on advertising is not reaching the right audience.

- Confidence that new properties being taken on will have immediate interest from a willing audience.

Here’s a typical scenario from a day in the life of a website; perhaps a site not unlike yours.

You drive visitors to your site by publishing your URL at every opportunity and using every means at the disposal of your marketing budget: stationery, signage, press, broadcast media, online advertising, blogging, and word-of-mouth. As visitors click around your site evaluating you and your business, the tyre-kickers lose interest and leave. Others are interested enough to complete your inquiry form, which at some point delivers contact information to you for later collection. Unfortunately, within minutes after completing the form, most visitors will have forgotten who you are and why they were interested. They’ll have moved on - possibly even to a competitor’s website, and you’ve lost your best chance to win a customer whose interest is still fresh.

Here’s the same scenario with integrated site alerts from online texting portal LookNoThumbs.com.

Your visitors arrive at your site as before. Tyre-kickers leave, as they always do. But now when a visitor completes your inquiry form, their experience with your business is only beginning. Within seconds of them submitting the form, you get a text message on your mobile phone containing the contact details they left – usually while the visitor is still looking at your site. You now have your optimal chance of winning that customer: you have their number right on your phone, and you know they’re on your site. Go ahead - PRESS YOUR GREEN BUTTON NOW!

Make no mistake, LookNoThumbs’ website alerts are the online equivalent of your door chime ringing to alert sales staff when a customer enters your shop.

Site integration with LookNoThumbs.com is a simple process. First, you need a LookNoThumbs.com account, which is free and quick to set up at http://www.LookNoThumbs.com. Don’t buy any texts until you’re ready – your free trial will let you try this out just fine. Next, display a special link prominently on your site. The exact link is in the FAQ accessible from your LookNoThumbs.com online texting account. When your visitor clicks the link, a popup form opens, and when they submit the form, you get your text message. It couldn’t be easier, and it’s free to try.

LookNoThumbs.com has brought customer text messaging within the reach of any business. Where LookNoThumbs stands apart is in its simplicity. Site integration is just one example that delivers high value to your business with no fuss and minimal cost. In fact there are no costs other than any text messages you receive after your free trial, and you buy those in small blocks only when you need them.

Remember, in business it’s always best to strike while the iron is hot. Don’t impress your customers with a great website, then lose them to a competitor over something as trivial as not knowing they were ever there.

Here is a typical scenario, of great customer service using of online texting:

(1) The client’s flight home is cancelled and he calls in to inform his travel service agent seeking advice on what to do next.

(2) The service agent discovers that there are no more flights out that night and also that the best hotels in the area are booked for a major medical conference in the town. She informs the client that she will need to hunt for accommodation and will confirm new the client’s new travel details with an SMS text message.

(3) Realising that she might need to go for a budget hotel for this client, she goes ahead and immediately rebooks the flight out in the morning and, 10 minutes later, a room in the nearest hotel.

(4) The hotel has no internet connection for guests which would make it awkward or impossible for the client to pick up emails. However, the LookNoThumbs.com service allows the client to receive confirmation information by SMS directly to his mobile phone.

(5) She calls the client and explains the new travel arrangements and while on the phone, sends the travel details using the online texting service from LookNoThumbs.com. The client, although disappointed by the earlier cancellation, is delighted that the travel agent has promptly confirmed new travel and accomodation arrangements via an SMS online text message.

Business benefits of LookNoThumbs.com online texting for corporate travel agents:

- Customers will appreciate easy access to travel details on their mobile phones.

- Clients will have the mobile phone with him at every airport / hotel / car rental check-in desk.

- Information can be sent while client is in the air and picked up immediately on landing.

- “Reminders” can be scheduled to send to clients. For example, “Please send me your dates for Geneva by Friday at 1pm to avoid the higher fares”.

- Client does not need to complete the free sign up to use the service, all that is needed is a mobile phone.

- Customer service is improved by including another client communication channel.

- The agent need not know whether client’s mobile phone supports email.

- The agent can copy and paste exact itineraries and codes from booking confirmations, eliminating errors.

- The agent can optionally keep email copies of messages sent for record-keeping and billing purposes.

- The agent can notify client teams of changes all at once using group messaging.

- The agent need not be tied to the office to keep up with developments; client replies can go the agent’s mobile phone.

- Agents can provide customer service announcements for clients already travelling using group texts, for instance to alert clients to airport closures, industrial action, expected delays, extra security measures and other travel related events.

It is clear that online texting with LookNoThumbs.com delivers real business benefit to the corporate travel business. If you are a travel agent, why not join up, the benefits of online texting await you!

Through our web-based online text messaging service, LookNoThumbs.com makes it easy for our clients to manage and run their own mobile marketing campaigns and build a loyal client list of opted in subscribers to their promotional information. Sound too hard … not at all, in fact it is so simple that if you can surf the web, you can use online texting at LookNoThumbs.com.

We can help you whether you want to:

- improve your direct marketing;

- provide promotional offers to your customers;

- reduce the cost of customer contact.

LookNoThumbs.com has proven experience in the online marketing industry and we want to help your business be more successful using our unique online texting services.

Contact us to learn how we can help your business.

(1) Service and MOT Reminders: Can be done immediately and cheaper than through the mail.

(2) Car Ready For Pick-Up: Once work is completed, a text message will inform the customer immediately that their car is ready for pick-up.  Routine and time consuming phone calls at garage’s expense are replaced by as-needed calls at customer’s expense.

(3) Customer Authorisation: Time spent chasing customers for authorisation to fit an additional part is removed by sending them a text message directly to their mobile phone. Customer will typically call and authorise the additional part immediately to avoid delays.

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