Text messaging portal LookNoThumbs.com is helping small business website owners to connect instantly with site visitors and transition casual site visits into sales opportunities.
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.
Tags: alerts, customer service, Online Text Messaging, Online Texting, small business, SMS, SMS alerts, text messaging, text portal, Texting, Website Owner
Posted by jhannaway on Dec 13, 2007 in
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Scheduling 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.
Tags: Christmas, Greetings, messaging, mobiles, New Year, Online Texting, SMS, Texting, Xmas
Posted by dcurley on Dec 13, 2007 in
Anecdotal Three seemingly unrelated topics - life, fatherhood and online texting -have never been far from my thoughts this week; in fact dealing with life and fatherhood just reminded me of the incident that got me interested in creative applicatons for online texting (like www.looknothumbs.com) in the first place.
Not many Februaries ago, five men in their late thirties to early forties got together in the Horseshoe Bar in Glasgow, Scotland for a quiet drink. This group grew up together not far from here, and some 18 years ago a gathering like this would have been an unremarkable, often twice-weekly occurrence. But life took its course, fatherhood consumed all our time for a while, people moved and regular meetings became impractical.
Such was this group’s dynamic that although we had all changed in appearance and had all been both treated and bitten by life’s experiences, this reunion was easy, natural, comfortable and thoroughly enjoyable – almost as if only weeks, not decades, had passed.
And so the witty banter and gentle teasing began after a few sips from the first pint, as it always will among male friends in Glasgow.
One of our group had stayed local, been extremely successful at work, and only thinning and receding hair qualified for comment among the other four. One had lived overseas and acclimatised to another lifestyle in various ways, including an expanded waistline – so the others claimed anyway – and loss of his Glasgow accent. But it was the oldest of the group who took the brunt of the fabled Glasgow ‘slagging’ that evening.
Here was a guy in his mid forties, with teenage children, who was completely phobic about sending mobile text messages. His children were texting constantly, including texts to him (he beamed as he proudly related this part). But he still protested that he didn’t see the point of texting because he could always phone someone.
I mulled this over for a while. My friend wasn’t the first person I’d come across who loves to receive a text message but refuses to send one. Fear of technology and specifically of ‘doing it wrong’ seems to crippling vast numbers of people over 40. (Scary – that includes me!) What is it about texting that makes people who are quite comfortable with email lash out against text messaging?
It dawned on me that what makes texting different, and unappealing, is that the method of entering a message requires special skill, with a steep learning curve to acquire it and constant practice to maintain it. What’s truly demoralising is that your learning investment investment is thrown away almost annually with every phone upgrade.
More than a decade into the text revolution, there is no universal set of instructions to cover every phone’s menus, multi-tap sequences and predictive text methods.
Is physically entering messages the only reason some people don’t like to text? Of course not, but it does seem to be the main one. Fortunately, with an online texting solution like www.looknothumbs.com, textphobia is a highly treatable condition.
LookNoThumbs (www.looknothumbs.com) is an easy to use website for business and personal online texting. It’s designed to compliment - not replace - your mobile phone and it makea texting MUCH easier. How? Simple – first, they replace the unfamiliar (mobile phone keypad and text entry systems) with the familiar – your computer’s keyboard and an email-like interface. Next, they present you with simple, flat-rate prepaid texts that can be shared with others and don’t expire. Finally, they’ve loaded the site with useful messaging features for all users that you’d normally expect to see only on a business or premium service.
LookNoThumbs is currently in Pilot as of December 2007, with registration by invitation only. But do register your interest to be sure of getting in early, because they’re currently sending out invitations every day. Check it out: www.looknothumbs.com
You’re probably wondering about my friend with the teenagers. Has he dropped the grudge against texting now? I honestly don’t know for sure, and I haven’t received a text from him yet. But being a true friend, I’ll be sending him an online texting voucher for www.looknothumbs.com this Christmas! Ho, Ho, Ho (LoL).
Happy Christmas!
Tags: Greetings, messaging, mobiles, Online Texting, SMS, Texting, texts, txtng