TextMarks Pro Service enables organizations and web sites of all sizes to communicate via text messages with their communities. TextMarks focus remains on ease of use, allowing customers to be up and running within minutes. Use cases include SMS enabling web sites, sending text alerts and creating mobile hot-lines. TextMarks has been popular at academic institutions, religious organizations and sports teams. The new Pro Service from TextMarks, which starts at $9.95 per month, complements TextMarks’ original ad-supported solution, which is experiencing rapid growth.

Press Release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1435634.htm

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 7, 2008 — TextMarks Inc., a leading provider of text messaging solutions for consumers, organization and Web sites, announced today the availability of its Pro Service. The new service complements TextMarks standard ad-supported service with a solution for those who don’t want ads inside their messages or want access to the entire 160 characters in each text message.

“The response to our original ad supported service has been terrific,” said Ariel Poler, CEO of TextMarks, “but we did hear from a number of users that they were willing to pay to avoid having ads in their messages. So we decided to launch an alternative that would retain the ease of use and extensive functionality of our original service while giving complete control of the messages to our customers.”

TextMarks Pro, which starts at $9.95 per month and scales with usage, is entirely self-service. Customers can be up and running, sending and receiving text messages to their community, in a matter of minutes. Unlike alternatives that require extensive technical integration and delays, the TextMarks service can be set-up without any technical knowledge. Those who want a more seamless integration can leverage TextMarks simple APIs and self-service provisioning system.

Initial customers of TextMarks Pro include event organizers, religious organizations, small merchants, advertising agencies, and web based applications. TextMarks is particularly well suited for sending time-sensitive reminders to a young demographic that relies more on SMS than on email. It is also ideal for situations in which people are not in front of their computers, but do have their cell phones. Numerous web based applications have also discovered that they can use TextMarks to easily add two way text messaging capabilities.

For more information about the TextMarks Pro Service please visit: TextMarks Pro Service.

TextMarks is pleased to announce a new service for professional users to remove the ads from text messages sent through our service!

The TextMarks service has been free to use since we launched. Of course wireless carriers charge for SMS, but TextMarks has never charged users for using our service. We’ve been able to offer this free service by including small unobtrusive ads in the footers of most messages. We don’t send unsolicited ads and don’t plan to.

With our new Pro Service, not only are the ads removed, but you get to use the space they took up. Pro Service messages can be up to 160 chars (as opposed to 120 for messages with ads). Along with the Pro Service are other goodies like reserved keywords and more.

This new TextMarks Pro Service is a subscription plan with many affordable price points (starting at $9.95/mo) to match your messaging volume needs. Take a look at our Pro Service Subscription Plans.

We’re not taking away our free service, and we encourage you to use it if it’s appropriate for your needs, or to prototype an application prior to subscribing to the Pro Service. But we have heard lots of feedback from our user community asking how to get rid of the ads especially in some of these cases where they were deemed inappropriate:

• Professional applications desiring a white-label service for their SMS components.
• Religious text messaging services (broadcasting alerts to church groups, Jewish holiday announcements and candle lighting times, etc.)
• Youth-oriented text messaging services (class updates, schools, camps, etc.)
• Political text messaging services.

We listened, and we hope that this new service meets your needs. Feedback is welcome.

Pro Service Plans: http://www.textmarks.com/pro/options/

Pro Service FAQ: http://www.textmarks.com/info/help/#hlpsProSvc

Welcome TextMark managers, users, developers, and everybody else! We’re launching this blog to open up the channels of communication with you. Some of the articles we’re planning include:

• New feature announcements
• Tips & tutorials
• Featured applications powered by TextMarks

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