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Stockbrook Golf Club Choose SMS Text as a “Greener” Marketing tool
Stockbrook Golf Club, are having huge success with SMS text messaging to target young golfers and potential members.
The club send regular messages to societies and prospective members with information on “what’s on” at the club at the weekend, as well as promoting the latest offers and promotions.
Text messaging proved a popular choice because of its greener credentials and its reputation as a highly responsive marketing tactic.
Ryan Kuhl, Golf Development Executive at Stockbrook, is happy with the results achieved from text campaigns “We get great results from our SMS campaigns…with lots of enquiries and bookings directly after a text send.”
Kuhl continues “We aim to continue to use text in the future as it does get the best response rates…. it also appeals to the club as a much greener marketing tool.”
Txtlocal work with a number of Golf Clubs throughout the UK and feedback has always been very positive.
Top 5 Tips for Golf Clubs
1) Text when the course is closed due to bad weather
2) Text with latest offers and promotions
3) Use text to sell last minute tickets for events
4) Promote off peak green times
5) Text results to competition winners
The Ticket Sellers Make Life Easy for Customer’s with SMS
The Ticket Sellers www.theticketsellers.co.uk are using SMS to deliver e-tickets to customer’s mobiles. The service is proving useful in providing customers with instant reassurance that their transaction was successful as well as providing a handy tool to store the e-ticket.
Customer’s purchase tickets from the website for concerts, nightclub entry, student nights and the ticket is sent directly to their phone.
Jonathan White, web developer for The Ticket Sellers was delighted with how easy the service was to set up saying “Integration of the service was easy and straightforward. The API coding works really well and unique codes are generated from the system.”
Mo Page, of The Ticket Sellers claims the service is a success stating “People carry their phones with them everywhere so they never forget their tickets…. no need to carry paper to nightclubs or gigs etc!”
Page also says that Txtlocal allow credits to be purchased in bulk, which helps reduce cost. “We buy credits in bulk from Txtlocal and the prices are very competitive.”
More and more ticket selling companies are integrating text into their service in an attempt to make life easier for customers and eliminate the need for paper.
Flight Details Sent by Text
Passengers flying with Ryanair from City of Derry Airport no longer need to print booking details thanks to mobile phone text messaging.
The Irish low-cost carrier can now have booking confirmation sent via mobile phone text message at a cost of 1 euro.
The move means that Ryanair passengers flying from Derry to London, Alicante, Glasgow Prestwick, Birmingham or Liverpool will no longer have to print out confirmation emails as their itinerary can be sent to their mobile within 24hours of booking.
Ryanair’s, Stephen McNamara, said: “This service will allow passengers the convenience of having their confirmation number delivered directly to their mobile phone.”
“This will make travelling with Ryanair even easier as passengers will no longer have to print out their confirmation email, but simply refer to their mobile phone for their flight details.”