The launch of mobilezen, Inc., a Web-based company that allows businesses and individuals to communicate information direct to mobile phones was recently announced. mobilezen offers an innovative, inexpensive, easy-to-use patent-pending platform with broad applications for nearly every business and individual. The service, TextSites allows subscribers to communicate information about business, products, services, events and even themselves to their customers, prospects or clients instantly using the immediacy of text-messaging and the visual impact of dynamic mobile Web pages and is priced at $10 per month.
Customer interest in real-time can be tracked by the subscribers. They can instantly capture inquiries with mobilezen’s instant notifications by text-message and/or email, and detailed, downloadable analytics, including dates, times, phone numbers, number of text-message requests and TextSite views.
According to President, mobilezen, Lawrence Kasmen, currently the United States is the largest wireless data market in the world as the U.S. carriers delivered nearly 4.1 billion text-messages per day in 2009. He added that people, teenagers and also 66-percent of people aged 30-49, love text as is it is instant and use it on a daily basis. As mobile phone is common in today’s world, with mobilezen, businesses can literally place their information in the palm of their customers’ hand.
Subscribers who wish to use the TextSites need to visit the mobilezen website and choose a keyword for whatever they wish to promote, be it a person, business or a service. The subscriber should create a text-message reply associated with the keyword. When the keyword is texted to 99699 by a customer, the customer instantly receives the automated text-message reply created by the subscriber. The text-message reply will also contain a link to the subscriber’s mobilezen TextSite, created online using mobilezen’s easy-to-use mobile Web page builder using the designed templates or their own.
The mobilezen subscribers can update their text message reply or TextSite anytime without additional cost with changes reflected instantly. Services provided by mobilezen do not require any hardware, software, applications or graphic design experience. It works on any internet-enabled mobile device or desktop. Additional text messages fees outside the normal phone plan are not applicable for people requesting information via text-message or accessing a mobilezen TextSite
Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
Erin Harrison