What White Label SMS do you recommend/use?

sodomojo · 17th May 2012, 12:19 PM

I'm looking at the following:

Lime Cellular
Trumpia
AvidMobile

Any recommendations? I'm leaning towards AvidMobile at the moment.

Jones178 · 17th May 2012, 12:45 PM

I have had demo accounts with both Lime and Avid. I thought both platforms were very good and user friendly. Im leaning towards Lime because of their couponing feature. I have yet to find a company that has something close to what they offer. I also like that when I called up with some questions or ideas I spoke directly with the owner of the company Yuval. I still haven't made a final decision yet.

coxis · 17th May 2012, 01:04 PM

I have just gone with Lime (Im based in the UK) and could not be more happy with the service so far.

Pru · 17th May 2012, 02:45 PM

Are these similar products to Tatango or Mobivity? I am trying to understand the system.

sodomojo · 17th May 2012, 03:45 PM

I am not familiar with Anchor Mobile. They didn't come up when I googled white label or private label SMS or reseller SMS. I'll check them out. Thanks.

Rymico · 17th May 2012, 03:58 PM

Been very happy with all of the features that Lime Cellular gives you.

sodomojo · 31st May 2012, 07:08 PM

Seems like everybody likes Lime. I ended up going with avid. Seems like they have great support for resellers tutorials and trainings and white label customer presentations. Plus the unlimited keywords is a plus.

TrumpiaTim · 2nd Jul 2012, 04:33 PM

Best thing to do is call each provider and see how well each company represents their products.

Learn about features, customer support, technical support, etc.

Most companies do not have 7 days a week support nor live phone support which is a huge negative imo.

kellysharali · 2nd Jul 2012, 08:11 PM

Have you guys heard about wrecking ball SMS? Seems like a good platform but it does run on a long code. I submitted a support ticket to learn more about their platform and am waiting to hear back

TrumpiaTim · 4th Jul 2012, 04:43 PM

Long codes are really not reliable, so I would not recommend wrecking ball.

Also, keep in mind that going through an aggregator, will result in you developing your own platform which will not only cost quite a bit, but development time can be very long.

Instructor · 4th Jul 2012, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by iBrandvertise

I would recommend going direct through an agregator. You will pay less than a penny per text. This is what Trumpia and all the others mentioned are doing, then charging you plus their fees.

It would be great to learn more about this....

TrumpiaTim · 4th Jul 2012, 11:22 PM

Also keep in mind, aggregators do not allow just anyone to purchase direct, minimums are typically very expensive.

Often times pricing the prospect out if you're not ready to make a fairly large financial investment.

beeswarn · 5th Jul 2012, 05:50 PM

You should check again.

Robert X · 6th Jul 2012, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by iBrandvertise

I would recommend going direct through an agregator. You will pay less than a penny per text. This is what Trumpia and all the others mentioned are doing, then charging you plus their fees. Air2Web is a great aggregator. Their customers are Walmart, Target, BP, and many others. You could even become the Trumpia.

I must say, it amazes me how many people claim to be experts in mobile marketing, but don't know their A** from a hole in the ground. LOL That's what happens when you don't start a trend, and just ride the wave.

Then why don't you create a wso and let everyone in on your amazing knowledge,

Attitude=Dooshbag

Robert X

p.s. anybody else thinking jerk?

kimboslice · 6th Jul 2012, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by iBrandvertise

Actually, Air2Web provides everything you need. SMS platform, shortcode and SMS and MMS.

See what I mean. Lol

Thanks. Had not heard about this company. I'll look into it.

Adwizard · 6th Jul 2012, 10:05 PM

Really folks... aren't we suppose to be grown ups here. The name calling is ridiculous and certainly not conducive to one wanting to share any info. Thanks for the info by the way on Air2Web. I'm not an expert for sure and need to research more into SMS aggregators. Any others you might recommend looking at iBrandvertise?

Thanks

Bruha · 6th Jul 2012, 10:11 PM

I found OpenMarket and MX TElecom today via a google search. HAve a callback in to OpenMarket and they look good. Seems that a few of these companies are using CMX2 as the platform. Need to do more research.

TrumpiaTim · 8th Jul 2012, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by iBrandvertise

The other nice thing about air2web as opposed to trumpia or lime-mobile or whatever is the fact that YOU control the list. Last time I checked if you wanted to take your list and go to another company, you can't!

To clarify, Trumpia has always and will continue to allow its users to export their mobile contacts within their individual control panel.

Anthony Gibson · 9th Jul 2012, 07:39 AM

I've had a lot of success with Trumpia in terms of positive client response, responsive and competent support and appeal during a sales presentation so I haven't even felt the need to try any other company. My two cents. Interesting thread!

Edge88 · 9th Jul 2012, 08:38 AM

Where do you find out more about and sign up for air2web? They've been acquired by Velti and I don't see any info anywhere. I called Velti and now I'm waiting for a call back.

Edit:
Ok they called me back and said they will get the right person to call me soon. Will update you guys soon.

Edge88 · 10th Jul 2012, 12:33 PM

Takes 8 - 10 weeks to setup your own short-code. It costs $3500 dollars setup fee. Once your short code has been setup it costs you an additional $500 per month short-code leasing fee, and $2500 fee to use Air2Web's platform for managing keywords. Not sure on the limit of text messages, but it's a whole lot of them.

Rymico · 10th Jul 2012, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by iBrandvertise

I would recommend going direct through an agregator. You will pay less than a penny per text. This is what Trumpia and all the others mentioned are doing, then charging you plus their fees. e.

Originally Posted by Edge88

Takes 8 - 10 weeks to setup your own short-code. It costs $3500 dollars setup fee. Once your short code has been setup it costs you an additional $500 per month short-code leasing fee, and $2500 fee to use Air2Web's platform for managing keywords. Not sure on the limit of text messages, but it's a whole lot of them.

So, from the numbers Edge88 provided, it would cost me $6,000 up front and then $500/month for the lease PLUS the cost of the text/month.

According to iBrandyvertise, the text are somewhere under one cent each per month. For my numbers below, I am just gonna pick 1/2 cent for each text. I do not know what the number is, just an example of what it could be, according to iBrandyvertise.

I am with Lime, so I know their costs. I will use those for this case. I can get 30,000 texts for $500/month with Lime, then one cent for each text over the 30,000.

So, once I buy the texts, I have 30,000 for the cost of a short code lease each month.

At 1/2 cent /text, the $6000 set up could have bought me 1,2000,000 texts. 1,200,000/30000 = 40 months to break even on the text cost.

After that, the Air2Web seems to be ahead on cost. Of course, that does not include all of the features my Lime account has. Probably gonna cost a good bit to build a platform for all of that.

So after 3 1/2 years you might be ahead of an established platform provider. Oh yeah, you can start selling in 8-10 weeks, if all goes well on setting up that short code. Not sure if that gets ya going with every carrier or not. Of course, the others we have talked about ARE set up with all of the carriers.

Hmm, I wonder how much it will cost to set up a short code in Canada and the U.K. ? Oh yeah, my Lime platform is already ready for me to sell there.

I think I will stay where I am. 1,200,00 is quite a few texts.

Mobilize · 10th Jul 2012, 06:24 PM

@Edge88

Do you have to have your own short code, or do they have one we can use?
Is the @2500 platform fee, one time or recurring fee?

Thanks for your help.

Instructor · 11th Jul 2012, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Rymico

So, from the numbers Edge88 provided, it would cost me $6,000 up front and then $500/month for the lease PLUS the cost of the text/month.

According to iBrandyvertise, the text are somewhere under one cent each per month. For my numbers below, I am just gonna pick 1/2 cent for each text. I do not know what the number is, just an example of what it could be, according to iBrandyvertise.

I am with Lime, so I know their costs. I will use those for this case. I can get 30,000 texts for $500/month with Lime, then one cent for each text over the 30,000.

So, once I buy the texts, I have 30,000 for the cost of a short code lease each month.

At 1/2 cent /text, the $6000 set up could have bought me 1,2000,000 texts. 1,200,000/30000 = 40 months to break even on the text cost.

After that, the Air2Web seems to be ahead on cost. Of course, that does not include all of the features my Lime account has. Probably gonna cost a good bit to build a platform for all of that.

So after 3 1/2 years you might be ahead of an established platform provider. Oh yeah, you can start selling in 8-10 weeks, if all goes well on setting up that short code. Not sure if that gets ya going with every carrier or not. Of course, the others we have talked about ARE set up with all of the carriers.

Hmm, I wonder how much it will cost to set up a short code in Canada and the U.K. ? Oh yeah, my Lime platform is already ready for me to sell there.

I think I will stay where I am. 1,200,00 is quite a few texts.

What's lime's setup fee for that?

TommyTom · 11th Jul 2012, 07:49 PM

I have heard a lot of good things about Lime Cellular. Probably more than most other companies combined. Give it a go!

Rymico · 11th Jul 2012, 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by Instructor

What's lime's setup fee for that?

No set up fees.

Rodney

Edge88 · 13th Jul 2012, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

@Edge88

Do you have to have your own short code, or do they have one we can use?
Is the @2500 platform fee, one time or recurring fee?

Thanks for your help.

From what I understood you need your short code, no sharing.

2500 is per month and is the fee to use their platform, if you don't want to use their platform you still need to pay 2500 per month. that includes 250,000 texts per month.

Edge88 · 13th Jul 2012, 10:34 AM

I'm just going to go with Trumpia for now. Air2Web is making it too costly, perhaps I'll move to them in a few months, but if you're not doing large volume, then it doesn't make that much sense to go directly with Air2Web.

ps. There are other aggregators, so if anyone takes the time checking with them I'd appreciate a PM on the info you've discovered.

Thanks!

Mobilize · 13th Jul 2012, 09:46 PM

Thanks Edge88 for the information.
Wow $3000/month!
I just signed up with Lime and so far I am happy with them.

SebCole · 14th Jul 2012, 08:50 PM

haven't really tried any of them but based on what ive seen i would go with lime

TrumpiaTim · 15th Jul 2012, 08:50 AM

Definitely should give various vendors a call, find the company you're most comfortable with in the long run.

badlimey · 16th Jul 2012, 05:56 PM

For what it''s worth I think the CEO of Avid is a bit of a Jerk, I didn't like the tone of an email he sent me because I leveled a little constructive criticism. If I were you I would take a look at SignalHQ, although they do not have a reseller program at the present time they have so many features that your average small client is not going to take the time to do it themselves leaving a managed opportunity for yourself.

beeswarn · 16th Jul 2012, 09:15 PM

I am seriously considering a change in platform vendors, myself, and am not impressed Avid's sales people either. I will not consider them again.

Edge88 · 18th Jul 2012, 03:03 PM

Woah! What happened to the link that listed a bunch of aggregators? Looks like the member who told us about aggregators is gone and so are all of his posts in this thread.

Did anyone copy down the link?

If so please re-post it! thanks.

Rymico · 18th Jul 2012, 04:52 PM

Edge, there are only a few aggregators. You can just google of, I think it is, text message aggregators and they are all listed on one of the results.

tracourt · 25th Aug 2012, 02:05 AM

I have a couple of beefs with Lime about their vehicle listing area. First of all, there is no way to set a default notification, you have to set it for every one of the vehicles even if you are putting in 200 and every lead notification goes to the same place.
Secondly, they have a really decent ad that can be printed to window stickers. However they started a good thing but it must have gotten difficult and they just quit. It doesn't fill up but about 70% of a letter size page but worse than that is that it's not even centered. There are no scaling or fit to page options. The print dialog opens in an extremely small window you have to enlarge before printing. Not very well thought out.
But the biggest mistake is that you have to 1)click generate 2) click print icon that opens the too small print dialog 3) resize the print window 4) select printer and finally 5) click print. They could have hit a homer with a quick print button next to the generate ad button. I know this sounds petty but when you are setting up a 100 to 200 car account, it really consumes a lot of time.
Come on guys, make it a little more user friendly.
Otherwise, I love it!

mobetman · 3rd Sep 2012, 06:01 PM

I see many people on WF using Twilio which uses long codes. Their price is much cheaper for setup and $.01 per text. However, I've seen some say long codes aren't reliable. Can someone explain why that's the case?

Lee M · 3rd Sep 2012, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by mobetman

I see many people on WF using Twilio which uses long codes. Their price is much cheaper for setup and $.01 per text. However, I've seen some say long codes aren't reliable. Can someone explain why that's the case?

Twilio is .01 cent per message on inbound AND outbound. So if you have a mobile call-to-action like ... "Text pizza to (long code) 310-555-1212 ..." That'll cost .02 cents (one message coming in, one message going back out).

Cost of running SMS campaigns on "shared" short codes have been steadily falling now for months. For example, most providers do NOT charge for 'incoming' messages ... and only charge for outgoing messages.

shoopt · 4th Sep 2012, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by Tydowns

I'm looking at the following:

Lime Cellular
Trumpia
AvidMobile

Any recommendations? I'm leaning towards AvidMobile at the moment.

If the comparison is made between your mentioned service provides, I will suggest you to go for Lime Cellular. They are good in the work and also their support is really helpful.

NurSharina · 1st Oct 2012, 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by mobetman

I see many people on WF using Twilio which uses long codes. Their price is much cheaper for setup and $.01 per text. However, I've seen some say long codes aren't reliable. Can someone explain why that's the case?

I would be interested in an answer to this too.

Also i heard / read that long codes are not "carrier approved" can anyone explain what that means exactly - short code = use good / long code use = bad ??!??

I understand the arguments of resellers for short code services. If long codes are bad or not approved then what is the business concept of Twilio.com and why are they offering long codes for a number of countries around the world?

NYC Partners · 2nd Oct 2012, 10:32 AM

Hey...

When it comes to SMS service... you can NOT beat Trumpia.

Hands down, they have every feature and are pretty easy to use.

Hope that helps.

Sincerely,
Roman

gohogs · 16th Oct 2012, 06:54 PM

I use Twilio for SMS for almost a year now and have NEVER had a problem. Long code blah blah blah

.... there likely is some truth to long code not always being reliable, but it works great for me. You'll have a hard time convincing me that Twilio is not the route to go.

LiquidSeo · 16th Oct 2012, 08:41 PM

Along with Mario Brown, I run a private label / white label SMS service. We formerly based our infrastructure on Avid. Nice product, average support.

We made a business decision to switch to Lime as the base of our entire system. I couldn't be happier.

The major differences for me was a better cost per message, very simple and intuitive SMS platform (this makes a big difference with your customers!), and some amazing features not found anywhere else.

Jay Rhome · 17th Oct 2012, 07:51 PM

My main issue with Avid was that in Canada, Virgin Mobile users - which are a GOOD chunk of users - don't receive the messages when subscribing. In other words, they do trigger the keyword, are subscribed, we get their phone number, but they don't get any messages back. Ouch. No good. It's been that way for months.

Now I believe the guys at Avid that say the problem is with Virgin, but bottom line my clients won't care about why I can't deliver their message to a good percentage of their clients...

Are there other short code providers such as Lime, Trumpia and others with this issue?

I use Twilio for phone purposes, and as my personal SMS platform (I hate typing on a cell!). But I only get good feedback on Wrecking Ball SMS so I'm now considering on going the long code route.

Short code is better if you have a client with a ton of subscribers. Otherwise I too have heard that the "long code messages are unreliable" seems not to be the case.

17th May 2012, 12:19 PM	#1
sodomojo HyperActive Warrior Join Date: 2012 Posts: 437 Thanks: 170 Thanked 34 Times in 34 Posts	What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I'm looking at the following: Lime Cellular Trumpia AvidMobile Any recommendations? I'm leaning towards AvidMobile at the moment.

17th May 2012, 12:45 PM	#2
Jones178 Warrior Member Join Date: 2012 Posts: 15 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I have had demo accounts with both Lime and Avid. I thought both platforms were very good and user friendly. Im leaning towards Lime because of their couponing feature. I have yet to find a company that has something close to what they offer. I also like that when I called up with some questions or ideas I spoke directly with the owner of the company Yuval. I still haven't made a final decision yet.

17th May 2012, 01:04 PM	#3
coxis Warrior Member Join Date: 2010 Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I have just gone with Lime (Im based in the UK) and could not be more happy with the service so far.

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Pru Warrior Member Join Date: 2012 Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Are these similar products to Tatango or Mobivity? I am trying to understand the system.

17th May 2012, 03:45 PM	#5
sodomojo HyperActive Warrior Join Date: 2012 Posts: 437 Thanks: 170 Thanked 34 Times in 34 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I am not familiar with Anchor Mobile. They didn't come up when I googled white label or private label SMS or reseller SMS. I'll check them out. Thanks.

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Rymico Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 82 Thanks: 2 Thanked 23 Times in 15 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Been very happy with all of the features that Lime Cellular gives you.
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sodomojo HyperActive Warrior Join Date: 2012 Posts: 437 Thanks: 170 Thanked 34 Times in 34 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Seems like everybody likes Lime. I ended up going with avid. Seems like they have great support for resellers tutorials and trainings and white label customer presentations. Plus the unlimited keywords is a plus.

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TrumpiaTim www.trumpia.com War Room Member Join Date: 2011 Posts: 824 Thanks: 2 Thanked 65 Times in 58 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Best thing to do is call each provider and see how well each company represents their products. Learn about features, customer support, technical support, etc. Most companies do not have 7 days a week support nor live phone support which is a huge negative imo.
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kellysharali Active Warrior Join Date: 2009 Posts: 51 Thanks: 18 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Have you guys heard about wrecking ball SMS? Seems like a good platform but it does run on a long code. I submitted a support ticket to learn more about their platform and am waiting to hear back

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TrumpiaTim www.trumpia.com War Room Member Join Date: 2011 Posts: 824 Thanks: 2 Thanked 65 Times in 58 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Long codes are really not reliable, so I would not recommend wrecking ball. Also, keep in mind that going through an aggregator, will result in you developing your own platform which will not only cost quite a bit, but development time can be very long.
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TrumpiaTim www.trumpia.com War Room Member Join Date: 2011 Posts: 824 Thanks: 2 Thanked 65 Times in 58 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Also keep in mind, aggregators do not allow just anyone to purchase direct, minimums are typically very expensive. Often times pricing the prospect out if you're not ready to make a fairly large financial investment.
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Anthony Gibson Grateful Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2012 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 253 Thanks: 50 Thanked 64 Times in 57 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I've had a lot of success with Trumpia in terms of positive client response, responsive and competent support and appeal during a sales presentation so I haven't even felt the need to try any other company. My two cents. Interesting thread!

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Edge88 rocket fuel War Room Member Join Date: 2009 Location: Florida < > NY \| USA Posts: 216 Thanks: 41 Thanked 22 Times in 12 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Where do you find out more about and sign up for air2web? They've been acquired by Velti and I don't see any info anywhere. I called Velti and now I'm waiting for a call back. Edit: Ok they called me back and said they will get the right person to call me soon. Will update you guys soon.

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Edge88 rocket fuel War Room Member Join Date: 2009 Location: Florida < > NY \| USA Posts: 216 Thanks: 41 Thanked 22 Times in 12 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Takes 8 - 10 weeks to setup your own short-code. It costs $3500 dollars setup fee. Once your short code has been setup it costs you an additional $500 per month short-code leasing fee, and $2500 fee to use Air2Web's platform for managing keywords. Not sure on the limit of text messages, but it's a whole lot of them.

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Mobilize Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 72 Thanks: 11 Thanked 18 Times in 13 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: @Edge88 Do you have to have your own short code, or do they have one we can use? Is the @2500 platform fee, one time or recurring fee? Thanks for your help.

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TommyTom Warrior Member Join Date: 2012 Location: Chicago Posts: 18 Thanks: 3 Thanked 17 Times in 7 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I have heard a lot of good things about Lime Cellular. Probably more than most other companies combined. Give it a go!

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Edge88 rocket fuel War Room Member Join Date: 2009 Location: Florida < > NY \| USA Posts: 216 Thanks: 41 Thanked 22 Times in 12 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I'm just going to go with Trumpia for now. Air2Web is making it too costly, perhaps I'll move to them in a few months, but if you're not doing large volume, then it doesn't make that much sense to go directly with Air2Web. ps. There are other aggregators, so if anyone takes the time checking with them I'd appreciate a PM on the info you've discovered. Thanks!

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Mobilize Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 72 Thanks: 11 Thanked 18 Times in 13 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Thanks Edge88 for the information. Wow $3000/month! I just signed up with Lime and so far I am happy with them.

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SebCole Warrior Member Join Date: 2012 Posts: 15 Thanks: 2 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: haven't really tried any of them but based on what ive seen i would go with lime

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beeswarn Advanced Warrior Join Date: 2011 Location: USA Posts: 550 Thanks: 228 Thanked 166 Times in 108 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I am seriously considering a change in platform vendors, myself, and am not impressed Avid's sales people either. I will not consider them again.

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Edge88 rocket fuel War Room Member Join Date: 2009 Location: Florida < > NY \| USA Posts: 216 Thanks: 41 Thanked 22 Times in 12 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Woah! What happened to the link that listed a bunch of aggregators? Looks like the member who told us about aggregators is gone and so are all of his posts in this thread. Did anyone copy down the link? If so please re-post it! thanks.

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25th Aug 2012, 02:05 AM	#36
tracourt Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2010 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 67 Thanks: 53 Thanked 18 Times in 18 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I have a couple of beefs with Lime about their vehicle listing area. First of all, there is no way to set a default notification, you have to set it for every one of the vehicles even if you are putting in 200 and every lead notification goes to the same place. Secondly, they have a really decent ad that can be printed to window stickers. However they started a good thing but it must have gotten difficult and they just quit. It doesn't fill up but about 70% of a letter size page but worse than that is that it's not even centered. There are no scaling or fit to page options. The print dialog opens in an extremely small window you have to enlarge before printing. Not very well thought out. But the biggest mistake is that you have to 1)click generate 2) click print icon that opens the too small print dialog 3) resize the print window 4) select printer and finally 5) click print. They could have hit a homer with a quick print button next to the generate ad button. I know this sounds petty but when you are setting up a 100 to 200 car account, it really consumes a lot of time. Come on guys, make it a little more user friendly. Otherwise, I love it!

3rd Sep 2012, 06:01 PM	#37
mobetman Your Renegade Marketer Join Date: 2009 Location: Washington DC Posts: 71 Thanks: 8 Thanked 28 Times in 16 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I see many people on WF using Twilio which uses long codes. Their price is much cheaper for setup and $.01 per text. However, I've seen some say long codes aren't reliable. Can someone explain why that's the case?

2nd Oct 2012, 10:32 AM	#41
NYC Partners Warrior Profit Partner Join Date: 2012 Location: New York, NY Posts: 33 Thanks: 4 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Hey... When it comes to SMS service... you can NOT beat Trumpia. Hands down, they have every feature and are pretty easy to use. Hope that helps. Sincerely, Roman

16th Oct 2012, 06:54 PM	#42
gohogs Active Warrior Join Date: 2010 Posts: 32 Thanks: 5 Thanked 16 Times in 10 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: I use Twilio for SMS for almost a year now and have NEVER had a problem. Long code blah blah blah .... there likely is some truth to long code not always being reliable, but it works great for me. You'll have a hard time convincing me that Twilio is not the route to go.

16th Oct 2012, 08:41 PM	#43
LiquidSeo Brian Anderson War Room Member Join Date: 2010 Location: Peachtree City, GA Posts: 761 Thanks: 630 Thanked 266 Times in 181 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: Along with Mario Brown, I run a private label / white label SMS service. We formerly based our infrastructure on Avid. Nice product, average support. We made a business decision to switch to Lime as the base of our entire system. I couldn't be happier. The major differences for me was a better cost per message, very simple and intuitive SMS platform (this makes a big difference with your customers!), and some amazing features not found anywhere else.

17th Oct 2012, 07:51 PM	#44
Jay Rhome Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: 2009 Posts: 751 Thanks: 204 Thanked 218 Times in 158 Posts	Re: What White Label SMS do you recommend/use? Share on: My main issue with Avid was that in Canada, Virgin Mobile users - which are a GOOD chunk of users - don't receive the messages when subscribing. In other words, they do trigger the keyword, are subscribed, we get their phone number, but they don't get any messages back. Ouch. No good. It's been that way for months. Now I believe the guys at Avid that say the problem is with Virgin, but bottom line my clients won't care about why I can't deliver their message to a good percentage of their clients... Are there other short code providers such as Lime, Trumpia and others with this issue? I use Twilio for phone purposes, and as my personal SMS platform (I hate typing on a cell!). But I only get good feedback on Wrecking Ball SMS so I'm now considering on going the long code route. Short code is better if you have a client with a ton of subscribers. Otherwise I too have heard that the "long code messages are unreliable" seems not to be the case.