Ez Texting Press

Check below to read through an ever-growing list of press clippings, all of which highlight Ez Texting's SMS text messaging service:

Duct Tape Marketing's Mobile Marketing For Small Business Webinar

Duct Tape Marketing - Feb 18, 2010

Our CEO, Shane Neman was one of three featured participants in Duct Tape Marketing's webinar, Mobile Marketing for small business:

As mobile devices evolve to powerful hand held computers, smart marketers are embracing this evolution with mobile centric marketing initiatives.

Everything about your marketing online and offline must begin to consider that entire market segments use the mobile device to find everything from food to legal services locally and abroad.

This page contains the video archive of a live panel discussion on the basics mobile marketing for small business as well as wealth of mobile marketing related resouces.

Watch the video of the webinar and check out a host of valuable resources at Duct Tape Marketing.

 

Chicago-based housing developer cuts costs via SMS

Mobile Marketer - May 22, 2009

UAS Properties, a housing development company recently used mobile to save company costs and provide a quicker, simpler way to stay in touch with tenants and perspective renters.The company was founded in 2001 based in Chicago. UAS hopes to provide affordable housing through development and renovation in Chicago and surrounding communities.

“Text messaging is a cheaper and more efficient way to reach a lot of people,” said Atukwe Newell, managing partner at UAS Properties, Chicago, IL. “We use EZ Texting in both our leasing business and our property management business.

Read the entire article @ Mobile Marketer (Local PDF)

 

Mobile Marketing Is On The Hospitality Horizon

New England Hotel Magazine - Jan / Feb 2009

Mohegan Sun, in Uncasville, Conn., began using mobile marketing this past fall for their nightclub, Ultra 88.

The type of direct marketing or “push campaign” that Mohegan Sun is using is classified as “acquisition” marketing, because the purpose is to “acquire” new customers or entice previous customers to return. According to Shane Neman, president of New York City-based Ez Texting, which is providing the service to Mohegan Sun, entertainment venues started using texting in 2006.

Read the entire article @ NEHmag.com (PDF) (or view Local PDF)

 

Text messages used to lure restaurant patrons on LI

Newsday - Feb 23, 2009

Four Food Studio & Cocktail Salon in Melville asks customers to join their list of "valued guests" and provide their phone numbers used for making reservations along with their e-mail addresses. Promising "no spam," the restaurant wants to inform guests about special events - and those who sign up may win a free lunch.

Customers who don't want to get a text message can opt to be removed from the list, he said.

Amy Baglan, vice president of Ez Texting, the Manhattan company that Four Food Studio uses, said, "We have a very strict anti-spam policy."

Read the entire article @ Newsday (Local PDF)

 

Networks Faced Test In Capital

Investors Daily - Jan 20, 2009

Expect more texting with Obama, an avid BlackBerry user, in the Oval Office. His team likes to text supporters. What he and his team are doing is "taking what the big boys — Pepsi, Coke and all those — are doing with mobile marketing" and applying that to the presidency, said Shane Neman, chief executive at business text messaging provider EzTexting.com.

Read the entire article @ Investors Daily (Local PDF)

 

Wireless companies brace for D.C. overload

Boston Herald - Jan 20, 2009

“The minute he takes his oath, it’s going to be like a New Year’s Eve," said Shane Neman, who runs EzTexting.com, a text marketing company. “There’s going to be millions, possibly billions of texts going on at one time.?

The crush of cell calls and texts expected today is not that surprising given Obama’s technology savvy campaign, he said.

Read the entire article @ Boston Herald (Local PDF)

 

The Inauguration Will Be Televised…& Facebooked, & Twittered, & Texted

Discover Magazine - Jan 20, 2009

In a little under a half hour, Barack Obama will officially take his place as the country’s next POTUS. And while the event will be brimming with historic firsts for the country, the coverage contains plenty of firsts for the integration of technology, politics, and major events.

Text messaging the event is rampant as well, to the point where the CEO of EzTexting.com Shane Neman issued a press release saying he believes millions of text messages will be lost, on the level of New Year’s Eve.

Read the entire article @ Discover Magazine (Local PDF)

 

Detouring Around Inaugural Phone Jams

NY Times - Jan 19, 2009

With about two million people expected at the inauguration Tuesday, attendees can expect cellphone traffic jams. When too many calls try to fit on limited bandwidth, calls and messages get dropped (more on that here). Some texts never make it to their destinations or make it hours – even weeks – late.

In the future, if you are dead s et on sending a mass text or e-mail blast during a big event (say, New Year’s Eve), you can prepare an address list ahead of time and hire a bulk messaging service to relay a message for you. Companies like EzTexting.com or Clickatell charge 2 to 5 cents a message.

Read the entire article @ NY Times (Local PDF)

 

Jeremy Piven offered $1 million spokesman deal from texting company

TV Examiner - Jan 16, 2009

EzTexting.com, a SMS text messaging company, said on Friday that is is offering actor Jeremy Piven $1 million to become its new corporate spokesperson.

In a press release announcing the offer, the company noted that "Last week, Jeremy Piven proved that text messaging is a pop culture staple by sending a mass late-night “booty call? to a group of attractive females, offering a hot date to the first respondent. Piven’s mass text was undoubtedly successful, purportedly landing him a new girlfriend – 23-year-old model Ashley Chontos."

Read the entire article @ TV Examiner (Local PDF)

 

Stand Out: A Simple Text Message Can Lead to Big Profits

Smart Money - Jan 12, 2009

SMALL-BUSINESS OWNERS, what are you doing to stand out from the crowd? Each week, we focus on an entrepreneur who has lessons to share that we think will resonate with other small-business owners.

Shane Neman, founder of mobile marketing service Ez Texting, answers our questions:

What are you doing to stand out from the crowd?

A few years ago, the term “mobile marketing? was a concept far too esoteric and technical for businesses to grasp, let alone attempt to implement in-house. Ez Texting offers a web-based mobile text messaging platform for businesses.

Read the entire article @ Smart Money (Local PDF)