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Trendhunter Magazine recently published a great list of their favorite 40 Text Message Innovations. The article is a comprehensive round up of some truly amazing text message news, alerts, and services; from referencing last week’s popular story of a British surgeon who saved a 16-year-old Congolese boy’s life with text-messaged amputation instructions to giving nods to Domino’s for enabling pizza delivery via SMS (which Codespotter caught onto a few months ago. Trendhunter’s article is a fun look at some of the more creative uses for SMS text messaging and directs readers to all the services via an onscreen slideshow. It can be found here.
-JPK
December 9th, 2008
Mobile Marketer Associate Editor Giselle Abramovich relayed a fun contest that Guinness is running that the brewery hopes will further perfect its product (which, as most Guinness lovers know, is no small feat). Teaming up with NY agency Mobile Card Cast to present the Great Guinness Pint Contest, Guinness is using the contest to put a clear emphasis on the value of customer feedback.
The contest asks patrons to visit participating bars, enjoy a pint of Guinness or two; rate their pint(s) on a 1-10 scale, and text GREAT and the rating to 88500. The top rated bar will receive a plaque and a celebration party sponsored by Guinness. Abramovich notes, “The Guinness Quality Mobile Program is the first of its kind. This program allows consumers in a non-invasive way to tell the bar or restaurant how much they enjoyed or disliked their pint. While the consumer rates the pint, the bar or restaurant is now measured against its peers.”
Although asking a barroom of Guinness drinkers to provide accurate, measurable data about the quality of their beer may seem like a fruitless cause, Guinness is nevertheless rewarding each participant by entering them to win a trip to the Guinness Brewery in Dublin to celebrate Guinness’s 250th Anniversary.
December 5th, 2008
Although winter is coming and the great outdoors is getting colder, Stratton Mountain in Vermont is offering this contest to remind us all that we should embrace the snow and take a snowday to celebrate. By texting SKIFREE, OUTSIDE, or SMILE to 22122, contestants can enter to win one of 10,000 free tickets to the mountain where they can spend their snowday skiing and snowboarding.
An important note about the contest is that free lift ticket prizes can not be used from December 26 through Jan 3, January 17 through January 19, or February 14 through February 20. Those dates aside, this contest and all 10,000 of it’s lift ticket prizes, is worth an entry (the official rules list odds of winning as 1:15). The contest runs from November 10 to February 18, 2009.
Stratton also offers mobile alerts with Stratton Mountain Mobile, which users can sign up for here.
-JPK
December 4th, 2008
Walmart is wasting no time during the first days of the busy holiday shopping season. As MobileMarketer reports, the retail giant has launched its Holiday Mobile Alerts program for shoppers who want to receive exclusive information about gifts, ideas, and special offers that the store is offering. As MobileMarketer reports,
“The mobile effort, introduced without fanfare, targets shoppers with the promise to deliver them early news of bargains in-store or online at Walmart. It is also an opportune attempt by Walmart to build a database of mobile consumers for marketing offers and deals” (read the rest of the article…)
Walmart emphasizes the ease of signing up for the alert service. By simply dialing #WMT on a mobile phone, Walmart shoppers enable their phones to receive the SMS alerts. Alerts include gift ideas, recipes, and product news and reviews. Subscribers will receive three alerts per week and the alerts run not only for the duration of the holiday shopping period, but also will be sent periodically throughout the year to subscribers.
In addition to Holiday Mobile Alerts, Walmart also offers a shopping-trip enhancing iPhone application, as well as iPhone widgets for direct linking to the walmart.com homepage.
- JPK
December 3rd, 2008
Autumn is rapidly approaching and its going to start getting colder and colder. What better way is there to fight the weather with some sunny California fun? This contest from Orange Julius should be all that you need to have a few days of summer back! Orange Julius is giving away over 2000 instant win prizes as part of their Cash ‘N’ Cali Giveaway! Visit their website, sign up as an OJ Quench Club member and you can enter your name in as an instant win contestant. If you’re lucky, you could win great gift cards, a cash prize of $10,000, or a VIP trip to Hollywood. On your California trip, you’ll get exclusive private surf lessons and a tour of some of Hollywood’s unbelievable celebrity homes. Enter by registering online as a member of the OJ Quench Club and entering promo codes or by texting codes to 61005. Act quickly Codespotters, this contest ends November 8, 2008.
-JPK
September 4th, 2008
Riding the excitement of Barack Obama texting his Obama Mobile followers that Joe Biden is his official Vice Presidential pick, NBC is offering subscribers Democratic National Convention alerts. By texting ELEX to 622639 (NBCNEW), subscribers can receive news alerts from the convention, which will be happening in Denver, CO until August 28th. I would assume that this program would also be valid for next week’s Republican National Convention in Minneapolis as well. Don’t miss a minute of the action and sign up!
For more on the Conventions, check out their websites:
http://www.demconvention.com/
http://www.gopconvention2008.com/ (Also, see our Code.com entry on the GOP Online SMS Service)
August 26th, 2008
At about 3:00AM this morning, Barack Obama made good on his promise to text his Vice President choice to his Obama Mobile SMS subscribers. CNN reports here on Obama’s decision.
“Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee,” the text message said.
Congratulations to you Codespotters who were lucky enough to be a part of this interesting piece of American Presidential Campaign history!
August 23rd, 2008
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