Why you should start a premium rate service for texting subscribers
More than 16 million people use mobile phones in Kenya. You can reach millions of people who are looking for information and are willing to pay you for it through Bulk SMS . He would be earning more than Kes 2.78 shillings per SMS, which when the numbers are added up is a good return.
How to send SMS using premium rate SMS How to send text messages using premium rate SMS
Let’s say we’ve set it up for you and shown you how to SMS Languermos from Gujarati to your subscribers:
(a) To introduce a customer to your service, simply request that they sms the chosen code word, say “Gujarati”, to 5242.
(b) Once your customer texts the word “Gujarati” to 5242, they will automatically sign up to receive the daily Gujarati text messages you provide;
(C) You will have provided us with a list of Gujarati lessons SMS text messages (Say 30 SMS text messages, 1 SMS text message lesson per day for 30 days);
(d) Each morning your client will receive a lesson by SMS text message for the rest of the month;
(E) Depending on the volume of SMS text messages per month, you will earn more than Kes 2.78 for each SMS text message received by the customer;
(f) For example, if you have 5,000 customers, you will send 5,000 SMS text messages per day. At a rate of 3 kes per SMS text message, you will earn 15,000 kes per day or 450,000 kes per month. Kenya has more than 16 million mobile users. It is not difficult to get more than 10,000 users for your service. Do the math;
How to send SMS Business Tips using the premium rate service or bulk SMS
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The richest Kenyans are not employed by politicians with business interests and businessmen with or without political interests. Kenyans are therefore enamored to business one way or the other. This makes them very hungry for advice on how to be successful in business.
Outside of formal education books, the best-selling titles on the book market are what are called management and self-help literature. As Kenyans get busier, hints at what they would have read from these books. There is a huge gap between the business knowledge desired and that possessed. You can fill this gap using premium rate SMS.
1. The first step is to contact a premium rate service provider.
2. In the early stages of completing the online registration form, you will be asked to provide a keyword of your choice. If you’re going to send premium rate text messages that contain business tips, you’d select a relevant keyword like “business” or “tips,” or something indicative of what the service is about. This is the word that subscribers would be sending by SMS to the short code that we will provide them if they want to subscribe to your service.
3. The Second Stage of the Online Registration Process WOULD BE TO READ AND UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE PREMIUM RATE SERVICE PROVIDER. These are very important as they establish how you will interact with Viva as an agent. Importantly, at the bottom of these terms and conditions is the table detailing the revenue share you would receive. Section 4 of the Terms and Conditions provides two ways in which you can be paid. Read them carefully so that you can understand them.
4. The third stage of the online registration process consists of contacting the Premium Rate Service Provider.
5. Once the premium rate service provider confirms that it is available, you will pay the monthly fee for your first month.
6. Once payment is made, Viva will proceed to contact our premium rate service provider to set the keyword in the shared short code. Setups are usually done on Mondays and Thursdays.
7. Once the keyword has been set in the short code, we will send you an email to confirm that the keyword has been set. We will also ask you to send us an email message in ms excel with 14 to 30 sms of text that you would like to send from the short code. Each message must not exceed 160 characters (including spaces). We will also provide you with an online platform from where you can monitor who has subscribed to your service, the number of subscribers, the number of SMS text messages sent daily and other important data.
8. El siguiente paso es la comercialización. You need to start advertising your shortcode and keyword to the public. For example, you could run print ads that say “SMS Biz to 5242 to get a Daily Inspirational Teaching from the new testament.”
9. There are many forms of advertising, including radio, newspaper, classifieds, TV, or pay-per-click advertising.
10. When people see your ads, they will submit the keyword to the short code and the short code system will record your number.
11. Every day, the System will Send One Text Message (or Two, Depending on Your Desire) to all the Numbers Registered in the Sms Premium Rate System.
12. At the end of the month, you calculate the amount of money owed to you by visiting the successfully delivered section of your online platform. Once it gets the number of successfully delivered messages for the month in question, it multiplies it by the love per lum owed to it. This amount per SMS varies from Kshs 2.78 to 3.89 depending on the volume.