Press Release

Target Local Customers with TXTio.com Mobile Text Marketing

New Service Puts the "Mobile" Back Into Mobile Marketing

NEW YORK – January 18, 2011 – Businesses have a new targeted way to reach local customers on their cellphones. TXTio.com announced today a service that allows companies to reach local cellphone customers with a local phone number anywhere in the country. Now business owners can send mobile marketing messages to customers and update the deals on social media websites all without the need of a computer simply by using the cell phone in the palm of their hand.

"The most effective way to reach local customers is to market your business as being local," said Eugene Belenky with TXTio.com. "Our service allows companies to pick and choose their SMS messaging number so they can appear local to every customer and develop that trust and consumer loyalty."

At TXTio.com, businesses can register for their own local number making them appear local anywhere in the country. The technology saves customers from memorizing short codes and enables businesses to receive their messages over popular phone technology including Google Voice. After all, people feel more comfortable sending messages to a phone number instead of an impersonal short code. Text marketing also has been shown to be an effective method of promoting a business due to the highest opening rate and the ability to interact with the customer on the personal level.

"We make mobile text marketing easy and very effective for businesses to promote their products," Belenky said. "We make it simple to get started and promote a business. There’s no computer required and messages can easily be blasted from any cellphone. That makes it very easy for business owners to promote their business even when they don’t have access to the Internet. It finally makes mobile marketing truly mobile, not only for the customer, but also for the business."

Along with being able to send messages from a cellphone, businesses can also confirm delivery of the message and even synch messages with Twitter, Facebook, ShowMeLocal their TXTio profile and soon with other popular social networking sites.

"We offer synchronization with the popular social networking sites for the most robust SMS marketing platform available on the web" Belenky said. "We also conveniently remove the need to update all of the different social sites separately."

Best of all, there are no monthly fees and no contracts to use TXTio.com to reach your customers. TXTio.com is a cost-effective pay-as-you-go service based on usage.

"It’s easy to tie TXTio marketing right back to a return on investment with the pay-as-you-go model," Belenky said. "It is a very affordable way to reach your targeted customers in any market with a very local approach."

TXTio is also rolling out a marketing strategy that partners with resale channels to target the highly segmented local business market. More information about their "partners" accounts will be available soon.

For more information on TXTio.com, or to sign up for your own phone numbers to start targeting local customers today, please check out their website at www.TXTio.com.