Premium Rate SMS (PSMS):
Premium Rate SMS (ie: text messaging) is able to generate revenue much like premium rate numbers.
At Premium O we provide premium rate short codes [eg: 82010] and keywords [eg: WIN]. Dependent upon your service plan and intended use of the code, customers can either be charged for each message received or sent (reverse billing). In turn service providers (ie: you) receive revenue for each message sent/received.
Most SMS uses fall into one of the 4 categories below:
- Competitions: Premium Rate Competitions/auctions are fast becoming a pivotal means for many companies to generate additional revenues and increase promotional engagement.
With audience participation now integral to many organisations, PSMS competitions are an excellent medium to complement brand marketing, gather potential customer information and to engage in 2-way
interactions with your existing customer base. Using PSMS texts and short-codes, you can run simple competitions, whether it’s asking customers to answer a question by sending a text from a selection of keywords, running multi-question/ multi-response quizzes or asking to customers to submit entries in a
lower unique bid auction. (Read More) - Voting: Premium Rate Voting is one of the most commonly used methods of SMS utilisation for corporate gain. Due to its simple nature of use and the ever increasing adoption of SMS as a means of communication, the prominence of SMS voting is at an all time high.
In its basic form, participants simply send in an SMS message to the system containing an ‘identifier’ correlating with the subject they are voting for. The Premium O system then counts the number of votes
for each individual subject, and calculates which one received the most votes. It's also possible to set up premium rate automatic reply messages. (Read More) - Subscriptions: If you have information which could be of value to other people and is updated frequently, we can setup a subscription service where people can sign up to receive messages from you and you
earn revenue from every message they receive.
People subscribe to a service by texting a word [eg: JOIN] into a 5 digit short code [eg: 82010]. By doing so they are then subscribed to that service until they unsubscribe by texting back a prescribed keyword such as STOP. - PSMS Chat: SMS chat can be suitable for many one to one interactions where you wish to charge per message received or sent.
With so many adults across the UK owning a mobile phone, combined with its discreet nature and cost effective output, the prominence of PSMS adult services has experienced significant growth in recent years. With users being charged at a premium rate for every message they receive from the operator (reverse billing), PSMS has proven to be a major revenue stream for many organisations operating in the adult industry.
For a full list of the latest tariffs please e-mail our sales team at sales@premiumO.co.uk
or call 0800 849 8877.
