subject: Make Bulk Sms Easy With Good Sms Gateway [print this page] A SMS gateway is a very important thing when you are sending SMS without a cell phone, and whichever site you use to send bulk SMSs should have a good SMS gateway. Sending a large quantity of SMS or voice messages is not possible through your phone. Many businesses require sending out such voice and text messages in large numbers either to their customers for backup service or for marketing purposes. You can employ many websites that can send thousands of SMSs in a minute and that too for a ridiculously small price. The only problem is that when it comes to bulk SMSs you have to pay them a large sum because you will most probably send a large quantity of voice or text messages. Out of these some text messages may not even reach the recipient and some recipients may not answer the voice messages. Some websites still charge you for these undelivered items. In addition, these smaller websites have inferior gateways where you cannot get responses from the recipients nor have text to speech functions. This is why you should spend some time and choose a group SMS/voice messaging service with a good SMS gateway.
How It Will Benefit You
If you send your messages through a good SMS gateway, you will be able to utilize many more services than what you could before. One of the most important benefits of having a better gateway is that you will get a virtual mobile number for 2 way SMS. This means that when you send bulk SMS for marketing purposes you can also invite a response from them. For instance, many car suppliers invite people for test drives, and they will now be able to get the response of the recipient by SMS only. This capability to both send and receive SMS is an excellent option for marketing.
The next benefit is that you can now send text to speech messages to any number. Text to speech means that any written message can be sent to any phone regardless of whether it is SMS capable or not. So, if you have an enormous list of numbers, both mobile and landlines, you can send these messages without bothering about sorting them because the landline numbers will be able to hear the message.
You can also send better quality voice messages with a good SMS gateway. You can record the voice message, and the service providers will send it seamlessly anywhere no matter to which service provider.
Another very important benefit is SMS/voice API (Application programming interface). This means that when you send a voice message it can be interactive. Therefore, you can send a voice message to a customer saying that if the service was satisfactory press 1 and if unsatisfactory press 2. Similarly, you can receive messages also.
The better websites with a good SMS gateway also will not charge you for undelivered or unanswered SMS or voice messages. In addition, other gateways send their messages via e-mail, which doesn't cost them anything. Good gateways send their messages through a proper high-speed network trunk.
