{"id":656,"date":"2006-01-22T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2006\/01\/22\/using-sms-in-business\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:50:54","slug":"using-sms-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2006\/01\/22\/using-sms-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Using SMS in business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shel Holtz has an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.holtz.com\/index.php\/weblog\/why_isnt_there_more_talk_about_pr_uses_of_sms\/\">interesting post<\/a> in his blog wondering why more businesses aren&#8217;t taking advantage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Short_message_service\">SMS<\/a> (that&#8217;s short messaging services for wireless).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting point, that gets even more interesting in the comments section. I really like Shel&#8217;s analogy that leaving home without your mobile is like forgetting your pants! We can&#8217;t get along without our phones!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using a mobile in one form or another since 1991, when I took my first mobile on the road during a Saskatchewan election campaign. The silly thing was the size of an encylopedia, but what a treat to be able to contact the city desk during those never-ending bus rides. Of course, we ran up an amazing bill &#8212; but all in all, I think it was worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as an independent communications professional (I really should come up with a shorter handle &#8212; any ideas?) my mobile lets me always be available to clients, no matter where I am. It&#8217;s a necessity, and I am rarely without it. <\/p>\n<p>I think Shel&#8217;s on to something here. And I expect to see businesses integrating the power of SMS into their business models more and more.<\/p>\n<p>Question &#8212; How many of you use SMS? I&#8217;ve been using it more often lately to communicate with my kids, since I discovered I can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.txt.bellmobility.ca\/bmc\/en\/\">send messages free<\/a> from Bell Canada&#8217;s website (to other Bell wireless devices.) It&#8217;s a great timesaver. What are your stories?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shel Holtz has an interesting post in his blog wondering why more businesses aren&#8217;t taking advantage of the SMS (that&#8217;s short messaging services for wireless). It&#8217;s an interesting point, that gets even more interesting in the comments section. I really like Shel&#8217;s analogy that leaving home without your mobile is like forgetting your pants! We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-aA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}