The guys that started Local Mobile Monopoly also OWN the text messaging service that they want you to use as part of the system.
This means, they dont care about the $77 sign up fee. They just want you to go out and find clients to sign up so their text messaging service ramps up and gives them recurring $$.
Code:
[URL]http://live.yeptext.com/about-mobile-marketing.htm[/URL]
They are after the $ on the back end.
That sounds about right.
I was looking over their affiliate page.
Code:
http://live.yeptext.com/mobile-marketing-affiliate
It does not sound like a bad offer. You earn monthly on each customer like on a subscription basis. Other sms services affiliate programs only offer a one time affiliate fee.
Here is a similar affiliate offer:
Code:
http://www.mobilesmsmarketing.com/affiliate_program.php
Commission: You will be paid a recurring commission of 30% for each Mobile SMS Marketing sale you refer to us. You will receive this commission for as long as that referral remains a customer! On top of that, you will receive an additional 10% commission for each text message purchase your referrals make.
Second tier commission 5%.
The second tier commission kicks in as soon as you refer other affiliates that join our affiliate program. Such affiliates will become your sub-affiliates and you will earn a 5% commission on their sales.
In my research (I had to go back and look) I also found one piece of software that offers SMS services; but I don't see where it uses a short code - not sure about that. It is called Text My Readers. Here is the sales page:
Code:
http://textmyreaders.com/vip/
and it costs $97.00. I have never used it so if you do let us know how it works.
I just found another software that does not need a short code. It is a little older so it needs to be checked out. Here it is:
Code:
http://www.smscaster.com/
This I found in another thread here:
Code:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/offline-marketing/244173-sms-text-message-marketing-3.html
On looking this over, you need to have some sort of opt-in for this mobile system to work. Otherwise you are spamming customers. I suppose you could have your clients have their customers drop their text number and service provider in a box where you can then manually enter it into an email server or through one of these two softwares above. And it that respect Local Mobile Marketing sounds like a good product.
If anyone tries this let us know what you think.
Hope this is helpful to someone.
DW