OK let me give everyone the low down here. There are a number of ways to send sms. The first, which is slow and unreliable is through smtp...wouldnt waste my time with it. Then there is through modem pools, which is the cheapest and most reliable blackhat method. Then there is the short code (white hat) method, which is very expensive and time consuming to get up and running. I have seen twilio being thrown around the forum as the source for sms, when in reality they are a tier 2 or 3 aggragate, which is like a alltel cell phone company compared to ATT. similar, but in the end you are piggy backing off of att...wouldnt you rather go direct to thte source. for whitehat shortcode, i suggest openmarket, which is a tier 1 aggragate and after all my research...they were the best. I dont have anything to do with them other than they are the company i work with for my short code...
To let you know it costs roughly $5k to get your white label sms up and running. then $1500 a month in shortcode fees and roughly 2.5 cents per message. the good thing is you can put out millions a day if you wanted to...the bad thing is that you are easily tracebale. so in case one of your name complains you are found via your short code. Where with the modems it is a bit tougher to locate you.
So these modem pools i keep speaking of are how you should, if you want to make money quick and easy via sms, be sending out from. what you need: desktop computer, modempool, internet connection and sim cards. I sell the modem pools and would strongly recommend buying them from me, but if you want to chance buying from another company you can find them at alibaba.com. i have ten 8 port, ten 16 port, three 32 port and 1 64 port for international sending available. cost of these is going to be between$700 on up to $2500. Each port can typically send out 1000 messages an hour, so long as you arent using the same ip over and over. i have in one day messaged over 600k with 48 modems going for 16 hours.
data...the tough part is getting data that has been collected properly, which fortunately we have through managing as well as collecting the cells via our own sites. Would be up for anyone that is interested in buying some of it. we recieve daily feeds ...real time ....that ranges from 100-200k a day.
how much do i make a day? it depends on what i am sending out to and time of day to be honest. sometimes i can make over $1000 other times maybe 80 or 90...average around $450
let me know if anyone has any questions