Where Is Your Gig Tonight?

 

You may not yet be ready for the Wachovia Center or your gigs being updated on MTV News, but you still have fans and they want to know when your playing, where your playing and any other info you care to share with them.  505 Text is your answer to opening a personal line of communication with all of your fans and followers.

 

Most performers have a MySpace page, many have e-mail lists and websites, but your fans still need to take the time access your page or read your e-mails.  With 505 Text, you can reach out to them anytime, anyplace.

 

When a venue books you as entertainment, you're not being judged on how good your music or show is - you're being judged on how many people walk through the door and how strong sales were at the establishment.  Those are the deciding factors of whether you'll be playing there again, or end up searching for another venue to "give you a shot."

 

Some of the most successful bands, musicians and comedians aren't always the most talented performers.......but they are the most talented marketers. Isn't time you took advantage of the most powerful marketing tool of the century?

What can a Text Marketing Campaign Do For You?

 

505 Text's marketing campaigns put your message in your fan's hands - immediately! For instance, you just booked a last-minute performance. You may promote your performances through your website, MySpace page, mailing list or other form of communication, but your hoping your fans remembers to check your website - or even read their e-mail. With a 505 Text-powered mobile marketing campaign, you can reach hundreds of your fans and followers in seconds. You can send them a message instantly letting them know about tonght's performance because it wasn't on your monthly schedule or in your e-mail. They'll get the message and come out to support you. Your fans are happy, you're happy and most of all, the venue that booked you is happy because the place is filled and they're spending money. Sounds like somebody just booked another gig!

 

Your fans may check out your webpage or your MySpace page, but what tool do you have to reach out to them directly - a form of personal communication? When your fans are out watching you perform, you may try to gather e-mail addresses or promote your website, but who is gonna have a pen or remember to go to your site tomorrow? With 505 Text, you can tell your fans to text your unique keyword, for example ANGELSROCK to 41513 to join your VIP Fan Club for show dates, promotions and info. Most people are gonna pull out their phones and do it right then and there and bingo, they're now in your database! Each week, you can send out a text blast notifying them of your weekend performances and promote any other upcoming shows or events. Just like that, you're now reaching out to your fans one-on-one.

 

With our web-based software you can also plan and conduct coupon campaigns, a popular and quickly growing solution that is portable, individually targeted, and best of all, paperless.

 

505 Text Message Marketing creates opportunities for bands, musicians and performers with promotional ideas and fan communication capabilities that you never dreamed possible - that can be created instantly. Instant action means instant results. Our (SMS) text messaging web-based software is simple to use, allowing you to focus on developing a powerful, cost effective marketing strategy that takes advantage of the latest technology.

Key features of a 505 Text Marketing program for Bands, Musicians and Performers:

 

• Fans attending your performances can opt-in to your customer database by sending a text message containing your unique keyword(s) from their cell phone.
• You can promote your keyword(s) during your performances, as well as promoting it within any existing advertising or marketing that you do, on your website, through your e-mail campaigns and on your MySpace page.
• Import an existing list of customer cell phone numbers in to our web-based text messaging software.
• We help you build your subscriber database with an HTML Widget for your website, MySpace Page and email communications.
• Organize your subscribers in to unlimited lists and groups.
• By sending a text message, fans can automatically un-subscribe from your database.
• View the time and date when fans sign up.
• Program automatic customized text responses to be sent to your fans when they join your database.
• Use our web-based software to instantaneously send out mass text messages.
• Promote shows, events, group info and more with mass text messaging campaigns, sent out with a single click.
• Schedule text messages up to 1 year in advance to go out at specific dates and times.
• Our real-time SMS text messaging system delivers your messages to all the major cell phone carriers including: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint, Nextel, Boost, Virgin Mobile, Alltell, US Cellular, Dobson Wireless, Midwest Wireless, Cricket, Cellular South and others.