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QWASI launches real-time UPS mobile delivery alerts for Retail

QWASI powers innovative mobile package alert service for Retail

NEW YORK, NY, December 21, 2011 – QWASI, a leading mobile and social marketing and communications company providing cross-market interactive solutions, announced the recent launch of real-time mobile UPS delivery alerts for one of the largest multimedia retailers in the world. Retailers can now extend the power of mobile communication and the convenience it offers its customer through package delivery alerts. The customers receive text message alerts on their mobile phones when their packages leave UPS, keeping them informed, improving delivery anticipation and reducing the dreaded delivery- attempt notices on their front doors.

HOW MOBILE DELIVERY ALERTS WORK
When customers order from participating retailers, they can sign up for free text message notifications about their purchase deliveries from UPS (msg&data rates may apply). In the past, when packages leave retailers’ warehouses and enter into the delivery stream, customers are required to frequently ping the delivery company’s website with their assigned tracking numbers and track their own packages. With QWASI’s Mobile Shipping Alerts, customers get notified when their packages leave the shipper’s distribution center on the delivery truck. The nature of text messages, commonly called SMS, ensures immediate alert delivery.

QWASI makes the process easy for retailers to implement. Customers can opt-in to this service during the order process or by updating their account preferences through the retailers. They don’t need to know their tracking numbers in advance – just ask to be notified when the package is out for delivery. Included with each alert are special links enabling customers to view delivery status in real-time from UPS.com or the shipping company they use. Other notifications QWASI powers for retail includes mobile marketing campaigns, mobile coupons, text ordering, order confirmation, shipping confirmation and now delivery notifications.

“We’re excited to announce the addition of real-time shipping alerts for our client and UPS. When we first identified this solution, our client and UPS quickly agreed it was an ideal service to better communicate with customers regarding the status of shipments, in hopes of reducing the dreaded delivery-notice slip on the front door,” shares Jon Thies, CTO of QWASI, Inc. “Working closely with both the client and UPS to bring this solution to market further demonstrates our leadership in the mobile commerce space. We answer the question everyone asks: where is my order? Our service helps remove headaches for everyone – especially helping customers know where their products or presents are during the hectic holiday shopping season.”

QWASI provides retailers of all sizes the means of driving in-store traffic, increasing order size, building customer loyalty, improving communications and reaching new customers through interactive mobile marketing, mobile commerce, mobile apps and social marketing solutions. QWASI makes it easy for catalogers, ecommerce, retailers and brick-and-mortar companies to quickly realize the benefits of mobile through measurable marketing that power transactions.

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ABOUT QWASI
QWASI, Inc. is a leading mobile and social communications and solutions provider of interactive applications, currently powering over 24,000 clients, around the globe utilizing Social Messaging, SMS, MMS, Mobile Web and Apps. Through its Synchrosy® methodology, QWASI creates and implements mobile & social strategy for business, simplifying complex problems with mobile marketing, mobile messaging, social messaging, mobile commerce, text ordering, mobile coupons, mobile chat, and customized interactive alerting for Fortune 1000 businesses.

QWASI CONTACT
Michael Honors, QWASI, 877-747-9274, michael.honors @ qwasi.com

December 21, 2011 in Press Releases   |   No Comments

The BMA Selects QWASI to Power Mobile Marketing for its 2011 International Conference.

QWASI brings real-time mobile interaction to the Business Marketing Association.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PHILADELPHIA, PA May 26, 2011 – QWASI, a leading mobile marketing and communications company providing cross-market interactive solutions, announced today it has been selected by the Business Marketing Association (BMA) to power mobile marketing and event communications at The 2011 International BMA Conference in Chicago, IL June 1-3. In partnership with Syniverse, QWASI will power text messaging for all pre, during and post event communication for the show using the BMA shortcode – 26246 (BMAGO). The tools provided to the BMA are part of QWASI’s Mobile Marketing Center Platform that’s designed for companies to power mobile marketing campaigns and communication.

Along the lines of this year’s BMA theme – Unleash – QWASI plans to introduce many business marketers to the potential mobile marketing brings to their bottom line. “QWASI is pleased to have been chosen by such an important organization such as the BMA to power their message. We see an unique opportunity for business to embrace all that mobile marketing and communications hold to reach today’s consumers and business decision makers,” shares Leon Samuel, President & CEO of QWASI, Inc. “B2b marketers have been slow to adopt and implement a mobile strategy as part of their b2b campaigns. The time is now for them to use the mobile channel to attract and retain their valuable customers and future prospects. The results from other channels show its immediate effectiveness across various areas of business.”

One of the tools QWASI provides to its clients is a website widget for pre-event registration for alerts and notification. It also includes a Vote2Screen program that allows participants to vote on select questions with a simple reply answer. The live vote is calculated in real-time and can be broadcast via projectors and screens throughout the event. Text2Screen sessions also allow participants to pose a question or share a comment. Using a moderator display, the organization or presenter can choose select questions and post them on screen for attendees.

Other features include surveys, auto-responders, 2D Barcodes, a Mobile Website builder and reporting and analytics. Benefits of this powerful communication channel include driving participation, enhancing engagement, collecting valuable feedback, and building a mobile database. These conference tools combine the power and convenience of text messaging with great visuals that promote participation throughout the event.

ABOUT BUSINESS MARKETING ASSOCIATION
Started in 1922, today’s Business Marketing Association (BMA) works to increase the importance, impact and value of marketing in businesses worldwide. BMA is the only professional organization with an exclusive focus on business-to-business marketing and its key drivers: Customer engagement and relationships, product and service innovation, value pricing, channels, online/offline marcom, and analytics. BMA’s members represent state-of-the art expertise in business-to-business marketing and communications, and share best practices for the benefit of the global business community. For more information about BMA, call 630-544-5054 or visit www.marketing.org.

ABOUT QWASI
QWASI, Inc. is a leading mobile and social communications and solutions provider of interactive applications for clients around the world utilizing Social Messaging, SMS, MMS, Mobile Web and Apps. Through its world-class Synchrosy® methodology, QWASI creates and implements mobile strategy for enterprise business simplifying complex problems with mobile marketing, social messaging, mobile commerce, text ordering, mobile coupons, mobile chat, and customized interactive alerting for Fortune 1000 businesses.

May 26, 2011 in Press Releases   |   No Comments

QWASI unifies Mobile Marketing, Mobile Messaging and Short Code Services

Mobile Two-Way API 2.0 from QWASI brings together SMS, MMS and Interactive Mobile Marketing.

PHILADELPHIA, March 7, 2011 – QWASI, a leading mobile marketing and communications company providing cross-market interactive solutions, announced its Mobile Messaging API 2.1 for enterprises, agencies and brand marketers. By using the QWASI Mobile Application Programming Interface, known as an API, a company can program mobile marketing services including mobile coupon delivery, mobile ticketing, mobile voting, polling, keywords, text2win, info-on-demand and more. The two-way messaging gateway utilizes either a shared shortcode or dedicated short code to power messaging via SMS (text messaging) and MMS (multi-media messaging) to users in the US.

“The time for companies to tap into the power of mobile is now. Over the last twelve months, we have seen a tremendous push by small and medium size businesses to adopt mobile marketing for their customers,” states Dave Geipel, Founder of QWASI, Inc. “With the ability to use our mobile marketing platform, a company of any size can now embrace mobile marketing for pennies a customer. We are seeing many new Fortune 1000 companies moving to dedicated short codes to support their business needs.” QWASI provides an easy short code search tool from its website.

Recent reliability and delivery issues for many companies using low-cost providers and second and third tier aggregators have mounted and have brought many new customers to QWASI. This has forced many corporate clients to find an alternative to low cost “bulk messaging” which often isn’t delivered to end users by wireless carriers. It requires a dedicated team to monitor campaigns and traffic to ensure maximum up time for their clients.

QWASI recently released several new updates to its Mobile Marketing Center Platform. The Mobile Marketing Center is a self-service portal that allows companies to create, launch and manage their campaigns with relative ease. The Mobile Marketing Center is available to customers using a their own dedicated short code and works across multiple US aggregators. Mobile Marketing services available through the two-way SMS API include:

• SMS Auto Responders: drip marketing campaigns via text messaging to opt-in users.

• Info-on-Demand: information sent to opt-in users via custom Keywords. Capture opt-in users for future message blasts including email addresses.

• SMS Alerts and Blasts: send text messages to a subscriber lists. Keep customers informed of promotions, offers & events.

• Mobile Coupons: distribute coupons to cell phones of customers who have opted-in to receive your promotions. Track promotional code usage.

• Text-to-Win: Enable potential customers to text in a special keyword to instantly enter-to-win a prize.

• Text-to-Vote: Provide a poll or vote and gain valuable feedback – in real-time.

• Web Widgets: Build a subscriber list from web-widgets.

• Custom Applications: The Marketing Center API allows companies to build any custom mobile messaging application.

With twice as many users of SMS than email globally and over 200 Billion text messages sent every month in the United States, consumer brands continue to look for new, innovative campaigns to reach today’s mobile consumer. QWASI is also bringing two-way MMS to market in the US with innovative MMS Applications to allow end users to participate with brands using picture and video messaging. With a huge shift toward social marketing, QWASI is bringing the power of mobile and social together creating new engagement. And through an easy-to-use white label mobile marketing platform, launching campaigns and monitoring performance is now possible for any client with powered by their own short code.

ABOUT QWASI

QWASI, Inc. is a leading mobile and social communications and solutions provider of interactive applications for clients around the globe utilizing Social Messaging, SMS, MMS, Mobile Web and Apps. Through its Synchrosy® methodology, QWASI creates and implements mobile strategy for business, simplifying complex problems with mobile marketing, social messaging, mobile commerce, text ordering, mobile coupons, mobile chat, and customized interactive alerting for Fortune 1000 businesses.

March 7, 2011 in Press Releases   |   No Comments

Chicago Auto Show renews with Text2Drive for Mobile Marketing

Recognizing this shift in consumer behavior, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association (CATA) has partnered with Text2Drive to harness the power of this communication channel throughout this year’s Chicago Auto Show.

PRLog (Press Release) – Dec 28, 2010 – Texting has become the most powerful and effective communication tool in use today. There are more text messages sent each month than phone calls placed. With more than over 270 million mobile phones in the United States and 100 billion texts sent each month, text messaging has become the preferred form of communication for millions of consumers.

Recognizing this shift in consumer behavior, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association (CATA) has partnered with Text2Drive to harness the power of this communication channel throughout this year’s Chicago Auto Show. CATA will incorporate the Text2Drive Mobile Marketing platform to collect opt-in mobile numbers through campaigns that will be incorporated in the CATA’s promotional advertising campaigns leading up to the show. The innovative Text2Drive Platform will be used to drive show attendance and increase attendee’s participation by raising awareness and creating a “buzz” around special events, featured vehicles and show promotions.

“The best part about Text2Drive is that it provides multiple benefits to our attendees and exhibitors,” said Dave Sloan, president of CATA. “Not only can we leverage this technology to help us promote the show and use it throughout the show for marketing, our exhibitors can use it to uniquely promote their brands. Imagine someone at the show looking at the new Chevy Camaro and wanting more information, using Text2Drive they can immediately receive pictures and all the important information about the vehicle right to their phone.”

Text2Drive offers car shoppers a very quick, easy and hassle-free method of obtaining vehicle information without the need of the Internet on their phones. “According to Nielsen only 30-40% of consumers have Internet connectivity on their phones. Text2Drive allows car shoppers to search inventory, receive vehicle information including photos and special incentives, and communicate instantly with sellers via text messaging from their cell phones,” said Gregg Owen, CEO & Co-Founder of Text2Drive. “Text2Drive offers many compelling reasons for consumers to opt-in, resulting in our clients being able to create large mobile networks. Once the network is created we afford our clients the ability to easily collect, track, and organize this data so they can continue to remarket their products and services to interested consumers.”

In addition to the auto show campaign, the CATA has created an introductory Text2Drive program for their dealer members.  This program provides tools for the dealer’s website while incorporating the Text2Drive online mobile number collection widget on Drivechicago.com.

ABOUT QWASI, Inc.
QWASI creates and implements mobile strategy. The company is a leading mobile communications and solutions provider of interactive applications for clients around the globe utilizing SMS / Text Messaging, MMS, Mobile Web, Apps and Social Networks. Specializing in custom enterprise solutions using its proprietary methodology, Synchrosy, QWASI makes complexity simple with turnkey solutions in Mobile Marketing, mCommerce, text ordering, mobile coupons, hyper-local mobile search, mobile chat, social chat, and customized alerting for Fortune 1000 businesses.

See also: Text2Drive Powers Mobile Marketing Campaign for the 2010 Chicago Auto Show

December 28, 2010 in Press Releases   |   No Comments

Text2Drive Powers Mobile Marketing Campaign for the 2010 Chicago Auto Show

Chicago Automobile Trade Association selects Text2Drive to provide mobile platform for auto show

Chicago, IL, February 12, 2010 – Chicago Automobile Trade Association (CATA) announced that they have partnered with Text2Drive to harness the power of the mobile communication channel throughout this year’s Chicago Auto Show. CATA will incorporate the Text2Drive Mobile Marketing platform to collect opt-in mobile numbers of those in the Chicago area that will later be incorporated in the CATA’s promotional advertising campaigns leading up to the auto show. The innovative Text2Drive Platform will be used to drive show attendance and increase attendee’s participation by raising awareness and creating a “buzz” around special events, featured vehicles and show promotions.

Recognizing the power of the mobile platform, Text2Drive offers car shoppers a very quick, easy and hassle-free method of obtaining vehicle information without the need of the Internet on their phones. “According to Nielsen only 30-40 percent of consumers have Internet connectivity on their phones. Text2Drive allows car shoppers to search inventory, receive vehicle information including photos and special incentives, and communicate instantly with sellers via text messaging from their cell phones,” said Gregg Owen, CEO & Co-Founder of Text2Drive. “Text2Drive offers many compelling reasons for consumers to opt-in, resulting in our clients being able to create large mobile networks. Once the network is created we afford our clients the ability to easily collect, track, and organize this data so they can continue to remarket their products and services to interested consumers.”

“The best part about Text2Drive is that it provides multiple benefits to our attendees and exhibitors,” said Dave Sloan, president of CATA. “Not only can we leverage this technology to help us promote the show and use it throughout the show for marketing, our exhibitors can use it to uniquely promote their brands. Imagine someone at the show looking at the new Chevy Camaro and wanting more information, using Text2Drive they can immediately receive pictures and all the important information about the vehicle right to their phone.”

In addition to the auto show campaign, the CATA has created an introductory Text2Drive program for their dealer members.  This program provides tools for the dealer’s website while incorporating the Text2Drive online mobile number collection widget on Drivechicago.com.

Text2Drive is powered by leading mobile marketing and mobile commerce company, QWASI, Inc.  The Philadelphia-based company provides cross-market interactive solutions for fortune 500 companies, as well as SMBs (Small to Medium Businesses), across the nation.  “We are excited to see the Chicago Auto Show embrace the power of mobile connection with their exhibitors and show attendees,” notes Dave Geipel, COO of QWASI, Inc.

ABOUT THE CHICAGO AUTO SHOW
Sanctioned by International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, the Chicago Auto Show is the largest auto show in North America and has been held more times than any other auto exposition on the continent. First staged in 1901, 2010 will mark the 102nd edition of the show. The Chicago Auto Show will open to the public Feb. 12-22. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Feb. 12-21) and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Feb. 21). For additional information visit: www.ChicagoAutoShow.com

ABOUT TEXT2DRIVE
Text2Drive is a pioneer in providing the automotive industry with exclusive tools to leverage the most powerful, efficient, and most popular communication channel ever created. Text2Drive provides its clients with platform to build their own mobile network and maximize the value of that network. The Text2Drive platform has greater reach and appeal because it is the only solution that allows the consumer to search dealer inventory, receive information and photos, receive coupons and instantly connect with the client via chatting/texting, all this without the consumer needing the internet on their phones. For additional information please visit www.text2drive.com, or email info@automotiveinternetmedia.com

ABOUT QWASI
QWASI, Inc, is a leading mobile solutions provider of interactive applications for clients across the US utilizing SMS (text messaging), MMS, WAP and iPhone applications, QWASI makes complexity to simple with mobile marketing, mCommerce (mobile commerce), private label mobile search tools, event marketing, mobile chat, Mobile IM (MIM) applications, mobile real estate marketing services and mobile alerting for Fortune 1000 businesses. QWASI powers the Text2Drive service.

QWASI CONTACT
Patricia Scanlon, QWASI, 877-747-9274, patricia.scanlon @ qwasi.com

February 12, 2010 in Press Releases   |   1 Comment