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In today's fast moving commercial environment, it is becoming increasingly critical that businesses to stay in touch with customers and colleagues - wherever they may be.

Blue Saffron Messaging is a suite of message distribution and management services that supplement your current mobile phone or paging provider.

With the number of SMS text messages sent daily exceeding 100 million it is perhaps surprising to learn that just two per cent of UK companies actively use any form of structured SMS messaging communication in their customer and supplier contact strategies. Upwards of 40% of mobile users report receipt of a text message from a business source.

Recruitment, charities, schools and colleges, bodyshops and mechanics, financial services, travel agents and the health industry all figure in the top ten users of SMS messaging.

BlueSaffron Messaging SMS is a subset of the full service and provides distribution of text messages into all UK mobile networks. Easily accessible via a web based front end the service is up and running in minutes.

Send and receive text messages from your desktop
Secure
Easy to use
Full audit and history trail absent from many low end products
Direct connections into UK networks, quality assured
Divert capability for return messages
Send text messages via email by assigning mobiles an email address
Pre-defined message facility for common messages or templates
Create and define group distribution lists
Two way message capability
A fast way to contact your staff and customers

Typical uses include:

Use	Industry
Delivering updates and urgent alerts to customers/employees quickly and effectively, for example financial organisations wanting to deliver fraud alerts	Financial, Travel, Estate Agents, Recruitment, Automotive Sales

*Confirming appointments* to reduce the high cost of no shows such as the health care sector wanting to remind patients of appointments.	Healthcare, Automotive Services

*Broadcast messages* to staff in the event of Major Incidents	All sectors including Public Service and Financial

*Creating new contact channels* for large field force or teleworking employees. For example, utility or service companies wanting to keep in touch with their mobile employees	Utilities, Local Government, Logistics, Field Service, Constuction

Blue Saffron are pleased to announce a 7-day 50 text messaging trial. It's a no strings way of seeing whether SMS from the desktop could work for your company. There's no software or hardware to install - it's simply a straightforward way to communicate with your colleagues or customers.

Please complete and submit the following form to have your unique trial account created.

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The full BlueSaffron Messaging service can support a sophisticated array of messaging interfaces, the full capability is illustrated below.

Resilient connectivity to all mobile, e-mail and paging networks
Simple and web based accessible interface
Secure robust technology platform
Attractive ownership economics
No support software or systems

For a fully comprehensive description of the BlueSaffron Messaging ™ service portfolio please click here

Best Practice for SMS Messaging