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Mobile marketing for restaurants and fast food outlets

Mobile Text Message Marketing is the ideal marketing tool for both Restaurants and fast food businesses, eager to increase footfall and orders during quiet periods.

Targeted sales promotions, special offers and discounts can be sent directly to customers in an instant, one quick text can turn a potentially quiet night into a roaring success. Texting is also a great way to build customer loyalty, its a personal touch that will keep you at the forefront of their mind, ensuring its your venue they keep returning to.

The East One SMS marketing Services are easy to use and messages can be sent from any PC quickly and reliably. At just a few pence a text the service is also low cost when compared to adverts, flyers and mailers.

How can mobile marketing help your business?

• Sales promotions
  Send text promotions to drive business growth and to increase trade on habitually quiet days. For example, a restaurant could offer a free bottle of house wine with a meal for two on a midweek evening or an early bird meal discount. A Pizza takeaway could offer a special meal deal of 2 large pizzas for £10 or buy one get one free offers.
• Booking confirmations
  SMS marketing provides a cost-effective way to ensure the smooth running of the booking process. It’s also cheaper and quicker than a phone call.
• News & events
  Generate interest in special events or use ‘last chance’ messages to make sure final places are filled.
• Customer service
  Restaurants can send a thank you text to customers who have visited the restaurant. Further communication could be made at a later date to keep the relationship going, with maybe a courtesy text informing the customer of special offer rates for repeat booking.

What if I don’t have any mobile numbers?

There are a number of easy ways you can accumulate contact numbers.

• Publish Free Inbound Number & Keyword: Include on the website, newsletters, leaflets & adverts prompting customers to opt–in for your text alerts.
• Take mobile numbers from anyone booking a table or purchasing a take-away.
• Promote monthly competitions at the take away using the free inbound number and keyword, people may text in as they wait for their take-away meal.

Why East One Marketing?

Our user friendly and reliable text service is extremely popular with restaurants and fast food outlets. See Case Studies for ideas on how SMS marketing has helped fast food outlets.

ACCOUNT FEATURES

It is simple and easy to setup SMS marketing services for your business with East One Marketing, some of the features and benefits are highlighted below:

Quick Set Up

A Shared Short Code can be set up in 48 hours. A Dedicated Short Code usually takes about 6 weeks to set up.

Email Notifications

All incoming texts are immediately sent to your nominated email address.

Private Inbox

All incoming texts are also stored in your Private Inbox which contains the mobile number, message and time and date of receipt. This can then be exported to Excel at the click of a button. The numbers collected can then be used to run future SMS campaigns.

Auto Reply

For a Standard Rate Short Code an auto-reply can be set up (and changed as often as you wish) and will cost you 1 credit. For a Premium Rate Short Code the auto-reply is included as it is this message that is charged at your chosen tariff.

WAP URL

In conjunction with our Programmer’s Interface you can send back a WAP URL used for property features with pictures ect.

No Lengthy Contracts

You can run a Shared Short Code for either 3, 6 or 12 months. However, the minimum duration for a Dedicated Short Code is 12 months.

So how much will this cost?

For a Shared Short Code and Keyword (text WORD to 60777) we charge a set up fee and a monthly fee dependent on your chosen contract term.

Feature	Price
Set up fee	£100
3 Month contract	£50 / month
6 Month contract	£45 / month
12 Month contract	£40 / month
Additional Keywords	£30 / month (free setup)

Message Credits

Our prices start from just 2.6p per text and you will pay no more than 4.9p per text no matter how small the bundle!

Generally speaking one Credit equals one text message (160 characters or less to UK mobiles – longer or international texts may cost more. Click below for International Prices Coverage).

All Credits last indefinitely and are only deducted from your account as and when you use them.

Credit Bundle	Price per bundle	Price per credit
100 Credits	£4.90	4.9p
200 Credits	£9.80	4.9p
500 Credits	£24.50	4.9p
1,000 Credits	£49.00	4.9p
2,000 Credits	£98.00	4.9p
5,000 Credits	£245.00	4.9p
10,000 Credits	£450.00	4.5p
25,000 Credits	£1,050.00	4.2p
50,000 Credits	£1,900.00	3.8p
100,000+ Credits	Prices from 2.6p per credit Contact us for a quote

Dedicated Short Codes

*For a Dedicated Short Code (where you have your own number and not share our 60777 number) Call us now for a quote!

Interested?

Call us now on 01273-819382