The Jacobs Health Living SMS Campaign is running from 1st May to 30th Jun.

Up to S$10,000 worth of prizes to be won by messaging your entry to the SMS shortcode 76767.  Each Jacobs pack will contain instructions on what to SMS in. Good luck!

Singapore Only: The Kraft Chipsmore SMS Contest is now on, purchase Chipsmore cookies and stand a chance to win a trip to Perth, Australia to swim with Dolphins at the Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort!

To participate, purchase Chipsmore cookies and find within the package a contest card. Answer 2 questions on the card and send the answers to the COMMZGATE shared shortcode 76767. Each SMS received costs S$0.20.

Contest is active until 31 May 2009. Full details at http://www.chipsmore.com.sg

Many users don’t realize that this feature exists perhaps because it’s hidden under an “further options” link. If you happen to have to send a SMS broadcast at a time when you are not going to be physically at your PC or in the office, you can actually create a Campaign and then set the time and date that it will be processed.

To do this, create a SMS broadcast campaign just like you normally would.  At the final step where the “Start Campaign’ button appears, there is a link called “further options”. Click on this and a panel for setting the broadcast date appears. See below:

Choose the desired actual broadcast date and time and then click “Start Campaign”. That’s it, your campaign has been scheduled for broadcast!

For Mobile Inbox Campaign users, you can now configure an auto-reply message of more than 160 characters, up to 800 characters in fact.

i.e. When mobile users send an SMS to your Campaign Inbox, your auto-reply can be as lengthy as up to 800 characters.

Do note that for messages of more than 160 characters, every 140 characters (roman text) will be considered as 1 SMS message and the appropriate number of credits will be deducted from your account accordingly (if you are a Basic Plan users)

When starting a SMS Receive Campaign, you will be expecting SMS messages to come in,  be received and appear in your Campaign report. Such a Campaign can be created for various objectives, such as to receive enquires for your product or service (most popular!), for receiving feedback, or for receiving submissions for a Luck Draw.

You will of course have to tell mobile users that they have to send in SMS message in respond to your Campaign.  

You can let mobile users know of your campaign via various means:

• TV adverts (expensive!)
• Newspaper adverts
• Newsletters
• In-Store materials
• SMS Broadcast (you can send this via the Portal!)

When you created the SMS Receive Campaign on the Portal, you would have been prompted to choose a keyword as part of the Campaign setup. You will have to tell the mobile user to place this keyword as the first word in their SMS message before they send the SMS to the Portal shortcode 73333.

Assuming that you have chosen the keyword “Cola” and you are looking to collect a subscription list of people interested in receiving further news about your product, examples of how you can tell your potential mobile users about the Campaign are as follows:

Send <Cola> < “Your Name”> to 73333

Send “Cola”  SPACE “Your Name” to 73333

Send Cola  <Your Name> to 73333

All the above examples will work! The Portal is smart enough to filter out the < symbols and quotes to make sure the SMS message appear in your Campaign report!

In the Twisties GOOAL SMS Campaign, customers will find a “Twisted Word” puzzle in each pack of Twisties purchased from May to  July 2008. By following the instructions to solve the puzzle and submitting the answer to the COMMZGATE SMS shortcode 76767, participants stand to chance to win a trip to Europe plus various other prizes.

Full instructions found in the image below (enlargable):

More details at : http://www.twisties.com.sg/

Pfizer has launched a SMS-based smoking cessation programme in support of its smoking cessation drug Champix /Chantix
Apparently, research has shown that half the fight to quit smoking is psychological.
Users of the drug are hence assisted with up to daily SMS encouragement reminders to keep up the good fight , not to give up and basically to keep the chin up until the end of the drug course.

To register, send QUIT to 73333 , you will be prompted to enter your drug course start date to begin the programme.

Braun and Oral-B have jointly launched a OktoberFest SMS Campaign where customers can stand to win a fully-paid trip for 2 to Munich, Germany to celebrate the German OktoberFest beer-drinking festival.

Customers will have to purchase $128 worth or more of Braun or Oral-B products and SMS their details to 76767.

The Braun / Oral-B OktoberFest SMS Campaign is powered by the COMMZGATE Platform.

Sandisk Singapore has launched a SMS Campaign to promote its MP3 player and storage products.
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Braun Singapore has launched a SMS Campaign to promote it’s products for Father’s Day. Stand a chance to win Caltex Petrol and other vouchers by sending an SMS to 76767 containing your Name, IC number and Braun receipt number.

This Braun SMS campaign is run on the COMMZGATE platform

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