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Advertise Where Customers In 2010 Are Found!

Connect With Customers Using Our Online Business Directory

For only $35 PER YEAR list your business in our online directory. You get 24/7 access to modify your business listing at any time. Users enter their address on the website and the business directory listings for their city will automatically be shown along with a map. Customers can access the directory from both home computers and on the go from web enabled cellphones. A directory listing is first required to use our other services.

Connect With Customers Using Our Online Discounts for Customers

Everyone knows specials are a great way to attract customers. Use our discount listings page to tell customers about your special for a fraction of the price of traditional coupons or other advertising.

Try it for a month for only $10. A full year is only $75. You have 24/7 access to add, modify, and delete your listing giving you unlimited flexibility. There is not any better value in advertising!

Connect With Customers Using Our Low Cost or FREE Classified Listings

A classified listing with up to ten pictures and a video is only $8 and you can run it until it sells. This is the ideal way for auto dealers and realtors to connect with the public and get noticed. If you don't need a picture such as a job listing, the ad it totally free.

Connect With Customers Using Our Banner Advertising

Connect With Customers Using SMS Text Messages

Text messages are the 21st century way to connect with customers. Below is information about text message advertising and how it can boost your business.

What Can Opt-In SMS Text Messaging Do?

+ It can get your business new customers for a fraction of the cost you are now paying.

+ It can get your existing customers to came back twice as often as they do now.

+ It can cut your marketing budget 25% and substantially increase your sales.

+ It can get over 20% of your customers responding to your advertising message.

+ It can build a strong relationship between you and customers or members.

How Opt-In SMS Text Messaging Works

People text your custom keyword to 41513 (called a short code) to automatically be added to your mobile distribution list.
Then an automated response is texted back to them with your customized message.
Later, you can send them important text alerts, news, and sales promotions, resulting in huge and immediate response rates that you can't experience with any other marketing.

Opt-in text messaging is successfully used by many large businesses such as Coca-Cola, Arby's, Red Box, Dupont, Dell, Honda and State Farm Insurance. Now Patoka Register makes it affordable for every business! We have eliminated setup fees, contract fees, the program fees, the keyword fee, and the complicated to use interface found at many SMS providers.

There's a reason why large corporations utilize mobile marketing – IT WORKS! You are able to market to customers on a one-to-one basis, thus giving them the feel of individual treatment via the SMS sent to their mobile phones

The Attic, a Southern California streetwear retailer,

Made $20,000 in just 3 hours using the SMS technology.
+ The Attic texted 1200 people on their opt-in mobile list and 232 people showed up before the store even opened (that's a 20% response rate).
+ They sold $20,000 worth of merchandise in just 3 hours. A record for The Attic!
+ Average VIP customer spent $86.21
+ It only took 2 days of planning and advance notice for this event.

Retail Stores

Immediate Notifications
Notify customers immediately with big sales, new shipments, and important announcements. Give customers the feeling of being an "insider" with first notice of new items and sales.

Keep your days busy
You get proven success rates with targeted messages sent directly to a subscriber's cell phone.
Turn a one-time customer into a repeat customer and change your slow days into busy ones.

Mobile Coupons
Mobile text coupons are much more effective than paper or email coupons. Research shows text coupons are twice as effective as other methods. Plus, some customers will appreciate they are green!

Showcase Items
Our FREE SMS program will automatically build you a mobile website with up to 12 pictures plus your business logo. Our main website lets you show 10 pictures plus a video. Both can easily be changed at any time.

Restaurants and Bars

Increase average sale amount, build customer loyality
Reward customers that purchase full meals with an additional item at discount.

Promote certain items
Easily direct customers attention to new items or high profit items. If you have a daily special post it in your "daily special" autoresponder. Customers can text "daily special" to 41513 and automatically get todays menu.

Reduce Waste
Give last minute discounts to use up over-supplies such as "20% off salads 6 pm until closing".

Highlight your dishes, staff, or building
Our FREE SMS program will automatically build you a mobile website with up to 12 pictures plus your business logo. Our main website lets you show 10 pictures plus a video.

Real Estate

Close More Sales
SMS advertising works 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
A person drives by a property and sees a For Sale sign with your keyword and short code 41513 printed on the sign.

They text your keyword for that property to 41513 and are added to your database.

They immediately receive your automated response for that property, "3 bed, 2 bath, finished basement, 3000 square ft. Appraised value $225,000, reduced $199,000. Get pictures direct to your phone at: abcwebsite.com/1234 or go to Patlist.com for an online tour. For more info call Jill at 800-555-5555. "

Our FREE SMS program will automatically build you a mobile website with up to 12 pictures of the property plus your business logo. Our main website lets you show 10 pictures plus a video.

They have opted-in to that home's mobile distribution list, and now you can text this person in the future with any updates.

Churches

Build a stronger youth connection
80% of people under 30 years old use text messages. There is no better way to connect to the younger generation. Youth ministers can increase the feeling of being "a part of the church".

Keep members informed
One of the easiest ways to loose members is if they feel "left out". With one click you can text church events and program news to all members.

Bible verses and encouragement
Members could signup for daily or less often text messages of encouragement. Our program lets you schedule text messages anytime in advance.

Show past meetings or programs
Our FREE SMS program will automatically build you a mobile website with up to 12 pictures plus your logo or building picture. Our main website lets you show 10 pictures plus a video.

Schools

Get the message out immediately, save time and money over phone calls

+ School closings and early dismissals
Problem: Because of weather conditions you need to dismiss early. How do you contact 500 parents at work? Solution: one click of the mouse sends text messages to all 500.

+ Game and event cancellations
Problem: A late rain has forced the game to be cancelled. How do you contact everyone? Solution: One click and send text messages to everyone on your "baseball" list plus update responder to send "cancelled" to anyone texting "baseball" to 41513.

+ Important news, school programs, parent teacher conferences
Problem: Attendance at parent-teacher conferences has been poor. Solution: One mouse click the morning of the meeting sends text reminders to all parents.

+ Lunch menus
Problem: Staff spends too much time answering calls about lunch menu. Solution: Parents and students can text "lunch" to 41513 and get todays menu. It only took staff 2 minutes to post.

+ Home work assignments, alert students and parents on practice schedules

+ Game scores

+ Contact teachers, staff, substitute teachers individually or as a group

+ Easily conduct polls of students, parents, or teachers with our built in polling application. Show realtime results on your website.

Professional Services, Radio Stations

Make customers feel special

Give "good customer discounts" to bring back those you haven't seen in a while.

Build a strong connection with customers with a "first to know" list. One click and you can send the latest info about specials, new items, and changes.

Send out text message appointment reminders that can be easily programmed up to a year in advance.

Easily conduct polls with our built in polling application. Show realtime results on your website.

Your new customers opt-in easily and existing customers will always embrace the opportunity to receive more personalized treatment. As a result, customer loyalty is increased through a variety of specials, coupons and other offers. This improves your bottom line!

Automatically register listeners for radio contests and give aways. No one is needed to answer the phone and incoming messages are FREE.

Government, Utilities

Easily connect with customers

Notify the public of boil orders, power outages, holiday trash pickup changes, utility work, road work, and meetings with one click of the mouse.

SMS Text Messaging Features

+ Our SMS opt-in text management program hosted on our server, a $395 per month value.
There is nothing to install or maintain on your computer. Using your login and password you can access it from any computer. It is very easy to use plus each page has video instructions.

+ One free Keyword, a $25 per month value.
Unlimited additional keywords can be purchased at a discount price.

+ Unlimited FREE second level keywords

+ Use of our short code 41513, a $500 per month value.

+ FREE unlimited incoming text messages, you build your customer opt-in list for free!
This can save you hundreds of dollars per year over other SMS services.

+ One click and send text messages to everyone in your groups.

+ Free built in autoresponder, when someone opts-in to your keyword your custom message is automatically sent back.

+ Free Message Scheduler for pre planned campaigns or to send reminders to customers. Using a simple calendar page you can set messages up to a year in advance and and also the time of day to deliver them.

+ Free starter text messages credits. Add additional credits for only 10 cents or less.

+ Unused text credits carry forward to the next month and do not expire. At many other SMS services, you loose what you don't use each month. This saves you hundreds.

+ Free built in polling application. Easily set up polls and contests where users can text in their choice or answer a question. Ongoing results can automatically be posted to a website if desired.

+ Free built in web scripts tool to automatically generate html code for adding a SMS text signup link to your website.

+ Free built in mobile website generator. Make a mobile website in under 5 minutes with your logo, information, and up to 12 pictures.

+ Free support for one year.