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As a registered client of ASPSMS youget the latest information about our newly available SMS applications.

• Case Study: Favre Auto House Part 3: Gas Price Alerts
  
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• List your ASPSMS application at our 3rd-party solutions!
• Products, based on the ASPSMS system

Case Study: The Favre Auto House
Part 3: Gas Price Alerts

Besol was founded in 1953 as a Swiss Shopping Community for petroleum products.

Source: Gabriela Adair (Fotoagentur Ex-Press)

In 1967, Albert Favre, the father of today's managingdirector René Favre bought into the Besol Shopping Communitywith his Favre Gas Station.

Today, the Besol Gas Station generates a non-negligiblemargin contribution to The Favre Auto House.

Discovery

As a member of the Besol Shopping Community The Favre Auto Houseis always informed in advance of gasoline price adjustments.

René Favre had discovered the strange urge to himself, trying tofill up just quickly before an upcoming petrol price increase.On the other hand to wait refueling, if he knew that a gasolineprice cut would be imminent and refill as soon as the price changehad an impact at the pump.

The Experiment

The consistently good experience with the use of text messageshas encouraged CEO René Favre to venture a little experiment.The majority of its customer base has allowed by opt-in to becontacted by text messages from time to time.

Whenever now a significant gas price jump upwards or downwards was announced,René Favre sat down at the SMSBLASTER web edition and sent text messagesto its customers according to the following pattern:

The Conclusion

After an announcement of a gasoline price cut the number of refuelingswas in each case higher than usual during the first days after the pricereduction.

Always, however, when a significant gasoline price increase was announced,René Favre could not believe his eyes: during the remaining days,automobilists were standing in queue to refill at the gas station!It even went so far that once The Besol Gas Station completely ran outof petrol.

Mobile Marketing on a large scale

As a committed member René Favre wanted to share his knowledge with The Besol Shopping Community.

An IT project for sending text messages was designed and implemented into the CRM system of the Shopping Community. Today, every Besol Gas Station has the ability to do mobile marketing by text messages.

The Success

Many Besol Gas Station operators nowadays collect the mobile numbers of their customers, do promotional broadcasts and send text messages to inform about whatever makes sense. But the big seller is and remains the Gas Price Alert: every year hundreds of thousands text messages.

The Besol Shopping Community rewarded René Favre's idea. As an ASPSMS affiliate he personally earns a 10 percent cut on every text message sent using the Besol CRM.

Considering the respectable number of sent text messages, René Favre experiment is now rewarded monthly with more than just pocket money.

Buy ASPSMS Credits

For sending an SMS, so-called ASPSMS credits are needed,which are purchased in advance. The ASPSMS credits donot expire. Payment by bank transfer, various creditcards such as Eurocard/Mastercard, Visa, AmericanExpress or Diners Club, PayPal or Swiss Postcard are possible.

Did you already know?

You can calculate the cost of your SMS broadcast in advance.

If you need the effective ASPSMS credit consumption for cost calculation of your SMS broadcast, the following xml formatted information might help.

List of all networks covered by the ASPSMS system:

• http://xml1.aspsms.com/opinfo/networks.xml
• http://xml2.aspsms.com/opinfo/networks.xml

List of all networks with termination fees (cost more than 1 ASPSMS credit per SMS), covered by the ASPSMS system:

• http://xml1.aspsms.com/opinfo/fees.xml
• http://xml2.aspsms.com/opinfo/fees.xml

Info: If you use the SMSBLASTER web edition, the needed ASPSMS credits for your broadcast are always displayed before sending.

http://www.smsblaster.com/

List your ASPSMS application at our 3rd-party solutions!

Take the chance and additionally advertise your own ASPSMS based softwaree.g. your content management system or your branch specific solution thatsends SMS through the ASPSMS system on:

http://www.aspsms.ch/solutions/3rd-party/

That's how it works:

1. Send us a link or a demo version of your softwarewith the appropriate login data to support@aspsms.com so we cantest your product.
   
   
2. We shall examine your software and let you know if we shall publish it at ASPSMS 3rd-party solutions.Please understand that we can only take well-engineered and error free products into consideration.
   
   
3. If we decide to publish your product, we shall ask you for further information:
   1. Product logo
   2. Product description (title)
   3. Product version
   4. Short description
   5. Detailed product description
   6. Price/currency
   7. Purchase- or download link
   8. Further useful information that helps
      
      
   If you have a German documentation, don't hesitate to send it for our German ASPSMS-website.
   
   

Examples for an listing on ASPSMS 3rd-party solutions:
http://www.aspsms.ch/solutions/3rd-party/

Products based on the
ASPSMS system

• ActiveX-Component (aspsms.dll)
  http://www.aspsms.com/dll
  
  
• ASPSMS SOAP Web Service
  https://www.aspsms.com/en/soap/
  
  
• PHP Class for the ASPSMS SOAP Web Service
  http://www.aspsms.com/solutions/3rd-party/indielab/
  
  
• ASPTOKEN (OTP, Mobile TAN)
  http://www.asptoken.com
  
  
• XML interface
  http://www.aspsms.com/xml
  
  
• SMTP interface
  http://www.aspsms.com/smtp
  
  
• Simple HTTP request
  http://www.aspsms.com/http
  
  
• Back channel international (without reverse billing):
  Global Two-Way SMS system
  http://www.aspsms.com/two-way
  
  

Applications

• Microsoft Office Outlook 2010
  ASPSMS + Outlook Mobile Service 2010
  
  
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
  ASPSMS + Outlook Mobile Service 2007
  
  
• SMSBLASTER.COM web edition
  http://www.smsblaster.com
  
  
• SMSBLASTER for Windows
  http://www.aspsms.com/download/smsblaster
  
  
• SMS touch for iPhone and iPod touch
  http://aspsms.com/solutions/3rd-party/smstouch
  
  
• ASPSMS Widget for Mac (Beta)
  http://www.aspsms.com/solutions/3rd-party/aspsmswidgetmac
  
  
• ECO-SMS! Ecological SMS, first in Switzerland!
  http://www.aspsms.com/solutions/3rd-party/ecoSMS
  
  
• SMS AddOn for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
  http://aspsms.com/solutions/3rd-party/mscrmsms
  
  
• CRM- and Callcenter-Software AG-VIP SQL
  http://www.aspsms.com/solutions/3rd-party/agvipsql
  

Credit Warning

• With this feature you can let yourself be informedby SMS and/or e-mail if your ASPSMS credit balance reaches orgoes below a certain level: http://www.aspsms.com/creditwarning