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FAB SMS Small Business Edition is a compendium of our finest SMS software for sending and receiving SMS Text Messages. Keep in touch with customers, staff and colleagues and conduct SMS Mobile Marketing campaigns with this business SMS solution. Send SMS Text Messages to almost any mobile device worldwide directly from your desktop and receive replies straight back.

How can your SMS Mobile Marketing software help us?

Our SMS Mobile Marketing software can provide the following benefits:

• Utilise SMS mobile marketing by performing direct targeted advertising
• Improve customer retention by keeping in contact with customers at a personal level
• Keep in contact with remote staff
• Write Text Messages faster using your computer and send to multiple recipients simulataneously
• Reduce costs (notably telephone bills)
• Get a better return on your marketing spend compared to other mediums
• Allow staff to contact the office via Text Message
• Provide customers and additional way in which to contact you
• Forward inbound SMS to email, a mobile or an application or provide a basic SMS autoresponse
• Enable different SMS autoresponses to incomming Texts (Full Version)
• Convert inbound FAX into email (Full Version)
• Really get your messsage across with SMS messages longer than 160 characters
• Display marketing messages instantly on a handset without the recipient even having to open the message (Flash SMS)

Mobile communications and particularly SMS are very powerful mediums when it comes to marketing. Here at FAB we provide you with the all the tools you need to get you started and enjoy the benefits from mobilising your business

What’s included in your FAB SMS Small Business Edition?

FAB SMS Small Business Edition is available in two versions. The Essentials Collection and The Fully Loaded version. All software and services mentioned below can be purchased separately if required and a summary of the differences is provided at the end.

• A single user license (Essentials) or 10 user license (Fully Loaded) of our popular FAB SMS Addin for Microsoft Outlook
  • Send SMS directly from MS Outlook
  • Send to large groups of recipients simultaneously
  • Use existing Outlook contacts to send messages
  • User defined message templates
  • Message compression (replaces certain words with Text Speak)
• Access to Web SMS for the same licensed user(s).
  • Send and receive SMS from a web browser anywhere anytime
  • Online SMS inbox
  • Online SMS contact list
  • Schedule SMS for anytime
  • Create and maintain distribution lists.
  • Send long SMS greater than 160 characters in length
  • Send Flash SMS
• A dedicated UK geographic number to receive SMS messages
  • Your SMS geographic number doubles as a virtual fax also, allowing any fax    sent to this number to be converted to an email and delivered to your office email inbox.
•  SMS Keyword Software management software (Fully Loaded only)
  • Respond to keywords contained within inbound SMS Text messages
  • Send different SMS autoresponse to inbound messages
  • Forward inbound SMS Text Messages to another mobile or group of mobiles
  • Forward SMS to email
  • Configure to save inbound text messages to an online SMS inbox
  • Collect mobile numbers and automatically build up distribution lists
  • Up to 1000 keywords allowed at any one time
• 1000 Text Messages (Essentials) or 1200 Text Messages (Fully Loaded) to start sending straight away, with ability to purchase more at a reduced rate.
• Advice, assistance & help to initially import your contact lists into our Web SMS system, if required
• User Manual¹
• Free Email, Telephone & SMS technical support

*** Additional Bonus software ***

Due to the way our systems are set up one user will also receive the following bonus software:

• Text1066 – SMS on demand service
• Get random quotes & Jokes by Text Message, quotes can be funny nuggets of Wisdom, Deep Thoughts and even motivational. (Motivational SMS might be useful if you need a little boost during the downturn)

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SMS Inbox	Contact	Inbound Options	Contact List

Summary

	Essentials	Fully Loaded
Send to over 130 GSM networks
Send to multiple recipients in one go (bulk sms) (Ideal for Mobile marketing)
Send messages larger than 160 characters (up to 38,250 is possible)
Send messages with a high priority (displays instantly on a handset)
Send and Receive SMS Text Messages using Microsoft Outlook	(Single User)	(10 Users)
Send and Receive SMS via your Web Browser (Web SMS)	(Single User)	(10 Users)
Set the Sender ID on all messages
Dedicated inbound geograhic SMS number
Set monthly sending limits for each user
SMS Keyword Management software
Receive Fax as Email	+£10 (Optional)
Included messages	1000	1200
Individual Message Cost***	from 6p per message	from 6p per message
Cost	£179.95 (per annum)	£499.95 (per annum)

All prices quoted are in Pounds Stirling GBP and subject to VAT at 17.5% for Purchases within the EU.

Price per SMS are the same for all destinations countries/networks. The following exception apply:

A complete list of SMS prices by country can be found here.

Typical price per message when sending to UK based networks: Standard 11.5p (inc VAT)  Professional 6.8p (ex VAT)

Important: Both the Essentials collection and Fully Loaded editions are classed as professional SMS accounts so UK pricing will be 6.8p on both.

How can I buy the FAB SMS Small Business Edition?

Click on the “buy now” button above to add the FAB SMS Small Business Edition to your shopping basket and complete the checkout process. On completion of your purchase we will contact you to get your preference for your dedicated inbound SMS/Fax number which you can choose yourself from a selection of millions.

Typically you should be able to start sending SMS within an hour or so of purchase.

Can I trial it?

Yes, sort of. We offer a 60 day back money guarantee when you purchase our Text Messaging System. If it's not for you and doesn't meet your needs just give us a call, email or SMS and we will provide a refund. If you have used any message credit during your 60 days this will be deducted from your refund total and the remaining amount refunded in full.

Optional Extras

In addition to the above software & services included in your package the following are available as optional extras:

• Virtual Mobile number instead of Geographic number £500+VAT per annum (Virtual Mobile Numbers are in the form 07123456789 and can accept trafic from international sources as opposed just the UK for Geographic numbers)
• Additional user licenses £39.95+VAT per user

Future Direction

The following features are not included in the current release but will appear in future editions:

• Send SMS to a mobile number or telephone number or email address or all three simultaneously
• Message templates & mail merge
• Send MMS ie pictures & video
• Wap Push
• Support for more networks most notably USA & Canada
• SMS Competition Manager - a system for managing your competitions (this might actually be a full price upgrade we're not sure yet)
• FAB generated autoresponse content for reserved/special keywords. Aimed at Restaurateurs & Bar/Club owners we will provide a feature to encourage customers to opt into your mobile mailing lists.

1) User manual is currently in development and will be made available as soon as possible

	Would you like to know more...?
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