Trumpia SMS Reseller Program Review

This Trumpia review will specifically be reviewing the Trumpia SMS Reseller program.  Find out more information about Trumpia and their white label reseller product, their reseller pricing options and packages, and the service they provide to their resellers.  Learn whether Trumpia has the reseller plan that best suits your business model, goals, and budget.

Trumpia – The Company

Trumpia prides themselves in being more than just another SMS or text marketing company, advertising their product as an “all-in-one marketing” solution.  Their single web-based software integrates several aspects of marketing including mobile text marketing, email marketing, voice broadcast, instant message marketing, and social media.  This multi-channel marketing is designed to allow businesses to reach out to their customers in their preferred method of communication.  Trumpia claims their single integrated platform helps businesses reach 100% of their customers and increases the likelihood of getting people to read their email message or opt-in to their mobile marketing campaigns.

Trumpia – SMS Reseller Program

The Trumpia SMS reseller program is a turn-key white label platform that is web-based and designed to integrate several forms of marketing.  From their patented all-in-one platform you can manage mobile text, email, voice, IM, and social marketing all in one place.  The “white label” portion of a reseller program indicates you are able to run your text message marketing business using your own logo and branding, Trumpia provides you all with the products and tools but only your name and information is visible to your customers.  Trumpia resellers purchase text messages at wholesale rates (as low as $0.01/text) and are then allowed to create their own mobile marketing packages and customize their own pricing structures.  All Trumpia reseller accounts include the technology to offer their customers:

Besides the all-in-one marketing, the patented platform, and custom pricing benefits, Trumpia offers their resellers the choice of several different short codes and gateways, offer web design services to help resellers create their logos and branding, and provide resellers with detailed reporting and analytics.  Other than actually finding your customers for you Trumpia does just about everything else.  It is illegal for any text marketing company to provide any email or text message customers to their customers.  If you are considering becoming a reseller, you should be aware that as a reseller you are responsible for making your customers aware of anti-spam laws and that these types of service are on an opt-in basis, and buying a customer list is not considered opting in.  Trumpia will provides resellers the platform, video tutorials, the short codes, the text messages, the white labeling, the software, pretty much everything you will need to start your own multi-marketing company.  It is up to the reseller to then take all of these tools, use them wisely, and use them across all forms of advertising to encourage businesses to sign up for their services.

Trumpia – SMS Reseller Pricing

Trumpia has three white label reseller plans to choose from – Starter, Premium, and Elite.  All three of these have a $500 set up fee, a specified number of text credits and keywords, and use the short code 96362. The differences within the packages can be found within the monthly fee, the text credits, number of keywords, the amount of training and support, and whether marketing and collateral is included.  These differences are as follows:

Starter Agency Solution – For small agencies with less than 5 clients

  • $500 one-time setup fee
  • $150 monthly licensing fee
  • 5,000 text credits each month
  • 20 mobile keywords
  • Only email support
  • No marketing collateral (Powerpoints, case studies, white papers, etc.)

Premium Agency Solution – Considered the best deal

  • $500 one-time setup fee
  • $250 monthly licensing fee
  • 10,000 text credits each month
  • 100 mobile keywords
  • Phone and email support
  • Includes marketing collateral

Elite Agency Solution – Considered the “Most Popular”

  • $500 one-time setup fee
  • $1,400 – Minimum wholesale of 100,000 text credits
  • 200 mobile keywords
  • Phone, email, & dedicated account manager
  • Includes marketing collateral

With any of the three reseller package plans you may also purchase the following add-ons:

  • Custom design services (must call for quote)
  • Dedicated email server – $125 a month
  • Use of different short code (70000) – $150 per month
  • Use of other short code (96000) – $300 per month

The wholesale rates for Trumpia roll-over text message credits are:

  • 100,000 for $1,400 (or $0.014)
  • 200,000 for $2,600 (or $0.013)
  • 500,000 for $5,500 (or $0.011)
  • 1,000,000 for $9,000 (or $0.009)
  • 2,000,000 for $14,000 (or $0.007)
  • 5,000,000 for $25,000 (or $0.005)
  • 10,000,000 for $40,000 (or $0.004)

Overall these prices are pretty steep.  When compared to other text message marketing companies Trumpia is one of the highest priced.  But, in all fairness they are not only selling a SMS mobile marketing platform.  As stated above, they have a multi-marketing platform that integrates everything together not just your text messaging campaign.

Trumpia – Reseller Support

The Trumpia SMS reseller program is available to people within the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom.  They provide a toll-free telephone number to U.S. and Canadian resellers weekdays from 6:00 am – 6:30 pm PST and on the weekends from 8:00 am – 4:00 pm PST.  The UK resellers have a separate contact page with an email option and a local UK telephone number.

Trumpia resellers are provided a number support services including video tutorials, webinars (both live and recorded), support tickets, statistics, and more.  They seem to have done a great job at giving their resellers a number of avenues and solutions to help educate themselves, build their own business, and troubleshoot their own issues.  By providing their resellers with a number of ways to find answers it would appear they have reduced the amount of customer service they would need to provide via the toll-free phone service.

TXT180 SMS White Label Reseller Program Review

This TXT180 review will take a look at the TXT180 SMS marketing service and specifically review their SMS white label reseller program.

TXT180 has quickly become one of the leading SMS marketing providers.  The TXT180 web-based platform was created in-house by an IT team experienced in creating user-friendly programs.  The TXT180 text messaging platform and control panel has been found to be so easy-to-use, and the marketing plans were so cheap, customers started wanting to use it for themselves.  So TXT180 created a white label reseller program that would allow people to create their own mobile marketing business using the TXT180 products and services but labeling and branding them as their own.

TXT180 SMS Reseller Program Features

Unlike many other SMS reseller programs, the TXT180 reseller programs offer every reseller free telephone support and free marketing materials.  Many other reseller programs either only offer these services f0r their premium reseller plans or offer them for a fee, their customer support team offers help with not only setting up and using the reseller platform but also tips on how they may want to go about marketing to their intended market.

The TXT180 reseller program is extremely quick and easy to sign-up for.  Upon signing up all of the white label tools are provided instantly so you may start configuring and designing your own text message marketing plans, website, logos, and more.  TXT180 also provides instructional videos to assist you with getting familiar with your control panel and setting up customizable fields, as well as help videos you  can upload to your website to assist your customers.

The TXT180 SMS white label reseller program allows resellers to offer their own customized text message marketing plans with no apparent affiliation to TXT180, the reseller shortcode is different than the short code used by TXT180 customers.  The reseller login, and therefore the reseller customer login, is hosted on a separate domain offering even less affiliation with the TXT180 site.  The reseller has the ability to use their own logo, customize their own color schemes, edit their clients control panel colors to match their site, and add their own support information. Resellers have the ability to setup their customers on the platform.  Customers have access to their own login and ability to manage their own mobile marketing campaigns.  However, if the reseller chooses they may offer text message marketing plans that include complete campaign management.  Managing customer accounts provides resellers with the ability to make more profit, have more control, charge for services other marketing services may not provide, and gain customer loyalty through building stronger relationships.

TXT180 Reseller Pricing

The TXT180 reseller program is one of the lowest in the industry.  Most text message marketing providers charge a setup fee of around $500.00, TXT180 charges a setup fee of $295.00.  Although other mobile marketing providers advertise their fee as a “one-time setup fee” they also charge their resellers a monthly fee of $100 – $500 monthly whether they actively using the service or not.  Whereas TXT180 has no monthly fee but the setup fee is actually referred to as an “annual access fee”, indicating resellers will be charged the $295.00 “access fee” to remain as an active reseller and be given access to the system.  In comparison, the TXT180 annual fee is in most cases lower than the monthly fee required by most other reseller programs.

The TXT180 reseller program is currently setup where a reseller must provide their own merchant account services, or payment services to their customers.  TXT180 does not accept payments directly from the resellers clients, although it is rumored on their blog they are in the process of creating a service that will allow customer billing in the near future.  As for now, the reseller must collect from their customers and the reseller is charged via credit card for all plans.

The costs associated with setting up a customer with TXT180 appears to be much lower than a lot of the competition, for example:

  • A 250 message plan would cost $7.50 a month
  • A 1000 message plan would cost $20.00 a month
  • A 2500 message plan would cost $50.00 a month
  • A 7500 message plan would cost $150.00 a month
  • A 20,000 message plan would cost $350.00 a month
  • A 50,000 message plan would cost $800.00 a month

and there are many more in-between plans.  As you can see, the higher the message plan the better the deal, the cost per message is significantly reduced with the higher message plans.

While some mobile marketing providers offer text message plans that allow the messages to roll over each month the TXT180 plans do not roll-over month to month.  However, they do offer “message bundles” which will roll-over each month until the messages are used.  This method helps resellers provide their customers with lower priced, lower message mobile marketing plans using only the messages they need.  And allows them the ability to purchase additional messages without taking a leap into the next plan, if the customer is not consistently needing many more messages than their plan allows.

Visit the TXT180 reseller site today to learn more about their reseller features, pricing, how it works, and other frequently asked questions about their white label reseller program.

AvidMobile SMS Reseller Program Review

Read this AvidMobile SMS reseller review to learn more about the SMS reseller program available through AvidMobile. The reseller program from AvidMobile makes it possible for a company already offer marketing solutions to add text marketing to their current services. Alternatively, an individual can use the SMS reseller program to create a complete stand-alone business offering only mobile marketing. Visiting the AvidMobile site provides only a simple overview of the services and possibilities of the AvidMobile platform. To get any detailed information, an interested party will have to provide some basic information such as name, email address, and mobile number. After providing this information AvidMobile will then send pricing and program details to the interested party.

In this AvidMobile SMS reseller program review we will give you some of the basic information we were able to gather about  AvidMobile plans, features, and pricing structure. First, we will take a look at the standard features list that is included in each of the Enterprise Level Marketing plans:

  • Keyword Campaigns
  • Auto-responder (message strings)
  • Data Collection
  • Email Lead Capture
  • Email and SMS Lead Notification
  • Trivia
  • Virtual Business Cards
  • Text2Vote
  • Text2Win
  • Text2Screen
  • Surveys
  • Realtor Notifications

Some of the more advanced features that are available on any of  Enterprise Level Marketing plans include MMS (multimedia messaging service), API (application programming interface) to integrate with any platform, web opt-in widgets/iFrames, mobile coupons, customizable billing and reporting, 2 shared short codes per account, and advanced reporting. AvidMobile tries to cover all the bases so that an SMS reseller can meet the needs of a large variety of clients. We were not able to view any actual video tutorials to see how easy or complicated the platform is, but AvidMobile does say their SMS reseller program includes full training with industry specific Power-Point presentations.

AvidMobile also offers some additional features:

  • Appointment Scheduling through Text Messaging
  • 2-way Chat
  • Mobile Website/App Creation
  • Text2Donate – Mobile Giving
  • Custom API Integration
  • Geo-Targeting
  • Geo-Fencing
  • Dedicated/Premium Short Codes
  • QR Code Generator
  • Built in URL Shortener
  • Social Media Management – Twitter and Facebook

There is no pricing listed for these “optional features”, interested parties will really have to talk with an AvidMobile rep to get a real idea of what each type of campaign will cost.

AvidMobile SMS Reseller Program Pricing

The AvidMobile SMS reseller program offers three basic plans to choose from with additional options for dedicated short codes or enterprise level clients. The Private Level Basic plan has a one time setup fee of $89 and a monthly license fee of $97. This plan does not include an untraceable URL or dedicated URL and does not provide the reseller with white labeled promotional videos. Messaging rates for the Private Label Basic plan are as follows:

  • 0-50,000 messages sold at $0.0175 per message
  • 50,000-500,000 messages are $0.015 per message
  • 500,000-1,000,000 messages are $0.0125 per message
  • 1,000,000 + sold at $0.01 per message

The next level plan is the Private Label Shared plan. AvidMobile customers will pay a $99 set-up fee and a $147 monthly license fee  this plan does include an untraceable URL but doesn’t allow the reseller to add sales agents on their account. Messaging rates for the Private Label Shared plan are as follows:

  • 0-50,000 messages billed at $0.015 per message
  • 50,000-500,000 messages billed at $0.0125 per message
  • 500,000-5,000,000 messages billed at $0.01 per message
  • 5,000,000 + billed at $0.009

The third option we will cover in our AvidMobile SMS reseller program review is the Private Label Plus plan. This plan has a $199 set-up fee and a $249 monthly license fee. It comes with a dedicated URL, white labeled promotional videos and does also allow for additional sales agents/resellers to be added to an account. Private Label Plus messaging fees are as follows:

  • 0-30,000 messages billed at $0.012 per message
  • 30,000-500,000 messages billed at $0.01 per message
  • 500,000-1,000,000 messages billed at $0.009 per message
  • 1,000,000-5,000,000 messages billed at $0.008 per message
  • 5,000,000+ billed at $0.0075 per message

In addition to the fees listed above resellers will also pay a $4 per account fee for every account he/she has set up. The big advantage of AvidMobile pricing structure is that they do not charge anything extra for keywords, every account comes with unlimited keywords.

As you can see, there are three main pricing features that AvidMobile focuses on: set-up fee, monthly fee, and messaging fee. Understanding how each of these will effect your long term profitability can help you determine if the AvidMobile SMS reseller program is the best option for your business. Be sure to chat with an AvidMobile rep for additional pricing on optional features as there may be an extra charge for features like MMS, a custom API, social media integration, etc.

Overall, AvidMobile has a very robust platform. The only real down side we see is that getting information about it is a real hassle and there is nothing really to show you how the platform works so that you will know how easy/difficult it is to manage and use. Check out some AvidMobile reviews by current users to see how they feel about the system before you choose the best SMS reseller program to fit your business needs.

iVision Mobile Review

Text message marketing has flourished over the past few years and is only expected to increase its growth in the years to come.  Amidst the popularity many text message marketing companies have recently started in the industry to take advantage of the growth.  One of the companies in the industry that has been around from nearly the beginning is iVision Mobile.  iVision Mobile is located in southern California and has been making a name for itself since 2005 making them one of the older companies in the mobile marketing industry.  This review of iVision Mobile will cover the three key aspects of a text message marketing platform, features and ease of use of the platform, support options for the platform and the cost of the platform.

The iVision website is very informative and well put together.  Through a virtual tour, some screen shots of the platform offer a glimpse of the magnitude of features and how easily it can be navigated.  As expected with the added bells and whistles that iVision Mobile offers, the platform does appear that it can be a bit more trying for new users to get acclimated to.  The good news here is, iVision Mobile includes a one hour training session to assist all new accounts as part of the $99 set up fee.  The ease of use coupled with the training session a user should have no problem getting on the text messaging platform and getting around to start any mobile marketing campaign.

iVision Mobile uses messaging packages for their pricing structure that start at $99 a month and go up to $2500.  The message packages include free inbound messages except for on their Free To End User (FTEU) messages and anywhere from 1 to unlimited keywords.  A few of those text message packages are as follows:

  • Basic
    • 1000 Messages a month
    • 1 Keyword
    • $99 a month
  • Standard
    • 2500 Messages a month
    • 3 Keywords
    • $139
  • Pro
    • 25,000 Messages a month
    • 30 Keywords
    • $500

There are also text message packages that can be purchased that do not expire for three months.  Options for dedicated shortcodes and premium shortcodes are available as well.

The support for iVision Mobile is above par for the industry.  Phone support is available “anytime” along with an online support form, training videos and access to best practices.  Including the one hour training session iVision Mobile has one of the best support systems in the text message marketing industry.

In summary, iVision Mobile appears to offer a great text marketing platform with lots of extras and the additional support features and training available should help with any difficulties navigating and using the text message marketing platform.  The pricing for iVision Mobile is on the high side of industry average with plans starting at almost ten cents per message and every account being charged a set up fee of $99.  Because of the additional features and support the added cost may be warranted with iVisionMobile.