Real ShortShout ClientsThese real ShortShout clients explain how group text messaging has helped their business and church.
Eric from warm, sunny Los Angeles was a youth pastor and had a problem. He would have special events and gatherings for the youth but many would often forget despite the reminders they received each Sunday. Youth have the super-human ability to forget just about anything. Many of Eric’s youth had email accounts, but email messages rarely reached more than a few the youth just before an event. What he did notice was that almost every one of them had cell phones and would be checking them incessantly at every free moment. The average teenager sends and receives 1,742 text messages per month (Q2 2008). If teens spent this much time checking their phones, he thought, why not send reminders right to their phones? It is the perfect messaging medium for youth groups. ShortShout made this a reality for Eric. Give it a try for yourself and see. Creating an account is free. 
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Making Life EasierShortShout group text messaging makes communication fast and effective. We used our imagination to come up with two examples of how this could help you. Susan, a local business owner has a weekly all-employee meeting every Monday morning. She likes to gather her employees at the beginning of every work week, early in the morning. Susan finds it helps to get them motivated for the day and forces everyone to role in to work on time. However, this Monday her trusty old car finally broke down. Good news is she has been wanting to get a new car anyway. The bad news is that she can’t make it to her own morning meeting. Because she is such a nice boss, she logs into ShortShout and sends a quick message to her employees to let them know the meeting has been postponed. Her happy employees are notified instantly and disaster is averted: no grumpy employees twiddling their thumbs, expectantly waiting for a boss that would never show. The church worship team has all signed up to receive text messages from their church. After they practice together on Thursday night they are ready to go for Sunday. On Saturday night the bassist gets sick and calls the worship pastor, David, to let him know. Things should be ok, but the program does need to be tweaked. Dave could call each person on the team or send them all emails. But calling everyone is time consuming and disruptive and emails are hardly effective at such a late moment. The good news is that the worship pastor can log into ShortShout and within seconds everyone on the worship team is up-to-date for the revised Sunday-morning plans. Those are two of the countless ways ShortShout text messaging could be used. How would you use it? How could ShortShout make your job and your life simpler?
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Brandon from cold, wintery Michigan uses ShortShout’s recurring text message feature to keep his team in the loop. He found that despite the regular teleconferences he had with his geographically diverse team, many would forget to call in. He enlisted the help of ShortShout to set up weekly reminders for his group. Each of his team members could then sign up and receive text message reminders right on their cell phones, minutes before the call-in. Brandon created two recurring messages in ShortShout and then he was done. Each week his teleconferences go smoothly and everyone who needs to be on the call is there.