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What are SMS Services?

Maximising marketing efficiency & customer engagement

SMS messaging is one the most effective marketing tools available today with up to 98% read rates and up to 8 times greater engagement than email. We enable you to optimise the cost and increase the effectiveness of customer contact and marketing by using GCI’s SMS gateways and SMS messaging API.

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Advantages include:

  • Reduce the cost of SMS traffic significantly; allowing more messages to be sent or spend to be allocated elsewhere
  • Tag messages so that customers know who is trying to contact them
  • Integrate into CRM systems so that responses can be tracked and acted on accordingly
  • Dramatically increase the engagement rate of your marketing communications

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  • Network and Infrastructure – Not for Profit – StepChange Debt Charity

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    Network and Infrastructure services in the Not for Profit sector, enabling a SIP implementation that delivers cost reductions and resilience. StepChange debt charity have 20 years worth of experience providing debt advice, helping people to deal with their debt problems in a number of ways including debt management plans and…
    Network and Infrastructure services in the Not for Profit sector, enabling a SIP implementation that delivers cost reductions and resilience.…
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  • Security and Compliance – Not for Profit Sector – Gas Safe Register

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    Security and Compliance services in the Public Safety sector, upgrading voice & payment options to help automate key processes for Gas Safe Register. Over the long Easter weekend around 58,000 gas engineers were expected to contact the Gas Safe Register in order to renew their registration. In previous years, the…
    Security and Compliance services in the Public Safety sector, upgrading voice & payment options to help automate key processes for…
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  • Unified Communications – Not for Profit – The Royal National Institute of the Blind

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    Unified Communications services in the Not for Profit sector from GCI, enabling easy data input and voice recognition for the blind and partially sighted. The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is the leading charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million people with sight loss. Offering…
    Unified Communications services in the Not for Profit sector from GCI, enabling easy data input and voice recognition for the…
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  • Unified Communications – Telemarketing Sector – 1calldirect

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    Unified Communications services in the Telemarketing Sector, enabling disaster recovery and saving £10,000 per month by introducing multiple carrier call centres. 1calldirect are ‘Top of the League’ experts in outsourced telesales with over 400 employees and a range of clients including Scottish Power and The People’s Post Code Lottery. With…
    Unified Communications services in the Telemarketing Sector, enabling disaster recovery and saving £10,000 per month by introducing multiple carrier call…
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Read our News & Opinions

GCI Acquires Packet Media

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7th September 2016
The acquisition is GCI’s third this year and follows its purchase of Outsourcery’s assets on…
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SMS – Past, Present and Future

  • Blog
23rd July 2017
By Nigel Broomhall – Product Manager, GCI. It’s been 25 years since the first SMS…
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