In their own words

“SMS Poll is the easiest and fastest way to find out what your audience is thinking. Requiring no special hardware or software, you can create a poll in just a few seconds. Your audience votes by sending an SMS to a local phone number and the results are updated right before your eyes, in real-time, in your PowerPoint presentation or on your website.”

Why it might be a killer

SMS polling is becoming more and more popular and SMSPoll has put together a robust solution and priced it below the market rate making this a possible Killer app in the mobile polling space.

What it does

SMSPoll is a robust SMS polling solution that allows educators, promoters, public speakers, market researchers and others to quickly and easily set up polls and allow people to respond by sending a text message to an SMS short code. Results can be viewed in real time from a website, blog, or even a PowerPoint presentation and the average cost of the solution is about $10 per month. There are no limits to the number of pools that you can start and you can select the date and time that the polls will end ahead of time. You can also customize the way that votes are displayed for more dynamic presentations and also view such basic data as the times individual results were received.

Some questions

Many organizations like universities may have issues with the fact that their students will be charged by their carrier each time they receive a message unless they have an unlimited text message plan. Is SMSPoll trying to address this issue with the carriers?

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