How to easily send broadcast SMS text messages from your e-mail client to your opt-in list

You may have followers, clients or prospects who want to keep up with you, but are as busy as you and don’t have time to sit at their computer to look for your blog or sort through your tweets. You may also see value in driving traffic to your blog or Web site at particular times and dates. If you have an opt in list of people wanting to subscribe to your messages/alerts via text message, here is how to set that up quickly and for free.

To build your list, at a minimum you need to collect the following criteria from each subscriber: name, cell phone number and cell phone service provider. You then use this formula to build the e-mail address to which you will send your text messages: 10digitnumber@provider.com (for example, 6096861341@vtext.com would be the phone of a Verizon subscriber.

Once your database is complete and you are ready to send your first blast, add all of your subscribers as contacts within your e-mail’s user interface and put them into one group making sure that their e-mail address field is this cell phone code. Open a new e-mail and put the group name in the “To” field. As an aside, the e-mail from which you send this blast will be what the recipient sees, so you may want to create a vanity e-mail address, especially if you have your own domain (alerts@yourcompany.com). Now type in a subject line and body copy text. Note that most cell phones will strip out any HTML including hyperlinks, so the subject line will read like a first sentence, just put inside parentheses. Press “Send” to get your blast immediately out to your list and watch the phones ring and/or traffic hit your Web site!

Here is a list of domains you’ll use based on your individual recipients’ cell phone providers. This list may become outdated at any time as a result of the constantly changing cell phone industry. Note that these may not work outside of the United States and that standard text message rates may apply.

Aliant (NBTel, MTT, NewTel, and Island Tel)
number@wirefree.informe.ca

Alltel (from: 50, msg: 116, total: 116)
number@message.alltel.com.

Ameritech (ACSWireless)
number@paging.acswireless.com

Bell Mobility Canada
1number@txt.bellmobility.ca

Bellsouth
number@bellsouth.cl

BellSouth Mobility
number@blsdcs.net

Blue Sky Frog
number@blueskyfrog.com

Boost
number@myboostmobile.com

Cellular South
number@csouth1.com

CellularOne (Dobson)
number@mobile.celloneusa.com

CellularOne West
number@mycellone.com

Cincinnati Bell
number@gocbw.com

Cingular
number@mobile.mycingular.com

Cingular Blue (formerly AT&T Wireless)
number@mmode.com

Cingular IM Plus/Bellsouth IPS
8 digit PIN or user name @imcingular.com

Cingular IM Plus/Bellsouth IPS Cellphones
number@mobile.mycingular.com

Claro
number@clarotorpedo.com.br

Comviq
number@sms.comviq.se

Dutchtone/Orange-NL
number@sms.orange.nl

Edge Wireless
number@sms.edgewireless.com

EinsteinPCS / Airadigm Communications
number@einsteinsms.com

EPlus
number@smsmail.eplus.de.

Fido Canada
number@fido.ca.

Golden Telecom
number@sms.goldentele.com

Idea Cellular
number@ideacellular.net

Kyivstar
number@sms.kyivstar.net

LMT
username@sms.lmt.lv

Manitoba Telecom Systems
number@text.mtsmobility.com

Meteor
number@sms.mymeteor.ie

Metro PCS
number@mymetropcs.com

Metrocall Pager
number@page.metrocall.com

MobileOne
number@m1.com.sg

Mobilfone
number@page.mobilfone.com

Mobility Bermuda
number@ml.bm

Aliant (NBTel, MTT, NewTel, and Island Tel)
number@wirefree.informe.ca

Netcom
number@sms.netcom.no

Nextel
number@messaging.nextel.com

NPI Wireless
number@npiwireless.com.

Optus
number@optusmobile.com.au

Pacific Bell Cingular
number@mobile.mycingular.com

Pagenet
number@pagenet.net.

Personal Communication (Sonet)
sms@pcom.ru with your number in the subject line.

Plus GSM Poland
number@text.plusgsm.pl.

Powertel
number@ptel.net

Primtel
number@sms.primtel.ru

PSC Wireless
number@sms.pscel.com

Qualcomm
username@pager.qualcomm.com

Qwest
number@qwestmp.com

Safaricom
number@safaricomsms.com

Satelindo GSM
number@satelindogsm.com

SCS-900
number@scs-900.ru

Simple Freedom
number@text.simplefreedom.net

Smart Telecom
number@mysmart.mymobile.ph

Southern Linc
number@page.southernlinc.com

Sprint PCS
number@messaging.sprintpcs.com

Sprint PCS - Short Mail
number@sprintpcs.com

SunCom
number@tms.suncom.com.

SureWest Communications
number@mobile.surewest.com

SwissCom Mobile
number@bluewin.ch

T-Mobile Germany
number@T-D1-SMS.de

T-Mobile UK
number@t-mobile.uk.net

T-Mobile USA
number@tmomail.net

T-Mobile USA (Sidekick)
username@tmail.com

Tele2 Latvia
number@sms.tele2.lv.

Telefonica Movistar
number@movistar.net

Telenor
number@mobilpost.no.

Telia Denmark
number@gsm1800.telia.dk.

Telus Mobility
number@msg.telus.com.

The Phone House
number@sms.phonehouse.de.

TIM
number@timnet.com.

UMC
number@sms.umc.com.ua


Verizon Wireless
number@vtext.com.

Verizon Wireless (formerly Airtouch)
number@airtouchpaging.com. This is ONLY for former AirTouch customers.

Verizon Wireless (myairmail.com)
number@myairmail.com.

Vessotel
roumer@pager.irkutsk.ru.

Virgin Mobile Canada
number@vmobile.ca.

Virgin Mobile USA
number@vmobl.com.

Vodafone Italy
number@sms.vodafone.it

Vodafone Japan
number@n.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Hokkaido)
number@d.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan
number@r.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Kansai/West -- including Osaka)
number@k.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Kanto/Koushin/East -- including Tokyo)
number@t.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Kyuushu/Okinawa)
number@q.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Shikoku)
number@s.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Touhoku/Niigata/North)
number@h.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Toukai/Central)
number@c.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Spain
username@vodafone.es

Vodafone UK
username@vodafone.net

Weblink Wireless
number@airmessage.net

WellCom
number@sms.welcome2well.com

WyndTell
number@wyndtell.com