SMSPoll.net - Text Message Audience Polling

SMS Poll is a robust SMS polling solution that allows educators, promoters, public speakers, market researchers, and others to quickly and easily set up polls and allows people to respond by sending a text message to a local phone number. SMS Poll offers a fast and easy way to find out what your audience is thinking. It requires no special hardware or software to be installed, and you can create a poll very easily in a matter of seconds. 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 polls 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. At the moment this service is available only in Australia and the UK.

“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.”

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

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 SMS Poll trying to address this issue with the carriers?