jordan muck

We just completed our student surveys and found out that a lot of our students use text messaging to get information.  It’s super tough to send out a text message on your phone for many reasons; groups sometimes are limited to 10 people, checking off each person is a hassle, and the typing in info on your small mobile phone can get annoying (maybe it’s easy for you but us “older” guys got better things to do than mess with our phones).

Enter, Txtsignal.

Tim Schmoyer wrote about awhile ago on his site.

He states…

“TxtSignal.com has been the backbone of txt communication in my youth group for over a year now. They are such a great company that I’ve already reviewed them twice. TxtSignal makes it simple to create a mass txt “mailing list” of your students. Or, if you don’t want to manually enter their information, send everyone a sign-up link or post it on your youth group website where they can subscribe, unsubscribe, change phone numbers or service providers, and more. Each TxtSignal account lets you organize txt subscribers into groups (i.e. youth group, college ministry, church staff) and into sub-groups called “teams” (i.e. sr. high, jr. high, parents)

Perhaps my favorite TxtSignal feature is the ability to queue txt messages to send at a later date and time. I queue up txt reminders about all our events and Bible studies sometimes several weeks in advance so I don’t have to worry about remembering to do it later.

The only feature TxtSignal does not have that I wish it did is the ability for subscribers to reply to my mass txt messages. Matt Donovan, the owner of TxtSignal, assures me they are working on this feature, but that it is not yet ready for public consumption.

TxtSignal is not free, but with plans starting at $10/month, it is definitely worth the price.“

To me, it’s the best mass text messaging tool out there and extremely simple to use.  Check it out.  You will be glad you did.

Thanx Tim!

-jordan