Alert
What is an Alert?
Alert services are used to send news and information to subscribing users. Examples: breaking news alerts, celebrity news alerts, sports alerts, astronomical alerts, weather forecasts, etc.How does it work?
Refero has developed the infrastructure needed for end users to subscribe to different alerts, and for content providers to send alerts to the subscribing users. This is done via a simple to modify web interface, or via the mobile phone. Alerts can be sent right a way, or at a determined time. It is also possible to send messages from a feed.Target audience?
The target audience depends on the content you supply to the service.How do you advertise Alert?
If you own a media window with similar content as you want to feed to this service, it is smart to use that media window to marked the alert service. If not, good places to marked SMS services are text-tv, news papers, magazines and TV channels.Features
Below is a table showing which features Alert has.| Features |
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| Users can subscribe to one or several services |
| Easy to use web interface to send alerts |
| Possible to send alerts from the mobile phone |
| Can be used as several types of one to many alerts (like radar warnings, stock quotes, celebrity spotting, weather, news etc) |
Alert services are used to send information directly to users that has asked specifically for this kind of information. Because of this, experience shows that the user are willing to pay a premium price for the messages thet receive.