Leave it to my boss to come up with another cool online sourcing discovery. Shally referenced six of the top US mobile service providers in his trick, but if you wanted to send an email in order to SMS text message someone who is NOT subscribed to one of those 6, then what do you do?
It inspired me to look a little deeper, and I'm happy to say I've discovered a couple of enhancements to Shally's nevertheless nifty post:
Why stop at 6 when you can add any of the 100 largest mobile phone services (all with equivalents to the email/phone format used in Shally's piece) and bring your likely delivery percentage to near 100%?
A pain to set 100 providers in your bcc: field, you say? Well, it is solvable with a bookmarklet that prompts you once for the mobile phone number and inserts it into every mobile provider's format, spitting out the set of emails which you can simply paste into your bcc: field (you're going to have to ping me to get that freebie!).
Ok, there is a potentially better way: Use the free service Teleflip and you don’t have to remember any of these (at least not the North American ones, which Teleflit supports). Teleflip is described here but, in short, if you know the mobile tel #, that’s all you need to get your email auto-forwarded as an SMS text message, regardless of the intended recipient's provider.
The only catch is that Teleflip doesn’t want people using their service to spam. Spam accusations aside (and I think one of Shally's comments below his post responding to that accusation was solid), I think this is worth using judiciously. But Teleflip claims to have a "One Strike - You're Out!" policy to block abusers from overusing their system.
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