Overview
Solutions
Pricing
Next Steps

 

Overview

 

What can I do with the Alerts Engine?

 

The Alerts Engine gives you a new and innovative way to contact the masses. It could be used for keeping people updated on your clubs news, publishing your blog or even to sell (digital) content. You create the content and anybody can come along and subscribe to receive it! The best news is, you can do it for free!! Although it is worth bearing in mind that we do also offer some more advanced, premium features that have a small charge.

 

You can publish your content as email, SMS text messages, fax or voice. Your subscribers can choose how they want to receive it.

 

The user is always fully in control of what they receive, how they receive it and to which address they receive it at. We only operate on a subscription / opt-in basis. The user chooses only those alerts which they are interested in. We will never automatically subscribe users to an alert, send any unsolicited mail or sell user details to a third party.

 

For some examples and suggestions of how you could use the Alerts Engine, see the Solutions section below.

 

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How can I use the Alerts Engine?

Using the Alerts Engine couldn't be simpler. Just go to the publisher management site and sign-up. Once signed-up you can create your alerts, add them to the directory and publish your content (send messages).

 

Users subscribe to your content by visiting the Alerts Online web site (www.alertsonline.net), browsing the directory for alerts with content that is of interest to them and subscribing to those alerts.

 

You will have access to all the basic features. If however you would prefer to integrate the Alerts Engine into your own application/web site then see our services for businesses, where we offer a wider range of publishing options. Price plans still start from Free.

 

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Solutions

I want to set up a newsletter for my club

Creating a newsletter for your club is now made so simple that there's no excuse not to do it!

 

Simply create a new alert, add it to the directory and you're ready to go. Just let your members know what the alert is called, so they can come along and subscribe to it.

 

You send the alert from the publisher management site, using our fully featured, simple to use online editor. You can even add attachments and include inline images!

 

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I want to write my blog as an alert which gets sent out to subscribers

 

Every man and his dog seem to have a blog these days. The problem is, how do you get people to read them? With Alerts Online you can create an alert in the directory, under a relevant subject, and any interested users can choose to subscribe to it. You then publish your blog to the alert, and it automatically gets sent out via email, SMS, fax or voice to every one that subscribed.

 

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I want to sell content through the Alerts Engine

If you're looking for a simple solution to selling your digital content (be it text, pictures, music or data), then look no further. Using our premium alerts service you can actually charge recipients of your alerts for receiving content. You set the price. We collect the money from the users account and deposit it in yours.

 

There's lots of things that people pay for as premium content. For example:

 

• Football results via SMS text message direct to subscribers mobile phones
• Race predictions
• Digital magazines
• Traffic alerts
• Pod casts

 

The type of content is limited only by your imagination (and if it can be delivered via SMS or as an email attachment).

 

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Pricing

Sending email based alerts via Alerts Online is free is you use our advertising funded price plan, where a small advert will be placed at the bottom of your alerts. If however you want to send messages advertisement free, or send to other channels (i.e., SMS, fax or voice), then there is a very small charge. You can opt to pay this charge as the publisher, or you can charge the cost to the recipient. For a breakdown of our price plans, see below:

 

• Advertiser pays price plan

• No Subscription Fee
• This is our most popular price plan, as it is free to the publisher for the email channel
• There is no charge per recipient for emails or faxes
• There is no delivery charge for emails
• There is a small charge for delivery of faxes, SMS and voice messages

 

• Publisher pays price plan

• No Subscription Fee
• With this price plan the publisher pays for the cost of delivering the message to the recipient.
• We charge a very small cost per recipient, plus the cost of delivering the message. The delivery costs range from free to a few pence, depending on the delivery channel (i.e., email, SMS, fax or voice). We do not charge any commission on the delivery costs, so the price you pay is the same as the price we pay.
• The publisher can deliver the message to as many channels as they like, for only 1 charge per recipient. E.g., They could send the same message to a recipients work email, home email and mobile phone. They'd only pay 1 x recipient charge plus the cost of 1 SMS delivery (email delivery is free).

 

• Recipient Pays

• No Subscription fee
• With this price plan you can choose to offset some or all of the delivery costs to the recipient
• You choose how much you want to charge for each alert and for each channel (i.e., email, SMS, fax or voice)
• The recipient has to agree to the costs before subscribing
• Use this price plan to sell your content and make money
• We handle all the billing from the recipient and deposit any profits in your account

 

 

NOTE: You can offer alerts via more than one channel. For instance you could offer an alert via email or SMS. The email is free, and the cost of the SMS can be charged to the recipient. The recipient chooses which channel they want to receive the alert on, the free email or pay for it as SMS.

 

Price plans can be mixed and matched on a per-alert basis. I.e., You can have some alerts advertiser funded, charge recipients for some other alerts and choose to pay the delivery charges yourself for other alerts.

 

Sign-up via the publisher management site to calculate prices, or contact us for more information.

 

 

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Next Steps

 

If you would like to talk to us regarding the Alerts Engine, and how you can unleash it's power for your benefit, please use the contact us page on this web site, or alternatively email us at info@alertsonline.net.

 

If you just want to dive right in and get started, then you can sign up as a publisher today by visiting our publisher management site.

 

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