Overview

What can I do with Alerts Online?

Alerts Online is an innovative way to reach a lot of people quickly and easily. You can use it to keep friends updated on your club news, publish your blog or even sell digital content. You create an alert and anybody can subscribe to receive it. And what's best, you can do it for free! We also offer some more advanced, premium features that have a very small charge.

You can choose how you want to publish your content: as email, SMS text messages or fax. 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 where. Alerts Online operate on a subscription basis and the user only receives those alerts which they have subscribed to. 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 Alerts Online, see the Solutions section below.

How can I use Alerts Online?

Using Alerts Online couldn't be simpler. 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 website (www.alertsonline.net), browsing the directory of alerts and subscribing to what they find interesting.

You will have access to all the basic features. If you prefer to integrate Alerts Online into your own application or website, you can go to our Services for Businesses, where we offer a wider range of publishing options. We offer a Free Option and Price Plan for paid-for features.

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 will be sending your alert using our fully featured, simple to use, online editor. You can even add images and attachments.

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 for your blog. It will appear in the Directory of Alerts under a relevant subject, and any interested users can subscribe to it. You then publish your blog alert and it automatically gets sent out via email, SMS or fax to everyone that's subscribed.

I want to sell content through Alerts Online

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 Service you can actually charge recipients of your alerts for receiving content. You set the price. We collect the money from the user's account and deposit it in yours.

There are lots of things that people pay for as Premium Content. For example:

Football results via SMS direct to subscribers' mobile phones;
Race predictions,
Digital magazines,
Traffic alerts,
Pod casts.

The type of content is limited only by your imagination and you decide if it's delivered via SMS or as an email attachment.

Pricing

Sending email alerts via Alerts Online is free when you use our Advertising Supported Price Plan, where a small advert will be placed at the bottom of your email alerts. If you want to send email alerts without adverts, or send alerts to other channels (SMS or fax), there is a 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 to receive emails or faxes.
There is no charge to send emails.
There is a small charge for sending faxes and SMS.

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 (email, SMS or fax). 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 one charge per recipient. E.g. they could send the same message to a recipient's 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 Price Plan

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 (email, SMS or fax).
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 you make 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 the paid-for SMS.

Price plans can be mixed and matched. You can have some alerts funded by the advertiser, charge recipients for some other alerts and choose to pay the delivery charges yourself for other alerts.

Next Steps

If you'd like to discuss how you can unleash the power of Alerts Online for your benefit, please use the contact us page or email us at info@alertsonline.net.

If you just want to dive right in and get started, you can sign up today.

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