How can museums attract more visitors to art exhibitions? The answer is simple but it can hide some difficulties, as well. Today if you want to attract people especially youngs to your museum you need to introduce modern technology. But what is the most effective method that engage visitors and it is still cost-effective? Since the latest technological inventions cost a lot of money you need to find a method that maximizes the return on investment. This page provides a solution to help you attract people cost-effectively.

If you do not want to spend huge amounts of money on constant innovation you need a system that generates high return on investment and increase revenues long after its introduction. And how can you achieve these cost effective methods? By implementing a technology that ensures high availability and continuous two-way communication.

This technology is SMS technology that is an already widely used communication channel all over the world. Its popularity is due to the fact that large majority of people own an SMS capable mobile device. So cellphones can be the keys for your communication strategy toward visitors as SMS messaging holds several possibility to be boosted.

In this way if you introduce SMS functionality in your IT system you will be able to send text messages from your computer to mobile phones of people. And this functionality will offer you additional SMS services to be provided for visitors. Below please find some tips on how you can use SMS technology in your museum to enhance the visitor experience.

How to use SMS technology in museums?

  • Apply SMS marketing effort to let people know about your latest exhibitions or new services, works of art, free entrance days, etc. Send bulk messages to great number of people even at the same time. SMS messaging also allows sending messages on the opening day of an exhibition as they are received immediately on the mobile device of the target person.
  • With automated SMS services you can offer information for works of art. You just need to define a keyword and a mobile phone number next to a piece of art. People then can send this keyword to the phone number and they will automatically receive additional information on that work of art. It is also possible to send them a download link where they can download longer materials about the preferred issue or work. Though this service can be used for everyday solutions like people can text a keyword and your system sends back the opening hour or ticket prices (even with some discount if they show up the SMS message), etc.
  • You can also send greeting messages to the people on various events to ensure them about your concern.
  • With SMS technology you can also improve corporate communication. So you can use text messaging to reach your staff, supporters, conveyors, etc. If it is essential to reach someone immediately, mobile messaging is the proper way to do so.
  • You can send SMS invitations to visitors that will be a more personal way of invitation.
  • SMS technology can be integrated into other applications to make your organization more effective. In this way you can add SMS functionality to network management system but you can also make your systems safer with two-factor authentication

Find a few tips on how to get as many phone numbers as possible from people to be able to send them SMS text messages: How to increase customer base.

Benefits of SMS functionality for museums

If you look for a solution that allows you to reach as many people as possible SMS messaging is the proper choice. With this technology you can easily improve visitor experience by offering them convenient and personal SMS services. Therefore you can be sure that they will return to your museum to visit the next exhibition, as well. SMS messaging will help you to popularize art while you can increase your visitor base effectively. SMS messaging offers particularly a youth marketing and youth engagement perspecitve. Your revenues will also be increased, as well, in a very short period of time after you implemented SMS functionality in your IT system.

Ozeki NG SMS Gateway can be obtained by opening the download page: Download Ozeki NG SMS Gateway!

How can you implement SMS technology in the IT system?

To implement SMS functionality into your IT infrastructure you need to download and install Ozeki NG SMS Gateway. This software product will provide the SMS functionality to send text messages to people from your computer. It forwards SMS messages to the mobile network either with GSM modem connection means that a GSM modem is attached to the PC with a datacable; or it connects directly to the SMS center of the mobile service provider over the Internet (IP SMS connection).

sms solutions for museums and exhibitions
Figure 1 - SMS solutions for Museums and exhibitions

Conclusion of SMS solutions for museums and exhibitions

Today museums also use technology to make work easier and to increase visitor satisfaction and engage them for longer period of time. To achieve this relation implementing Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to provide SMS services is the best solution. It provides reliable and stable SMS solutions for visitors at the highest quality. In this way you can be sure that your SMS system will be well-functioning and efficient while it saves you time and money.

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