There’s a lot involved with setting up an SMS System and, to be quite honest, I don’t have much experience in this area in the slightest.
Thank goodness for the incredible amount of resources that are readily available to us!
MobileActive has an amazing walk-through on how to begin to setup an SMS System as well as many factors to consider when making the jump.
Anyone have any other great resources that we can list here?
Tatango http://tatango.com is an easy group sms service. Price is between $20 – $200/month
thanks brad!
Tatango has a page about groups sms for churches: http://tatango.com/tatango/churches
sweet!
We highly recommend using Tatango. We wrote a review of it a few weeks ago here – http://www.newmediaministry.com/connect-thru-text-part-ii-2/
We even have a 25% off coupon code listed at the bottom of the review! We encourage you to check it out!
Chris, cool stuff. great blog!
if you’d like, you should consider contributing here as well. just throwing it out there.
John, you might recall that text message announcements and automatic event reminders via SMS is one of MemberHub’s most popular features. Check out our free starter kit everyone! http://memberhub.com/home/churches
This is a great resource. Thanks for posting, John. For churches looking for a easy and low-cost texting solution, I’m a big fan of TextMarks.com. They provide a whole suite of services. TextMarks is also a key ingredient behind Prayer Bouncebacks.
thanks cleve!
MemberHub offers SMS announcements and automatic event reminders. It’s one of our more popular features. Check out a free starter plan everyone! http://memberhub.com/home/churches
About 1/2 the people at my church us the Mississippi-based CelluarSouth which most SMS short code services don’t support. This has kept us from using services like http://polleverywhere.com and Tantango.
thanks brad! i’m goign to check it out.
MemberHub offer SMS announcements and automatic event reminders. So admins can put events on group calendars and then Memberhub sends out the reminders via email and SMS. These are definitely our most popular features! Check out our free starter kit http://memberhub.com/home/churches
i’ll let this comment slide since it’s YOU… pretty self-promotional…
You are too kind
! I thought it was okay to promote your product every once in a while in social media. 
teehee. you’re awesome.