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Replace SMS marketing with push — and cut the cost to near zero

· AlertEnu Team

SMS marketing works, but it is expensive. A mid-sized supermarket sending a weekly promo to its customer base can easily spend on ~20,000 messages a month — and every single one carries a per-message carrier fee.

Push notifications flip that economics. The marginal cost of a push delivered via FCM or APNs is near zero. That is the entire wedge behind AlertEnu.

How the switch looks in practice

  1. The business creates a "Weekly Deals" channel and gets a QR code.
  2. Customers scan it at the till or on a receipt and subscribe in one tap.
  3. The business sends a scheduled broadcast each week — one publish, every subscriber reached.

A family will never hit the free subscriber cap. A shop with 3,000 customers bumps the ceiling and converts to a paid plan — on the web.

What you keep

  • Segments — target only the customers who care about a category.
  • Scheduling — set the weekly promo once and forget it.
  • Analytics — see delivery and open rates per message.

No carrier fees, no 160-character limit, and a richer message with images and a tappable link straight to the offer.