Simhostng SMS Poll is the easiest and fastest way to find out what your audience is thinking. Requiring no special hardware or software, you can create a poll in just a few seconds. Your audience votes by sending an SMS to a local phone number and the results are updated right before your eyes, in real-time, in our site or on your website.

Our SMS Poll is Free than expensive Audience Response Systems or comparable alternatives and is the best way to gather in-the-moment data from students, fans, customers, conference attendees or anyone else!

You can setup the poll to automatically send SMS response to the voters for each poll options or contestant.

Best of all, it totally Free. In just three steps - Create, Share, and Vote - you will know more about your audience than you've ever known before!

You can start and stop your poll as often as you'd like. Since you might not want to accept votes at all times, you can start it when you're ready for people to vote and stop it whenever you want to put voting on hold.

You can even set your poll to automatically stop accepting votes at a specific date and time in the future. This is good for contests and competitions where voting must end at a precise time. If you don't want your poll to ever end or you want to stop it yourself, then just skip this option.

Once your poll has been created it, it will appear in your dashboard. Here you can see the status of your poll and how many votes it's received.

HOW IS WORKS
When you start your poll for the very first time, SMS Poll will assign unique voting numbers to each of your poll options.

To vote, your audience simply sends an SMS to our longcode number "09028000058" with the voting number corresponding to the option they would like to vote for as the message.

As an example, let's say you ask the question "What Search Engine Do You Use Most?" And the options are "MSN", "Google", and "Yahoo". SMS Poll may assign "MSN" the voting number "1101", "Google" the voting number "1102" and "Yahoo" the voting number "1103". If someone wishes to vote for "Google", they simply SMS 1102 to 09028000058.
You can also include the voters name in your Result. This Time , the Vote have to Text Voting Number Space[ ] or Star[*] Voters Name to 0902800058. Example: They simply SMS 1102*Ada Eze to 09028000058 or SMS 1102 Ada Eze to 09028000058

When you get back to your computer you can login to our site and get the detailed results of your poll, including precisely when each vote was received.
That's all there is to it. What are you waiting for? Sign Up now at www.simhostng.com

When you start your poll for the very first time, SMS Poll will assign unique voting numbers to each of your poll options.

To vote, your audience simply sends an SMS to a local phone number with the voting number corresponding to the option they would like to vote for as the message.

As an example, let's say you ask the question "What Search Engine Do You Use Most?" And the options are "MSN", "Google", and "Yahoo". SMS Poll may assign "MSN" the voting number "1101", "Google" the voting number "1102" and "Yahoo" the voting number "1103". If someone wishes to vote for "Google", they simply SMS "1102" to the local phone number we provide.

To make things even easier, we have also provided a mobile friendly voting page. This is for those members of your audience who prefer to use their mobile phone web browsers over SMS. By simply visiting poll.simhostng.com and entering their vote, they too can participate in your poll.

When you get back to your computer you can login to our site and get the detailed results of your poll, including precisely when each vote was received.
That's all there is to it. What are you waiting for? Sign Up now at simhostng.com

Creating a poll with SMS Poll is so easy, anyone can do it!

Using our simple poll creator and editor, all you need to do is type in your poll question and as many responses as you need.

Create as many polls as you like - there are no limits.

You can start and stop your poll as often as you'd like. Since you might not want to accept votes at all times, you can start it when you're ready for people to vote and stop it whenever you want to put voting on hold.

You can even set your poll to automatically stop accepting votes at a specific date and time in the future. This is good for contests and competitions where voting must end at a precise time. If you don't want your poll to ever end or you want to stop it yourself, then just skip this option.

Once your poll has been created it, it will appear in your dashboard. Here you can see the status of your poll and how many votes it's received.

You can also edit or delete your poll, so don't worry if you make a mistake. Play around and have fun!

Simhostng SMS Poll is the easiest and fastest way to find out what your audience is thinking. Requiring no special hardware or software, you can create a poll in just a few seconds. Your audience votes by sending an SMS to a local phone number and the results are updated right before your eyes, in real-time, in our site or on your website.

Our SMS Poll is Free than expensive Audience Response Systems or comparable alternatives and is the best way to gather in-the-moment data from students, fans, customers, conference attendees or anyone else!

Best of all, it totally Free. In just three steps - Create, Share, and Vote - you will know more about your audience than you've ever known before!
Create Your poll at www.simhostng.com

Active your portal to send bulksms without internet connection using a keyword from [url]simhostng.com[/url]
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Yes, our Auto Reply send to international number.

How To Enable Your Bulk sms Portal To Send Bulk sms Without Internet Connection.
This premium feature is inclusive in SPC 3 Component but most users fail to utilize it. Simhostng is a longcode services provide in Nigeria. In a shared long code environment every company which wants to avail this service will be provided with a Keyword (Keyword is an unique identifier for your company on our shared Long code. e.g. if, your companies name is ABC Ltd and you took a keyword say ABCL on our long code then every message which starts with ABCL and a blank space will be forwarded to your panel.

Visit www.simhostng.com to get a keyword. Example CSMS. While applying for keyword, remember to use your SPC 3 longcode Url as the forwarding URL. http://yourdomain.com/components/com_spc/sms2web.php?

EXAMPLE http://conveysms.com/components/com_spc/sms2web.php?

If you are using spc4, Please contact simhostng customer care for Help.
Once you have activated your keyword, Your sms portal user can now send bulksms without internet using the format below.

Your user Just need to send an SMS from the phone number they registered with in the format: keyword@password@group name@text message to 09028000058.



How It Works

This service is an economic way to send "Bulk SMS" from your phone. For instance, you have an account on www.yoursmsportal.com and the mobile number supplied when you were registering is 234808069813261, access password to your online SMS account is 2010, and you have a list on you online phone book called ‘parents’. An SMS to this list may read as such: "Dear parents, this is to inform you that December 25, 2010 has been scheduled as open day. Please endeavor to come. Thanks."

To send this message using Text Direct, compose SMS from the mobile 2348069813261 as given below:

keyword@2010@parents@Dear parents, this is to inform you that December 25, 2010 has been declared as Open Day. Please endeavor to come. Thanks.

Simply send to 09028000058. The message gets delivered to every mobile number listed on the Parents phonebook list.

Extra Features available on Text Direct

To check balance:

keyword@your password@bal

e.g. keyword@2010@bal



To transfer SMS Units:

keyword@Your password@transfer@amount@recipient username

e.g. keyword@2010@transfer@4000@FLORENCE

Member with username FLORENCE will receive 4000 SMS units from you.



To get the total GSM numbers in a phonebook group list:

keyword@Your password@group list@count

e.g. keyword@2010@Colleagues@count

The total numbers in the phonebook group called "Colleagues" will be sent to you.

NB:

* Replace the keyword with the keyword you registered on [url]simhostng.com[/url]

·The mobile number, 09028000058, is configured for data processing only. It will not handle calls.

·Password is case-sensitive.

·Password must be followed immediately by the @ symbol.

·Group name must be followed immediately by the @ symbol.



This means that there should be no space between the group name and @ symbol, likewise between the password and group name. Otherwise your message will not be delivered.

Please note that your users can only use this service on the mobile line you registered with. This is because the line has been mapped to your SMS account.

Try Demo at www.td.conveysms.com