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Here's a little bit about us. For more, visit our parent site, Recess Mobile.

We Love SMS

We LOOOVE SMS. That stands for short message service, or what's commonly known as text messaging. We love it so much, we try to use it any way we can to solve problems facing consumers and businesses on a daily basis.

Take AntiTow, for example. We created AntiTow because it's hard to remember to move your car every first and third Monday of every month between April and October before 8am to avoid the street sweeping trucks. Thousands of people, including us, have been towed. So, we created a simple notification system that sends out a text message alert the day before and day of street sweeping, processing public calendar feeds into text messages.

Why do we love SMS so much?

It's simple. It's powerful. It's ubiquitous. And its constraints impose a certain elegance to any solution we devise.

The beauty lies in its simplicity. You can have a voice conversation with thousands of words, but get to the point in 160 characters.

About Recess

Recess was built to solve a real problem, that of waiting. In a lifetime, we spend at least 3 years just waiting. Wouldn't you like to get some of that time back? We know we would. With Recess, you can walk into your favorite (or better yet, least favorite - how about a DMV?) establishment, check in with your cell phone number and then go do what you want during your wait. Using SMS, you now have a direct line of communication with the establishment. Go take a Recess, we'll let you know when it's time to come in.

About the Founders

Contact Information

595 1/2 S. 3rd St. Columbus, Ohio 43215
(810) 3RECESS — (810) 373-2377

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51% of women aged 35-44 & 42% of women aged 45-54 use text messaging

Mobile Marketing Association, 2007 Mobile Attitude & Usage Study

35-44 year-olds send an average of 236 texts per month vs. 223 calls

Nielsen Mobile 2008

26% of those who saw a mobile ad responded at least once by sending a text

Nielsen Mobile, March 2008

1 in 5 US households are cell-only

CDC survey, 2009

US texters sent 1 trillion texts in 2008, up from 363 billion in 2007

Yahoo, 2009

Restaurants can expect a 15.5% response rate to SMS advertising

Comscore, 2009

86% of the US population (13+) own a mobile device, with mobile penetration surpassing 100% in 2013

m:metrics, 2007 & SNL Kagan, 2007

30% of all consumers are interested in receiving permission based mobile coupon services

Juniper Research in MMA industry review, 2008

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