Tatango in the Press
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The Tatango service caught on quickly, and Johnson, who transferred to the University of Houston to study entrepreneurship, decided to turn the service into a business.
Toss your phone tree in the trash. Through this service, you can send mass text messages from your phone or PC to large groups for easy, instant communication.
The service is dead simple to use, as it should be. I made the jump from accountless bum to en masse messaging mogul in all of about 2 minutes. Sign up, invite some friends, and you (or anybody you dub as a group admin) are able to SMS the entire group at once, either from the browser or right off your mobile handset.
Mr. Johnson is 22—an entrepreneur who dropped out of college when it got in the way of running Tatango, which enables groups to blast text messages to their members. Like many of his generation, he sees traditional business attire as a form of cover-up. In his workplace, he says, “we’re not trying to hide anything with our clothes.”
I stumbled upon Tatango when I was looking for a service to use with some YS stuff… it was one of those jaw dropping discovery moments for me when I ran into my bosses office with my hands raised above my head getting a high five before he even knew why.
Text that next ad message! According to Stern of CenterNetworks, services like Tatango’s have some serious marketing potential. “This method could be more effective than email marketing,” he says.
Tatango is a cool startup located in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and they just turned on with Tatango.TV. Here we visit their offices, and learn what’s behind their live TV show.
In his most creative selling point this far, Tatango CEO, Derek Johnson gives out his personal cell phone number to anyone and everyone (it’s 206-334-4012, published with his blessing) and is standing by to assist with technical difficulties and answer questions about the product.
Whether you want to stay in touch with 5, 10, 15, 20, 500 or 5,000 people all at once, it’s possible but it’s not easy to do, unless you use a service called Tatango.
After playing with it for a bit, I’m thinking of using Tatango as means of keeping the rest of the CrunchGear team updated.
Tatango is perfect for getting help from your friends when you are out and about. It could also work well for work teams to make sure everyone is up-to-date on project and meeting status.
Perhaps the best thing going for Tatango is its completely intuitive feature set. Once you’ve registered, it doesn’t take long to get your circle of contacts connected. And once you’ve made that happen, group messaging will no longer be such an arduous task. Efficiency is bliss, eh?
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