GroupMe – Free Texting For Your Group

I came across what seems like a promising texting and conference calling solution for groups called GroupMe.

According to their own marketing GroupMe is group texting and conference calling. It’s like a private chat room over SMS, or reply-all text messaging. GroupMe enables you to organize and communicate with the groups of people in your life that are important to you.

Set up unique groups to text message or conference call. Each group is given a unique phone number. When you send a text message to a GroupMe number, the message is sent instantly to everyone in the group. When you call it, GroupMe automatically connects all group members on a conference call. Because it’s a unique phone number, you can save it to your contacts and you’ll never forget who you’re talking to.

GroupMe is totally free since I have been using it. Now they may go a premium model at some point and charge a small user fee, but for now it is free. I love it!

Here’s how I have used it so far.

I coach my 10 year old daughter’s soccer team and use GroupMe to text the parents about practice reminders and other pertinent information that they may need. I like it because with one text message I can reach ALL of my soccer parents. Email does not always work effectively, because the parents may not be in front of their email at the time when I send the text.

If a parent replies to my message, then that message goes out to everyone in the “group”. Likewise, a parent can initiate a text that will go out to all of the parents. For example, if a parent was unable to get their child to practice, then they could text the “group” requesting if another parent could pick their kid up and take them to practice. How cool is that?

The thing to keep in mind is that only 25 people or cell phone numbers can be on a specific group. The implications for this App are amazing. A small business who wants to create a “group” for it’s employees. A church staff team, a little league baseball team, nonprofit boards and their staff … and the list goes on.

The other cool thing is that each group that you setup (and you can setup unlimited groups) is assigned a unique phone number. This means that you can then call that number and everyone on the list is called and invited to the conference call.  Pretty neato mosquito don’t ya think?

Lastly, they have Apps for Android and iPhone. I have an Android and the App is very, very slick. Very easy to use and navigate.

QR Code For GroupMe Android App

I like this concept and I plan to implement it with other groups that I work with. Thanks GroupMe Team for developing a great solution.

If you are currently using  GroupMe I’d love to hear how you are using it with your group.

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