Stephen Cannone
East Rockaway, NY (USA)
Role(s):
HMS
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Location:
East Rockaway
Industry:
Technology/Web
Year Founded:
2006
Number Employees:
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Description:
HMS has developed a program to help smokers quit and to prevent teenagers from starting using the one object that 99% of the population has; A Cell Phone. We were approved by all the carriers to bill cell phone customers on a monthly basis. By simply texting Quit to our 5 digit short code we can charge anyone in the United States at any given time. Smokers can sign themselves up to receive daily realistic text messages that remind them of the dangers of smoking. We also made it possible for friends and family members of smokers to be billed in order to sign up smokers they know to receive these text messages. In only weeks HMS has generated an income just through internet advertising. National TV commercials would generate the millions of dollars a month this company is capable of.