> No consumer wants these messages.
While I personally resonate with this sentiment, it's not accurate in my (very skeptical) experience. "many" consumers? "most" consumers? maybe. but I'd be slow to underestimate the size of the market here.
> My concern is that these will turn SMS, one of the last (mostly) clean communication channels, into another cesspit like email and the web have become
Valid and well articulated. I don't have a great response on the broad concern (we've demonstrated as a society/culture why we can't always have nice things; e.g. robocalls) beyond knowing the degree to which this medium gets regulated by the big 4 utility companies (and government). They are quite sensitive to their customer's (and constituent's) preferences to not have this personal space invaded. As for boostly, I think it will only shoot ourselves in the foot to overstep (or even get close to) these important boundaries.
> They are by far the worst people I've ever had as clients, if you could even sell to them
Certainly not the easiest lot. We do view the ability to sell to them and meet needs as a competitive advantage of sorts.
Thanks for your informed feedback!