Article: Codes, text messages on cell phones drawing customers.

Byline: Jerri Stroud

ST. LOUIS _ Coming to a small screen near you: coupons, recipes and marketing messages galore.

Your cell-phone screen is the latest tool for marketers seeking to win over customers _ especially 18- to 36-year-olds.

Polls on TV programs, including "American Idol" and the Super Bowl, are the best-known form of this marketing. Customers dial a five-digit code and key in a short text message.

Consumer product companies, retailers, rock bands and radio stations also are using codes and text messages to cement their relationships with customers. Marketers use codes to sell cell-phone content _ ringtones, screen savers, ...

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