Patent ID: 8565810

Claim:
A method comprising: accessing a contact list on a mobile station, the mobile station including a user interface for: selecting a contact from the contact list, selecting a destination address for the contact, associating an event with the contact, associating a first date on which to prompt a plurality of secondary mobile stations with the event, associating a second date with the event, creating a message to be delivered to the contact, on the second date, and sending an instruction to a network to prompt the plurality of secondary mobile stations to create at least one secondary message on the first date, and to send the message and the at least one secondary message to the contact on the second date; and receiving a prompt on the second date from the network before sending the message to the contact, the prompt including an event related offer suggesting purchase of at least one of a product and a service related to the event; wherein the event related offer is identified by an event marketing database associating the event with the at least one product and service related to the event.