Archive for June, 2009

 

How RoughTrax increased sales by over 19% for next to nothing using Bulk SMS - could you?

 

Further to our article, Top 5 Tips for increasing sales using Bulk SMS, one of our customers RoughTrax (a mail order supplier of Toyota Hilux parts) decided to follow our Number 1 Tip …. follow-up text messages to customers after a sale.
We asked Barry Hemmings, Director at RoughTrax how it worked for him and these [...]

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Bulk SMS API ASP Help

 

Using standard ASP libraries
<%
url=”http://www.textmarketer.biz/gateway/?username=#&password=#&number=#&message=msg&orig=nameORnumber&option=xml”

Set objXMLDoc = CreateObject(”Microsoft.XMLDOM”)

objXMLDoc.async = False
objXMLDoc.load(url)

status = objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(”//response”).getAttribute(”status”)

if status = “success”  then
response.write “Status ” & status & ” Credits ” & objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(”//response/credits”).Text
else
response.write “Status ” & status & ” Reason ” & objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(”//response/reason”).Text
end if
%>
Put that into an ASP page and [...]

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The SMS Gateway

 

How to use an SMS Gateway

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New Feature

 

We have had many requests to allow mobile phone number data to be exported once it’s in a group.  This allows you to take advantage of the de-duplicating and Internationalisation our system does for you. You can now do this from the Upload Number to Groups screen. Just click Export next to the group.

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Be Honest. Is Your Advertising Working?

 

Most marketers start to feel a little uncomfortable when faced with such a stark question.
They might shift uneasily in their seats and start muttering about the value of ‘branding’ and claiming ‘it’s not all about response’.
The simple fact of the matter is that most marketing departments simply don’t know how effective their advertising campaigns are. [...]

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University of Southampton Adopts SMS Strategy

 

We’re now into the season where final year students get the opportunity to parade cities up and down the land, wearing silly costumes and attending ceremonies in front of proud families and friends. Organising the thousands of graduation ceremonies is however a potential logistical horror story.
University of Southampton have adopted a bulk sms campaign to [...]

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PHP 5 Simple SMS send Class

 

2 classes available in php 5, SendSMS and SendSMSXML (recommended)
Class Name: SendSMS (depreciated)
This class is a nice and easy way to start sending SMS’s with the Text Marketer system, please feel free to modify at will. You just need the username and password from your account login as the constructor arguments.
Download the PHP 5 SMS [...]

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Dawling Travel Scores a Hit With Text Marketing

 

London travel agent, Dawling Travel has had remarkable success from their recent bulk sms campaign. They sent out text alerts with latest flight offers to customers and were instantly rewarded with a string of phone calls and bookings. The Managing Director was prompted to send Text Marketer an e-mail…
“Hi Henry,
I just wanted to let you [...]

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Take Away Food Chains Increase SMS Marketing

 

Text Marketer has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of take away food restaurants using bulk sms marketing to drive sales.
In the past month both of the Uk’s largest take away pizza chains, Dominos and Pizza Hut, have started to use Text Marketer to send out offers to their customers.
Fast food outlets appear to [...]

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5 Top Tips to increase sales with SMS Text Message Marketing

 

5 Top Tips to increase sales with SMS Text Message Marketing

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Save Cost and Time - A Hidden Benefit of Business SMS

 

I was recently chatting with one of our customers about how they use sms marketing within their business. I was interested to hear them talk about how they have managed to dramatically reduce their business phone bill as well as saving significant time by replacing phone calls with text messages. 

The company operates a large, non [...]

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KPMG Chooses Text Marketer For Bulk SMS Alerts

 

The Uk’s leading accountancy firm, KPMG has selected Text Marketer to provide them with a bulk sms solution for internal communications. The web based sms tool will be used to remind staff about a series of internal meeting and seminars.
As well as being used within the UK office, the service will extend across Europe allowing [...]

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PHP 5 Delivery Report Helper Class for our SMS Gateway

 

Class Name: ProcessDeliveryReport
This class enables you to access your delivery reports in a nice simplified way. You can search for the outcome of a message for a given number, specify the outcome and the number, download all the data for the given date or parse the reports line by line.
The constructor requires the delivery report directory [...]

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PHP 5 SMS Send Class implementing listeners on our SMS Gateway

 

Class Name: SendSMSNotifier
This class is designed around the FREE Text Marketer SMS API, you need to sign up here to use it.
SendSMSNotifier is a singleton class design, incorporating listeners. Your class must include the following public functions: creditAlert($credits_remaining) and failureAlert($error,$number,$message,$error).
Download the class from here
Example of use
class MyTestClass
{
/// [...]

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