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 … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2009
How RoughTrax increased sales by over 19% for next to nothing using Bulk SMS – could you?
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, News and Case Studies, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice Tags: bulk, business, messaging, sales, sms, text
Bulk SMS API ASP Help
Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Nick.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation
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 … Continue reading
New Feature
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Nick.
Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, Campaign Articles
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 … Continue reading
Be Honest. Is Your Advertising Working?
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice, Text Messaging Response
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 … Continue reading
University of Southampton Adopts SMS Strategy
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, News and Case Studies, SMS Advertising Tags: sms for education, sms for universities
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 … Continue reading
PHP 5 Simple SMS send Class
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Nick.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, PHP Classes, Technical
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 … Continue reading
Dawling Travel Scores a Hit With Text Marketing
Posted on June 12th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, News and Case Studies, SMS Advertising, Text Messaging Software
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 … Continue reading
Take Away Food Chains Increase SMS Marketing
Posted on June 12th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, News and Case Studies, SMS Advertising
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 … Continue reading
5 Top Tips to increase sales with SMS Text Message Marketing
Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice Tags: bulk, How to, increase sales, marketing, sales, sms, text marketing, text messaging
Save Cost and Time – A Hidden Benefit of Business SMS
Posted on June 4th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice Tags: Business SMS, text alerts
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. … Continue reading
KPMG Chooses Text Marketer For Bulk SMS Alerts
Posted on June 4th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, News and Case Studies Tags: Bulk sms service, KPMG
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 … Continue reading
PHP 5 Delivery Report Helper Class for our SMS Gateway
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Nick.
Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, PHP Classes Tags: delivery, gateway, php5, reporting, sms
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. … Continue reading




