How to use Quick Send to send an SMS Campaign
Quick Send
Quick Send allows you to send text messages to either individuals or thousands of numbers.
This is ideal if you want to send out messages without needing to upload your numbers first.
Go to Send SMS - Quick Send
Mobile numbers are added to the numbers window. These [...]
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Writing a message and saving it to the message library
Your account has a message library that allows you to create and store template messages.
Go to Messages - Create New Message.
Click in the message window and type you message. There is a maximum of 160 characters including spaces.
To create you message, click Submit.
Don’t copy and paste [...]
Uploading a database of mobile numbers into your account will take about 1 minute.You can upload numbers to as many different groups as you need. The process is quick and easy and will take you no longer than a minute or so to upload a database of any size.
Formatting your data ready for upload.
The first [...]
Send to Group
Send to Group allows you to send an SMS Campaign to a group of mobile numbers that you have uploaded into your Text Marketer account.
(Click here to find out how to upload numbers to a group.)
Go to Send SMS, and then select Send to Goup .
Select the group that you wish to send [...]
Text Marketer account pricing information.How much does it cost to set up?
Text Marketer does not charge a set up fee and accounts come with 10 free test credits.
To open an account, go to our home page, http://www.textmarketer.co.ukand click on the ‘Get a Free Account and Credits’ button. This is in the top right hand corner [...]
Topping up your account with text credits.
How do I make payment for text credits?
Text Marketer uses Google Checkout, the most respected and secure payment provider. Google Checkout accepts all major debit and credit cards.
To buy credits, simply log into your account and hit the red ‘Buy Credits’ button in the top right hand corner.
After payment, [...]
Quick Start! I’ve set up my Text Marketer account, how do I get going quickly?
Setting up a bulk sms account is free and there are no monthly running costs.
To save you from reading dull documentation, we have put together some bulk sms training videos that briefly explain how to use your account. The longest of [...]
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How to collect delivery reports.
Go to - Reports - Delivery Reports. Then simply click on the campaign that you wish to view.
Delivery Reports
A delivery report is generated for every sms campaign that you send. The report is labelled with the campaign name that you set when the campaign was submitted.
The report lists all the mobile [...]
Yes. Your Text Marketer account has a 2-way module that allows you to receive reply messages from your text campaigns.
In order to receive replies you need to have a unique keyword that is applied to your account. The customers then replies with the keyword as the first word of their reply text.
Responses are stored in [...]
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You can also set the sender name for your campaign; this is who the message is from and appears on the recipients’ phone as the message header.
Go to Sender - Set Sender Name. Click in the sender window and type the sender name. There is maximum of 11 characters including spaces. To set the sender [...]
Incoming texts are collected and stored in your Text Marketer account.To view the texts that you have been sent, go to Text Response - Short Code Log
This gives you a quick overview, showing the total number of text responses to date.
To view the data click on the grey download icon.
This will open up an Excel [...]
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You can stop a campaign any time before the scheduled date and time.
Go to Reports - SMS Activity Log. Alongside each scheduled campaign there is an Abort text link. To stop the campaign, click on the link.
Is their a maximum capacity for uploading numbers? There is no upper limit to the number of mobile numbers that you can upload into a single group. Text Marketer has a very high capacity and can handle hundreds of thousands of texts in a single send.
The Concept
To create an interactive game using Text Messaging and to show how easy it is to create interactive experiences using your Text Marketer Account. The example uses both our short code API (to receive the customer responses) and then our gateway API to send out the ‘answer’.
The Game
Guess the number of sweets in a [...]
Testing something new or changing something seemingly small in your bulk sms campaign can definitely improve the response that you achieve. But you won’t know until you try.
Testing something new can seem like hard work but it’s really not. If you’re putting together a business sms campaign anyway, it’s worth trying to get the best [...]
