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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Changes to Delivery Reporting

Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Nick


Categories: Development Blog

Message id’s are now also included in your delivery report file, this change is only really relevant for API users, however if  you send messages over 160 characters you will now see multiple entries per message (as there were more than one SMS needed to deliver the message). The message … Continue reading

.NET Examples

Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Nick


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation, Technical

Example of a .NET Bulk SMS Gateway / API integration For more information regarding the bulk sending API click here. A simple example for sending SMS via a .NET method Here’s a stand-alone .Net method: private static string SendSms(string p_userName, string p_password, string p_orig, string p_number, string p_message, bool p_respondInXml) … Continue reading

WD-40 Launches Text to Win Competition

Posted on July 17th, 2009 by Henry


Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, News and Case Studies, SMS Advertising
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Think of lubricating oil in a can that you can spray and there’s only one brand that leaps to mind…the dependable and versatile old favourite, WD-40. This amazing stuff seems to have been around for years and almost every household in the land must have a half used can under … Continue reading

Concatenated “Long Message” SMS feature now Live for the Bulk SMS system and the SMS Gateway

Posted on July 17th, 2009 by Richard


Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, Bulk SMS, Distributed SMS Articles
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You can now send text messages longer than 160 characters, in fact up to 612 characters which arrive as 1 message on peoples’ phones - using either your Text Marketer Bulk SMS account or SMS Gateway. I don’t want to send long messages, does it affect me? No. Apart from some slight … Continue reading

Supported and Unsupported characters in Text Messages – GSM Character Set

Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Richard


Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, All SMS Gateway Documentation, Bulk SMS, Documentation
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When constructing the message for your SMS Marketing campaign you should be aware that not all characters are supported by the GSM networks. They have a specific character set that they work to. It shouldn’t be a mjor concern to 99%+ of people as almost all common characters are supported. … Continue reading

New Concatenated Bulk SMS Text Message feature due to be released

Posted on July 10th, 2009 by Richard


Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles
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A few months ago we conducted customer research asking if a ‘concatenated text message’ or ‘long message’ (the ability to send bulk text messages containing more that 160 characters but arriving as one message) feature would be useful in our Bulk SMS Software. Around 50% of customers said they would use this feature. … Continue reading

Bathstore Opts For Text Marketer’s SMS Software

Posted on July 8th, 2009 by Henry


Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, News and Case Studies, SMS Advertising
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UK’s largest bathroom retailer launches customer text service Bathstore has chosen Text Marketer’s sms software to launch a new sms alert service for its customers. Customers can opt to receive sms alerts direct to their mobile. The offers aim to drive customers to the store with a range of tempting … Continue reading

Concatenation and Bulk sending

Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Nick


Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, Campaign Articles, Documentation

Feature Upgrade API customers can now send messages up to 612 characters long. If you exceed 160 characters you automatically covert to concatenation sending, this has the following connotations. Each message consists of a 153 character ‘chunk’ (not 160 chars) the extra characters are used to glue the messages together. … Continue reading