South East based health club chain, Top Notch Health Clubs are using Text Marketer’s SMS gateway to keep in touch with their customers and prospects.
They have integrated their own customer contact system with the sms gateway as a powerful and flexible solution to their sms communication requirements.
By using the sms gateway rather than a standard [...]
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The popularity of sms messaging will continue for the foreseeable future according to a new report. The report, released by consulting firm Frost and Sullivan reveals that additional features of sms are likely to evolve, including location information, personal information, updates and messages in one user interface.
The report in its entirety is a little ‘dry’ [...]
A recent survey by Dialogue Communications found that a tiny 3% of people currently receive text alert reminders, while 83% receive reminders through traditional post.
However, a hefty 67% of people would be happy to receive sms text alerts in the future.
Nearly 60% would positively opt in and 80% of people say they would be interested [...]
6 or 7 seven years ago, most industry pundits were predicting that the meteoric rise of sms messaging as a communication tool, would have levelled off by 2010 and would probably have been overtaken by a new form of instant, low cost messaging.
The Mobile Data Association’s recently released figures show that our appetite for the [...]
Medway Council has joined the many companies and organisations that are using a bulk sms service as a way of communicating with members of staff. The management team are now sent regular meeting reminders or news of meeting cancellations by sms.
Using Text Marketer’s bulk sms account, they have been able to upload mobile numbers into [...]
I’m not complaining about the snow, I can walk to work in 10 minutes and we Bristolians only get this exciting weather every twenty years. But judging by the messages that are flying through our bulk sms service the big freeze is causing merry havoc for workers up and down the land. We have dozens [...]
Is using SMS right for my business?
The automotive retailing industry is very well suited to using sms as a way of communicating with its customer and prospect base. Dealers tend to hold a high proportion of mobile numbers on their databases but the potential of the mobile phone as a channel for communication is often [...]
The Text Marketer creative team have been at it again, coming up with fabulous new ways for our customers to use SMS Marketing which makes a real difference to their business.
There’s an old adage I always think of in our business, “you never know until you try”. How true this is. So many companies still [...]
Most bulk SMS providers , (including ourselves) will take great pains to point out the merits of direct connections to the UK Networks, and a direct connection is indeed essential for a first class, reliable sms service.
But that is only part of the story. Just as crucial to reliability are the systems in place that connect [...]
1. It’s the most responsive direct marketing channel available.
Using bulk sms as a way of communicating an offer to your customers is astonishingly effective. In fact, according to the Mobile Marketing Association, sms is 5 times more responsive than direct mail. With open rates to e-mail collapsing, companies need to find new and innovative ways [...]
A: Use an SMS Service to draw attention to your e-mail.
We all know the problem with e-mail. Open rates have been dropping steadily and it’s becoming an increasing struggle just to get e-mails read let alone responded to.
SMS has presented a very effective solution that is going a long way to resolving the problem. By [...]
Our development team has been busy recently building a range of new tools for our main bulk sms service. We’ll be reporting these new tools and what they can do for our customers over the next few weeks.
One of the main reasons that sms is such a responsive direct marketing channel is that if hasn’t [...]
For many companies, the current mail strikes are an unwelcome distraction. As if generating a profit wasn’t hard enough already, now companies have to worry about whether their deliveries and customer communications are going to arrive on time.
This disruption might be the impetus that some businesses need to look at business sms as a low [...]
The development team at Text Marketer have had a busy few months and the latest system improvement has now been launched.
Following customer research, we have now built into all accounts the ability to upload numbers straight from Excel, without having to save the database as a .csv or .txt file.
This improvement will save time when [...]
Energy drink company Red Bull is using Text Marketer’s bulk sms service to keep field-based staff in touch.
Sms is becoming an increasingly popular way of communicating with employees who are always on the move. With the current trend for home and field based working, staff can feel somewhat isolated and out of touch and regular [...]
