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Tips, advice and research on using Bulk SMS in Business.

Sending to non-UK International numbers with Text Marketer

Posted on March 17th, 2011 by Richard.


Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, Bulk SMS, Distributed SMS Articles
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Text Marketer accounts are set to send to UK mobile numbers only by default. But, you can enable your account to send to to any non-UK mobile number (except the USA because they don’t accept sms messages from anywhere without a US shortcode sender id) by contacting us and requesting … Continue reading

Is SMS to Landlines effective as a Marketing tool?

Posted on March 8th, 2011 by Richard.


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This is a question worth pondering for a moment for your business. As with all marketing/communication options there is never a one size fits all answer. But, in many circumstances, sending text messages to landline numbers is a brilliant alternative to texting a mobile number. It’s also a great addition … Continue reading

SMS Reminder Alerts Reduce ‘no shows’ by 70%

Posted on March 7th, 2011 by Richard.


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No-shows can be incredibly costly for businesses and organisations who make appointments with their customers. Hair salons, restaurants, doctors, dentists and many others are literally losing thousands of pounds per year because of people not turning up for their appointments. But, this can be avoided with a simple text message … Continue reading

Mobile Marketing – Sue Ryder Embraces Bulk SMS

Posted on March 2nd, 2011 by Henry.


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Leading cancer care charity Sue Ryder, which delivers over 4 million hours of palliative care every year, is using  bulk sms as way of promoting its series of women only midnight walks. The idea is to encourage as many people as possible to take up the challenge which take place … Continue reading

SMS Gateway in PHP

Posted on February 28th, 2011 by Richard.


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Build an SMS Gateway in PHP It’s a very straightforward task to build a small script in PHP to utilise our SMS Gateway to send out text messages. The benefit of integrating your SMS Gateway with Text Marketer is that we have the lowest cost per message of any company … Continue reading

SMS Gateway for Bond Adapt Recruitment Software

Posted on February 28th, 2011 by Richard.


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New plugin launched by Text Marketer to integrate Bond Adapt software into our SMS Gateway. Text Marketer have specialised in providing our lowest costs SMS Gateway to the recruitment sector for over a decade. Now, we are pleased to announce that we have developed a plugin for the industry-leading Bond … Continue reading

Mobile Coupon Text Message Campaign Delivers 28 Per Cent Redemption Rate

Posted on February 15th, 2011 by Richard.


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Coca Cola brand Sprite has just completed a 6-week Sell Your Mother mobile couponing campaign in Denmark. Sprite used web-based mobile coupons, offering consumers a free bottle of Sprite in a chain of nationwide stores. Due to the large number of stores, the coupon solution had to be easy for … Continue reading

Mobile Marketing – Target the Human Not the Mobile Number

Posted on February 15th, 2011 by Henry.


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There was a great article recently in Mobile Marketing  Magazine about the importance of talking to your customers and prospects as humans rather than just mobile numbers in a database. This has long been the mantra of direct marketing types, not just those involved in mobile. We often notice that … Continue reading

Mobile Marketing – Storage Kings Launches SMS Promotion

Posted on January 5th, 2011 by Henry.


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Leading storage company Storage King is using mobile marketing as a simple way of getting offers out to their customers and prospects. SMS marketing still remains by far and away the most responsive direct marketing medium available. Responses to mobile marketing campaigns can reach at least double or triple that … Continue reading

5 Essential Tips For Christmas Bulk SMS Campaigns

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by Henry.


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I spend most of November trying to avoid Christmassy stuff. It’s almost impossible, particularly as the number of perfume and ‘eau de toilet’ ads on the telly reaches saturation. NEWSFLASH! Text Marketer launches lowest ever priced Bulk SMS system & updates competitor price comparison chart. I finally admitted defeat though … Continue reading

Have you thanked your customers lately?

Posted on November 25th, 2010 by Richard.


Categories: Bulk SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice, Ticker

Sounds obvious doesn’t it? But over 90% of businesses only thank their customers only at the time of their order and research shows that thanking them again at an appropriate time (let’s call that near Christmas for now!) reminds the customer about you, gives them a good feeling and makes … Continue reading

The Lowest Bulk SMS Prices Anywhere

Posted on November 13th, 2010 by Richard.


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Text Marketer reduces Bulk SMS Prices by almost 25%. As part of our Best Buy Guarantee we guarantee to bring customers the best Bulk SMS Prices always. Today, after substantial negotiations with the networks, we have managed to make a significant reduction in our text message marketing costs. Our biggest … Continue reading

Bulk SMS Campaigns Boost Sports Crowds

Posted on October 29th, 2010 by Henry.


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In recent months, we’ve seen a big rise in sports clubs using bulk sms as a way of keeping in touch with their membership base. Sports clubs have been hard hit of late, with normally loyal supporters choosing to stay at home and save the cash. This has made it … Continue reading

SMS Alert – Fancy a Free Butty?

Posted on October 19th, 2010 by Henry.


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Tradespeople of Retford are being tempted into Travis Perkins by an sms alert offering the promise of a free butty. I love this idea, never mind a product offer or discount code, let’s get some people through the door and we can present our special offers while they’re munching a free … Continue reading

Is This the Golden Age of SMS Marketing?

Posted on October 6th, 2010 by Henry.


Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Industry Commentary, Mobile Marketing, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice
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I have this ominous feeling that we may look back on this period in the development of mobile marketing with awe and wonder. We may reminisce nostalgically about the time when open rates were over 97% and you could achieve response rates of 6,7 or even 10%. My fear is … Continue reading