Archive for the "Campaign Articles" category

 

Top Tips for Writing Successful SMS Marketing Messages

 

Customers often ask us whether we have any example sms messages that they can use as a templates for their bulk sms marketing campaigns. 
Now obviously each company needs to tailor the text message specifically for their own target market. There are however a few golden rules that can help you get the best possible response [...]

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Changes to Delivery Reporting

 

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 id is the unique identifier of [...]

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Concatenation and Bulk sending

 

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. Therefore a message that is 307 [...]

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New Feature

 

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 next to the group.

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New Settings Page For Short Codes

 

If you have a keyword with us on our 88802 number you can now set the auto response, API and trigger e-mail settings your self . The new option is under the “Text Response”  top level menu, then just select “Change Settings“

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Buying SMS Credits - Google Checkout

 

When buying credits for your account it’s important to note that Google checkout has very stringent anti-fraud measures, whilst most transactions will be immediate, occasionally it can take a while longer as Google does extra checking. The implications are that if you are going to send a large campaign (and need to purchase £100 or [...]

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How to get help with your text system

 

We’ve produced a few helpful videos that can help guide you through the main aspects of your Text Marketer SMS System. Try these first but if that doesn’t cover what your looking for you can also try our FAQ’s area for more help.

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