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Category: Documentation

System Update – Upload your mobile numbers straight from Microsoft Excel

Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Henry.


Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Documentation, System FAQs, Technical, Text Messaging Software
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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 … Continue reading →

Top Tips for Writing Successful SMS Marketing Messages

Posted on August 18th, 2009 by Henry.


Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Campaign Articles, Documentation, SMS Advertising, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice, Text Messaging Software
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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 … 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 →

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 →

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 →

Bulk SMS API ASP Help

Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation

Using standard ASP libraries <% url=”http://www.textmarketer.biz/gateway/?username=#&password=#&number=#&message=msg&orig=nameORnumber&option=xml” Set objXMLDoc = CreateObject(“Microsoft.XMLDOM”) objXMLDoc.async = False objXMLDoc.load(url) status = objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(“//response”).getAttribute(“status”) if status = “success”  then response.write “Status ” & status & ” Credits ” & objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(“//response/credits”).Text else response.write “Status ” & status & ” Reason ” & objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode(“//response/reason”).Text end if %> Put that … Continue reading →

The SMS Gateway

Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Richard.


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How to use an SMS Gateway Continue reading →

Using the SMS Gateway API, Automating Delivery Report Collection

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation, Technical

This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation Introduction If you are using the API / Gateway to send bulk SMS you can collect your delivery reports from the server, which is a good way of removing bad numbers from your data. Delivery Reports and the API It is important to … Continue reading →

Text Marketer short code / txtUs API options

Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation, Technical

Introduction The keyword on your system (on short code 88802) or your txtUs number can be used to “route” incoming texts to your account and optionally respond with a message “thanks for entering our competition” etc, (this form of communication is known as text response). You can also configure your … Continue reading →

SMS Gateway API – Specification

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Nick.


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Documentation, Technical
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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation It is recommended that you use the  RESTful version of the API which has largely superseded this document (you can do more with it). However if you want to get up and running quickly then it might still be the best way for you. When you create a free account … Continue reading →

How to use an SMS Gateway

Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Richard.


Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Documentation, Text Messaging Software, Web to SMS
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Our SMS Gateway is extremely powerful indeed. It allows companies to connect to our systems and send out messages 1 at a time. Although this sounds a bit old fashioned in these days of huge numbers of bulk sms, it has some considerable advantages. By integrating with our SMS Gateway … Continue reading →

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