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 [...]
Westminster Council is using text alerts to keep the public informed about a a range of free and low cost events taking place throughout the year.
Subscribers to the sms service receive regular text alerts to remind them about all the events aimed at young residents in the area.
“Find out what’s on during the school holidays [...]
We are proud to announce our Plant-a-Forest option is now live in customer accounts. This is an opt-in option and is only shown on those accounts that have opted-in.
Your Certificate Screen
You can access your certificate showing how much woodland you have created under “Reports” menu, option “Plant-a-Forest Cert”. This will pop up a new screen [...]
You’ve heard of it. You know you probably should do it. But, isn’t it all complicated!?
Bulk SMS this, Text Marketing that, Send SMS Alerts, let customers contact you by Text Message … sigh, tut, I hear you cry.
Well, we guarantee you, it isn’t that tough. And, we’ve just made it a whole lot easier with [...]
Are you still using the postal service for all your communications? Then, you’re in for some very good news indeed on how to save thousands, boost business and have stronger environmental credentials all at the same time.
A bold claim. But, this is not one of those over-complicated articles on efficiency, structure or cost effectiveness. This [...]
Great news! 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?
Quite simply, no. Apart from some slight changes to the [...]
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.
For your information here are a [...]
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.
This is quite a major technical [...]
Further to our article, Top 5 Tips for increasing sales using Bulk SMS, one of our customers RoughTrax (a mail order supplier of Toyota Hilux parts) decided to follow our Number 1 Tip …. follow-up text messages to customers after a sale.
We asked Barry Hemmings, Director at RoughTrax how it worked for him and these [...]
Competition for attention in todays SMS marketing world is increasing all the time. To increase the relevancy, deliver more value in Bulk SMS camaigns AND to deliver more sales - now is the perfect time to do some database segmentation.
By segmenting your database and talking to people in a more relevant way you can often [...]
Many customers are new to SMS Marketing and we’re often asked, “what’s the best way to send out my SMS campaign”. As with all direct marketing campaigns, there is no universal best way. What works for one company won’t necessarily work for another. Sigh!
Having said that, there is some common ground and also some general advice [...]
There are a vast number of different ‘gateways’ that bulk sms service providers can use to connect to the UK networks.
Reliability of these services varies enormously and they support a range of different functions.
Overseas gateways, where the sms is dispatched from abroad, tend to be far less reliable than sending directly to a UK network.
What [...]
Welcome.
There’s so much information to get across with SMS Marketing and we wanted a central place for customers and interested parties alike to come to for help and advice.
We aim to provide helpful information from best Bulk SMS methods, database usage, text message creative technicques, system usage and so on.
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