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 … Continue reading
Blog Archives
5 winning ways to make your company’s Christmas sales sing along like a carol
Posted on November 24th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice Tags: bulk, christmas, marketing, service, sms
Westminster Council Uses Business Sms Service For Event Alerts
Posted on October 19th, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, News and Case Studies, SMS Advertising, SMS Providers, Text Messaging Software Tags: bulk, Bulk SMS, Bulk sms service, bulk sms service for council
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 … Continue reading
Plant-a-Forest Option now live! SMS Marketing helps the Environment
Posted on October 9th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Distributed SMS Articles Tags: bulk, carbon, environment, environmental, marketing, offset, sms
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”. … Continue reading
How to get started with SMS Marketing today and save £246. A NEW Business Starter Pack goes live today.
Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, SMS Advertising, SMS Providers, Text Messaging Response, Text Messaging Software, Web to SMS Tags: bulk, incoming, intro, keyword, marketing, platform, receive text messages, sms, software, start, text
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 … Continue reading
The benefits of using Text Messaging vs Postal Services – Saving Money, Boosting Response & Going Green
Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles Tags: bulk, environment, environmental, figures, response, save money, sms, statistics, stats, trees
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 … Continue reading
Concatenated “Long Message” SMS feature now Live for the Bulk SMS system and the SMS Gateway
Posted on July 17th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, Bulk SMS, Distributed SMS Articles Tags: bulk, concatenated, concatenation, message, sms, text
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. … 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 Tags: bulk, characters, gsm, sms, supported, unsupported
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
New Concatenated Bulk SMS Text Message feature due to be released
Posted on July 10th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles Tags: bulk, concatenated, concatenation, message, sms, text
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. … Continue reading
How RoughTrax increased sales by over 19% for next to nothing using Bulk SMS – could you?
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, News and Case Studies, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice Tags: bulk, business, messaging, sales, sms, text
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 … Continue reading
The SMS Gateway
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Documentation Tags: All SMS Gateway Documentation, bulk, message, text
5 Top Tips to increase sales with SMS Text Message Marketing
Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice Tags: bulk, How to, increase sales, marketing, sales, sms, text marketing, text messaging
SMS Marketing 101 – Database Segmentation
Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice Tags: bulk, database, marketing, segmentation, sms
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 … Continue reading
SMS Marketing – Top 5 starter tips to get response from your Bulk SMS Campaign
Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice Tags: advice, bulk, How to, response, sms, tips
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 … Continue reading
Is there such a thing as ‘quality’ in Bulk SMS?
Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, SMS Providers Tags: bulk, quality, sms
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 … Continue reading
Welcome to Text Marketer’s all new SMS Marketing Blog
Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Richard.
Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, SMS Advertising Tags: blog, bulk, marketing, sms, welcome
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 … Continue reading