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SMS Reminder Alerts Reduce ‘no shows’ by 70%

Posted on March 7th, 2011 by Richard


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

Integrating Goldmine with our SMS Gateway

Posted on March 4th, 2011 by Richard


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation
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How to integrate Goldmine software with our SMS Gateway The 2 easiest methods of integrating Goldmine with our SMS Gateway are using; 1) The email to SMS gateway – http://www.textmarketer.co.uk/email-to-sms-gateway/email-sms.htm Or 2) The HTTP gateway – http://www.textmarketer.co.uk/blog/2009/05/sms-gateway/text-marketer-apigateway-spec/    

SMS Gateway for Bond Adapt Recruitment Software

Posted on February 28th, 2011 by Richard


Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles
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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

Examples of how to use our Email to SMS Text Gateway

Posted on July 13th, 2010 by Richard


Categories: Bulk SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, Email to SMS, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice
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Ever thought about how to use Email to Text? Businesses up and down the land send millions of notifications per day by email and as we all know a huge percentage are never getting to the inbox, let alone being read! The Mobile Marketing Association recently released data on the … Continue reading

Email-to-SMS Gateway service from Text Marketer

Posted on June 30th, 2010 by Jay


Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, All SMS Gateway Documentation, Email to SMS, Technical
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Please note that this blog page has been superseded with http://www.textmarketer.co.uk/developers/sms-email-gateway.htm  Our email-to-SMS service provides a simple way for you to send text messages via email. This is in addition to our simple HTTP SMS Gateway API, explained here, and we also provide a more complex ‘RESTful’ SMS API to send SMS messages and … Continue reading

How to create an Email to SMS Gateway

Posted on March 29th, 2010 by Richard


Categories: Email to SMS
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This document explains how you can use postfix to call a script, with the result that you can then interface email to our RestFul SMS gateway API or our Simple SMS Gateway API. We also have a EMAIL to SMS GATEWAY product, the link provides full details. Integrating Email to … Continue reading

RESTful Web Services SMS Gateway API Overview

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Jay


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Business SMS, Documentation, Technical, Web to SMS
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This blog post has been superseded with our website documentation In addition to our simple HTTP SMS Gateway API, explained here, we also provide a ‘RESTful’ SMS API to give you access to information about your SMS marketing account (don’t have one? Create a free account). If you are familiar with REST APIs, … Continue reading

How to nearly Double Advertising Response Rates

Posted on March 4th, 2010 by Richard


Categories: Business SMS, SMS Advertising, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice
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How to double advertising response rates. Continue reading

Cineworld Cinemas Choose Text Marketer

Posted on September 18th, 2009 by Henry


Categories: Bulk SMS, Business SMS, Distributed SMS Articles, News and Case Studies, SMS Advertising, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice
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In a competitive pitch, Cineworld Cinemas have selected Text Marketer as their bulk sms provider. The Cineworld Group, which has over 75 cinemas nationwide has launched a new sms ticket confirmation service. Customers buying tickets online can now choose to get a booking confirmation text containing film booked, date and … Continue reading

How can you benefit from our free SMS keyword and shortcode text response system?

Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Richard


Categories: Business SMS, SMS Advertising, SMS Marketing Ideas & Advice, Text Messaging Response, Web to SMS
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Ever seen a TV Ad’ that says, “Text BROCHURE to 69888 for more details”? Why do they do this instead of just having a phone number for people to call? Simple really, study after study has shown that you if you give people the opportunity to respond by text message, … Continue reading

PHP 5 Delivery Report Helper Class for our SMS Gateway

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Nick


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, PHP Classes
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Class Name: ProcessDeliveryReport This class enables you to access your delivery reports in a nice simplified way. You can search for the outcome of a message for a given number, specify the outcome and the number, download all the data for the given date or parse the reports line by line. … Continue reading

PHP 5 SMS Send Class implementing listeners on our SMS Gateway

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Nick


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, PHP Classes
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Class Name: SendSMSNotifier This class is designed around the FREE Text Marketer SMS API, you need to sign up here to use it. SendSMSNotifier is a singleton class design, incorporating listeners. Your class must include the following public functions: creditAlert($credits_remaining) and failureAlert($error,$number,$message,$error). Download the class from here Example of use … Continue reading

How to integrate our SMS Gateway API into your systems

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Nick


Categories: All SMS Gateway Documentation, Technical
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Introduction Adding SMS as a communication method to a system is often very useful, for instance you don’t have issues with spam filtering, it doesn’t require the person to make an immediate response like a phone call, so it’s great for alerts and triggers. Another good application for SMS (text … 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

The service provided by Text Marketer Ltd must be used for solicited marketing only. All marketing messages sent must be delivered to devices/numbers that have positively opted into receiving SMS messages. To protect the privacy of recipients there is also an opt-out option included on every account, i.e “STOP”. We adhere fully to all best practices as set out by the Government’s Information Commissioner’s Office. For further information please follow this link. www.ico.org.uk/for_the_public/topic_specific_guides/marketing/texts

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