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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
The constructor requires the delivery report directory [...]
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
class MyTestClass
{
/// [...]
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 [...]
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 messaging) which is often over looked [...]
SMS Gateway API - Specification
When you create a free account you can also use the Text Marketer API (sometimes known as a gateway). The API uses simple HTTP GET requests to communicate with the Text Marketer gateway server. The requests allow you to send SMS’s through the system, you can also retrieve delivery reports discussed here.
HTTP [...]
