A great new feature added to Text Marketer accounts today. If you have a keyword on your account and receive incoming SMS’s, you can now reply to them by email. In effect, you can have a ‘text conversation’ with people simply using your email program! What you need to be … Continue reading
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Reply by email to incoming SMS. Have a ‘text conversation’ by email.
Posted on August 11th, 2010 by Richard.
Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, Distributed SMS Articles, Email to SMS Tags: conversation, email, replies, reply, sms
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 Tags: email, gateway, sms, text, to, uk
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 Tags: email, gateway, google, hotmail, outlook, send, sms
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 give you access to information about your SMS marketing account … Continue reading
How to send a Personalised Text Message Marketing campaign using a CSV file
Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Richard.
Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation Tags: campaign, csv, mail, marketing, merge, message, personalise, personalised, sms, text
This article shows you how to use the merge function in our text messaging application. This is useful when you want to send personalised marketing text messages by merging data fields from a CSV file. This is a relatively advanced feature of the system and the process outlined below should be followed precisely to ensure … Continue reading
How to create an Email to SMS Gateway
Posted on March 29th, 2010 by Richard.
Categories: Email to SMS Tags: email, gateway, sms
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 Tags: All SMS Gateway Documentation, gateway, integrate, RESTful, sms, sms api, web service, Web to SMS
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, you may wish to jump to our … 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 Tags: advertising, gateway, rsponse, sms
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
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
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
How to use the Text Marketer Text Response system
Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Henry.
Categories: All Bulk SMS Account Documentation, System FAQs Tags: instructions, log, shortcode, sms
Introduction This article explains how to use the incoming text feature or shortcode SMS part of your Text Marketer account. You can order a free 1 week trial of this service directly in your account by going to Text Response | Add a Keyword. Your system works by texting in your … 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