5 Top Tips to increase sales with SMS Text Message Marketing

 

5 Top Tips to increase sales with SMS Text Message Marketing

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PHP 5 Delivery Report Helper Class for our SMS Gateway

 

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 [...]

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PHP 5 SMS Send Class implementing listeners on our SMS Gateway

 

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
{
/// [...]

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SMS Marketing 101 - Database Segmentation

 

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 [...]

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How to integrate our SMS Gateway API into your systems

 

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 [...]

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SMS Gateway API - Specification

 

It is recommended that you use the  RESTful version of the API which has largely superseded this document (you can do more with it).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 you can also use the Text Marketer API (sometimes known as a gateway). [...]

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SMS Marketing - Top 5 starter tips to get response from your Bulk SMS Campaign

 

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 [...]

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How to use an SMS Gateway

 

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 you can effectivel ‘text enable’ any [...]

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Is there such a thing as ‘quality’ in Bulk 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 than sending directly to a UK network.
What [...]

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Welcome to Text Marketer’s all new SMS Marketing Blog

 

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.
Kindest regards.

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