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The most responsive text message campaign ever?

More sales? More enquiries? That’s what all businesses want, isn’t it? With e-commerce conversion rates running at around 10% (or more, if you’re Amazon!) we want the details of the other 90% who aren’t buying, don’t we? They’ve visited our site.…

Business SMS pricing – We've ruffled a few feathers

We aim to be the lowest cost provider of high quality, bulk sms services. We’ve taken some bold steps to help us achieve this objective. Over the past four years we have reduced our entry level price by 57%. As SMS…

Reply Option Yields 17% More Response for Bulk SMS Campaign

So many companies continue to just send one way, outbound bulk SMS broadcasts. There’s a massive wasted opportunity to generate more response from the target audience by including a simple text reply option (all Text Marketer accounts come with a free…

The Top 5 Most Common Marketing Failures

… And how to avoid them 1. Everyone makes mistakes If you know someone who doesn’t then please do post your review below! (that should guarantee no reviews!) Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. They are actually a critical part of…

Receiving the short code incoming SMS to your mobile

Route incoming keyword SMS’s to your mobile A new feature added to the Text Marketer keyword/shortcode system today. You can now have all incoming responses to a keyword on 88802 forwarded on to a mobile phone number by SMS. This means…

Google Contacts SMS Integration – Send an SMS to your Google Contacts Database

How to Integrate Google Contacts with Text Marketer’s SMS Platform Many businesses and business applications now use Google Contacts as a central cloud-based contacts database. Used to store the contact details of all of your most valuable contacts storing email, phone, mobile…

Send SMS from Outlook Software

How to configure Outlook to send SMS Text Messages Outlook already has an inbuilt email function but as many businesses know, only a small percentage of emails get read. Also, if the message is urgent, such as chasing payments, you want…

Send SMS from SAGE ACT! Software

How to configure SAGE ACT! to send SMS Text Messages SAGE ACT! already has an inbuilt email function but as many businesses know, approximately 20% of emails get read. Also, if the message is urgent, when chasing payments, you want to make…