Blimey, has it really been just over 19 years since a Vodafone chap call Neil Papworth sent the first text? His ‘Merry Christmas’ message sent to his colleagues launched a new communication channel that no one predicted would be as popular…
January 10, 2012
If you’ve been thinking about mobile marketing and haven’t quite got round to it, here are a few good reasons. A series of pithy quotes and insights from industry heavy-weights can be quite persuasive. To discuss your mobile marketing strategy please…
December 1, 2011
I’m in a bit of a huff with Orange. In most respects they’re a great provider but I’m getting increasingly hacked off with their mobile marketing campaigns. I don’t mind them sending me stuff that might be of interest but I…
September 7, 2011
New marketing strategies need to be tested before they’re rolled out. With this basic principle in mind, Bathstore set out to discover whether text marketing could have an impact on sales. The idea was a simple one. Send a text offer out…
August 16, 2011
Mobile marketing is firmly established as a powerful and profitable tool for the fast food industry. All of the large fast food giants are now using bulk sms as a way of increasing sales and most of them use Text Marketer…
August 16, 2011
A had a call yesterday from a new prospect. It was typical of many that we get every day at Text Marketer. The chap I was speaking to was asked to find a new supplier of bulk sms services for his company. He…
July 28, 2011
The Body Shop has used Text Marketer’s mobile marketing platform to offer a discount of 30% to all its customers. The offer was sent out to all ‘Love Your Body’ members and was available for just a limited period. The mobile…
June 13, 2011
In a previous post we had a little moan about Bannatyne’s Gym. Lapsed customers were kept being sent mobile marketing text messages to try and tempt them back. Now there is nothing at all wrong with that, in fact it is…
June 1, 2011
Despite impressive growth, the use of mobile marketing has remained firmly on the margins of most marketing and communications strategies. Very few companies in the UK have really embraced the potential applications or have made long term commitments to text marketing.…
May 11, 2011
The first SMS message was sent through our gateway in 1999 and since then billions of messages have followed.
Offering one of the most direct and personal ways of communication, advertising and marketing to your customers, mobile marketing can be used to drive brand awareness, for promotions and to retain customers. With the extra personal touch and interactive dimension mobile marketing brings open, read and response rates like no other marketing channel.
After all, 98% of text messages get read compared to just 20% of emails (Frost & Sullivan)
At Text Marketer, we aren’t just satisfied with providing a great mobile marketing platform, we know you want more from SMS and so do we. We provide some great extras that can really help you squeeze the most out of mobile marketing and can turn a good mobile marketing campaign into a world class one.
Customer feedback has never been more important than it is today and with our SMS surveys you can get to know your customers better, what they love about your business and what areas you can improve.
Email to SMS can work great for businesses with a lot of people who all need to send SMS. Our email to SMS gateway receives emails and converts them immediately to texts, delivering them straight to the end users mobile phone.
A virtual mobile number and a dedicated short code are two great ways to allow customers to respond and talk to you through SMS. Allow customers to have a conversation with you or let them enter a competition via SMS.
At Text Marketer we give you more for your money, you’ll find more than just low prices to attract you, with the best in-house support and numerous how-tos, eBooks, instructional posts and documents to help you succeed with your mobile marketing campaigns.
We simply promise to help you get the best out of mobile marketing
It is estimated that 91% of adults have their phones within arm’s length 24/7 (Nielsen) meaning that there is no other device you’re likely to reach your customers with, than on a mobile phone.
