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Uses for an SMS Service – It's Not Just About SMS Marketing

It’s all too easy to think of a bulk sms service as just an effective marketing tool; a way of pushing sales messages to prospects and customers. You can overlook a whole range of other ways that a bulk sms service…

Mobile Marketing – Can I send my customers a bulk text campaign?

Question – Am I allowed to send my customers a mobile marketing campaign? Customers have given me their mobile numbers but they haven’t specifically opted in to receiving text messages. This is one of the most frequently asked questions on the subject of mobile…

Mobile Marketing – Target the Human Not the Mobile Number

There was a great article recently in Mobile Marketing  Magazine about the importance of talking to your customers and prospects as humans rather than just mobile numbers in a database. This has long been the mantra of direct marketing types, not…

Mobile Marketing – Over 50's Move Centre Stage

For years now we’ve been trying to convince some customers that the over 50’s do send and receive texts just as younger folk do. They tend not to be such heavy users of sms but are just as likely to respond…

The Long Shadow of the Crazy Frog

Sorry if I’ve just ruined your day by reminding you of the odious amphibian. (All together now ring ding ding ding ding.) Crazy Frog was symbolic of everything that was wrong with the premium rate mobile industry 5 or 6 years…

Is This the Golden Age of SMS Marketing?

I have this ominous feeling that we may look back on this period in the development of mobile marketing with awe and wonder. We may reminisce nostalgically about the time when open rates were over 97% and you could achieve response…

99% of Mobile Apps Only Get Used Once

Can this really be true? This is a figure produced by BlackBerry recently that underlines the sad truth that most of the 200,000 available apps are rubbish. The surprising nugget of information was revealed by Alex Meisl of Sponge Group and…

6 Questions To Ask Your Bulk SMS Software Supplier

If only sourcing the right SMS software company was as easy as finding the lowest price and signing up. As usual, it’s a little bit more involved than that. Companies package their products and pricing in different ways that make differentiating…

SMS Dominance to Continue

The popularity of sms messaging will continue for the foreseeable future according to a new report. The report, released by consulting firm Frost and Sullivan reveals that additional features of sms are likely to evolve, including location information, personal information, updates…