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How Not to Run a Text to Win Competition by Coca-Cola. Part 2.

Since my last rather scathing report of Coke’s text to win competition in April, I’ve been keeping a close watch on their latest competitions to see if they have made any improvements. The one that they ran with ASOS required enormous…

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…

SMS Marketing 'Toppest' Top Tips!

It’s been a busy few weeks here at Text Marketer. All the marketing departments are full again after the summer holiday season and brimming with new ideas for their mobile marketing strategies, a lot of which include SMS Marketing. I’ve spoken…

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…

Examples of how to use our Email to SMS Text Gateway

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!…

Top 5 reasons to set up a short code text messaging service

Allowing people to enquire to your company by text message is simply one the most powerful additions to your mobile marketing activities available today. In a recent survey, two thirds of Brit’s said they want to interact with comapnies by text,…

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…

How Not to Run a Text to Win Competition. By Coca-Cola.

Sorry Coke. I know it has become the norm to have a pop at large consumer brands, but honestly, if you’re going to run a text to win competition, at least have a crack at making it easy for people to…