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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…

Java example code using our SMS gateway

The popular java language can be easily used to ineterace with our SMS API (sometimes known as gateway). To make life easier a simple example is attached below, this example sends SMS and reads back the responses. This blog post has been…

SMS Response – Stirling Furniture Streamlines Deliveries using SMS

Stirling Furniture has transformed its product delivery process and made huge cost savings by adopting Text Marketer’s TxtUs service. Every customer expecting delivery of an item of furniture is now sent an sms message informing them of the 2 hour time…

SMS Campaign Watch – Part 1. 7UP Text to Win Competition

This is the first in a series of blog posts looking at current on-pack SMS based promotions. Casting a critical eye, from the consumer’s perspective, campaigns will be rated on a number of factors such as ease of entry, clarity of…

SMS Reminder Alerts Reduce 'no shows' by 70%

No-shows can be incredibly costly for businesses and organisations who make appointments with their customers. Hair salons, restaurants, doctors, dentists and many others are literally losing thousands of pounds per year because of people not turning up for their appointments. But,…

c# code example

Attached is a C# example – a generic method called SendSMS() for calling the SMS Gateway service and an example of it being called. Included is XML parsing for the returned responses. The API spec can be found here

Multithreading PHP for sending SMS

On occasion we need to control a PHP script from a single script but allow it to execute several PHP instances. PHP it’s self doesn’t have any native ability to multithread, which I remember as being a bit of an irritant…

Restaurant Mobile Marketing

See the NEW updated article: How to do … Restaurant Mobile Marketing Booking enquiries can increase as much as much as 50% using a text option Booking a restaurant is often a impulsive decision but a lot of people refrain from…