Posted by Holly Barber on September 21st, 2017
The simple and powerful, 160-character text message is so versatile and there are so many creative ways you can use it for communication. Rather than simply give you a list, we wanted to give some real examples of how our customers are sending (and receiving) awesome marketing and communication campaigns using the clever SMS.
Posted by Holly Barber on July 28th, 2017
Your customer relationship management (or CRM) software is your knowledge hub for your leads, customers and projects; so making sure all the data is correct and up to date is a must.
Posted by Holly Barber on July 17th, 2017
We had such an awesome response from our recent blog on preparing and checking your SMS campaign before sending, that we wanted to create a handy checklist for you to download.
Posted by Holly Barber on April 25th, 2017
We love finding ways to make our marketing apps work together nicely and this handy integration with Campaign Monitor; means you can hook up your email and SMS platforms really easily to share contacts and expand your communication.
Posted by Holly Barber on April 19th, 2017
After web browsing, phone calls and SMS, fitness tracking is one of the most popular uses for a smartphone. When used in conjunction with one of the many fitness apps out there, the gyroscopes, speedometers and other native hardware available on every smartphone worth the name amount to a pocket-sized personal trainer.
Posted by Holly Barber on March 14th, 2017
Sending a campaign to a group of contacts (of any size) can be daunting for sure, even the most seasoned marketer will get nervous clicking the big SEND button. No matter how many times we proof our content and check our campaign, we are all humans so the occasional mistake can happen.
Posted by Holly Barber on December 19th, 2016
We already know that our smartphones are the first place we turn to for communication or to search for info and now the clever chaps over at Google have found yet another way to combine the two. If you’re using AdWords for your business, you’ll love this new extension which allows you to receive text […]
Posted by Holly Barber on September 19th, 2016
Sometimes you need to add just that little more content into your campaigns and iOS 10 has enabled you to do that by adding previews to their standard SMS messages.
Posted by Holly Barber on August 22nd, 2016
We’ve all done it, sent a message, checked back and realised damn auto-correct has made us look very silly indeed! It can be a bit of a joke between friends or family, but don’t make the same mistake with your customers…
Posted by firetext on July 15th, 2016
On November 30th, 2016, we’ll be deprecating some of the older security protocols (TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1) used to make connections with FireText’s API & App. Upgrading to TLS 1.2 will generally not involve any changes to your code, but may require that you update your operating systems, system packages, or language runtime libraries. (The […]