Posted by Holly Barber in Weird World of SMS on June 13th, 2014
With limitations on characters when it comes to writing a text message or composing a tweet, it’s becoming more and more tempting to abbreviate words just to get everything you want to say in.
Posted by Holly Barber in SMS Tips & Tricks, Weird World of SMS on June 12th, 2014
Have you ever found you need to include a different character or symbol, from the usual A-Z, in your SMS message and wondered if it was possible?
Posted by Dan Parker in Weird World of SMS on June 5th, 2014
At FireText we’ve heard some great SMS marketing stories over the years. In this post we have hand-picked three of our favourite SMS campaigns that stand out for being so different.
Posted by Dan Parker in SMS Tips & Tricks on May 28th, 2014
With mobile phones becoming ever more sophisticated there has been a change in customer behaviour that businesses must be aware of. Mobile phones have become, not just a communications device, but a personal hub of information; an essential tool to daily life with calendars, alarms, photographs, social media and much more. Did you know that […]
Posted by Holly Barber in SMS Tips & Tricks on April 16th, 2014
The sun is out, the Easter Bunny is on the way and everyone’s looking forward to the bank holiday weekend. There’s lots of exciting things going on around the UK over the next few days. Whatever you have planned for your business; make sure your customers pay you a visit when they are out and […]
Posted by Holly Barber in Weird World of SMS on March 25th, 2014
The importance of creating a clear call to action… The latest nominating craze to take over your Facebook homepage is the ‘no make-up selfie’ which has raised more than £1m through text donations to Cancer Research. Whilst this is a fantastic way of raising awareness (and money) for a really worthwhile cause; there have been […]
Posted by Holly Barber in News & Buzz, Peek Inside FireText on March 20th, 2014
One of the reasons we love SMS here at FireText, is for its ability to simplify and improve communication for businesses with their customers. We want to help you increase customer engagement, without adding to your workload, and understand the importance of integrating SMS into our daily routines, which is why we’re pleased to announce […]
Posted by Holly Barber in FireText's Wonderful Customers on March 13th, 2014
When it comes to renewing memberships, it can be costly and time consuming to send constant reminders out to your members. This case study shows how 4Networking’s switch to SMS reminders enabled them to cut down their admin time and see a growth in memberships.
Posted by Holly Barber in SMS Tips & Tricks on March 7th, 2014
When a customer contacts you by text message, or opts in to receive SMS updates from you, make sure you welcome them with open arms.
Posted by Holly Barber in Weird World of SMS on February 14th, 2014
We love talking text here at FireText HQ and as its Valentine’s Day, we thought we’d take a break from the marketing chat and take a look at the relationship between text and romance.