Product Updates Archive
Upload Your Existing Customer Database To TextMe
Do you have an existing database of customers that you would like to start marketing to via the mobile channel? If so, TextMe makes it incredibly easy to utilize the information that you have already collected to start interacting with these customers via the mobile channel immediately.
Please note that the Mobile Marketing Association requires you [...]
Posted March 2nd, 2010 in Product Updates by John Wood | No Comments »
Tags: data collection
New Lists Tab Simplifies Subscription List Management
Subscription campaigns are unique. They don’t quite fit in with our other marketing campaigns, such as the Sweepstakes campaign, the Voting campaign, or the Survey campaign. Subscription campaigns are are long running (typically never ending) campaigns that collect a list contacts that wish to learn more about your product or service. These campaigns give you [...]
Posted January 18th, 2010 in Product Updates by John Wood | No Comments »
Send Timed Messages To Subscribers After Opt-In
Newly added to the Subscription Campaign is the ability to send timed messages to subscribers after they have opted-in to your list.
To get started, click Timed Messages from the subscription campaign’s navigation options.
You’ll then be brought to the timed messages details screen. Click Add timed message to create a new timed message.
There are two different [...]
Posted November 4th, 2009 in Product Updates by John Wood | No Comments »
Support For Multiple Choice Questions Added To Data Collection Capabilities
We’ve recently added the ability to specify a list of valid values for a given user data attribute. This allows TextMe to not only validate that the data collected from your customer is valid for the given attribute type, but also to validate that the data collected matches one of the valid values that you [...]
Posted November 4th, 2009 in Product Updates by John Wood | No Comments »
Tags: data collection
Collect Data From Your Sweepstakes Participants
The Sweepstakes campaign is the latest campaign type to benefit from our push to enhance TextMe’s data collection capabilities. You are now able to collect data from your sweepstakes participants after they have entered your campaign via a SMS message.
The data collection flow is initiated after your customer’s first interaction with your campaign. This would [...]
Posted October 19th, 2009 in Product Updates by John Wood | No Comments »
Tags: data collection
Target Groups Of Subscribers With A Custom Message
In the previous two posts, I showed how you can collect data about your customers after sending a broadcast message to a subscription list, and how you can use that data to create segmented filter groups of customers based on criteria that you define. Now, I’ll show how you can easily target specific groups of [...]
Posted October 16th, 2009 in Product Updates by John Wood | No Comments »
Tags: data collection
Segment Customers Based On Data Collected
In marketing, it’s good to know as much as you can about your customers. But, it’s even better when you can act on that data.
TextMe now supports the ability to create segmented “filter groups” of customers based on information that you have collected about them. Currently, TextMe only supports the ability to send targeted broadcast [...]
Posted October 16th, 2009 in Product Updates by John Wood | 1 Comment »
Tags: data collection
Collect Customer Data Via a Subscription List Broadcast
Have you ever wanted to know something about the people who are subscribed to your subscription list? Well, now you can simply ask them!
Building upon the data collection functionality recently added to the Survey campaign, you can now collect data from customers after a subscription list broadcast. Setting up your broadcast message to collect data [...]
Posted October 16th, 2009 in Product Updates by John Wood | 1 Comment »
Tags: data collection
Manually Select/Deselect Sweepstakes Winners
We’ve recently updated TextMe to allow our customers to manually select or deselect winners for a sweepstakes campaign. This was an often requested feature, and comes in handy in a few different scenarios.
Select alternate winners
The first scenario is the ability to select an alternate sweepstakes winner, in the case that the original sweepstakes winner is [...]
Posted October 5th, 2009 in Campaigns, Product Updates by John Wood | No Comments »
More syndication options (vote)
Related to yesterday’s post, we just pushed an update that includes syndication feed (XML and text) support for voting campaigns. This enables you to pull a vote snapshot into external systems like Daktronics, a popular scoreboard software provider.
We’re making changes every day to make getting data in and out of TextMe very easy. Let us [...]
Posted September 10th, 2009 in Product Updates by Jeff Judge | No Comments »