SMS Marketing: Death by Elephants and Money for Charities – The Friday Five
Welcome to “the Friday Five,” our bi-monthly feature that highlights articles from around the web to give readers insight into the inner workings of the SMS industry and offer mobile marketers valuable information and helpful advice.
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SMS alerts cut deaths caused by elephants in rural India
Business Insider
The first entry for the week is a Business Insider post from Paris-based international news organization Agence France-Presse. In what is somewhat of a departure from the...
When Push Comes to Shove: App Notifications or Text Messaging? – The Friday Five
It’s that time again! Welcome to another installment of “the Friday Five,” a bi-monthly feature that highlights articles from around the web to give readers insight into the inner workings of the SMS industry and offer mobile marketers valuable information and helpful advice. This week we’re focusing on calls-to-action, beacons, and...chocolate? Yes, you read that right. Check it all out after the jump!
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6 Benefits of SMS Marketing
Becky Hesilridge
The first entry on our...
Millennials and Texting, Messaging Campaigns, and Mobile Hospitality – The Friday Five
Here we go again! Welcome to another installment of “the Friday Five,” a bi-monthly feature that highlights articles from around the web to give readers insight into the inner workings of the SMS industry and offer mobile marketers valuable information and helpful advice. This week’s offerings give you a little bit of everything: a campaign guide, an infographic, some use cases, and an update on mobile trends. So, what are you waiting for? Check it out!
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6 Steps to Create a...
Text Messaging and Mobile Apps Have Their Tiff – The Friday Five
Welcome to another installment of “the Friday Five,” a bi-monthly feature that highlights articles from around the web to give readers insight into the inner workings of the SMS industry and offer mobile marketers valuable information and helpful advice. This week we’re featuring articles that cover everything from customer support to SMS superiority over mobile apps. And here. we. go!
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Why SMS Is the New Channel for Customer Support
Mathilde Colin
The first entry for this...
Medical Screenings, Mobile Apps, and More Predictions – The Friday Five
What do annual marketing predictions, medical uses for SMS, and the uphill battle for mobile apps have in common? Well, for one, they’re all a part of this week’s installment of “the Friday Five,” a bi-monthly feature that highlights articles from around the web to give readers insight into the inner workings of the SMS industry and offer mobile marketers valuable information and helpful advice! So, let’s get to it:
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Here's What 8 Digital Execs Predict for Mobile in...
Why Medical Offices Should Use SMS
Medical offices around the world know how important it is to make scheduling appointments a priority. Even more so, they know how frustrating it is to experience missed, or no-show, appointments. When utilizing SMS messaging, it’s easy to decrease the occurrence of missed appointments and to schedule more appointments.
Avoid Missed Appointments
Missed appointments cost the medical field billions of dollars every year, and studies suggest that most practices see anywhere from 21-32%...
Suffering From Missed Appointments? (Infographic)
Text message reminders have saved doctor offices thousands of dollars in employee costs and also revenue lost from missed appointments. Missed appointments cost the economy billions of dollars every year, and this infographic shows the importance of finding a new, more reliable form of patient...
The Easy-to-Understand Guide To SMS Aggregators, Carriers, and Providers
With 2 million blog posts written everyday, the internet is flooded with information about how mobile companies work and operate. If you’re anything like me, all that technical jargon is really confusing and it can sometimes feel like you might as well try to be reading a Russian copy of War and Peace.
Don’t worry. We've taken all that information and put it in terms that normal people use, so you can understand exactly what we do here at Txtwire. The industry has four main players...