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Your 101 Guide to Understanding What is Mass Text Messaging
Cell phone messaging, often referred to as SMS or texting, has been around since 1992. Originally, it began as a way for telecom employees to communicate with one another without using limited bandwidth. Quickly the popularity grew and it became an essential communication tool for consumers who found that sending short, text-based messages to one another was convenient, helpful, and much simpler than calling in many instances. Source: Wikipedia
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Text Messaging for Teachers: Turning a Distraction into a Learning Tool
For most of us, the thought of cellphones in the classroom is one in which distraction reigns. Unfettered access to text messaging does not seem particularly well-suited to ensuing that kids get the education that they need. In fact, at first glance, it seems like it would encourage the opposite – endless text messaging, a lack of attention to subject matter, and the like. There’s no denying the fact that texting can be distracting, but there is also the fact that when used correctly, text messages can actually play an important role in educating our children. There are quite a few ways that texting can be worked into the classroom, to provide additional learning points.
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Business Texting Etiquette: 9 Tips to Present the Best
When text messaging was first introduced on cellular phones, communicating this way was mainly done between personal acquaintances; until it wasn’t. It didn’t take long before a younger generation was texting their acceptance of a job offer or asking a client to meet for drinks after work.
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7 Key Considerations to Make When Choosing an SMS Provider
So, you’ve decided that bulk SMS messaging is the ideal tool to help you grow your business, to stay in touch with your church’s congregation, or to keep your customers informed and in the loop. Congratulations – using an SMS provider can be an incredibly powerful tool, enabling growth, success and better communication. However, you can’t go it alone. You need to work with an SMS provider to enjoy all of those benefits.
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Tech Trends: Mass Text Messaging for Churches
Churches are finding it more and more difficult to reach their audience as the speed of life increases, and as chaos continues to grow, fueled in no small part by technology. As ironic as it may be, a number of churches are finding ways to turn the very technology that has disrupted them to their advantage with the use of mass text messaging for churches. What role might texting actually play in the life of the church, or in the body of believers?
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Sakari Text Messaging SMS API Quickstart
Introduction This guide helps to get you up and running with the Sakari SMS APIs within 5 minutes. You'll learn how to authenticate your application so you can call our API's as well as send your first SMS message. What You'll Need An account with Sakari. If you don't...
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Text Message Marketing: 3 Reasons to Start
facebooktwitterlinkedingoogle-plusrssThe little device that remains in our hand 24/7 can be exploited as the best marketing tactic. The world is becoming a web of highly connected people and our smartphones empower that web. The business can directly approach that web...
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Free Business Text Messaging Service Options
facebooktwitterlinkedingoogle-plusrssBest Free Business Text Messaging Using a free business text messaging service is a great way to communicate with customers and employees. Across every metric, text messages are the way people prefer to connect in 2018. Text...
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10 Tips for More Compelling Text-Based Customer Appointment Reminders
facebooktwitterlinkedingoogle-plusrss Whether you run an oil change shop, a beauty salon, a dental office or some other type of business, it’s crucial that you control no-shows, and ensure that your customers are on time for their appointments. There are tons of ways...
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Introducing Sakari – a New Real-Time Bulk Text Messaging Service for Businesses
San Francisco — June 5, 2018 — No one looks forward to reading emails or picking up voicemail. Imagine a tool that helps your company create, send and track customized messages to customers and employees in an instant. Sakari is now offering bulk text messaging to...
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