Ez Texting SMS Marketing News

We love hearing about innovative uses of our group text messaging service. Today we listened to the Geeks & God Podcast, featuring Pastor Lucas Forsthoff. Head over to Geeks & God to check out the Podcast. They start talking about texting at the 26-minute mark.

Want to learn more about group text messaging for ministries? Head over to the resource center.

Have you seen the Ez Texting video guide to group text messaging? In five minutes you'll learn all about group text messaging, short codes, Keywords, and how to get started with Ez Texting.

Ready to start? Check out our pricing and start your free trial.

Last week we launched our Small Business SMS Marketing Resource Center - Today we're excited to announce that we've opened the doors to our new resource center just for real estate firms. Whether you're a Realtor, a property developer, or a management firm, we've got info, tips, and case studies that will help you launch your firm's first text messaging campaign.

Want to learn more? Visit the Real Estate Resource Center and start texting today!

For the large (and growing) group of developers who have hooked their own apps up to Ez Texting's Group SMS API, we've got some great news. Our new Developer Center is now open for business! We've added lots of new code samples, a partner showcase, a community forum, and more.

If you haven't worked with Ez Texting's group text messaging API in the past, we've got some news for you as well. Our own development team has put together an easy to follow, five step getting started guide. Follow the guide and you'll be sending out messages through our SMS gateway in minutes!

Whether you're an independent developer or you work on a team at Fortune 500 company, we're here to provide you with the right tools and the support you deserve. Ready to partner with us? Visit the Ez Texting Developer Center.

What is SMS Marketing? We get this question a lot at Ez Texting. It's actually a really simple concept, so let's jump right in. We all know what text messages are. SMS Marketing are advertisements delivered via text messages. That's the basic definition. Is there more? Definitely - but nothing too complicated:

• Mobile Coupons - Deliver a coupon code as a text message to your customers.
• Sale & Event Reminders - Make sure your customers know about upcoming events at your store.
• Mobile Contests & Mobile Polling - Your customers can text in Keywords to a short code to vote or join a contents. When the event is over, you'll have collected their information so you can contact them in the future.
• And...anything else you can imagine that you can express in 160 characters!

Leare more about SMS Marketing at Ez Texting.

Or, if you're really interested, we suggest you check out our white paper, Mobile Marketing with Text Messaging.

We'd like to take a few moments of your time to announce the launch of the new TellMyCell, now powered by Ez Texting. A little bit about TellMyCell:

At TellMyCell we call ourselves The Mobile Marketing Company, because we've spent the last six years helping hundreds of brands launch affordable enterprise-class mobile marketing campaigns.

With six years of experience in the mobile marketing business we're confident that we can offer an unparalleled enterprise-class platform at an affordable price. Whether you're looking to hook your application up to our SMS gateway using our robust API, or you're getting ready to launch an inexpensive mobile text message marketing campaign, TellMyCell can help you get started.

Visit TellMyCell and learn more!

We're proud to announce, as of this morning, that Ez Texting is one of the first mobile marketing firms in the country with a short code provisioned on metroPCS.

What does that mean? All MetroPCS customers can now text our customers' Keywords to 313131 from their mobile phones. 

If you have a MetroPCS phone, you can try it out by texting EZ to 313131.

Learn more about Ez Texting's mobile marketing solutions or see our pricing and plans to open a free, no obligation trial account now!

Want to learn about the basics of sms text messaging for groups and businesses? Our short introductory video will teach you how to send out group text messages in minutes, using Ez Texting, one of the largest providers of group sms services in North America!

Ready to get started? See our pricing & plans, or head to head to EzTexting.com for more information!

We’re proud to announce the launch of the new and improved Ez Texting! Based on your feedback, we've spent the last six months building a new Ez Texting that we think you'll love. All of your favorite features are still here—they’re just more powerful, easier to use, and best of all, they’ll cost you less.

Monthly Plans
The most requested new feature is here! Buy credits on a regular basis? Now you can sign up for a discounted monthly plan. Plus, many of our new plans include free Keywords. If you’re happy with Pay & Go, nothing will ever change for you. Click here to view our new monthly plans.

Accomplish Tasks Faster
We’ve redesigned Ez Texting from the ground up. The platform is faster and the interface is more efficient. We’ve simplified features like Send-From-Phone and added new features like uploading spreadsheets of contacts.

More Powerful
We’re proud to offer you a brand new Ez Texting, and this is only the beginning! Our new platform will allow us to rapidly roll out exciting new features in the coming weeks and months.

Login right now (or sign up for an account) to see the new Ez Texting, or keep reading to see a full list of new features and some screenshots of the brand new interface.

We’ve made a lot of changes that will improve the way you use your account on a day-to-day basis.

Sending a Text Message:

• Your Username is no longer automatically inserted at the beginning of your messages. Instead, you have the option of adding your Username into your message as you’re typing.
• Our upgraded Personalization feature now allows you to insert a first or last name anywhere in your text. If there is no name associated with a number, we just add a space in the message.

Groups and Contacts:

• Now when you view the contacts in a group, you only see the numbers in your group! If you want to add more numbers to a group, you can do so on the Contacts page.
• When viewing contacts in a group, you will now see two columns called Source and Added. Source shows you how the number came to get in that group: Upload, Incoming (includes Keywords), or Widget. Added tells you the date the contact subscribed.
• We’ve made uploading contacts even easier by allowing you to upload CSV files of up to 10,000 numbers.
• Mass unsubscribe has now moved to the bottom of the Contacts page.

Navigation:

• You can now easily access your billing history by clicking the links on the bottom-left of your screen (Billing Info, Change My Plan, View My Invoices).
• Edit Profile has moved to the top-right of your screen, and is now called My Profile.
• Scheduled and Sent Texts have been consolidated to a single page.
• Forwarding, API and Send-From-Phone have moved to an expandable Advanced Features button. As we add more features, they will go in this section.

Keywords:

• You can now setup double opt-in rules for your Keywords. Next time you edit a Keyword, you will see the option to Enable Double Opt-In. How it works: A user texts in your Keyword and receives message #1. They must reply Y to complete the opt-in, after which they will be subscribed and receive confirmation message #2.

Miscellaneous:

• For those who are using our popup widget we’ve updated the graphic to a much cleaner image.
• Past invoices will not show on your account; however, these are available upon request should you need to access them.

You’ll probably notice dozens of other little changes as you browse though the website – every change has been implemented to make your Ez Texting experience as useful and efficient as possible.

Let us know how you like the new platform, if you have any suggestions or encounter any issues.  Many of these changes came straight from your valuable feedback, so please don’t be shy!

Cheers,

The Ez Texting Team