We’re happy to announce that we have QR codes! After some discussion on the overall benefit of QR codes, we have released a new section in the customer control panel which has QR code generators. For those of you new or unfamiliar to QR codes, we’ll explain a little bit about what they are, how they work, and what benefit they can be to text message marketing.

In our last article in our “How-To” series of mobile marketing, we covered the details of beginning a mobile marketing campaign. As part of those details, we discussed briefly the need to advertise a mobile marketing campaign properly. Because of the importance of advertising in marketing, we’ve decided to revisit the aspect of advertising a mobile marketing campaign. We’ll discuss utilizing other forms of advertising to promote your texting campaign, creating effective call-to-actions, and knowing/following SMS regulations for advertising.

For those of you who are new to the concept of text message marketing, we’ve provided a more basic approach to the concepts behind mobile marketing. Marketing through text message is still a new frontier and is spiking in popularity. There are several reasons for this, which we’ll discuss later. The TXT180 support staff receives phone calls throughout the week asking to explain mobile marketing and its sometimes unfamiliar terms. In this article, we’ll decode text message marketing in an effort to increase understanding of this efficacious form of marketing.