Sup

Got a few clients want to send SMS' for marketing purposes to clients.

Wondering if anyone has any experience with any particular programs or services that they can recommend.

TIA

SMS Central provide an email->sms gateway. Give them a call.

If they already have a phone carrier they use explore that and maybe some sort of discount with their business plans.

I know Telstra almost gave us our SMS gateway at my last place of employment when we asked them cause we had a lot of business phones etc with them.

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lots of experience. latest was from this http://qgl.ausforums.com/index.php/439207/?agn=thread&id=2746988

if you've got a wm phone, easy as, and lots of ways to do it. i found a poc, where you setup active sync, create tasks in outlook. an app on the phone will sync these with pocket outlook, and send sms's

i got lots of source code if you want a hand.

or like it was said above, there are lots of sms gateways. alot use email, webrequest or soap as the api.

the first 2 are probably the easiest. if your client base is static, you can upload a csv of contacts to the sms gateway provider, then send to a group in the address book.

if your requirements are a bit more dynamic, you create a script that calls a url repeativly.

most are something like this http://www.mygateway.com?username=abc&password=123&phonenumber=000000&message=hello, this is spam

Yeah, if it's a small biznez like mine (or managing a group of say up to 60 peeps, sending maybe 4 or 5 SMSs a month) then you can do it with floAt's Mobile Agent and a $25 bluetooth dongle. I swear by this method for small/medium groups. I just have an Excel spreadsheet of contacts with a VB Script to cat mobile numbers together semi-colon separated to cut and paste them into FMA.

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internode have "nodeTXT"

email to txt gateway

Awesome info all

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