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ce1 – Text Marketing Strategy

How to incorporate free 100% opt-in text messaging into your marketing…

Text Messaging Video 1 – Introduction to the Textmarks SMS / Text Messaging Service

Text Messaging Video 2 – The Single Step Dual Subscribe Method

Text Messaging Video 3 – Automatically updating your SMS / Text Subscribers when you post to your blog

Text Marketing Implementation Steps

Just follow the steps below and in about 30 minutes you should be up and running.  If you have any questions, just let me know.

1.) Set Up Your Free Textmarks Account and Textmark/Keyword

2.) Request an API Key from Textmarks.com in their “Developers Section”

3.) Add a phone field to your subscription form.  I recommend using the following code… it will simplify things.  (Note: If you don’t use the following code, your ‘phone field’ cannot have spaces!)

<  input name=”phone” type=”text” value=”Cell Phone for Txt Msgs”  >

4.) Verify that your autoresponder is passing form variables to your ‘Thank You’ page.  You will know this is working when you see additional variables included in the address bar.

Example: http://www.jeffjellis.com?phone=555&name=etc…

5.) Get Your Single Step Opt-In Solution – Thank You Page Code

6.) Paste the Single Step Optin Code into your thankyou page.

7.) Change the extension of your ‘Thank You’ page to .php

Your thank you page should be named thankyou.php

8.) Test and Verify functionality with your own information.

9.) Download the Textmarks Wordpress Plugin

10.) Install and setup the Textmarks plugin

11.) Make a blog post and verify that you are receiving automatic updates.

12.) You are finished.