The 5 Top Tech ‘How-To’ Posts for International SMS

Interested in how you can send international SMS messages in interesting and clever ways using various platforms? From the Bash (Unix Shell) to Facebook, this is the post for you…

Make a Bash for it, the Easy Way

In Email to SMS – The Manual Way, we took a look at the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and how you could use it to send either local or international SMS messages. But it was written with a twist – instead of using a normal mail client, this plain text mail was sent using Bash (Unix Shell). So why did we do this?

Quite simply, to illustrate the flexibility in using one of the everyday protocols to send either local or international SMS messages.

A Beginner’s Guide to Web Messaging

So you want to be a web designer – these three posts will show you, in various steps, how to go about creating your own web interface to send both local and international SMS messages. As is the case with all our posts, they represent the most basic elements needed to get messaging – the images, buttons and all things easy on the eye are all up to you. Here are those posts:

Start with the SMS Gateway HTTP/S API – Simple HTML How-to. Once you’ve worked through that, read the SMS Gateway HTTP/S API – Simple PHP How-to and then finally the post that brings them both together, SMS Gateway HTTP/S API – Simple HTML & PHP How-to. These posts provide the foundation of what is needed for custom local or international SMS messaging – build on them and create the page that you (and your customers) will be proud of.

Bulk SMS Messaging With Outlook and Excel

So why would you want to try wrestle with Outlook and Excel to get your messages sent off? Well, these posts show you how to send SMS messages to a distribution list in Outlook, should the contacts you want to messages be stored in Outlook. Getting the principles of these two posts pat will not only save you a lot of time, but might just show you a clever Excel trick or two. Oh, and help you send local and international SMS messages, of course.

Read this one first: Explosive Email to SMS: Outlook & Excel Part 1

Read this one next: Explosive Email to SMS: Outlook, Excel and SMTP Part 2

Get Your Fans to Opt In… via Facebook!

Well why not? It is one of the most popular social networks on planet earth and therefore makes one of the mediums you can (should?) use to get your fans to opt in on your super SMS campaigns. And because it’s global, you’ll be able to get fans to opt in on your local and international SMS campaigns.

Once again, it’s a two-part post, with the first part being The SMS Gateway & Facebook: Get More Opt-in Fans! Part 1 and the second, SMS Gateway & Facebook: Get More Opt-in Fans! Part 2

Play by the Rules

And last but not least, to ensure that you have all the ammunition you need for acceptable messaging campaigns, read SMS Service Regulations for the UK, AUS and South Africa. As the name suggests, this post will give you an insight into the necessary regulations (and best practices) for local and international SMS campaigns.

And that’s it – 5 top tech ‘How to’ posts for your SMS campaigns – they’ll help you expand your messaging capabilities beyond local borders. For more information, go to our international SMS page.

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