Archive for May, 2009

Wider site

May 12th, 2009 by Jeff Judge

If you’ve logged in to TextMe recently, you may notice the site has more breathing room. (Only the application received the update; the public/marketing pages remains the same.)

Why did we widen the page? Two main reasons:

1) Monitors are much wider than they used to be. The number of individuals with screens optimized to 800 x 600 has plummeted, and so the new standard for web design is a width of approximately 960px. The extra space lets us bring more content above the fold without making the page feel cramped.

2) A lot of the new functionality we are building simply requires more screen real estate in order to make information easy to scan.

We’re continually refining the interface to make the application easy and intuitive to use. Please let us know if you have any feedback!

Finalist for 2009 ClickZ Excellence Award

May 11th, 2009 by Jeff Judge

We are very excited to announce that TextMe has named as a finalist in the category ‘Mobile Marketing Tool’ for the ClickZ Marketing Excellence awards. This category includes products or services that help marketers create, manage, or optimize mobile marketing campaigns. Winners will be announced on June 2, 2009 – and will be crossing our fingers!
ClickZ Marketing Excellence Award - Finalist

Manage Your Subscription Lists With New Graphs

May 11th, 2009 by John Wood

We’re always working to find ways to provide our customers with the tools they need to better manage their marketing campaigns.  One of the areas we will be focusing on in the short term is charting.

Numbers are great, but a picture is worth a thousand words.  We have recently added to the subscription campaign the ability to view several key pieces of information in a concise, flexible manner.

Subscription charts

Two new graphs can be found on the “View Subscribers” page of an existing subscription campaign.  The first is a line graph showing the total number of subscribers to your list over time.  This graph is a great way to visualize the growth of your subscription list.  When viewing data within a month’s timeframe, you are also able to see when messages were sent to the list.  A black point on the line graph indicates that a message was sent on this day.  Hovering over the point with your mouse will display the description of the message that was sent.

Subscription chart - messages

The second is a bar graph that shows you the opt-ins and opt-outs for your subscripion list for a given period of time.  The green bar indicates opt-ins, with light green representing unconfirmed opt-ins, and dark green representing confirmed opt-ins.  The red bar indicates opt-outs.  This chart can help you determine how your subscription list is growing.

The time frame for the two graphs is always the same, allowing you to see how the opt-ins and opt-outs in the bar graph affected the total number of subscribers represented in the line graph.

This is just the beginning.  Over the next few months, we plan on further enhancing TextMe with additional charts and graphs to help you visualize important pieces of data.

TextMe nominated for ClickZ 2009 award

May 11th, 2009 by Jeff Judge

We are very excited to announce that TextMe has been named as a finalist in the category of ‘Mobile Marketing Tool’ for the 2009 ClickZ Marketing Excellence awards. This category includes products or services that help marketers create, manage, or optimize mobile marketing campaigns. Winners will be announced on June 2, 2009 – and will be crossing our fingers!

ClickZ 2009 Marketing Excellence Award finalist




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