Archive for January, 2010

AT&T Looks to Drop Landline Business

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

One in five people in the United States has a mobile phone and no landline phone.
One in five people in the United States has a landline and no mobile phone.
These people need to move into the 21st century.
AT&T has indicated to the Federal Communications Commission that it would like to exit the landline business.  Supporting [...]

Email Contacts with Clout

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Email marketing is a big part of any business today.  It’s a great way to keep in touch with customers and prospects and it’s much cheaper and much faster than back in the day when you had to create print literature and distribute it to your list.
At the Text Message Blog, we send opt-in email [...]

How to Make Money with your Blog

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

We at the Text Message Blog love blogging.  It’s a great way to express yourself and share your passion for a subject such as mobile marketing.  But the problem is usually how to make money blogging.  It’s just not that easy to be rewarded for the time that you put into your blog.
Blogging is easy, [...]

15% of Teens Have Received Sexting Pics of Friends

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

New information from a study in Michigan shows that teens are sexting with their personal cell phones
more and more.  There appears to be a maturity divide between the technology of the cell phone and the ability to identify the ramifications of sexting.  Hopefully, this is something that is being covered in homes with parents [...]

DGDM Introduces YuDeal.com

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Today’s blog post is about an exciting young company in the text message marketing space.
DGDM is a company focused on building innovative products geared on improving the consumer marketplace.
Imagine you are in the sales department of a professional minor league hockey team.  Game time is only five hours away and you don’t have a very attractive [...]

Virgin Announces Holiday Text Message Use

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Virgin Mobile says that 225 million text messages will be sent on its network on New Year’s Eve in Canada. The biggest texters were those aged 18-30 who sent an average of eight text messages each at the turn of the decade.
Chris Baines, a spokesman for Virgin Mobile, said that the second biggest day of the [...]

Texting and Driving is Insanely Dangerous

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Even those of us in the mobile marketing business don’t doubt the perils of texting and driving.  If you had
any doubts about the potential problems from texting and driving simultaneously, a University of Utah texting and driving study should dispel them.
A team of psychologists at the University of Utah determined that drivers that text while driving are [...]

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Friday, January 1st, 2010

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