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07/28/2018
Overview of How PageGate Sends Text Messages |
PageGate is used as a messaging platform and most of its protocols deal with message delivery. However, some of the protocols we support allow for some very innovative and intricate systems that could potentially send and receive SMS or send content to a web API and also check for updates from that same API, just to name a few examples.
Overview of How PageGate Sends Text Messages
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07/26/2018
How Message Volume Impacts Cellular Hardware |
Cellular hardware is, by far, the fastest and most reliable method of sending SMS with PageGate. However, the hardware itself has its own limitations on how fast it can push the traffic to the outside world.
Typically speaking, cellular hardware will be able to accept one message for delivery every 2 or 3 seconds, which means that the upper delivery rate on most cellular hardware is between 20 and 30 messages per minute.
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07/22/2018
A quick guide to SMS marketing for small businesses |
SMS messages are a bit like Tweets. It is hard to be ambiguous when composing an SMS message, as you don’t have space to wax lyrical or go off-topic. The nature of an SMS message means you have to stick to the point, which is helpful because customers don’t have time to read long messages.
In a time-poor society, people prefer pithy, to-the-point marketing messages. It takes a few seconds to read an SMS message and decide whether to respond to the message or ignore it. Because SMS messages are effective, click-through rates are much higher than email messages. This makes SMS marketing a good strategy for small businesses.
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07/20/2018
Bizarre Android Bug Displays Private Text Messages |
Android smartphones are susceptible to a strange glitch that shows recent text messages when a specific malformed web address is entered. If you type the1975..com (with two periods) into the Google app, it delivers a summary of recent conversations instead of performing a search or attempting to pull up the eponymous rock band's website.
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07/18/2018
Text Messaging Can Help With Weight Loss |
In a pioneering study published in Computers, Informatics, and Nursing in 2013, text messaging was isolated and tested as a weight loss tool: the small study divided 28 overweight and obese adults in a community-based weight loss program in the Richmond area into control and experimental groups. The experimental group received text messages tailored to aid in the weight loss process twice per week throughout the 12 week duration of the study.
Text Messaging Can Help With Weight Loss
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07/16/2018
An Introduction to PageGate Interfaces Video Tutorial |
In this tutorial, we will be going over a brief introduction to the different interfaces for PageGate and their functions.
The full list of interfaces that PageGate supports is as follows:
GUI Client
GetASCII
GetMail
GetSerial
GetTAP
GetWeb
GetSNPP
GetTouchTone
An Introduction to PageGate Interfaces Video Tutorial
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07/14/2018
How Message Volume Impacts Cellular Hardware |
Cellular hardware is, by far, the fastest and most reliable method of sending SMS with PageGate. However, the hardware itself has its own limitations on how fast it can push the traffic to the outside world.
Typically speaking, cellular hardware will be able to accept one message for delivery every 2 or 3 seconds, which means that the upper delivery rate on most cellular hardware is between 20 and 30 messages per minute.
How Message Volume Impacts Cellular Hardware
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07/12/2018
PageGate Switching Run Styles Video Tutorial |
Before we proceed, the following changes can only be made on the PageGate Admin ON the server. These changes cannot be made from any workstation admin consoles.
The first step is to run the PageGate Admin, so go to your start menu, go to Programs, find the PageGate program group, and left click on PageGate Admin.
PageGate Switching Run Styles Video Tutorial
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07/10/2018
Hoteliers and Text Messaging |
As text messaging and chat become the communication channels of choice for consumers, more hotels are adapting to the trend by inviting travelers to connect with them by SMS, chat widget, or messaging app. Consumers love messaging because its fast, easy, and convenient.
A Nielsen-Facebook survey found that 56 percent of people would rather message a business than call customer service. And more than half of respondents said they are more likely to shop with a business they can message directly. For hotels, messaging represents a fundamental shift in how employees communicate with guests—and with one another. To help with the transition, employees need tools and guidelines.
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07/08/2018
How Text Messaging Can Grow Your Business |
You likely text your friends and family, but have you considered sending text messages to your customers? If you have, you are not alone as 1 in every 10 text messages is between a business and a client. With over 7 billion people around the world owning a mobile phone, there is no better time to consider the benefits of using SMS communication (text messages) to grow your business.
Read more at https://www.business2community.com/mobile-apps/text-messaging-can-grow-business-02046364
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07/06/2018
Borrowers Embrace Text Messaging in the Loan Process |
While 58 percent borrowers surveyed by Ellie Mae said that they responded to text messages within 10 minutes, 76 percent believed that text speeds up the loan process.
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07/04/2018
Text messaging tool may help fight opioid epidemic |
A new automated text messaging service may curb opioid abuse and reduce the likelihood of relapse while also decreasing treatment costs, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and Epharmix, a St. Louis-based digital health company.
The service provides automated text messages and phone calls to patients being treated for opioid addiction. Such messages ask patients if they're feeling OK or struggling with potential relapse. Patients also can activate a panic button for immediate help.
Time saved from monitoring patients through individual phone calls and in-person appointments may trim medical costs and permit health-care workers to treat more patients without accruing heavier workloads.
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07/02/2018
How to leverage Text Messaging in Sales Conversations |
Ellie Mae, a cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry recently conducted a survey of 500 consumers on their text messaging preferences. Surprisingly, 97% customers said they’d like text messaging to be part of their sales conversation.
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