We’re proud to announce a new feature: send an alert from a cell phone.

Did you ever want to alert the people who have subscribed to your keyword without logging into your account?  Now you can!  Just login to your TextMarks account or create a free 30 day trial if you haven’t already.  Choose the keyword you’d like to manage from a phone.  In the menu titled “Admin/Settings”, choose “Co-managers”.

From there, enter the phone number of the phone you’d like to manage that keyword.  You can later revoke these permissions should you choose to.

Once you’ve added a number, you can send an alert by sending a message with the following text:

ALERT KEYWORD MESSAGE

For instance, let’s say your keyword is BAR and you want to send the message “$3 Beer if you come to our Bar before 6pm and show this text.  Tell Your Friends!”

To send this, you’d text:

"ALERT BAR $3 Beer if you come to our Bar before 6pm and show this text.  Tell Your Friends!"

Your message would then be delivered to your subscribers immediately.  Login and try it now!

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TextMarks allows any customer with a website, blog or email list to promote TextMarks mobile alerts.

Join the TextMarks Affiliate Program today and earn 80% commission on every sale you refer to TextMarks.com!

Anyone with a message to share and a mobile phone can use TextMarks.  Reserve your keyword now at the TextMarks site – start with our FREE unlimited TexMarks trial!

Start promoting your mobile list on your site, blog, other advertisements, or simply tell your friends and customers to text your keyword to 41411.

TextMarks offers unlimited ad-based text message alerts for groups of any size, or you can promote a TextMarks ad-free subscription starting at just $9/month!

TextMarks is perfect for group organizers, team leaders, teachers, schools, coaches, religious organizers, youth groups, non-profits, and anyone with a mobile phone and a message to share!

Become a TextMarks Affiliate now to start making money from mobile marketing.

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Getting Started with ColdFusion + TextMarks

September 9, 2009

Software Engineer, Blogger, and ColdFusion master Ben Nadel wrote a great article (inspired by a talk by Aaron Foss) describing how to get started with TextMarks and ColdFusion to build a basic SMS-enabled web app.  We’re excited to see how the ColdFusion community can continue to build on the powerful TextMarks text messaging platform. Here’s the [...]

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New: Auto-post your alerts to Twitter

August 2, 2009

Want to broadcast an alert to your TextMark group AND update Twitter at the same time?  No problem. Just open up the “Auto-Post to Social Networks” box in your TextMark’s management control panel, and follow the easy instructions to safely and securely link your Twitter account to your keyword(s).

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New: V2 API Released (Public Beta)

August 2, 2009

TextMarks is pleased to announce the beta release of our V2 API. Whereas our old APIs allowed clients to perform a few actions like subscribing users and broadcasting messages, this new API exposes almost every possible action you might want to perform on your users, TextMarks, groups, and more.  And with easier-to-parse JSON responses and [...]

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Promote your TextMark on the Web with new "Share This" Button (New)

June 24, 2009

Each TextMark’s public page (http://www.textmarks.com/YOURKEYWORD) now has a new button that looks like this: With a few clicks, you’ll be able to share your keyword on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg, or any other number of social networks and web sites.

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TextMark Alerts Available via RSS Feed (New)

June 24, 2009

Each TextMark now has its own RSS feed!  The feed carries the alerts and messages posted to that TextMark. This opens up a world of possibilities for developers seeking easy ways to integrate with TextMarks as well as users who want to view messages on custom home pages (such as My Yahoo or iGoogle) or [...]

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"Subscribe to TextMark" => "Join TextMark"

May 15, 2009

We’ve seen how more and more users are using TextMarks to represent and manage groups of people, so we’re introducing some new terminology and commands to make this more natural: “Subscribe to TextMark” => “Join TextMark group”. “Unsubscribe from TextMark” => “Leave TextMark group”. “SUB” and “SUBSCRIBE” commands => “JOIN” command. “UNSUB” and “UNSUBSCRIBE” commands => [...]

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Custom Welcome Messages (New)

May 15, 2009

When a user subscribes to / joins a TextMark group, they receive a welcome text message with opt-out instructions.  Up until now, this text message was straightforward, generic, and not customizable. To allow TextMarks managers to present their service or brand in the manner most appropriate for their users, we are now allowing customization of [...]

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New keyword separators: * and – and ,

May 15, 2009

Up until now, if you wanted to make an SMS request with parameters, you had to put a SPACE after your keyword, like: myweather 94117 TextMarks now supports three additional characters you may use to separate your keyword from your parameters: * – , The above example could be requested with any of the following: [...]

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