AdTxt for Business: How It Works

AdTxt for Business combines the best of two very important ingredients for a technology product: simplicity, and power. An AdTxt for Business campaign can be up and running in just a few moments, yet it can handle the volume that any major national campaign can throw at it.

You will first need to establish a account with AdTxt for Business. This account will allow you to develop instant text message campaigns whenever you want. To create this account, click on the "New Account" button on the website menu. The account form will ask you for the basic information, such as your name and address, and it will ask you for an email address. You will need to verify your email address, so please use a valid and regularly used email account. We will email you a connection / verification link to your email address that will allow you to complete your account registration.

Once you have successfully registered, you will then need to purchase text credits in order to create and edit campaigns. There is no monthly commitment, no monthly cost, but you must have a positive text credit balance in order to work on your campaigns and in order for your customers to receive promotions and information back from you.

When you create an individual campaign account, you will have a form with a number of clearly marked areas that you must complete. The basic business information from your registration will automatically pre-fill much of this form. You will be asked to complete the following:

1. Create a campaign keyword: A campaign keyword allows you to create a personalized word that your customers will connect with through a text message.

Example: You choose Family as a keyword. Your customers will then connect to your campaign by sending a message to short DOTNET (368638) and entering the message adtxt Family.

When you select a keyword for any campaign, it will automatically be verified to make sure it is not already in use by you or any other customer. You will immediately be informed if the keyword you requested is not available, allowing you to choose another.

2. Text Message Responses: This will be the area you enter the appropriate information as responses to the text inquiries of your customers. This information will be entered in our easy to use text message response boxes in which you control the content. Our system automatically calculates the number of characters in your response helping you to economize on the number of text messages being sent out.

You can set up additional campaigns — as many as you wish! — allowing you to react quickly to changes in the market, introduce new products, test and compare different markets, and gauge consumer interest levels. If you're ready to get started, click on the New Account link to create your account and get your first campaign started! You'll be ready to go in less than five minutes!

To begin, click on the "Create A New Account" link on the menu. You will get this simple form to fill out. The email address must be valid, because we will send your registration confirmation link to that address.

When you receive this message, turn to your email program and watch for an email the administrator. It has a link in it that you will use to verify your email address for this account.

In the email address will be a long verification string. Either click the link, or copy and paste it into your browser and hit enter.

You will be returned to a web browser and, if all goes well, you will receive the validation message telling you that your user name has been validated and you can begin creating accounts.

We will also send a second email validation message to you upon successful completion of the above step. If you ever receive this message without actually doing the activation step, please contact us immediately to make sure it is a valid message. We take great care to prevent hacking, and this is one way we help to combat that problem - through awareness.

Now you may log in! Use the sign in form to enter your email address and password, and click the Sign in button.

Note that if you ever lose your password or forget your username, there is a "Forgot..." link right under the sign on form that will help you find that information again.

Below is an example of the Campaign Manager. If you do not see at least the green "Add A New Campaign" box, you will need to purchase text credits first. There will be a purple box labeled "Purchase Text Credits" at the top of your screen allowing you to select the quantity of texts you want using PayPal® (either with a PayPal® account or using your credit or debit card).

In the Green area at the top, simply enter the word you wish to use for your campaign and click begin. If your keyword is already in use, you will be prompted to choose another. If it's available, you will next see the Edit Campaign screen (shown further below).

The Yellow area lists your active campaigns. You may edit them at any time, and you may have as many active campaigns as you wish.

The Red area shows campaigns that you have cancelled. You will not be able to edit them and their keywords are freed up for use by other people, but you may still access the reports about them until you permanently delete them from your Campaign Manager.

The Purple area at the bottom allows you to purchase more text credits whenever you with. Please note that if you run out of credits, you will need to buy more text credits in order to access your Campaigns. Also, if you run out of text credits, your customers will no longer receive your texts. Every request by a customer uses one text credit, and every message sent back out to a customer uses one text credit.

Four simple yet powerful boxes! The first box is simply a short message-line that will appear at the top of the text your customers receive. Use it to identify yourself. The rest of the boxes have a description by each one telling you what it is for and what type of information to provide.

If you want a real-world example of how this will look to your customers, return to the home page and run the demo provided there.

We simply updated the boxes to reflect what we wanted our customers to see. Click update to save your changes, and you're done!