In TXT Signal, you can customize the primary contact group names to fit your needs.

To edit/hide/unhide contact tabs:
1. Login (www.txtsignal.com)
2. Click the “Settings” tab (upper right)
3. Click “Change Tabs/Group Names” (link on the Actions menu)
4a. Edit: Pick from the list or select “Add a new name” to enter your own
4b. Hide: Select “No” for displaying the Contact Group
4c. Unhide: Select “Yes” for displaying the Contact Group

Bonus: When you customize your tab names, the custom name change items on the screen and provides context to the actions you might need to take.

Confidentiality

We receive questions about whether txtsignal.com sells any contact information to third parties, marketers, etc.

As loudly as we can possibly type, the answer is NO!

And, we have spelled this commitment out in our privacy policy:

TXT Signal does not sell (or re-sell) any mobile contact information contained within any client account. As noted in our Client Data Storage policy (below), the data is the clients and can be exported at any time.

Security

We also receive questions from time to time about the security level we use when contacts are being entered. txtsignal.com uses 256-bit encryption (same as online banking) on any page where contact information is being viewed, added, or edited.

If you want to easily collect your contact information, use the “Generate Subscribe Link” feature.

There are 3 ways that you can use the link: email, web page (as text), or web page (with image). Below is how you can easily collect your contact’s information.

How to generate the link:

1. Login to your account
2. Click the Group tab that you want to generate the link for
3. Click on the “Generate Subscribe Link” (under the Actions menu)
4. (Optional) You can generate a link for the main group or a team within a group. To generate a unique team link, select the team name from the drop-down box
5. Click Generate

In the “Generated Link” box, the following will generate:

<a target=”_new” href=”https://secure.txtsignal.com/subscribe?key=…”>Sign up for our TXT message alerts!</a>

Note: The ellipses (…) is actually filled with a long web address; I’m just using the … to abbreviate the post.

Email - To send the link through an email, paste just the link portion of the copied text:

https://secure.txtsignal.com/subscribe?key=…

Post on web page, as text - To post the link with a generic text, paste all of the copied text:

<a target=”_new” href=”https://secure.txtsignal.com/subscribe?key=…”>Sign up for our TXT message alerts!</a>

Post on a web page, with an image - You can also post the link and tie it to an image:

<a target=”_new” href=”https://secure.txtsignal.com/subscribe?key=…”><img src=”filename”></a>

If you can stomach it, check this article out on Fast Company, “The Cell Sell”

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/125/the-cell-sell.html

Here are some of the more frightening excerpts:

You’re walking down the street checking sports scores on CBS on your BlackBerry and get a banner ad: ‘Getting Hungry? Pizza is $5 off around the corner.’

Intrusive? Or…

In the United States, Japan, and the UK, consumers see ads everywhere, so they aren’t surprised to see them on their mobile phones.

You wouldn’t be surprised at seeing ads just appear on your mobile phone? Or, my favorite…

The ads can be interactive, too, so users can click on pop-up menus, call advertisers directly, or click on a survey.

And you thought you had gotten rid of pop ups and figured your way around the annoying surveys. Huh!

To be fair to the author, the article is well-written, but the supposed “gurus” cited in the article really have ZERO clue about consumer opinions about any of these ideas. I’ll clue them in: NO ONE WILL LIKE IT!

Sure, you can put advertisements within a game or a mobile video clip, but it really (really) doesn’t do anything for consumers anymore. It’s tired. This is the 2000s.

The key ingredient to great mobile advertising is something that most of these marketing & advertising gurus will never comprehend: consumer control.

They could give consumers more control in what they see (or more importantly what they don’t see), but they never will.

Oh well, I have said too much. More details soon…

Tonight (4/15/08), we will be releasing a minor change.

The Change
We have moved to a SINGLE FIELD for entering phone numbers, instead of the three separate text box format (of 3 digits-3 digits-4 digits).

This change is being made in preparation to accommodate non-US numbers (which I’ll have more details on in the near future).

How it will affect you
When you enter a phone number, enter just the numbers (no formatting needed): “5555551212″.

Prior to Release:

After Release (New & Improved):

It’s a minor change and we hope an improvement, but we wanted to draw your attention to it.