With Sendible, there are several ways to send SMS text messages to a group of contacts. This post details the simplest way. If you don’t yet have a Sendible account, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial at http://sendible.com/signup.

To create a group of contacts who will be receiving SMS text messages from you, follow the steps blow:

1. Go into My Contacts.

2. Select Groups.

3. Click New Group and give your group name, then click Create.

4. Click New Contact and enter the details for the contact. Make sure under Contact Information, you select SMS as the preference. Also, be sure to include the country code for the mobile number.

5. Click Save.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 to add multiple SMS contacts.

Now, to send a bulk SMS to this group, go to Message Box and select the group you created in Step 3 above.

Compose your text message and click Send.

This page allows you to add new services or update and resync your existing services. See below:

We’ve also made it possible for you to select the contacts you’d like to import:

Sendible is social media management software that integrates with a variety of platforms and services  including SMS, Email, Twitter and Facebook. Sendible is also great for backing up all your online contacts and accessing them from one central messaging platform.

How to schedule an email:

Log in to sendible.com. You will then be taken to your Newsfeed where you will see your messages that have previously been sent or are going to be sent in the future.

Click on Create New and then you are provided with choices either Email, Multi Message or Sms Text Message. In this case, click on Email.

Schedule an Email

Enter the address in the To box, these can be retrieved from your contacts by clicking on To. Choose the Send Date and time using the drop-down boxes or the calendar. You can now choose to make your email recurring or once-off. Add the subject, type your email and click Create. If you would like a notificiation of its delivery then click Notify me when the message has been sent. Very useful when scheduling!

You also have the option to Attach a File (up to 5MB) and insert an image.

Sendible also allows you to import all your Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail contacts.

Recipients can now reply directly to the SMS you send them straight from their phones! 

You will receive a notification by email and also in your Sendible news feed.

SMS Replies

This means that you can send SMS mobile marketing messages to anywhere in the world for as little as 7 US cents and people can reply to you for the cost of a local SMS.

Fantastic!

With Sendible’s SMS mobile marketing technology, you can upload a picture – Jpeg/Gif (or animated gif) and send it at any time in the future. Recipients will receive your picture via WAP push technology.

This is great for sending vacation pics to your friends – or even for sending yourself important documents for when you’re on the go! It’s also useful for sending animated SMS birthday greetings…

If you’re not already registered – join Sendible here.

Sendible Picture Messaging

Take a look at our latest SMS pricing and features here:

http://www.sendible.com/pricing

You can use your SMS credits to do the following:

• Send SMS messages to anywhere in the world
• Schedule SMS messages to be delivered in the future
• Individual as well as group messaging
• Create events and send invites using SMS
• Send yourself reminders by SMS
• Recipients can reply to your SMS messages for free! Receive replies by email and in your Sendible news feed

We’ll soon be launching SMS picture messaging – so get your credits now!

How does this work?

• A link is placed in the SMS message that takes the recipient to a mobile WAP page where they can reply with a message of any length.
• You will then be notified by email and the message can be viewed in your Sendible news feed.

SMS Replies Appearing in Sendible

What’s this useful for?

• Send a bunch of your contacts a question and get a response.
• Education: Send a quiz question/poll to your students and tally up replies.
• Business: Send an SMS to your clients/customers and receive feedback.
• Promotions: Send a promotional SMS to your customers and process the replies any way you like.

Coming soon…

• We plan to launch picture and file sending functionality in the next few weeks…
• Mobile: You’ll be able to upload an image, and send it to a cellphone anywhere in the world, for the cost of a regular SMS credit.
• Email: You’ll be able to upload and email photos – we’ll handle the compression so that it’s a suitable size for emailing.

For detailed documentation and to get your API key, visit http://www.sendible.com/api.

We’ve now made this available. You can purchase 100 SMS credits for $10!

Don’t worry, the free SMS service is still available as long as you don’t mind ads appearing in your messages!