Campaign Configuration: SMS Text

Overview

SMS, or "Short Message Service," consists of a short text message transmitted to a recipient's mobile device. Cheetah Digital allows you to create and manage Campaigns with SMS, allowing you to engage with your customers by sending timely, focused messages. 

Note: Before you can use Cheetah Digital's SMS Text Campaign features, you must complete all of the configuration and setup steps, as described in the Help topic SMS Text Channel Setup.

The SMS Text channel also supports the use of Multimedia Cheetah Digital Service (MMS), which extends the capability of SMS by supporting the use of an image, video, or audio clip within the message. The total file size of the entire MMS message, including the text component and multimedia file, can't exceed the maximum size allowed by your country's mobile carriers.

Note: The use of MMS is an optional feature that must be enabled with your account, and within the Sender Profile utilized by your Campaign. Currently, the MMS feature is available only to clients who utilize OpenMarket as their short code aggregator. Please speak with your Client Services Representative for more details on enabling MMS.

The platform supports two different data sources for building SMS Text Campaigns -- the Cheetah Digital database, and the Engagement Data Platform (EDP). This topic describes Campaigns build off the Cheetah Digital database; for more details on Campaigns built off EDP, please see Configure an SMS Text Campaign [EDP].

This topic describes all of the various configuration options available for SMS Text Campaigns. This topic assumes that you have already created the Campaign (see Campaigns for more details on how to create a Campaign).

The Campaign screen is organized into the following areas:

Select an item above for more details on that section.

Setup

Content

Review

Status

Analytics

Campaign Settings

The icon at the top of the screen provides access to the following general Campaign settings.

Campaign settings

The Campaign screen provides access to the following features.

Configure campaign metadata

 

Assign campaign tags

Optionally, you can assign one or more Tags to your Campaign. These Tags serve as an organization tool that allow you to group together items for reports and Filters.

Set time zone

The first time you log into Cheetah Digital, the platform prompts you to set your time zone. Once the time zone is set, all system dates and times will display according to that time zone (this setting can later be modified through the Update Profile screen). However, when scheduling a Campaign, you can manually overwrite the user profile setting, and establish a different time zone to be used for just this Campaign.

Configure report settings

Cheetah Digital tracks and reports various system events, such as user clicks, opens, delivery, and more. The platform allows you to configure various report options at a Campaign level.

Configure PURL options

A Personalized URL (or "PURL") is a website address that contains one or more personalized elements, such as the consumer's first name and last name, for example.

Turn Off Tracking

To comply with recipient preference and evolving privacy regulations, you can switch off the receipient tracking option in an email or SMS campaign. Please ask your Marigold Representative to get his feature enabled in your Engage+. To ensure complete Data Privacy, once tracking is turned off for a designated campaign, no open or click data will be collected or reported.

Campaign Management

The Campaign screen provides the following Campaign management features, which can be accessed from the More Actions menu. 

Run Pickup Changes

The Pickup Changes feature allows you to make modifications to a launched Campaign while messages are in the process of being deployed. These changes will then be applied to all unsent messages.

Copy a Campaign

From within the Campaign screen, you can copy an existing Campaign to use as the basis for a new Campaign:

Delete a Campaign

When you delete a Campaign, the system moves it from its current folder location into the Recycling Bin, where it can optionally be restored if needed. If the selected Campaign is stored in a folder to which you don't have the proper access privileges, you won't be able to delete that Campaign.

Rename a Campaign

To rename a Campaign:

View Campaign details

To view detailed information about the Campaign:

Change Campaign type

From within the Campaign screen, you can switch the Campaign type between a Regular One-off Campaign and either form of triggered Campaign (Date-triggered or Event-triggered).

Change content type

From within the Campaign screen, you can switch the Content type.

To select the content type for your Campaign:

Cells and Splits

Marketers often need to divide their Campaign Audience into smaller segments, or cells. You might need to do this in order to test the effectiveness of a particular marketing message, or because you need to use a different sending method, or schedule, for the different cells.

Turn Off Tracking

To comply with recipient preference and evolving privacy regulations, you can switch off the receipient tracking option in an email or SMS campaign. Please ask your Marigold Representative to get his feature enabled in your Engage+. To ensure complete Data Privacy, once tracking is turned off for a designated campaign, no open or click data will be collected or reported.