THE SECRET OF SOME CHURCHES REVEALED

You might have received a bulk SMS at one point or the other from a church informing you an upcoming program. What they did was simply put bulk SMS to use. Their congregation keeps increasing at subsequent services. Apart from spiritual exercise being carried out by the churches to facilitate this swell, they put to use the efficacy of BULK SMS.
They are aware they can easily customize the sender ID to their church name and have the opportunity to send messages of 160 characters per SMS page. They also know they can reach unlimited number of people in a click with bulk SMS even with a mobile phone connected to the internet.

They simply register online for FREE with a premium bulk SMS portal like ARK BULK SMS.
They go ahead to buy thousands of SMS units at price lower than that of regular mobile network. It has been discovered that they use the SMS units for several purposes, some of which are for:
1.Informing their members of upcoming activities
2. Encouraging their members with biblical and inspirational quotes regularly;
3. Birthday greetings for every member (This is made easy with SMS scheduling or "SEND LATER" feature);
4. Making special announcements that came up at any time;
5. Following up and encouraging new comers and contacts they met during evangelism and outreach;

Such churches are putting faith and work together in line with biblical injunction for meaningful and lasting results. Little wonder the members feel among and loved, which not only make them stay but rigidly committed.

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INTRODUCING. ....THE BIGGEST AIRCRAFT IN THE WORLD

The world's longest aircraft called Airlander 10, which is as large as a football pitch and as high as six double decker buses, is set to take its first test flight in a few days time. The unique aerodynamic balloon-like shape of the Airlander 10 cost $100 million (£60m) to make and can fly at maximum speed of 92mph for five days straight, it carries around 10-tons of cargo and can land on water. Some people say it has the shape of Reality star, Kim Kardashian's Butt..

Measuring 302ft (92m) in length the new airship is about 60ft longer than the biggest airliners, the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8.
The Airlander 10 can also stay floating, unmanned, for three weeks even with bullet holes in it was originally developed from 2009 for the US Army, which abandoned the project.
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HOW TO WIN HER HEART WITH BULK SMS

Yes you read the title right! You can actually turn bulk SMS into a powerful tool in expressing your affectionate feelings to your sweetheart.
 You can do this in the following easy steps:
1.    Visit and Register for free at a bulk SMS portal like ARKbulksms
2.    Buy some units of SMS as directed on the portal
3.    Compose and write down series of short LOVE messages peculiar to your loved one.
4.    Go to compose SMS option on the bulk SMS portal.
5.    Under sender ID you can put your name, nickname or something like “Your Prince”
6.    Type in your loved one's phone number. Add yours too , separating with a comma to get a copy when the message is delivered to your sweetheart.
7.    If you want it delivered now , click “SEND”. 
8.    If you want it delivered later click “SEND LATER” and set the date and time you want it delivered, then click “SEND SMS”
9.    If you have more messages to schedule for delivery on later time, say, on daily basis even when you’re busy with other things, just compose each message and use the “SEND LATER “ option explained in Step 8.
10.    With these steps you can be sure of adding some spices to your love live at little cost.

LESSON LEARNT FROM NOKIA

Nokia CEO ended his speech saying this “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”.
During the press conference to announce NOKIA being acquired by Microsoft, Nokia CEO ended his speech saying this “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”. Upon saying that, all his management team, himself included, teared sadly.
Nokia has been a respectable company. They didn’t do anything wrong in their business, however, the world changed too fast. Their opponents were too powerful.
They missed out on learning, they missed out on changing, and thus they lost the opportunity at hand to make it big. Not only did they miss the opportunity to earn big money, they lost their chance of survival.
The message of this story is, if you don’t change, you shall be removed from the competition.
It’s not wrong if you don’t want to learn new things. However, if your thoughts and mindset cannot catch up with time, you will be eliminated.
Conclusion:
The advantage you have yesterday, will be replaced by the trends of tomorrow. You don’t have to do anything wrong, as long as your competitors catch the wave and do it RIGHT, you can lose out and fail.
To change and improve yourself is giving yourself a second chance. To be forced by others to change, is like being discarded.
Those who refuse to learn and improve, will definitely one day become redundant and irrelevant to the industry. They will learn the lesson in a hard and expensive way.

Written by
Ziyad Jawabra
(Freelance Management Trainer, Intercultural and Relocation Consultant)

WHAT IS BULK SMS?

Bulk SMS also known as Bulk Messaging is the dissemination of large numbers of SMS messages for delivery to mobile phone terminals. It is used by media companies, enterprises, banks (for marketing and fraud control) and consumer brands for a variety of purposes including entertainment, enterprise and mobile marketing.
Bulk messaging is commonly used for alerts, reminders, marketing but also for information and communication between both staff and customers.
Bulk messaging lets you deliver SMS messages to mobile handsets almost anywhere in the world.

Bulk messaging software
 Software is required for sending and receiving bulk messages and various software packages are available. These software packages provides users with the opportunity to add as many phone numbers as required and these phone numbers can be managed in a variety of ways.
Most SMS software applications allow you to upload lists of mobile phone numbers using a TXT or CSV file. Some sophisticated systems can automatically remove any duplicated numbers or the mobile numbers are validated prior to sending the messages.
Today we have websites specially designed for and integrated  bulk SMS software. A very good example is ARKbulksms

With enhanced software features messages, can be scheduled to be sent at specific times and/or days and bulk messages can be sent on national and international mobile networks as long as the bulk messaging software provider sends internationally.

Bulk messaging API
Most Bulk Messaging services utilize the following standard API's (Application Programming Interface) which allows programmers to add SMS functionality to any program.

• FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
• SMPP (Short Message Peer to Peer)
• HTTP and
• Email.

Major vendors

• Twilio
• MSG91
• Infobip
• CM TELECOM
• Beepsend

(Source: Wikipedia)