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HuskersIllustrated text alerts now available!! [Updated!]

  • HuskersIllustrated members,

    Over the last month, 247Sports has been working on a text alert feature for annual subscribers. It’s been on our test environment, but today we have released it exclusively to the HuskersIllustrated site before expanding the product across all sites in our network.

    So here’s what you need to know.

    If you currently have an annual membership to this site, to sign up for the alerts, simply click on the “My Account” link at the top site in your tool bar and click on the alerts tab.

    If you do not see an alerts tab, it’s most likely the result of your home site set to another site other than HuskersIllustrated. If this is the case, you can still access your user options for this site by going to the following URL.

    http://nebraska.247sports.com/user/options

    After going to the HuskersIllustrated user options (Screen shot No. 1), there will be a field for you to enter your phone number (XXX-XXX-XXXX) and a check box for Nebraska football recruiting. MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THE BOX. Although it just says Nebraska football recruiting, don’t worry, we’ll be sending out alerts for all Nebraska news.

    After adding your phone number and checking the Nebraska box, click save and you’ll be all set to receive text alerts from us. (Note: After adding your phone number and clicking save, if you don’t see your phone number in there, refresh the page again and it will display. You do not have to add the number a second time. This is currently a display bug.)

    If you are a monthly subscriber to HuskersIllustrated and wish to upgrade your account to annual so you are eligible for text alerts, there’s a green upgrade button at the top right of the site (Screen shot No. 2). You can also upgrade through your user options by clicking on “My Account” and alerts. After clicking on the button, you’ll be sent to our upgrade page with details on our annual offer (Screen shot No. 3) Click on upgrade now and you’ll successfully upgrade your account with us from monthly to annual and will be eligible to set up text alerts.

    Please let us know if you have any questions or run into any problems signing up for text alerts and we'll be happy to help you out. Thanks and enjoy this new feature.

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by BornToBeRed on 10/2/2012 at 2:44 PM

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    247Sports Network Manager - ptholey@247sports.com - Twitter (pt247)

    Pat Tholey

  • Thanks for all the info and the tutorial, Pat. Guys have been working hard on this and something else we'll tell you guys about later today.

    Huskers - we are the test market for this for the network, so please help us out with this new release. I am sure there might be a bug or two that we encounter in the process, and if you find anything or have questions please let me know via private message.

    Thanks again to Pat and the team for rolling out text alerts.

    preciatecha

    Kevin Ryan

  • This is the feature a lot of subscribers have been looking for. Awesome news!

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    STOOBIE

  • Great news. I'm in.

    303Husker

  • STOOBIE said...

    This is the feature a lot of subscribers have been looking for. Awesome news!

    Agreed. Lots of folks have been asking about them - almost since we launched. Gonna test em out here and unleash on the rest of the network a bit later.

    Kevin Ryan

  • Remember guys - check the box.

    This may have gotten lost in all the text at the top.

    After going to the HuskersIllustrated user options (Screen shot No. 1), there will be a field for you to enter your phone number (XXX-XXX-XXXX) and a check box for Nebraska football recruiting. Although it just says Nebraska football recruiting, don’t worry, we’ll be sending out alerts for all Nebraska news. CHECK THE BOX.

    This post was edited by Kevin Ryan on 9/27/2012 at 12:52 PM

    Kevin Ryan

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    Blackshirts27

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    Kevin Ryan

  • What is the justification for only offering the feature to annual subscribers?

    602Husker

  • 602Husker said...

    What is the justification for only offering the feature to annual subscribers?

    Yeah, I'm all ears. Money is money.

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    Humble Warrior

  • 602Husker said...

    What is the justification for only offering the feature to annual subscribers?

    There's a layered cost associated with this service - for the actual service itself and for the development time it takes to implement and maintain.

    By offering it to annual members we don't have to pass that cost along. Its also the way we did it at our former network.

    Its just hard to make the economics work out offering them to monthly subscribers.

    Kevin Ryan

  • Kevin Ryan said...

    There's a layered cost associated with this service - for the actual service itself and for the development time it takes to implement and maintain.

    By offering it to annual members we don't have to pass that cost along. Its also the way we did it at our former network.

    Its just hard to make the economics work out offering them to monthly subscribers.

    That's too bad. Thanks for explaining though.

    602Husker

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  • bobrosshairclub said...

    It works!

    Yes, it does. Was essentially a test. Will likely send another one today to get the kinks out.

    Kevin Ryan

  • jw, what are the alerts for, Players committing, games scores, posts?

    This post was edited by Bills2 on 9/28/2012 at 2:26 PM

    Bills2

  • In general, breaking news. Commit, hiring, firing, transfer are big ones.

    Other things can be injury update, kickoff time change, got scholarship papers in on Signing Day, etc.

    They are not automated in any way. We will write them and send them.

    Kevin Ryan

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    Kevin Ryan

  • In case someone missed it. ....

    Kevin Ryan

  • Thanks for all your help/feedback on these alerts. They are now live on the entire network. My original post from a few days ago is at the top of the thread, but Shannon has a more detailed and updated post that I've copied most of below.

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    Here's how you get started and begin receiving text alerts from 247Sports (665-55).

    If you are an active ANNUAL subscriber, get text alerts by the following steps:
    #1. Click on the "My Account" link located at the top right in your home site horizontal navigation strip.
    #2. Enter your "username" and "password" to verify your account.
    #3. Click on the "Alerts" link located in the horizontal nav under "Settings"
    #4. Enter your active mobile number where you would like to receive the text alerts.
    #5. Check the box indicating which specific alerts you wish to receive.
    #6. Click "Save"

    If you are an active MONTHLY subscriber, you can get text alerts by the following steps:
    #1. First, you will need to UPGRADE your monthly subscription to an ANNUAL subscription.
    #2. Click the "Upgrade" link/tab located at the top right of the site. The upgrade box is marked in green.
    #3. Upgrade your account.
    #4. After completing the Upgrade process, you will need to sign up for text alerts.
    #5. Click on the "Alerts" link located in the horizontal nav under "Settings" (Located in the "My Accounts" section: See above)
    #6. Enter your active mobile number where you would like to receive text alerts.
    #7. Check the box indicating which specific alerts you wish to receive.
    #8. Click "Save"

    Remember, Text Alerts are available only to Annual subscribers.

    NEXT PHASE: Text Alerts 2.0

    Although Text Alerts are only available to ANNUAL members, in the future 247Sports members will be able to earn free text alert services through various methods. Users can get free text alerts by consecutive months of service (applicable to monthly members), user ratings and reputations, posting on the message boards and referring members. All of these services are expected to be added once our engineers complete the rewrite of the user management and reputations system which is expected during Q1 2013.

    TEXT ALERT PROTOCOL: What to expect.

    Major Breaking News

    -Commitment
    -Coaching Change
    -Coaching Hire
    -New Hire in athletics
    -Injury
    -New Starter Named
    -Suspensions, Etc.
    -Select recruiting news items (cancels visit, etc.)

    Useful Information

    -Gametime, TV announced
    -Next game info (hoops, baseball tournaments)
    -Bowl announcements
    -Letter of Intents (signing day- every 4-5 confirmed)
    -Site announcements (new staff member, etc.)

    Links

    -Because of mobile site, you can use links to articles to supplement news items or for a hot story. Use this selectively.
    -Good to link things like VIP room, war room, etc.

    Kevin Ryan

  • Kevin Ryan said...

    NEXT PHASE: Text Alerts 2.0

    Although Text Alerts are only available to ANNUAL members, in the future 247Sports members will be able to earn free text alert services through various methods. Users can get free text alerts by consecutive months of service (applicable to monthly members), user ratings and reputations, posting on the message boards and referring members. All of these services are expected to be added once our engineers complete the rewrite of the user management and reputations system which is expected during Q1 2013.

    TEXT ALERT PROTOCOL: What to expect.

    Major Breaking News

    -Commitment
    -Coaching Change
    -Coaching Hire
    -New Hire in athletics
    -Injury
    -New Starter Named
    -Suspensions, Etc.
    -Select recruiting news items (cancels visit, etc.)

    Useful Information

    -Gametime, TV announced
    -Next game info (hoops, baseball tournaments)
    -Bowl announcements
    -Letter of Intents (signing day- every 4-5 confirmed)
    -Site announcements (new staff member, etc.)

    Links

    -Because of mobile site, you can use links to articles to supplement news items or for a hot story. Use this selectively.
    -Good to link things like VIP room, war room, etc.

    Awesome to hear. Huge step for the network. I love that they're giving posters an incentive to be legitimate contributors to the board, site, and network.

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    BornToBeRed

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