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This is a cut and paste from our original text alerts announcement thread.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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 to BOL. 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.