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***Text alerts now available for you guys***

  • Didnt even get one but im not worried about it this pos phone i've got will be gone tomorrow

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  • Kevin Ryan said...

    Folks,

    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 here 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 govols247. If this is the case, you can still access your user options for this site by going to the following URL.

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

    After going to user options, there will be a field for you to enter your phone number (XXX-XXX-XXXX) and a check box for Tennessee football should automatically be checked. MAKE SURE THE BOX IS CHECKED. Although it just says Tennessee football, don’t worry, we’ll be sending out alerts for all Tennessee news.

    After adding your phone number and making sure the box is checked, 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, it may have reverted to a different tab. Just go back to my account and/or refresh the page again and it should display. You do not have to add the number a second time. This is currently a display bug.)

    If you are a monthly subscriber 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. You can also upgrade through your user options by clicking on “My Account” and clicking the "alerts" link. After clicking on the button, you’ll be sent to our upgrade page with details on our annual offer. 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.

    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 the awesome folks here at 247Sports for their hard work in rolling out text alerts.

    Thanks and enjoy this new feature.

    preciatecha

    Can I please get a test text alert to make sure I have done the update correctly? Thanks!

    overnoUT ●

  • I can't send one to an individual user, but in looking at your account it looks like everything is fine and you should be good to go when we send the next one.

    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 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.

    This post was edited by Kevin Ryan on 10/2/2012 at 12:25 PM

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • Bumping this for all the new folks.

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • FYI ... I just checked my 'Alert' settings and the checkmarks got unchecked somehow. I checked them back and clicked 'Save'. Then, looked and the checkmarks were still not there. I checked them again and hit 'save', and it looks like they are there now. I think I read a post somewhere that several annual subscribers weren't signed up for 'Alerts'. Maybe, there's a bug or something?

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    The_General ●

  • Same thing happened to me. I received the test text but none since. Have any been sent out?

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    Paul Kamikawa ●

  • None sent out since. It is a display bug that the box doesn't appear checked when you return to the page.

    I think we'll send out an alert in the next couple days. Ill post in here when I do so folks will know and can determine of it worked properly.

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • Just got the text on the TE commit.

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    tntoak

  • Yup. Just sent one.

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • I didn't receive it. Any suggestions?

    tsams45

  • I didn't receive any text either.

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    Phlip

  • tsams45 said...

    I didn't receive it. Any suggestions?

    Did you follow the steps to sign up for them? If so, send me your phone number and I'll try and enter it myself.

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • Kevin Ryan said...

    Did you follow the steps to sign up for them? If so, send me your phone number and I'll try and enter it myself.

    Kevin I sent you a pm. Thanks

    tsams45

  • Got it.

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • I sent you one as well.

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    Phlip

  • Phlip said...

    I sent you one as well.

    Yup. Sent you a question via PM.

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • I think I just upgraded and setup my text stuff. Hooray for saving money!

    Boomer020 ●

  • Don't forget to sign up for text alerts if you are an annual subscriber. Going to be crazy from here until NSD.

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • Bumping.

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • Bump per Atomic's request. I'll pin.

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • Dang didn't get the text

    blueticknick

  • I'm still not getting them either even though I get text alerts from several other that are sent the same way

    TanVol ●

  • blueticknick said...

    Dang didn't get the text

    Still didn't?

    Kevin Ryan ●

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