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Quick Start Guide

This Quick Start Guide provides you instructions on how to setup your Ozeki Bulk Messenger Studio quickly to test all of its main functionality: bulk SMS, bulk e-mail, automated voice calls and Twitter connection.

The basics are easy. You just need to add an address book which contain the destination addresses. Then add a message you would like to send to these addresses through a connection channel. For defining this channel you also need to add a connection. The connection is basicly the direction where the SMS messages, e-mails or phone calls leave Ozeki Bulk Messenger and are sent out to the outside world. You can finally start your first Ozeki Bulk Messenger job if you combine these 3 basic elements: address book, content and connection.

We are going to talk about the basic steps in a more detailed way if you follow this Quick Start Guide. In case you specificly know what you are looking for we have also made specific guides for bulk SMS, bulk e-mail, automated voice calls or Twitter connection.

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Step 1 - Add an address book

Click on the 'Quick Start' tab and choose 'Step 1 - Address books' (Figure 1)

Figure 1 - Select 'Step 1 - Address books'

Then click on 'Create new address book' so you can choose to write a standard address book in Ozeki Bulk Messenger or to import an address book from outside sources like an Excel spreadsheet (.XLSX, .CSV), txt file or from an online database (SQL or LDAP). Figure 2 shows you the options from which you can choose.

Figure 2 - Select the type of address book you would like to create

Step 2 - Write a message or create an audio content

Click on the 'Quick Start' tab and choose 'Step 2 - Messages' (Figure 3)

Figure 3 - Select 'Step 2 - Messages'

Figure 4 - Select the type of message you would like to create

Step 3 - Add a connection

Click on the 'Quick Start' tab and choose 'Step 3 - Connections' (Figure 5)

Figure 5 - Select 'Step 3 - Connections'

Figure 6 - Select the type of connection you would like to create

Keep in mind that for sending SMS or voicemessages you need a physical connection to an SMS Modem or a VoIP GSM Gateway. For e-mail connection an internet access should be enough.

Step 4 - Create a job and run it

Finally select 'Step 4 - Send' in order to create a message delivery job. (Figure 7)

Figure 7 - Select 'Step 4 - Send'

Jobs are used for sending out bulk content to addresses in an address book through a connection channel you have prevously defined. If you successfully completed the first 3 steps then adding a job should be easy. You just have to combine an address book, a content and a connection and finally run the job by clicking the green 'Start' button. (Figure 8 and 9)

Figure 8 - Creating a job by combining an address book, content and connection

Figure 9 - To run a job just simply click 'Start'