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our latest add-ons, upcoming event attendances
and general SMS messaging trends.
A new member to the team: Lina Zaft-Schallenberg joins GTX as working student Operations and Customer Care. Currently studying business psychology at RFH Köln, she supports our team in day-to-day operations and takes care of customer requests.
GTX announces yet another crucial addition to its team: Thomas Friedrich has been appointed Business Director and will be developing business as the interface between sales managers and sourcing. He has been gathering experience in the mobile messaging industry since 2001, with a proven track record in SMS sales, business development and acquisition. “I’m optimistic that my experience in the market and my international network will help develop GTX’s position in the coming years.” His analysis: There is still a lot of unexplored potential to commercialize in mobile messaging, especially in connection with authentication and transaction confirmations. Thomas Friedrich is set to develop GTX’s profile in these fields going forward.
New integration partnership for GTX: privacyIDEA, the open source two-factor authentication system, has integrated GTX Messaging into their trial portfolio. From now on, users of privacyIDEA can use the GTX SMS gateway to verify critical customer data. This integration proves the high quality and reliability of our applications.
Daniel Dinnebier, who studied media management and has been working in the mobile industry since 2006, was announced as the latest addition to GTX Messaging’s team. Dinnebier will focus on sales of SMS services to enterprise customers and aggregators. He has been working with GTX since 2013 as a external consultant already. Prior to that, he had been working for other SMS messaging and app development companies.
GTX is proud to announce hiring a new team member to drive sales. Constanze Hüffner, a graduate of Economics, joins the team after five years working for GTX’ parent company, Venista Venture, where she had gained insights into the mobile industry. Constanze is taking the lead as the Cologne-based SMS specialists seeks to build and deepen relationships with small and medium-sized retailers and services.
GTX gains a new competent partner: medXso. Combining their appointment software TimeControl with the SMS-gateway of GTX, practices can easily and reliably remind their patients about an upcoming appointment. Furthermore, relevant patient data can be transferred and treatment rooms managed easily. Thus, this cooperation helps to make everyday practice more efficient in the long run.
Dresden, Germany-based brands ZAS, a specialist in software solutions for small temporary work companies and their administration, as well as Seminarstarter, a provider of solutions for education workshops, and GTX have started a co-operation.
Both brands are managed by Olaf Michel. He explains: GTX offers services of high relevance, with a very interesting pricing model and also a very dedicated personal service to help get the most out of SMS integration in ZAS and Seminarstarter.
With immediate effect, Frank Tüting has been appointed managing director alongside GTX company founder Oliver Zabel to lead the German SMS specialist. Tüting, born 1971, will claim responsibility for the international growth and business development of GTX, which includes new cooperations as well as adding use cases.
Having spent many years in the telecoms industry, Tüting is an experienced manager with detailed knowledge of the messaging and mobile marketing sectors. He had been working for GTX since the beginning of 2015 as a freelance consultant. Prior to that, Tüting worked as advisor to various companies of the Venista Ventures group. A graduate of Economics at the University of Oldenburg, Tüting started working in the telecommunications industry in 1998. For the past 13 years he was self-employed and a consultant for numerous clients.
In collaboration with Net Inventors, a Shopware partner from Hamburg, GTX has integrated their SMS interface in "EasyNotify". A Shopware plug-in that can be acquired via, amongst others, the Shopware Community. The "EasyNotify" plug-in, in combination with a GTX SMS account, enables users to send SMS messages directly from the Shopsystem.
Whether it's a birthday discount or a shipping confirmation, EasyNotify and GTX enables you to keep your customers updated on every turn of events.
The first three customers who install the EasyNotify plug-in will receive a full refund, provided by GTX, in the form of a 100 euro SMS credit.
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On September 13 & 14, 2017, Wholesale World Congress returns to the Spanish capital, Madrid. As meeting point for the international telecoms wholesale community, WWC brings together 800 attendees from various parts of the industry. This year again, our team from GTX Messaging will be there to learn about and connect with current and future trends in SMS marketing. With its special SMS Exchange Corner, WWC offers a great opportunity to meet other experts in this field. We are already excited about what is to come and cannot wait to finally arrive in beautiful Madrid.
In late February 2017, GTX will be in Barcelona to attend the Mobile World Congress. This event is all about how mobile is changing today’s world, featuring numerous industry experts and a highly interesting and diverse conference agenda. We are looking forward to meeting new people from the industry for some networking and exchanging ideas about the mobile ecosystem.
The Wholesale World Congress (WWC) is the meeting point for the international telecoms wholesale community. It's an event for the entire industry with participants from all areas of the wholesale telecom industry including Tier 1, 2 and 3 carriers, mobile / wireless operators, ISPs, VoIP providers and technology partners from the voice, data, satellite, sub-sea and fixed-line markets and GTX.
Being the host city of the trade show Dmexco, Cologne is the place to be for advertisers, service providers and all companies understanding the importance of digitalization. This year Dmexco’s motto is „Digital is everything – not every thing is digital“. Exhibitors from all around the globe will share their ideas on digital developments.