Posts by Jeff Judge

Jeff is co-founder and CEO of Signal. Full bio →

Scheduled activities now available in the Signal dashboard

To date, we've done a nice job of showing you recent marketing activities in the dashboard, but there's never been a way to see activities that you've scheduled for the future. To address this gap, we just added a timeline view designed to give you a quick look at what's ahead. You can toggle to this view from the dashboard by ... keep reading →

Create responsive landing pages with Signal

We're excited to release five new landing page templates that have been built to be responsive across browsers and devices. Why does that matter? Jeffrey Veen, CEO and co-founder of Typekit put it best: Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows.  Responsive web design represents a ... keep reading →

Jack Myers is a Signaler!

This week we’re excited to welcome Jack Myers to the team as Product Specialist. We’ve gotten to know Jack well since moving into 1871 last October and when this new role opened up we were thrilled that he was interested. Welcome aboard, Jack!

Scheduled Maintenance: Monday, March 4th at 11:59 PM CDT

The Signal application and messaging will be unavailable for one hour starting at 11:59 PM Central on Monday, March 4, 2013. We will be performing system maintenance on our database infrastructure. This maintenance will help us improve database performance and reliability. Please email our support team (support@signalhq.com) if you have any questions.

New feature: Share email campaigns to your social networks

We just opened up a new feature in Signal designed to make it easier for you to share your email campaigns across social networks like Twitter and Facebook. After sending your email, you’ll see a link to view your email online: Here’s a closer look at the new module: We generate a short URL for ... keep reading →

2012 recap, 2013 look ahead

As we wind down the year, I wanted to take the chance to look back on all the things the Signal team accomplished in 2012: Released a new knowledge base (support.signalhq.com) that’s full of helpful tips, best practices and product how-to guides Made email campaigns a robust part of the Signal product – we released ... keep reading →

Pro-tip: Use an expiration date in your next text message offer

I was just going through the system we use to track our product development efforts (Redmine), and noticed a ticket from October 2010 that read “We should make the {{ “in 3 days” | date }} expiration tags publicly available for use in messaging. These are pretty helpful and I can see a lot of customers ... keep reading →

Introducing the Signal user profile page

Following up on our dashboard update post from a few days ago, I’m excited to introduce our new Signal user profile page. Here’s a quick look: As you can see, I can now get a look at Julian’s recent activity within Signal and quickly find his contact information. We’ve also added the ability for you ... keep reading →

A new look for the Signal dashboard

Keeping with our focus on constant iteration and improvement at Signal, I’m excited to introduce to you some nice improvements we recently made with the Signal dashboard. 1) New Reach module Our primary goal at Signal is to make it easy for you to understand how well your marketing efforts are doing and give you ... keep reading →

SMS Surveys: A Helpful Tool for Collecting Customer Insight

I was going through our product yesterday and it hit me that it’s surprising how little love we give our SMS survey functionality. If you think about it, SMS is the perfect channel for surveys, given the low barrier to entry for consumers (no app to install, no website to hit) and ease of administration for ... keep reading →