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Text Marketing for Retail: 4 Reasons Why Your Business Should Send SMS Promotions
97-99% of text messages are opened and read, most within a few minutes. By comparison, the open rate of commercial emails is around 17% and the organic reach of your social media posts ranges from 8-13.5%. Shouldn’t you be texting your customers? Here’s why it’s a great idea.
How to Send High Performing SMS Promotions (Include These 3 Things)
Wondering how to send high performing SMS promotions? You’re in the right place. Click to learn the 3 critical elements to every successful text message campaign.
How to Send Daily Inspirational Quotes By Text Message / SMS
In this article, you’ll learn how to send daily inspirational quotes by text message (or SMS) using the Follow Up Campaign Manager in BROADCASTsms.
How to Send SMS Text Reminders to Customers in 10 Seconds (or less)
Reduce forgotten and missed appointments by 50-75%! Learn how to send to send text reminders to customers using the Reminders module of CONNECTsms.
12 Awesome Ways to Use Text/SMS Messages for Business
While most people think of using SMS solely for driving sales and revenue, it has many other valuable applications including driving social proof and obtaining client feedback. See all 12 uses here!
How to Launch an SMS Marketing Campaign in 7 Easy Steps
While setting up an SMS campaign is often advertised as being “quick and easy”, the truth is setting the foundation for successful campaigns takes some planning and thought.
How to Build a List of Subscribers for Your SMS Campaigns
Before you can begin messaging your customers, they need to provide you with consent to do so by subscribing to receive your promotional messages. This article will show you how to build a massive list of customers using a number of “subscription systems”—simple, mostly automated systems that build your customer list with minimal effort from you and your staff.
Sending CASL-Compliant Text / SMS Messages in Canada
In Canada, the law governing the sending of text messages is known as “Canada’s Anti Spam Legislation” or CASL (pronounced “castle”). While CASL is more flexible than US law, the penalties can be severe for those who fail to send CASL-compliant text messages. Read this article to find out to send CASL-compliant text messages to your contacts or customers.
Text Messaging for Employment / Social Services: 6 Benefits
If you manage an employment or social services agency you must use text messaging to reach your contacts and clients. Not only are people not responding to voice calls like they used to, but many prefer text messaging over all other communication channels. For some, it’s the only communication option available.
Canadian Short Codes: Costs, Benefits and Alternatives
While Canadian short codes are without a doubt a great option for sending SMS, their high cost makes them impractical for many businesses and organizations. Luckily, there is a low cost solution in VTFNs (verified toll free numbers).
7 Reasons Why Beauty Businesses Benefit from Text Marketing
Canadian owners of spas, beauty and aesthetics services are perfectly positioned to capitalize on the many benefits of text message marketing. There are 7 reasons why this is so. Let’s get into them now…
19 SMS Marketing FAQs for Businesses
Text message/SMS marketing isn’t something that only big businesses with extremely deep pockets have access to. In reality, text message marketing is an affordable marketing channel, suitable for almost every business.