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How to Write Great Text Messages (for Your SMS Campaigns)
Crafting compelling marketing messages with 160 characters or less can be challenging. The templates discussed in this article are a great starting point for your text message promotions and they’ll work very well for you.
CONNECTsms: Your All-Canadian ZipWhip Alternative
CONNECTsms is designed to enable fast, efficient, person-to-person text message communications with your clients. With a minimal learning curve and focus on ease of use, transitioning to CONNECTsms from ZipWhip is a breeze. You’ll be relieved by how easy it all is.
How Can Your Business Use Mass Texting?
How can your business or organization use a mass texting service? This is a common question most business owners and managers have. A quick glance over the table below will introduce you to the opportunities, and hopefully, get the “juices” flowing.
4 Reasons Your Restaurant Needs SMS Marketing
For smart restaurant, pub, or café owners, text message marketing is an effective, efficient, and low-cost way to stay connected with your current customers (as well as build on your base) and keep them apprised of the things that are going on in your establishment.
Reduce No Shows with Automated Text Reminders
If you own or manage a service business and you’re reading this, automated text reminders are important you, whether you know it yet or not. You already know the impact that missed appointments and no shows are having on your bottom line. And it’s no trifling amount.
Text Reminders: How Much do they Reduce Missed Appointments?
How much of an impact can our text reminder services have, and to what extent will it reduce your rate of “no shows”? The good news is that we have some pretty solid numbers in this regard, coming from very respected resources: peer-reviewed clinical trials.
Send Text Messages with an SMS Gateway Service
A gateway service is quite literally, a “gateway” to your customers’ mobile devices. It provides access to the mobile carriers’ networks so that you can deliver your messages through them directly to your contacts. The best services are designed to be extremely easy to use and navigate.
What’s the Best Time to Send SMS Marketing Messages?
Text messages sent at certain times of the day may be less ideal than others. Ideally, you’d like to “hit” your customers with your marketing messages when they are most able to respond to them, or when they will have the most impact.
Contact Tracing: 7 Reasons for Public Health to Use Text Messages
The efforts of public health workers, contact tracers and medical professionals has never more critical as it is today. There are 7 reasons why public health officials should consider using CONNECTsms to reach their audience with simple text messages. Let’s get into them…
Medical Texting to Patients; Guidelines for HIPAA Compliance
Got questions about HIPAA compliance and sending SMS / text messages to your patients? I’m not surprised. I probably don’t need to tell you that a growing number of your patients and clients have don’t have landlines, use cell phones extensively, and communicate largely by text message.
Video: Canada’s Anti-Spam Laws and SMS / Text Marketing
CASL is fundamentally a law about consent. Consent in this case refers to the permission that must be granted by your clients in order for you to send them marketing messages. CASL allows for two types of consent: Express Consent and Implied Consent.
How Sue from Ontario Strong & Andrew Scheer Screwed Up with Mass Texting / SMS
Texting is a powerful tool and it can benefit anyone who uses it properly. But used improperly, it can do nothing but increase the distrust and disillusionment Canadians currently have for politicians. So here are 3-ways how to do mass texting “right”…