For every dollar your management invests in a CRM system, they expect you to get more than a 5X return. Your sales team can contribute to this ROI by embracing the CRM as a valuable part of their daily sales activities. Integrating business messaging with your CRM is one way to help salespeople use it as
Customers want personalized, relevant experiences with brands. They say they’re willing to give up personal information to get those experiences, but often don’t follow through. Text messaging is easy, intuitive, and fast. Asking for feedback via SMS can help with your personalization efforts. Online surveys have been around for years. Many brands send emails after
In the healthcare industry alone, missed appointments cost providers more than $150 billion every year in the United States. Imagine the toll if you add on missed appointments for salons, car repairs, meeting with investment advisors and more. When asked, 60 percent of respondents said that getting a text remindervia SMS messages would make them
All businesses struggle with getting prospects and customers to pay attention to their communications. Blasting an email to share an important announcement doesn’t have much impact, even if it does get found in their inbox. Contrast that with a 90% read rate for SMSd messages—usually within a minute or two. This article is part of
Businesses that want to develop trusted, engaged relationships with their prospects and customers are finding that SMS messages are growing in preference as a communications channel. But business texting is not the same as shooting a message to a friend on your smartphone. The first step to trust is gaining your audience’s consent to message
People are always interested in learning. The constraint that keeps them from doing so is often a lack of time. When’s the last time you had time to study a 20-page lesson or view a few hours of video instruction to learn something new? Imagine being able to learn a concept or a skill via
Consumers’ expectations continue to become more demanding. They want fast responses and less effort required when communicating with the brands they favor. If you want to market in real time, your best choice is to use SMS messages. People check their phones every 15 minutes or so, even without the ping of a notification. Smartphones