Are You Sending Advice from a Trusted Friend or Just More Junk Messages from a Bot?
Are You Sending Advice from a Trusted Friend or Ju...

One of our favorite companies (and long-term customers) sends personal, one-on-one texts every day. Because of the nature of their work (they’re lawyers), they interact with clients for several weeks or several months at a time, so building a relationship is critical. Not every client gets a text message every day, but members of the

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Provide Personal and Relevant SMS Messages with Co...

In last week’s blog post we covered the importance of making sure your text-messaging strategy includes industry-specific content. This week we are highlighting how personalized and relevant SMS messages provide even better experiences for your audience, increase engagement and lead to more successful messaging programs in general. These days, personalization is much more than just

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Real-Time Marketing and Sales with SMS Messages

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

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Get and Stay Relevant with SMS Messages

We all know that when we’re not relevant with a prospect, they find a vendor who is. SMS messages get you relevant and keep you interesting to your prospects and customers. You can use the natural style of a conversation to ask what your prospect wants to know. When they respond, you’ll know what they

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3 Questions to Answer Before Starting Your Campaig...

SMS messages and texting is growing in preference as a communication channel between businesses, business professionals and consumers. However, conversational messaging for marketing is not the same as whipping out your smartphone to fire off a text to friends or family. An advanced messaging platform is a business tool that requires a strategy for your

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SMS Messages Move Businesses Beyond Transactions

SMS messages in business is often thought of as purely transactional. It’s commonly used for password verification, appointment reminders, package delivery updates, service appointment arrival times, coupons and promotional offers—all of them transactional communications. But messaging can have much more impact as a conversation. Most transactional messages are push messages sent out based on triggers

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Messages with Empathy Show Customers You Care

Customers who are emotionally connected are more than double[1] the value of highly satisfied customers, on a lifetime basis, according to Harvard Business Review (HBR). Empathy gets a lot of lip service from marketers and salespeople, but to grow our companies we need to actually show empathy for our customers with messaging that resonates over

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Use Conversational Business Texting to Turn Passiv...

Facing a talent shortage? Consider passive talent. Seventy percent of potential candidates are passive talent, says a recent LinkedIn[1] study. However, since they are not actively looking for a job, getting their attention is a challenge. They would be reluctant to take calls from unknown numbers at work and they might not see your email,