Text Messaging
Using Text Messaging to Reach Customers During Eme...

During times of crisis, it’s more important than ever to ensure communication channels are open and properly used. Text messaging is a great way to reach out and communicate with your audience about updates and critical information.  Text messaging is a powerful tool to build and maintain strong relationships. Today, when people are feeling isolated

Automated Text Messaging Campaigns
5 Examples of Automated Text Messaging Campaigns

Marketing automation has become a must-have tool for businesses that want to grow and scale quickly, while maintaining solid customer relationships. In fact, 49% of all companies and 55% of B2B companies are currently using automated campaigns as part of their sales, customer support, and marketing strategies. Incorporating automated text messaging is the next step

Business Text Messaging
5 Tips for Buying Business Text Messaging for Your...

We all know researching new products can be a pain. So here’s our first tip for anyone purchasing business text messaging for sales reps or call centers: not all messaging products are created equal. Certainly not when it comes to handling sales conversations. Many of them promise the same capabilities but they don’t deliver the

How to sell
How to Sell With SMS Messaging

We all trust that our sales reps know how to sell  Right? But are they up-to-date on what matters most to your buyers? Or are they like many of us, relying on the way we’ve always done it, because it’s worked for us before? The reality is that too many reps only focus on selling

SMS messaging
3 Ways To Quickly Get Personal with SMS Messaging

Personal conversations are the holy grail for any sales team. That’s just one reason sales is turning to SMS messaging for interactive conversations. It’s the channel people prefer. Especially in today’s world when people expect vendors to treat them as unique individuals, not the mass profiles we’ve come to think of as “personal.” Consumers are

SMS delivery
Top 6 Ways to Increase SMS Delivery

When a vendor says they have SMS delivery reporting, it doesn’t guarantee that your messages are always received by your recipients. In fact, as we’ve been discussing, it’s the carriers’ rules, your messaging content, volumes, speeds and other factors that determine deliverability.  Luckily, that doesn’t mean you’re at a carrier’s mercy. There are actions you

SMS delivery
What You Really Need to Know About Your SMS Delive...

Last November, dozens of people received text messages that were originally sent to them in February, but weren’t delivered when originally sent. The senders never knew that the messages weren’t received, and the recipients who got the texts months later were confused. One even received a text from a friend who was now deceased, obviously

SMS message
4 Ways to Assure Your SMS Message is Delivered

So you just hit ‘send’ and now your SMS message is on its way to your prospective buyer, right? Well, not always. Just like email, messages are subject to SPAM filters. Whether your SMS message is actually delivered is additionally subject to a variety of restrictions and rules that vary from carrier to carrier and

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Why Your SMS Delivery Report Isn’t Enough

By now, it’s well-known that text messaging is a powerful way to connect with customers. But there is still confusion on exactly how business text messaging works. We hear a lot of questions about how to use an SMS delivery report. The first thing we have to explain is that the delivery report may not