Text messaging, or texting is a form of direct, personal communication that enables you to get in touch and make very close contact with your customers, staff, and suppliers. No other communication channel provides such closeness between a brand and its consumers, because SMS enables enterprises to communicate with people in a highly personalised and responsive way. Portio Research Ltd, an independent research company that provides high-quality reports on the mobile and wireless industry, has even declared SMS as the “king” of non-voice communication because of its 6 main qualities
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SMS messaging for small businesses
With more and more new digital channels available for promotion, it is tough for small businesses to reach customers with their marketing message. Although possibilities for promotion are almost limitless nowadays, this enormous amount of advertising and promotion have forced people to become “blind” and much smarter in a selection of tools to avoid them. Smart marketers had turned this absurd situation in their favour when they decided to use some of the almost forgotten or underestimated communication channels. We are speaking about SMS and SMS marketing. What can small businesses do with SMS more efficiently than with other digital channels? Here is the list of our suggestions.
The Power of SMS for Business
The power of text messaging is growing — especially SMS messaging for business. Despite predictions from 2011 when some experts said SMS would die in the coming years, not only it didn’t die, but it eventually grew stronger. The reason for such dark predictions lied in a growing number of mobile apps, but SMS proved to be resistant. Now, in 2017, we can hear new voices saying that SMS will grow from $55.49 billion to $71.60 billion by 2021 while mobile app installation will face a serious drop down. Having this in mind, more and more marketers are turning to SMS marketing.
SMS Marketing for Retail
SMS is the most effective direct marketing channel. SMS has a 98% open rate and 36% click-through rate. Compared to email, with a 22% open rate and just 2.9% CTR, there is no doubt that SMS is the best direct marketing channel for brands and retailers. With these numbers, it is clear that sending text messages is an excellent return on investment. And even more shocking is that 90% of all text messages are read within 3 minutes of being received on the mobile phone. Furthermore, 98 % of all SMS messages are looked at and are read within an average of five seconds! Therefore SMS is still the most effective way to reach customers and deliver your marketing message efficiently and cost-effectively.
A2P SMS Messaging for Enterprises
A2P SMS Messaging (application to person messaging), or enterprise 2-way SMS, is an ideal way to maintain consistent and timely communication with your customers. In a world where everything is so fast, it is essential to have quality communication with your audience and clients because people don’t want to wait. For anything, anymore. Customers expect fast if possible immediate responses from companies and brands.
MMS vs. SMS marketing – which one is better?
Mobile marketing has proved its importance. Today more and more companies and brands are using mobile marketing to reach out to customers and keep them in the loop. The most commonly used mobile marketing tactic is SMS marketing. It is the oldest form of mobile marketing simply because the first mobile phones in the 1990s were able to send/receive only the SMS. So, marketers had just this one tool available to use – hence the SMS marketing was born. But, mobile technology progressed tremendously, and today mobile phones have so many different capabilities that we can freely say we are carrying small computers in our pockets. Nevertheless, SMS marketing is still the most popular form of mobile marketing because it’s easy, cheap, fast and provides great ROI.