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The benefits of
SMS marketing
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What is SMS marketing?
SMS marketing is simply a marketing campaign conducted by SMS. Marketing by SMS differs from social marketing or online marketing in that it is direct. Like mailing campaigns, SMS marketing is a form of opt-in marketing, which involves sending a promotional message to a contact base that has previously given its consent to receive an advertising offer.
Marketing via SMS can be an effective complement to online marketing, enabling you to reach customers and prospects more directly and instantly, with targeted and effective messages. Thanks to a platform SMS platform like ours, you can send your SMS messages simultaneously to an unlimited number of consumers. Your SMS campaign will be routed directly by our solution, from your account or application, to your customers' inboxes.
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SMS marketing: use cases
SMS customer information
It's the first step to effective marketing. Improve customer relations and boost customer loyalty by automatically informing your customers of order follow-ups, deliveries, appointment reminders, etc.
- Make your brand accessible to your customers at any time
- Create a regular link with your interlocutors and increase their satisfaction
- Ensure a better follow-up of reservations, purchases or orders
SMS commercial
Generate point-of-sale traffic with promotional campaigns (promotions, private sales, stock clearance, etc.) via SMS marketing.
- Relay your promotional offers on mobile
- Increase your turnover and operational efficiency
- Bring the benefits of SMS (conversion, ROI, Clicks, etc.) to your store.
Flash promotions, sales, private sales, Black Friday...
SMS marketing is particularly well suited to events such as Black Friday, when promotions are limited in time. The deliverability of SMS ensures that your customers have received your communication. What's more, customers are more sensitive to this instantaneous, personal and customizable channel. The use of variables (surname, first name, purchase history, etc.) makes the customer experience even more personal.
Welcome offers
Everyone expects to receive a welcome e-mail, but the immediate dispatch of a SMS instead can be a pleasant surprise.
If you're offering a sign-up incentive, you can send the discount code or link via SMS. Then follow up SMS with an email, to maximize your chances of prompting a purchase.
Special offers with limited duration
SMS is ideal if you're running a special offer (new collections, clearance sale...) and you want to give your customer every opportunity to take part. For your best sales and promotions, incorporate a little urgency into the language. It's even possible to offer no discount at all and play on the sense of urgency alone.
Drive-to-store
SMS is also an excellent way of generating qualified in-store traffic. You can send SMS campaigns containing a promotional code. Once in the store, this code enables your customers to benefit from advantages, and all you have to do is count the number of times the code has been used to calculate the conversion rate of your campaigns!
Ex: "Use code XXXX at the checkout before 6pm today for free delivery."
Drive-to-web marketing with Rich SMS
To counter the 160-character limit at SMS, give access to more content by inserting a link in your messages. This technique, known as SMS or "Rich SMS", is one of the most effective marketing tools available. It lets you combine the engagement of SMS with the power of a web page.
Always introduce the link with a clear call to action to encourage the recipient to take the next step, as well as a link containing more detailed information. And use a short link to save a few characters in your message.
Some examples:
"Discover our new collection via this link:mysite and take advantage of our benefits before anyone else."
"Take our survey for a chance to win prizes!"
"Visit :mysite before midnight to grab clearance items before they're gone."
Birthdays
Show your customers that they matter. Remember important occasions like their birthday or the day they became members of your loyalty program. It's a nice gesture to your customers, but it's also an opportunity for you to encourage them to buy with an offer that lasts only a few days around that date.
You can place the offer directly in your message, use SMS as an incentive to check their email for a special gift, or even embed a link in your SMS messages to trigger qualified visits to your website or store.
Order confirmation, shipment update and delivery tracking
SMS is particularly effective for order confirmation and shipping updates.
Your customer doesn't need to check his e-mails to make sure the order has been placed. And if the email is late in arriving, SMS fulfills the role of reassurance.
Customer service
Your SMS marketing channel can be made available to your customer service department. SMS don't have to be about sales. They can be used to proactively deal with questions before they become problems.
SMS can be useful for reassuring people who are experiencing shipping delays. It's a more intimate channel for explaining delays and showing a human face, which strengthens your branding.
People want to have a conversation. SMS is an opportunity to build that relationship more deeply.
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SMS marketing: best practices
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For example, if your aim is to lead to a purchase by sending a promotional code, Monday at 8.30 a.m. is certainly not the ideal time to program your campaign. If your activity involves a meeting, another option is to send SMS just after an appointment. You're already in the customer's mind, and you know he's available.
Personalize the message sender for clear communication. You can't assume that your customers have you in their contacts: this means that your message will appear from a number they won't recognize, and without any identifying information. If you want them to follow through on your text, you have to identify yourself immediately. With smsmode©you can personalize your Sender ID and can therefore be identified even before the SMS website is opened.
That's not much to deliver an impactful message, especially when you have to identify yourself and add the STOP SMS.
You can of course send a longer message, but it will cost you several credits.
So you need to know exactly what you want to say and not waste any characters. Get to the point quickly and use links (and link shorteners) to complete the details of your message.
The first rule is obviously opt-in: each of your contacts must have given their explicit consent before your company sends them SMS .
The time of sending is also regulated: promotional SMS campaigns must be sent between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and can be sent every day except Sundays and public holidays.
The word STOP is also mandatory for all your advertising messages.
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Our SMS packaged solutions
SMS (TEXT MESSAGES)
- Relay your promotional offers on mobile
- Increase your turnover and operational efficiency
- Benefit from the innovative image of the mobile
TTS (SMS synthesized voice)
- Deliverability on landlines and mobiles, very good reception quality
- Minutes included, acknowledgement of receipt and reading possible
- A worldwide shipment
RCS
- A channel for conversational commerce
- Intuitive and multimedia massages
- Conversion champion
WhatsApp Business
- A channel that multiplies your customer service
- A verified company profile
- A cost to the conversation