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Introducing: A free way to build your SMS marketing list

Introducing: a free way to build a mobile database, including free text messages, free shortcode, free keywords, and free opt outs (we must be mad!)

For some time we’ve been looking at how our clients obtain, build and manage their lists of mobile numbers.

Most accumulate subscribers by asking people for their mobile number and  manually uploading the details into textburst.

This works well, but does require manual work to get the contacts loaded into textburst.

And it doesn’t easily allow the subscribers to opt out of the list. A person still has to call and request their removal, and in turn our customer has to login and delete the relevant person.

It’s all a bit cumbersome and littered with possibilities for error e.g. not dealing with an un-subscribe request.

continue reading Introducing: A free way to build your SMS marketing list

2 way SMS online with textburst

2 way SMS simply means the ability to send and receive text messages. It lets you to have a proper text chat with your customer. If you’ve got something to share and would like instant feedback then it’s probably the best mechanic you could hope to find.

OK so you can communicate in lots of different ways:  talking, writing, print, radio, TV, the internet, the mobile internet, email, texting, tweeting…

But whatever medium you choose, you’ve got to make sure you’re listening. If you’re broadcasting only, you can never know what people want from you.

Text messages get a 97% open rate and are amazingly responsive.

So if you want to do a mobile marketing campaign, send alerts or other staff and customer text updates, it’s just the thing. Especially as you can get replies in real time. What could be better? continue reading 2 way SMS online with textburst

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