Entrepreneur Marketing Month: A Great Time to Start Text Marketing

Did you know June is Entrepreneurs’ Do It Yourself Marketing Month? It’s a great month to start a new marketing activity with your customers. Today, I’d like to talk about why texting is a great tool to add to your DIY marketing arsenal.

SMS marketing is an effective DIY tool that can help a host of small businesses in both marketing and customer service. In a recent study, we learned that 95% of text messages are read within five minutes.

Here are five ways you can use Textingly’s awesome service to build a better relationship with your customers any month of the year.

1. Customer service – Textingly enables you to chat with your customer via text to handle customer service questions and to take orders. See how simple it is to start a conversation with one keyword and one text in our how-to video.
2. Event reminders – If you host events such as webinars, seminars or participate in trade shows, event reminders via text can help you remind you invitee list of when to engage.
3. Service appointments – Service companies often depend on customers meeting them at home or an office to install or repair a device or appliance. Typically, service staff will call 30 minutes before arrival to remind the customer. Office staff, school teachers and service professionals may not always have the ability to answer these calls. Setting up a text reminder service can help improve customer service and service staff productivity.
4. Specials and sales – Have inventory to move? Notify your customers of your last-minute sales without waiting on them to check their email, Facebook or mail box. It’s simple to send out a quick text to drive traffic – today.
5. Loyalty programs – Loyalty programs don’t have to be about the business card punch anymore. Set up a text loyalty program so customers on your SMS updates list get exclusive deals and the ability to refer friends right from their phone.