What Are Employees Looking For?

With the Covid-19 pandemic came a change in the kind of work job-seekers will accept. Many businesses have had to raise their wages to attract new employees, as well as providing other incentives. Job-seekers are being much more selective than in the past. Flexibility has become a priority in many job searches. Workers often want flexibility in both hours and location. Working remotely has shown a significant amount of job-seekers that they prefer to work on their own time in the location of their choosing, so retail and restaurant employers may have to sweeten the deal to get as many applicants as they would in the past.

Seasonal employers can attract more applicants in a number of ways:

• Increasing flexibility
• Paying higher wages
• Creating a pleasant work environment
• Offering employee discounts
• Providing certain benefits that outshine the competition

Using SMS Messaging To Reach Job-Seekers

Now that you have structured or restructured your business to be more attractive to job-seekers, you need to get the word out. There are many ways for you to start searching for applicants, but one method that should not go ignored is through SMS messaging. Here are some ways to use this method to your benefit.

Check Your Customer List

Some valuable employees may actually be found in your customer base. Your customers already have knowledge of your product or service, and they have some level of interest in it. If they are not interested in your job offer, they may still know someone who is and make a referral. 

Include SMS Methods To Apply In Job Listings

Including a QR Code or text-to-apply language wherever you are looking for workers can make the hiring process much easier. Using this method in your bulletins can really help draw in job-seekers, as getting someone to your application page could not be simpler.

Reach Out To Current Employees

You can send out texts to your current employees offering special bonuses for bringing in potential new hires. The employees you already have can give the best pitch to those within their network, and all they have to do is forward your text to a new applicant.

Set Up Keywords For Text Support

You can set up keywords to be texted to your company that come with automated responses. You can use these to answer certain questions you may aniticipate that applicants may have or even help set up interviews.

Keep In Touch With Your Network

Those who have worked for you in the past may be willing to do so again next time seasonal workers are needed. Ensure that their work experience is positive enough that they may want to return. Invite them to events and give them access to bonuses your full-time employees can receive. Most importantly, keep in touch. Do not lose their number. When that busy time of year comes around next time, they may be glad you reached out.

Using TextP2P In Your Marketing

You can set up a form on your website for people to apply and feed that directly into TextP2P. From there, you can kick off an automated drip campaign of messages. Your business could also install our click to text me wordpress plugin or embedded code into their websites.

To start using all the benefits of text messaging to market your business, click here for a 14-day free trial of TextP2P.

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Make follow-ups easy by scheduling reminder texts, automated drip campaigns and alert notifications. 75% of people say they appreciate text appointment reminders.

With TextP2P, you can set up SMS reminders from days to even years in advance from when you need them to be sent. TextP2P allows you completely automate text reminders. Using automated SMS reminders is the best way to keep your business running without creating any extra work for you are your employees. Manually checking in with customers can be time consuming, the use of automation offsets that extra labor.

It’s important to ask your clients whether they would prefer a text, email, or ringless voicemail before sending out any follow-up reminders. Chances are however, your customers will prefer to receive a text message. TextP2P can also assist you when sending reminder through voicemail or email. Our service includes email as well as ringless voicemail. For customers that prefer texts, all you need is a phone number. Then, schedule when they will receive appointment reminders and follow-ups.

Sending appointment reminders

Setting up appointment reminders is easy. All you need is a phone number, and the time and date you need your text to be sent. Once you have that information, you can type out your message and schedule it. Because TextP2P features email as well as SMS, you could even send an email a week prior to an appointment, and a text message the night before.

Sending appointment reminders is also a great way to get your customers used to receiving text messages from your business. Now that they’ve received messages from you in regards to their appointments, they’ll likely be more responsive. Next time they see texts that include promotions and surveys, they’ll be more likely to respond. Be sure to only send valuable content when sending marketing-related texts, however. While e-mails are great for a lot of information in long-form content, text messages need be straight to the point.

Following up with customers

Following up with customers after their appointments is one of the best ways to market your business and retain your current clients. You can schedule an automatic text message thanking them for choosing your business after their service. Another option is to ask your customer for their feedback on your service. For example, you could send a question based text asking about their experience. If they send a response to your text message, you could set up an automatic reply with a link to review your business on Google or another platform.

What types of business are these useful for?

Using automated text messages is a great feature that can be useful for any business, but appointment reminders and follow ups are especially useful for service-base industries. This includes hair salons, dental offices, gyms, counselors, photographers, consultants, etc. If your business relies on customers making appointments for your business to make a profit, then this feature is important to utilize and implement.

We can use the healthcare industry as an example of how to use appointment reminders. If you work in the healthcare industry or similar, try sending out a text the day before your patients appointment to ensure that will remember their appointment and show up the next day. Make sure to include both the time and the date of their appointment in your text message. The best way to ensure your patient will arrive to their appointment on time is to send a text at around 6:00PM the night before. This allows the patient to have enough time to organize their schedule around the appointment and avoid cancellations.

If you would like to start sending out automated appoint reminders and follow-ups to your customers, click here for TextP2P’s 14-day free trial.

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A2P 10DLC refers to a system in the United States that allows businesses to send A2P, or application-to-person messaging via a standard 10-digit long code, or 10DLC. Starting on April 1st, 2021, A2P 10DLC will launch on AT&T. Along with the launch, businesses that intend to send messages with AT&T will be required to complete a new registration in order to use local area code numbers in the United States. This registration must be completed by October 1, 2021 to avoid any additional filtering.

What is A2P?

A2P is an industry that stands for “application-to-person”. This term is used to reference sending computer programmed text messages to individual people. It’s the simple process of sending a text message from an application directly to a mobile phone. A2P messages are also commonly referred to as “professional” or “enterprise” text messages. This form of text messaging is the most common and cost effective for businesses. A2P removes the manual labor of texting and enables businesses to send bulk text messages. 

Even though TextP2P is meant to seem like you have person to person conversations, all messages sent through TextP2P are considered A2P by US carriers. Businesses can use A2P text messaging for several reasons: sending notifications, sending mass text messages, tracking click-through rates, and delivering time-sensitive alerts. Unlike A2P, P2P messaging refers to person to person. P2P is a standard conversation between two people. However, A2P also allows for 2-way conversations. The difference is that your businesses messages will be sent through an application, and on behalf of your business, not from an individual.

In order to send an A2P message, you must first access an A2P messaging platform, such as TextP2P. You can then send out either mass or inividual SMS and MMS messages. One the A2P message gets sent through a network, it will arrive to your subscribers like a regular text message. There are many benefits to using A2P messaging, such as high response rates, fast respond times, and high volume messaging.

What is 10DLC?

10DLC stands for “10-digit long code” and is also referred to as a “commercial long code”. A 10DLC looks like the standard 10-digit phone numbers used by individuals. However, these codes can actually support the high-volume message output used by businesses. The use of these phone numbers is now becoming the new industry standard for A2P messaging. 

Until recently, 10-digit phone numbers were not designed to send mass text messages. Furthermore, dedicated phone numbers that were built for bulk-texting are called short-codes (5-6 digit numbers) were too expensive for businesses to use. Before 10DLC became an option, most companies would use short codes or toll-free long codes for sending a high volume of text messages. One issue with the previous options is that they can be very expensive, and also appear more corporate than a regular phone number. When your customers see a normal phone number on their screen, they’ll feel more comfortable engaging with your campaign.

By using a 10DLC number, you will be able to send mass text messages without spending a lot of money and lower overhead costs of your business. With a 10DLC codes you’ll also be able to send messages at a rate of 5 to 10 messages per second. The daily limit of text messages that you can send with 10DLC is somewhere between the amount a short code and toll-free long codes can send, which is a large range of a few thousand to a few million. By using a 10DLC code, your business or organization will have it’s own dedicated phone number to send SMS messages with.

Why should you use 10DLC?

10 DLC numbers give businesses the best of both worlds: mass text messaging support, with lower overhead costs. This is what you can expect from 10DLC.

Higher SMS message volumes

10DLC numbers are capable of supporting SMS message volumes that are somewhere between the limits of short-codes and toll-free long codes. Currently, 10DLC messaging can send messages at a rate of 1 message per second, and that number may go up in the future.

Lower costs

10DLC numbers have lower monthly costs than dedicated short codes. So, businesses that can’t afford a short code number or don’t send enough messages to justify paying for a short code have a cost-efficient alternative. Additionally, businesses will be able to convert their existing landlines to 10DLC numbers. This means businesses can send more messages from their existing phone number to get 10DLC capabilities.

Better deliverability

Because 10DLC numbers are sanctioned by the carriers, messages are less likely to be filtered and more likely to reach the recipient.

How does A2P 10DLC work?

There are two important requirements under the new A2P 10DLC system:

1. Businesses must identify who they are to carrier networks (brand registration).
2. Businesses must register what type of messages they are sending, i.e. notifications (campaign registration).

Registration is done entirely through TextP2P’s Trust Center and we will communicate with the The Campaign Registry (TCR) to meet the requirements of carriers, while making it easy for businesses to onboard. See example screenshot below:

Customers will also be required to provide a couple use cases to define their “campaign” to the carriers. Customer’s will need to provide 2 sample messages of the types of text messages they will be sending. These are just examples only for the carriers:

When you complete your A2P Profile (Brand Registration), The Campaign Registry will give your brand a Trust Score of either Low, Medium, or High Trust. This rating influences the maximum message throughput that will be allocated to each of your campaigns. Se table below for AT&T and T-Mobile.

If you would like to learn more about A2P 10DLC and how to register with TextP2P, check out our help page.

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Text messaging is the primary format of digital communication used today. It’s simple and convenient, more accessible than e-mail, and allows for quick and efficient communication. Texting isn’t as invasive as a phone call, and the messages can be engaged with at any time. Receiving a text enables customers to be instantly directed into a digital sales funnel.

A text messaging sales funnel is an approach used by marketers to progressively lead a customer to the desired outcome. The funnel is comprised of three segments. It starts with the most expansive method, while gradually leading to a more targeted approach.

Most of us spend a majority of our day looking at our phones, so businesses must use this opportunity to capture a customer’s attention. Your customer’s first engagement with a text message sales funnel allows for automated follow-ups through text messages.

Top of the Funnel

The top of the funnel starts with the initial action of accumulating subscribers. During this stage, it’s important to build a wide customer database. In order to captivate your audience’s attention with more direct and personalized messages, you need to start with a broader approach.

Keyword Campaigns

Keywords are words or phrases that your clients can text to a 10-digit number. You can add keyword campaigns to a variety of traditional advertising methods. By using a keyword campaign, you can easily establish a correspondence with a potential client. You can use TextP2P to configure automatic reply texts based on a keyword as well.

You can add these keywords to billboards, websites, magazines, radio advertisements, or TV commercials. Use these keywords to promote coupons, contests, and limited-time offers. With text messaging and keywords, you can utilize your established forms of marketing as an avenue to catalog anyone who interacts with your campaign.

Keyword campaigns are an essential part of obtaining a customer’s phone number. Each customer that engages with the keyword campaign is now in your customer database. By texting these keywords, customers are also enrolling in upcoming text message advertising campaigns.

Webforms

Websites can also be used as method to acquire a customer’s phone number and gain subscribers. By using web sign up forms, customers can subscribe to marketing campaigns by entering their information and clicking, “subscribe now.” You can easily convert your business’s website into another path for your customers to engage in your text message sales funnel.

With TextP2P, you can easily allow your website visitors to text you using the TextP2P Texting Widget. By using this widget, you can easily convert leads while they’re on your website with the simple click of a button.

Customer Database

Now that you’ve created a customer database from your keyword campaigns and webforms. You can organize your sales funnel with TextP2P by uploading your contacts in bulk with a CSV file. This will ensure that no customers fall through the cracks.

Middle of the Funnel

To keep the attention of the lead and obtain a new customer, you need to build a relationship through engagement. Since daily text marketing could come off as abrasive, limit your customer interactions to about twice a week. Make sure to focus on informative and time-sensitive content.

Mass Text Campaigns

Mass texts are a good way to follow-up on a keyword campaign. You can create a mass text campaign by accessing your entire keyword campaign database. Campaigns using mass texts can activate engagement as well as purchases. 

Mass texts can be used to inform subscribers about future promotions, new products, special events, and limited-time offers. TextP2P allows you to easily send mass text campaigns to go out at a specific date and time. You can also set up campaigns to repeat every day, week, or month.

Grouping

Start by separating your subscribers into groups based on their similarities. Now, you can send out specifically tailored text message campaigns. For instance, you can categorize subscribers by location to send your customer’s local offers. 

Drip Campaigns

A drip campaign will send automated messages, while a standard campaign includes text messages must be scheduled manually. These sorts of campaigns are the best way to welcome new customers. Drip campaigns work so you don’t have to, allowing for passive marketing.

Now that you’ve accumulated subscribers, try to learn more about them. Your goal is to create more focused and individualized messages. Even something as simple as including your customer’s name can greatly improve your click-through rates.

Bottom of the Funnel

You’re the closest with your subscribers once you’ve reached the bottom of the text message sales funnel. The connection has now been established for more personal interactions between a business and their customers. The bottom of the sales funnel is where you can implement an individualized approach with your customers.

Customer Service and Support

If you want to offer your customers the quickest and most efficient mode of customer support, then you need to use text messaging. Texting is the best and most preffered way to accommodate your customers and assess their needs.

With TextP2P’s text message surveys feature, you can get feedback from your customers quickly and easily. You will be able to send out MMS text surveys to your customers which can contain pictures and up to 1600 characters of text for your survey questions.

Driving Action and Upselling

Using text messages is a great way to capture your customer’s attention, and is an excellent tool for upselling. In order to create a profitable text messaging sales funnel, you need to offer your current customers additional benefits. You can convert these benefits into increased profits by offering discounts and sending links to new products.

Text messages are instant and attention-grabbing, and are helpful with making sales on exclusive or time-sensitive offers. These kinds messages can get lost or ignored in a customer’s email inbox. Through text, you can stand out from the rest of your competition and ensure your customers’ support.

Using Zapier With TextP2P

A great way to utilize the text message marketing funnel is through Zapier, a website that allows you to integrate two or more apps. Zapier also lets you automate your text messages for marketing purposes.

With Zapier’s automated response features, you can effortlessly trigger an action such as a text or email. You can trigger responses with a variety of apps and services, such as Gmail or Facebook. For example, you could activate an automatic text message every time someone purchases a product.

Zapier provides the ability to include filters on your triggers, such as texts that will only send when certain conditions are met. This feature is helpful to your sales funnel, especially when you want to advertise to a particular group of customers. By using Zapier, it’s easy to implement the strategies of the text message marketing funnel.

Using TextP2P in Your Sales Funnel

With TextP2P you can easily convert your established email marketing strategies into a text message. Start today by using our 14-day free trial to see your sales funnel improve with text message marketing.

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As business owners, your first major concern now is how to effectively reconnect with your customers. This would require you to clearly communicate your plans to them, including updates on opening hours, products available, and the new safety and health protocol in place as precaution against COVID.

One efficient and practical way to do that is to use text messaging service for business. With over 3.5 billion mobile phone users in the world, taking advantage of text messaging platforms would help you connect to your customers amid the pandemic.

With that, here’s how you can use text marketing to promote your business’ reopening after the COVID lockdown.

1. Reach out to your customers personally and directly

Nowadays, almost everyone is with their mobile devices all the time. Whether  at home or outside, these devices are safely tucked inside our pockets. This makes it the most accessible and convenient communication device for anyone. And with the prevalence of smartphones, people have become more reliant on their mobile devices than ever especially during the pandemic where physical and social gathering are still restricted.

Thus, using SMS marketing services means you can reach out to your customers personally and directly. Your plans on re-opening would immediately reach them with or without the internet. No more logins, loading times, and searching for Wi-Fi connections. Just hit send and your customers will instantly be notified by their mobile devices.

2. Show empathy and concern with your messages

During these tough times, a little show of empathy can get you a long way. This helps build trust between you, your customers, and employees. Upon seeing how much you care about their health and safety, everyone will feel safe enough to start going back to your establishments.

Compose a unified and timely message and send them through various text marketing platforms to let your customers know about your reopening plans after the Covid-19 lockdown. Likewise, include your employees and staff as well to boost their confidence and morale. Through this, you will be able to encourage both your customers and employees to return with the knowledge that they are protected when they do so.

3. Provide continuous updates to your customers

Of course, sending one empathic message won’t be enough to start encouraging your customers to come back. The key is an open and continuous communication line between you and them. Let them know about the details of your reopening plans and send updates regularly.

Most importantly, prepare yourself from possible questions from your customers. Reply to their queries and reassure them of possible concerns. Be transparent and timely about changes in your operations so that your customers are properly informed about these things. You can take advantage of mass texting to reach out to all your customers at one time.

4. Increase your open rates compared to emails

With 65% of people constantly checking their phones over 160 times a day, SMS marketing increases your open rates compared to emails. Unlike email marketing, text messages can easily be read without the hassle of connecting to the internet and logging in to your account. They simply have to whip out their phones and look at the screen to start reading.

Likewise, it has lesser chances of being overlooked by your customers. This is because SMS has no spam folders to speak of. It will be treated just like any other messages without the dangers of getting buried in your customers’ inbox. This makes it harder for them to ignore your messages.

5. Integrate with other types of marketing

The value of text marketing is that it can easily be incorporated with your current marketing strategies. With its ability to quickly connect with your customers, you can use it to promote your social media pages, websites, and products.

Picking up on SMS marketing is quick and painless thanks to the various business SMS platforms. This makes it easier for you to send mass messages in seconds while retaining its personal touch. It can also help streamline customer engagement and manage your contact lists.

Go spread the word

With cities slowly recovering from the devastating effects of COVID-19, it’s time for your business to start re-opening your doors and reconnecting with your customers, and what better way to do that than through text marketing.

Based on the mobile marketing software analysis by FinancesOnline, mobile commerce or m-commerce trends are steadily rising as new devices, technologies, and applications are innovating mobile services. This paves the way for more opportunities to connect to your customers and improve your marketing strategies after the COVID lockdown.If you want to take advantage of what text marketing has to offer, you can check out the features of TextP2P.

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5 Ways Non-profits Can Use Text Messaging: 

Promote Fundraising Events: Text marketing is a fast, low cost and easy way to tell your past donors about special upcoming events. Create your message and send it to all of your past donors or a targeted group with just a few clicks. Send pictures along with links to your website.

Send Thank You Texts: Let your donors know that you appreciate their support with SMS automation for their donation or for attending your event. 

Organize Volunteers: Easily message all your volunteers by creating on bulk message which can be personalized and sent to each person individually. Then carry on a 2 way conversation with anyone who responds.

Follow up with people you have helped: Schedule automated text messages to follow up with people you have helped over the past year or so.

Collect new leads: Have people text a keyword to donate or receive additional information automatically. You can also integrate your existing website and contact form into your text messaging service.

To learn more about how you can better utilize text messaging for your business, please read SMS Text Marketing For Businesses

How to Get Started Immediately with Text Marketing

The next step is to decide which platform to use to run your text message marketing campaign. We highly recommend our system, TextP2P – Group Texting Made Personal.

TextP2P is an easy to use web application designed to used on a computer or mobile device. TextP2P provides a SMS & MMS text marketing system designed to help small-midsize businesses cultivate better relationships with customers and streamline follow-ups. Send your customers text messages from a virtual 10 digit local number with a maximum of 1600 characters! It offers features like: Sending bulk personalized texts, surveys, drip campaigns, Ringless Voicemails, keyword signups, scheduling, and more.

At TextP2P we offer a FREE 14 day trial where you will receive 100 text credits to use.

Start Free Trial

How Does the Free Trial Work?

  Sign-up for a FREE TextP2P account. Take a tour of the system and watch a demo.

  Sign up for a FREE trial by entering your credit card to start and immediately receive a local area code phone number matching your cell phone and receive 100 FREE text credits.  You credit card will not be charged until your trial is over unless you go over your 100 free texts. After the trial ends your membership begins for just $20/month with our Starter Package Plan.

  You’re in control! Upgrade, Downgrade, Buy Additional Credits, or Cancel at Anytime.

Creating Your First Text Marketing Campaign is Easy

Once you have activated your account by starting your free trial or subscription, you easily send your first text message marketing campaign in just 3 simple steps and in less than 2 minutes.  Watch the video below to see an example of how easy it really is.

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Why text message marketing?

Text message marketing also referred to as SMS Marketing is currently the most effective way for small businesses to reach their customers.  Did you know that text messages have nearly a 100% open rate? People will ignore phone calls, emails, social media messages, but not a text message. Therefore the use of targeted and personalized text messages to advertise or promote a product, service, or event is quickly becoming the most effective way to get your message heard.

According to the New York Times, American’s check their cell phones 80 times per day. That’s about once every 12 minutes! Most people have their cell phone within arms reach even when they are sleeping. By texting your customers you can be assured that not only will they get it, read it, but it’s also the #1 way to increase engagement because 45% of text messages are responded to within 90 seconds.

What is text message marketing?

Text message marketing – or SMS marketing – is the act of sending coupons, special deals, announcements, current events and other information to your customers via text message. Not only can use SMS text messaging which is for messages less than 160 characters, but you can also use MMS – Multimedia Messaging Service which allows you to use pictures & videos and much longer text messages.

It’s often referred to as Mass Texting or Group Texting which allows you to reach all your customers at once by composing one text message or text campaign.  This will not be group texting like you can do on your personal cell phone. It will be sent to each person in the group individually, and each message can be personalized with their name and other personalized custom data fields.

Read 8 Reasons Why Text Message Marketing is Very Effective & How to Start Immediately in 2020 to learn more.

5 Ways Relators Can Use Text Messaging:

Easily Connect To the Customers: SMS marketing owes much of its amazing success rate to speed and open rate. Research has shown that text messages achieve a 98% open rate, compated to only about 20% for email and much less for phone calls. You will reach your customers with text marketing, and you will reach them instantly.

Send Photos: Seeing is believing. With premium business text messaging platforms such as TextP2P, you can include photos, videos and even pdf files in your text messages. Instantly send your prospective home buys pictures of the property or a link for them to visit.

Personal Touch: Other advertising tools available to small businesses like email and social media cannot provide personal customer interactions on par with personalized SMS text marketing. Ex. “Hi Mary, this is your relator Bill and I want to see if you are available to come to an open house event that I’m hosting today at 123 Main Street.”

Faster Response: Texting is discreet, private and fast. That matters when speed can literally make or break your deal. Do you know that most text messages are read and responded to within 30 seconds?

Create text Keywords: For example, ask people to text the keyword HOUSE to get the property listing sheet and price.  Then you immediately have their contact information in order to follow up with them.

To learn more about how you can better utilize text messaging for your business, please read SMS Text Marketing For Businesses

How to Get Started Immediately with Text Marketing

The next step is to decide which platform to use to run your text message marketing campaign. We highly recommend our system, TextP2P – Group Texting Made Personal.

TextP2P is an easy to use web application designed to used on a computer or mobile device. TextP2P provides a SMS & MMS text marketing system designed to help small-midsize businesses cultivate better relationships with customers and streamline follow-ups. Send your customers text messages from a virtual 10 digit local number with a maximum of 1600 characters! It offers features like: Sending bulk personalized texts, surveys, drip campaigns, Ringless Voicemails, keyword signups, scheduling, and more.

At TextP2P we offer a FREE 14 day trial where you will receive 100 text credits to use.

Start Free Trial

How Does the Free Trial Work?

  Sign-up for a FREE TextP2P account. Take a tour of the system and watch a demo.

  Sign up for a FREE trial by entering your credit card to start and immediately receive a local area code phone number matching your cell phone and receive 100 FREE text credits.  You credit card will not be charged until your trial is over unless you go over your 100 free texts. After the trial ends your membership begins for just $20/month with our Starter Package Plan.

  You’re in control! Upgrade, Downgrade, Buy Additional Credits, or Cancel at Anytime.

Creating Your First Text Marketing Campaign is Easy

Once you have activated your account by starting your free trial or subscription, you easily send your first text message marketing campaign in just 3 simple steps and in less than 2 minutes.  Watch the video below to see an example of how easy it really is.

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5 Ways Gyms Can Use Text Messaging: 

Make New Members Feel Welcome: A simple greeting is a great first step to developing new relationships. For example, “Hi ‘name’! Welcome to our gym. We are excited to help you reach and maintain your fitness goals! Reply with your availability so we can schedule your initial fitness assessment.”

Include Special Offers: Everyone loves a deal! Special offers like free trial memberships or bring a friend day or referral program incentives are excellent ways to promote customer loyalty  through your SMS for business program.

Promote New Classes: Business text messaging makes announcements effortless! Starting a new class? Text a simple message to all or part of your client list with all the details or a link to your website. Tap, tap, done.

Send Motivational Message: If you are running a gym and fitness club, you know that motivation is critical. With SMS texting for businesses, you can make motivational quotes or messages part of the service you provide to your customers.

Ask Members to Text a Keyword: Ask members to text the keyword SPIN to opt into receiving text notifications about our spin classes. Stay up to date on class times, cancelations, and more.

To learn more about how you can better utilize text messaging for your business, please read SMS Text Marketing For Businesses

How to Get Started Immediately with Text Marketing

The next step is to decide which platform to use to run your text message marketing campaign. We highly recommend our system, TextP2P – Group Texting Made Personal.

TextP2P is an easy to use web application designed to used on a computer or mobile device. TextP2P provides a SMS & MMS text marketing system designed to help small-midsize businesses cultivate better relationships with customers and streamline follow-ups. Send your customers text messages from a virtual 10 digit local number with a maximum of 1600 characters! It offers features like: Sending bulk personalized texts, surveys, drip campaigns, Ringless Voicemails, keyword signups, scheduling, and more.

At TextP2P we offer a FREE 14 day trial where you will receive 100 text credits to use.

Start Free Trial

How Does the Free Trial Work?

  Sign-up for a FREE TextP2P account. Take a tour of the system and watch a demo.

  Sign up for a FREE trial by entering your credit card to start and immediately receive a local area code phone number matching your cell phone and receive 100 FREE text credits.  You credit card will not be charged until your trial is over unless you go over your 100 free texts. After the trial ends your membership begins for just $20/month with our Starter Package Plan.

  You’re in control! Upgrade, Downgrade, Buy Additional Credits, or Cancel at Anytime.

Creating Your First Text Marketing Campaign is Easy

Once you have activated your account by starting your free trial or subscription, you easily send your first text message marketing campaign in just 3 simple steps and in less than 2 minutes.  Watch the video below to see an example of how easy it really is.

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SMS text marketing is one of the hidden gems of the advertising world. Texting service is the future of marketing for businesses, and it is just as easy as sending a text message to a friend from your phone. Text marketing has endless benefits that cannot be achieved by other marketing strategies. If you want to know what these are, you have to understand the features of SMS text marketing.

Texting is the most valuable marketing tool for your business today!

No other  form of marketing will even come close to delivering the open, read, and response rate you get from texting your customers.  Nearly 100% of all text messages are opened and read within 30 seconds, and if people are going to respond they do so within 3 minutes on average.

What To Expect In 2020

With the advancement of technology, mobile phones have become part and parcel in our life. Research has shown that people touch their smartphones more than 2,620 times in a day and more than 40 million people have opted in to receive text messages regarding business. It is a fact that consumers use their mobile phones to make almost all decisions such as purchasing products, checking price and reviews etc. 

How to Get Started Immediately with Text Marketing

The next step is to decide which platform to use to run your text message marketing campaign. We highly recommend our system, TextP2P – Group Texting Made Personal.

TextP2P is an easy to use web application designed to used on a computer or mobile device. TextP2P provides a SMS & MMS text marketing system designed to help small-midsize businesses cultivate better relationships with customers and streamline follow-ups. Send your customers text messages from a virtual 10 digit local number with a maximum of 1600 characters! It offers features like: Sending bulk personalized texts, surveys, drip campaigns, Ringless Voicemails, keyword signups, scheduling, and more.

At TextP2P we offer a FREE 14 day trial where you will receive 100 text credits to use.

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How Does the Free Trial Work?

  Sign-up for a FREE TextP2P account. Take a tour of the system and watch a demo.

  Sign up for a FREE trial by entering your credit card to start and immediately receive a local area code phone number matching your cell phone and receive 100 FREE text credits.  You credit card will not be charged until your trial is over unless you go over your 100 free texts. After the trial ends your membership begins for just $20/month with our Starter Package Plan.

  You’re in control! Upgrade, Downgrade, Buy Additional Credits, or Cancel at Anytime.

Creating Your First Text Marketing Campaign is Easy

Once you have activated your account by starting your free trial or subscription, you easily send your first text message marketing campaign in just 3 simple steps and in less than 2 minutes.  Watch the video below to see an example of how easy it really is.

Step 1 – Create New List

The first step to simply create a new list to organize and store your contacts. You will name your list whatever you like, optionally indicate what website the contacts came from, and then check the box that the contacts have opted-in to being contacted by you.

 

Step 2 – Import Your Contacts

The next step is import your contacts from a .csv (Comma Separated File) which can be created from Excel or Numbers. Most CRMs and existing systems support exporting data directly to a .csv format. When you import you will asked to label / map each field. Any fields you don’t want to import can be set to ignore.

 

Step 3 – Create New Text Campaign

The final step is to create your text message campaign which will be sent to your entire list.  Simply name your campaign, select your list, and type your message. You can optionally schedule your message to go out at a particular date and time, add multimedia like pictures, videos, pdfs, or audios), and filter your contacts further by tags.  Once you are done editing, hit SEND… and you’re done.

How Text Marketing can be Used by Different Industries

Restaurants & Breweries

Restaurants can ask customers to Text a keyword to sign up for the loyalty program and they could automatically receive a coupon as a response.  They could text their customers to let them know of special events or new menu items. They could text their customers to remind and confirm their reservations. They could text their customers coupons

Gyms

Gyms could text their members to remind them of classes or membership dues. They could text their previous members to offer them special promotions on new signups.  They could collect opt-ins from their webpages and automatically send coupons to interested leads. They could check in with members who have be absent for a long time.

Realtors

Realtors could use text marketing to tell their clients about an open house they are listing. They could advertise to people looking to buy or sell by asking them to text a keyword to their local number for more information. They could use their website forms to gather new leads to immediately text and carry on a two-way conversation. They could use text to ask for referrals and reviews from their previous clients.

Non-profits

Non-profits could use Text Marketing to text donors about fund raising events and activities. They could use the use the keyword to ask people to text the word DONATE to get a link to the donation page. They could use text to coordinate volunteers to help when needed. They could use text to reach out and communicate with those in need.

Network Marketers

Network Marketers could use Text Marketing to market their products and promotions to their clients. They could also use text drip campaigns for onboard training of new distributors. They could use text to follow up with their customers by automatically scheduling text messages.

Retail Shops

Retail stores can ask customers to Text a keyword to sign up for the loyalty program and they could automatically receive a coupon as a response.  They could text their customers about special sales like Black Friday. They could text their customers to remind and confirm their reservations. They could text their customers coupons to drive more traffic and sales.

testimonials

TextP2P has revolutionized the way we communicate with our most valued customers and clients. There are so many cool features that make communication easy and effective. We've especially enjoyed the ringless voicemail features. We used to depend mostly on email communication, but now we're able to send text messages or voicemails in an instant, and with a nearly 100% open rate. TextP2P has been a phenomenal tool for our corporation.

Craig Coylar

General Manager, North America Modere

TextP2P has made such a difference! I was feeling scattered and lost until this came into my life. Now, I feel more in control. TextP2P has made my follow-ups easy by scheduling bulk and individual reminders, making connections and sending notifications. I’ve been able to organize my sales funnel which has helped with making sure that every potential client, business partner or booth renter is communicated with on a regular basis. TextP2P has helped me grow my business, build trust, and solidify client relationships. I love it!​

Kerri Spencer

Profession Network Marketer ・ Salon Owner

We’re so excited! We just finished our annual leadership event, It’s All About You 2018 and it was a complete success! We would not have reached as many people with our message had it not been for TextP2P. Because of TextP2P, because of their personal coaching and because of their message and marketing and their ability to help us share this message, in only 90 days, they helped us have so many people here. I would recommend them to anyone without a doubt. Hands down.

Dr. Sherri Yoder & Crystel Smith

Authors ・Speakers ・Entrepreneurs

TextP2P has transformed my business. Since adding this service to my communication strategy, TextP2P has helped me stay in better contact with my customers and increase my overall response rate by 90% over email or chat. Since implementing this system to automate important processes, I have had more time to devote to other income bringing activities in order to expand my business and empower my leaders. TextP2P has saved me time, helped build and renew relationships and increased my overall ROI. To say the least, I’m a big fan!

Greg Armfield

Health & Fitness coach・leader・Entrepreneur

TextP2P has provided much better engagement for our team! We've seen an immediate increase in engagement on our team with information we send out through TextP2P. We are confident it will be a game changer for our business moving forward. Truly we have found it to be very user friendly We have had more people take action on the business initiatives we are creating than ever before.

Joy Bowen

Business Owner ・JAB Fitness

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