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Reach your digital market with our affordable SMS tool and increase your customer engagement by 50% in one month
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We have sent more than 100M messages across the World that gets delivered instantly. With our bulk SMS service, you get a free trial with free credits to test our messaging features.
Reach your audience and increase sales into your business with our bulk SMS services that are reliable, affordable and efficient.
You can easily integrate the SMS into your own tool and application so you can fully use our solution right in your own tool.
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A powerful communication platform for better customer and community communication through texting, WhatsApp, Messenger and more.
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VoyagerNetz Engage and Reach are powerful communication platforms designed to help businesses and organizations streamline communication, build relationships, and engage with their customers and communities. These solutions offer a range of features, including:
Customized communication channels: Create targeted messaging campaigns to reach specific audiences.
Two-way communication: Facilitate direct and interactive conversations with your community.
Data analytics: Track engagement metrics and gain valuable insights into customer behavior.
Integration with other systems: Seamlessly connect with your existing Facebook pages and Messanger for a streamlined workflow.
Whether you're a community organization, sports facility, or educational institution, VoyagerNetz Engage and Reach can help you improve communication and achieve your goals.
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Master the Art of SMS Marketing with TextPeak: Elevate Your Messaging Strategy
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Manage SMS marketing effortlessly with TextPeak's advanced platform. Send, monitor, and analyze campaigns through a user-friendly dashboard with competitive pricing.
Create, Send, and Evaluate with Ease
* Craft Highly Targeted SMS Campaigns with Ease
* Dive into In-Depth Performance Data and Statistics
* Leverage Insights to Maximize Customer Engagement
Unlock Full-Scale Functionality
* Optimize Phrasing with A/B Testing
* Schedule Messages Based on Client Timezones
* Automatically Vary Message Content
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Trusted by teams of 2 to 20,000 to plan, track, and collaborate on work, Jira offers every team the top tools and practices for growth.
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Jira is the #1 agile project management tool for all teams to plan, track, and manage any project. Customize workflows to your team’s processes, integrate with over 3,000 apps, automate any task or process with a few clicks, and get rid of mundane tasks with AI. As your single source of truth, Jira seamlessly connects teams that build software with those who launch and support it, so you never lose track of progress or context. And with a free edition, teams of up to ten users can leverage all the power of Jira at no cost, forever.
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Leadify SMS & Email marketing automation platform optimises your SMS and Email marketing and helps you improve your sales pipeline
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Leadify SMS & Email direct marketing campaign automation, now with Landing Pages & Forms to enhance customer engagement.
Automate repetitive campaign management so you can rather focus on data-driven insights and optimisation.
Leadify empowers you to run marketing campaigns that increase qualified leads whilst decreasing marketing costs.
Our contact cleaning feature will ensure you don't send SMS or Email to stale contacts, improving your marketing spend.
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Mailchimp is the #1 email marketing and automations brand that recommends ways to get more opens, clicks, and sales.
Mailchimp is the #1 Email Marketing and Automations brand for growing businesses. We empower businesses around the world to launch, build, and grow their businesses with world-class marketing technology, award-winning customer support, inspiring content & our data-driven recommendations
Over 12 Million businesses including TEDTalks, Shutterstock, Boston Market, Nikon India trust Mailchimp to turn their emails into revenue, grow their audience, & create effective multichannel marketing campaigns
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We deliver the tools to simplify and amplify digital marketing and drive results for your business.
Constant Contact delivers for small businesses and nonprofits with powerful tools that simplify and amplify digital marketing. Whether it's driving sales, growing a customer base or engaging an audience with advanced AI and Automation tools, we deliver the performance and guidance to build strong connections and generate powerful results. For more information, visit www.constantcontact.com.
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SMS Marketing 360® helps drive more sales.
SMS Marketing 360 makes creating text message campaigns easy. You can even create automated journeys where specific text messages are sent to specific people at specific times.
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Plug-and-play text messaging solutions to ignite customer engagement. Grab a demo to see it in action.
Text Request is the business texting platform built to ignite customer engagement. We’ve crafted plug-and-play messaging solutions to your everyday communication problems, so you can cut through the noise and connect with customers anytime, anywhere. Text Request is designed to scale with you, from one person handling a few conversations, to thousands of employees sending millions of messages, to custom solutions built on our API. Learn more and get a live demo at textrequest.com.
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Intercom is the complete AI-first customer service platform, improving experiences for customers, support agents, and managers
Intercom is the only complete AI-first customer service platform, enhancing the customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and scaling with your business every step of the way. Our AI-first platform is built on a single AI system, with three major components that will allow you to deliver the remarkable customer service you’ve spent decades striving for.
AI Agent: Customers no longer wait or get deflected. AI Chatbot provides instant accurate, responses, 24/7 to most questions. Only complex interactions transition to tickets.
AI Copilot: Agents no longer manually, slowly look things up. AI Copilot is ever-present, connected to all data and systems, and provides information in real time. Instant ramp time for new agents, and agents needing to know new things.
AI Analyst (Coming soon): Leaders no longer manually compile reports without full coverage. AI Insights proactively provides a holistic view across 100% of conversations, with clear suggested areas of improvement.
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Easily schedule appointments, accept online bookings, send reminder messages, take payments with your phone, and view business reports.
Goldie (formerly Appointfix) is the best appointment scheduling app to manage and grow your business.
• Fast and easy appointment scheduling.
• Client management: Easily search for clients to view their history, notes, or their upcoming appointments.
• Reminder messages: Send SMS text reminders for appointments to reduce missed appointments and ensure clients show up when they’re supposed to.
• Online booking system: You can accept client bookings 24/7, based on your schedule, via your personal website.
• Appointment deposits: Require a deposit when clients book online to protect yourself from no-shows.
• Payments: Your clients can securely pay online from the convenience of their mobile phones.
• Revenue and client reports.
• Recurring or group appointments.
• Marketing messages: Send rebooking reminders to clients you haven’t seen in a while, or send mass texts with a promotion to your clients.
• Sync with Apple and Google Calendars and keep all your schedule in one app.
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Bitrix24 is a #1 SMS marketing software and CRM used by 12 million companies worldwide. Cloud and on-premise, with open source code.
Use your Bitrix24 CRM database for all types of marketing. Bitrix24 offers email marketing templates, a landing page and a capture form builder. Also, SMS and Telemarketing features are also available. Fully integrated with social media channels, Bitrix24 makes it easy and effective to sell to new clients.
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iCIMS Talent Cloud is a cloud platform for recruiting that enables employers to manage their end-to-end talent hiring lifecycle.
Built for enterprise organizations, iCIMS is the Talent Cloud company that empowers organizations to attract, engage, hire and advance the right talent that builds a diverse, winning workforce. The iCIMS Talent Cloud is complemented by an ecosystem of more than 700 global partners. Yesterday's tools were not designed for the future of work. iCIMS provides innovations that meet employer's new and emerging strategic business and talent needs.
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EngageBay is a simple, affordable all-in-one marketing, sales and service CRM software to acquire, engage, nurture, close leads.
EngageBay is a simple, affordable, all-in-one marketing, sales and service CRM software built for small businesses and startups to acquire, engage, nurture web visitors and convert them to happy customers. Acquire leads through lead generation forms and popups, engage web visitors through beautiful landing pages, nurture them through engaging emails, and automate your marketing funnel through marketing automation - all from one easy to use platform.
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100k+ Shopify, WooCommerce, and Wix ecommerce stores trust us for our easy newsletters, email marketing, SMS and lead capturing.
Omnisend’s all-in-one SMS, email marketing, pop up, & newsletter tool automates your marketing across the entire customer journey—reaching the right audience, with the right message at the right time. Reach a global audience with free international SMS and use built-in tools to grow SMS subscriber lists. Combining text messages with your email campaigns can provide a consistent and personalized experience. Integrates easily in 1-click with Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Wix & more.
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The single messaging platform for your business to convert and engage leads and customers over text.
Birdeye Messaging is a comprehensive digital communication tool that makes it easy to connect with customers across any digital channel, be it text, social, Webchat, email, or voicemail from one unified inbox.
Birdeye Mass Texting is an affordable and easy way to reach customers through their prefered channel - text messaging. Connect one-on-one or reach thousands of customers in one go.
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Project Broadcast is a powerful and cost-effective text marketing platform designed to empower businesses.
Project Broadcast is a powerful and cost-effective text marketing platform designed to empower businesses with the ability to create and manage marketing drip campaigns while reaching out to their customer base through SMS messages. With features like chat, broadcast messages, campaigns, landing pages, keywords, and much more Project Broadcast is your go-to platform for robust and affordable text marketing needs.
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Agile CRM is a complete sales, marketing and service suite designed to let SMBs to sell and market like the Fortune 500.
Agile CRM's sms marketing software helps to leverage text messaging to maximize the communication channels you use to connect with your audience. Integrating SMS text messaging into your marketing campaigns or sales and support function can help you engage your audience at just the right time.
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With Podium, you can maintain data-rich customer profiles and use them to personalize your text marketing and drive repeat sales.
With Podium, you can maintain data-rich customer profiles and use them to personalize your marketing. Incorporate custom data fields, activity tracking, and unlimited conversation and call history to send the right message at the right time, so you can drive repeat and consistent sales.
Streamline the process even further by letting AI write personalized promotions in seconds, then send them in bulk, and watch your business grow.
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Campaign Monitor by Marigold is an email marketing tool that enables anyone to send beautiful, targeted, and effective email campaigns.
Campaign Monitor by Marigold is a straightforward email marketing tool that enables marketers to send beautiful and personalized emails, creating a reliable channel to grow engagement with subscribers and promote loyal readership and conversions. Beautiful templates, drag-and-drop builder, and engagement-based segmentation allow marketers to deliver targeted content to large lists of subscribers without any technical expertise.
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SMS marketing software built for small business
Meet Thryv, the text (SMS) marketing software built for small business. Thryv integrates your contact list with text (SMS) marketing templates and automation so you can target the right person at the right time with the right message. Include coupons, promotions and interactive buttons that urge recipients to take action.
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Send mass texts, have two-way conversations, follow up using workflows, create text-to-join keywords, take live polls, and more.
Clearstream is a texting software for churches. New plants to influential mega churches use Clearstream to communicate with their members, guests, and volunteers.
Send mass texts, have two-way conversations, follow-up with guests using automated workflows, create text-to-join keywords, take live polls, segment ministries with subaccounts, and more.
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Engage your customers like never before with SMS, Facebook Messenger, RCS Business Messaging, Line, and more.
Engage your customers like never before with SMS, Facebook Messenger, RCS Business Messaging, Line, and more. 55,000+ businesses and more than 2 million developers rely on Twilio to deliver their message when and where it counts.
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Klaviyo is an intelligent marketing automation and customer data platform for email, SMS, mobile push and product reviews.
Klaviyo powers smarter digital relationships for over 100,000 businesses who earn more revenue by easily integrating and centralizing data from across the tech stack and utilizing it for truly personalized emails, texts, and mobile push messages.
No need to start from scratch - multiple template libraries for email, SMS, forms, reviews, campaigns, automations, and reports are ready to customize from day one, with on-demand education when you need it and without the need for developers.
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Advanced email marketing for SMB and mid-market businesses, backed by 24/7 support and 20+ years of deliverability experience.
Campaigner delivers all the basic and advanced email marketing features you need to grow your business without added expense of a marketing suite. From basic and advanced workflow automations and segmentation capabilities to SMS, Campaigner makes it easy to build and execute on high-performing campaigns.
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SMS Marketing Software Buyers Guide
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What is SMS marketing software?
SMS marketing (or text marketing) software is a bulk text message sharing tool. It allows businesses to send SMSs to customers, in addition to helping them create and maintain contact lists, schedule message delivery, analyze response rates, and generate reports.
Whether you are an eCommerce business that needs to send order delivery messages or a bank that wants to send transaction updates to customers, you need this software to handle all your business engagements.
The benefits of SMS marketing software
SMS marketing is one of the least expensive marketing techniques that have mass reachability. Some of the primary benefits it offers benefits are listed below:
- High open rates: About 23 billion text messages are sent each day, of which 97% are opened. In comparison, only 20% of emails are opened. This figure proves that an SMS is seen by the customer in almost all instances, which assures businesses that their message will be delivered to the audience.
- Faster delivery, better adoption rates: Unlike emails or social media, text messages can be delivered to all types of mobile phones, whether it’s a pager or the latest smartphone. In short, marketers can leverage the fact that all mobile phones have texting capabilities.
- Traceable outcomes: Unlike traditional advertising, SMS marketing can be tracked. The software gives businesses an instant view of campaign performance regarding SMSs sent, opened, read, and answered. This helps marketers evaluate customer engagement at various stages of the campaign, so that they can improvise as and when needed.
Typical features of SMS marketing software
- Mass texting: Send messages in bulk to a large audience in a single go.
- Contact management: Create a centralized repository to store contact details, such as name, address, and phone number, in an organized, searchable manner.
- Scheduled messaging: Set a specific time to broadcast messages to individuals or to entire contact lists.
- Reporting/Analytics: Determine and report the performance of the SMS marketing campaign based on KPIs such as messages delivered, read, and answered.
- Mobile keywords: Add unique identifying keywords in the text message to let readers perform certain actions during the campaign. For instance, “START” or “STOP” to continue receiving messages.
Considerations when purchasing SMS marketing software
- Scalability: Most text-based messaging service providers offer plans based on the number of messages to be sent in a month. We advise you to evaluate your message volume and choose a plan that best fits your current needs. Keep in mind that the provider you choose should be able to scale-up the solution as your business expands.
- Uptime and reliability: Most carriers have started filtering unnecessary SMSs and blocking spam sources to provide a better customer experience. For your SMS to reach the right audience, get a reliable and reputed SMS service provider or you may end up paying for the service even though your SMSs are blocked by the carriers. Also, ensure that the service provider has a high uptime, so that you can send messages any time.
- Ability to integrate with existing applications: We highly recommend choosing a solution that integrates with your existing systems, such as CRM, for smooth operations. This will prevent repetitive data entry as the integration would sync information across all applications in real time.
Relevant SMS marketing software trends
- AI is the new buzzword: Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its impact in the marketing field as well. It is enabling marketers to analyze their audience’s engagement level and reinvent the scope of communication. From customer responses to the SMSs you send, AI software can suggest better promotions and offers to customers. A large number of marketers believe that AI will revolutionize marketing by 2020.
- SMSs could be used for credential verification: Using SMSs to verify personal details and approve transactions through OTPs and push notification is expected to increase. Until 2018, about 2 trillion SMS were sent globally for verifications and customer support. This shows that multiple industries have started using, and will continue to use, SMS as a trusted mode to verify their customers and users.
