One, two, three is as simple as that!
Businesses now rely heavily on enterprise SMS messaging for communication. These days, SMS is essential for routine business operations including scheduling appointments, marketing campaigns, logistics, and reminders. Most businesses cannot function without it. It’s easy: use a bulk text messaging web platform to handle external interactions with clients, consumers, and stakeholders as well as internal communications with employees, contractors, and partners.
SMS is flexible, brief, and delivered straight to the recipient’s hand (set). You don’t trust me? The statistics might persuade you.
90% of SMS messages are read within the first three minutes of being received, and the open rate is 98%. Seeing, opening, and reading a message within the first three minutes is the essence of direct communication.
Furthermore, Facebook recently released data on the patterns and behaviors of holiday shoppers. Facebook Messenger logged 20 billion communications between people and businesses in 2018. Additionally, 65% of consumers prefer to do business with businesses they can message directly, according to the report. Why not use affordable SMS to benefit from the direct communication text messaging offers to businesses and customers?
Imagine using a mouse click to reach tens, hundreds, or thousands. You can if you have a strong SMS gateway.
Organize contacts into groups, automate keywords and trigger reactions, schedule communications, and use 2FA (two factor authentication) to secure online interactions.
Here’s how. To learn how to send SMS from your PC, follow these steps:
Configure your gateway for bulk SMS.
Enter your contacts.
Create your message 1. Configure your gateway for bulk SMS.
Join an SMS aggregator based on your requirements. Create your account as well as any parent or kid accounts that are nearby. Remember to configure your Sender ID or virtual number(s).
The MXT platform from SMSGlobal offers new customers a complimentary trial that includes access to our user-friendly web platform, Knowledgebase, and downloadable resources like factsheets and eBooks. SMSGlobal offers all of your needs, including online platforms, API integration, and email-to-sms services.
- Enter your contacts.
The next step after creating your account is to add contacts to send to. Make sure a contact list is formatted correctly before uploading it. This implies that the numbers should have the appropriate country codes; for instance, numbers from the USA should start with +1.
You can group contacts based on demographics or communication preferences after they have been uploaded.
- Write your message.
Make sure you have properly configured your account and entered your contact lists in the appropriate manner before we begin emailing.
You can now begin delivering your message. There may be alternatives for sending your message when you go to the ‘Send Message’ area. The options on MXT include ‘Send,’ ‘Merge Send,’ and ‘Upload Send.’
The “Send” option allows you to send the message you put in the message box to certain contacts that have been added to your MXT account.
“Merge Send” allows you to customize your text message to contacts that have been added to your MXT account, including naming the recipients.
Sending bulk SMS messages to a list of contacts without uploading them to MXT is known as “Upload Send.”
After deciding on your SMS delivery method, you write your message, pick the people you want to send it to, and choose the virtual number or Sender ID you are sending from. Remember that each SMS has a character limit of 160, so crafting the ideal message is essential before you click “Send.”
Now what?
What can you do now that you have launched a communication campaign?
Apart from transmitting high throughput messages in bulk, SMSGlobal’s MXT platform offers users a number of other options.
Features to make use of:
Integrations of APIs
Email-to-SMS
Automated keywords and trigger replies for two-way MMS texting
Dedicated virtual phone numbers
Scheduling messages
Lists of contacts and groups
Tracking of deliveries
Dashboards for customized reports