Text messaging is a popular means of communication and over the years it has become an effective way for brands to reach their audiences. Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) have become essential to businesses of all kinds. However, with the arrival of artificial intelligence, these traditional methods of communication are being enhanced, transforming into an innovative and efficient way to engage customers and drive sales. What are SMS and MMS? Before diving into the ways AI can push us towards higher goals, let’s define SMS and […]
What’s better than sending out SMS marketing? How about integrating SMS with your other marketing channels and amplifying your message’s impact? Using an SMS content calendar to guide your planning helps ensure your messages go out consistently and at the right time. And if you’re using the emfluence Marketing Platform, you can map out your SMS marketing, along with email and social media, all from the same marketing calendar. Let’s take a quick look at how to plan your SMS marketing, along with other customer engagement using a content calendar. […]
Sending the right SMS marketing text comes with a lot of pressure — and that pressure starts with the opening line. Not only must it catch a subscriber’s attention and keep them engaged, it must do so in an incredibly tiny amount of space in a world where people’s attention spans are shorter than ever. Seriously. Take a look at your phone’s message inbox. There’s not much space there for, well, anything. Moreover, there might not be a more sacred ground than a person’s text message inbox. Your marketing copy […]
B2B sales is built on touchpoints. The more touches you can make with each prospect over the sales cycle and beyond, the greater the likelihood that the prospect will turn into a loyal customer with a high lifetime customer value. SMS offers the potential to ramp up your B2B sales touchpoints with each prospect, at a much lower cost than most other forms of marketing. SMS is probably the most interactive, personal and immediate form of marketing communication. It can’t replace email, social media or other channels, but it can […]
An essential part of our job at emfluence is to have our fingers on the pulse of the latest online marketing trends and strategies. But this doesn’t mean we constantly throw the baby out with the bath water whenever something new comes along. As a business fully invested in technologies like email marketing and marketing automation, we know that some of the most engaging and profitable marketing strategies deployed by and on behalf of our clients have been around for quite some time. SMS (or text messaging) is another long-standing […]
