Check out this SMS Marketing 360 review, in it you will find all the mobile marketing features, pricing, and freebies they offer. Learn whether SMS Marketing 360 has a text marketing plan that will fit your business’ budget and texting needs.
SMS Marketing 360 has been creating and managing SMS marketing campaigns for local (Colorado) businesses and organizations throughout the United States since 2007. They have designed a text marketing campaign that is very user friendly, and has a number of ready-to-go templates that make setting up a text marketing campaign very simple. They also guarantee if they do not have a template or campaign that suits your needs you they will create one for you at no cost.
The SMSMarketing360 web based text marketing software is set up much like many other mobile marketing companies. The mobile marketing software is all web based, stored on their servers, and customers login to their account via the Internet to manage their text marketing campaigns. All the customer databases, text messages, and account information is stored online within a password protected account. Customers choose a keyword, when creating an account, which is what separates their account from any other accounts. All SMS Marketing 360 customers use the same shortcode, 39970. SMSMarketing360 also has a sister company called Chiropractic Marketing 360, which offers numerous website, logo, and marketing services. So if you find you are happy with their text marketing services, you may want to ask them about building you a website, or getting your website into the top search results, or creating other marketing strategies for you. But, for the purpose of this review we will concentrate on the text marketing products and services offered by SMS Marketing 360.
SMSMarketing360 has many of the same basic functions and features of most SMS text marketing companies. As an opt-in type marketing system, the customer chooses a keyword that will represent their company and their account throughout their text marketing campaign. The customer, or potential customer then texts that keyword to their shortcode, which is 39970. Once they text the keyword to the shortcode they have given the company their explicit permission for them to send text messages to them. The persons phone number is then automatically added to the account database and stored for future texting. Upon opting in SMSMarketing360 also allows an automated initial welcome text that will be sent out immediately after opt-in. Welcome messages, or auto-responders, are an excellent way for businesses to deliver discounts/incentives.
There are also a few unique features available through SMSMarketing360, one of which is the ability to do “timed campaigns” that will send automated text messages at set increments (ie. 1 week, 1 month, 90 days etc…). This is a great feature for businesses with services that require follow up visits or services, such as; car services, medical or dental offices, pest control, etc…They also offer “specific campaign limits” allowing businesses to set a limit on how many customers may receive the special discount, once the set number of customers receive the special offer the rest will get an alternate message. Along the same lines, businesses may also limit a special offer to a customer on a one time basis. Once a customer receives the text with the discount/offer, if they try to get the coupon again they will be sent an alternate message. Many businesses like to know and keep track of their customers birthdays and send them a special birthday message, this text message system allows automated birthday messages. And unlike many text marketing companies, they allow auto-personalization within your text, which basically pulls the persons name from your database and inserts it into the texts you send them, giving the text a more personalized touch.
The SMSMarketing360 text marketing plans and pricing are based on the number of subscribers. Businesses can send an unlimited amount of messages, but once they meet each level of subscribers their account will automatically be upgraded. There may be pros and cons to this method of billing. This type of unlimited texting system would work best for businesses with a small number of subscribers that they text on a regular basis, ie. a church sending a daily scripture or thought. It may not be the best option for a company on a budget, with a large database wishing to only send a periodic text. With this method one would never have to worry about going over their allotted monthly messages or contacting the company to upgrade their plan. On the other hand they lose the ability to upgrade or downgrade their own plans without adjusting their customer database. If you think the SMSMarketing360 text marketing plans seem like something you would like to try, visit their site and sign up for their free trial account that allows you unlimited subscribers and 50 messages.