Text-enabled digital inboxes are mobile messaging services that enable companies and organizations to communicate with consumers via SMS without the use of a real cell phone.
These platforms exist to provide text marketing, or mobile messaging marketing, services.
Traditional cellphones have difficulties and limits that messaging systems resolve. Mobile messaging platform, for example, enable businesses to:
- Send a single message to a big group of individuals at once.
- Analyze and collect data on message performance in real-time.
- Schedule and automate communications to be sent at the precise moment they are required.
- Collect and retain consumer data so they may offer more targeted, tailored communications.
- Maintain a professional demeanor and treat their phone personally.
Messaging platform for your organization should be:
- Define your brand’s message in a variety of formats.
- Make a conscious effort to use each word (“say this, not that”).
- Encourage your company’s messaging to be consistent and effective.
- Someone from outside your company should write it.
What are the perks of working with a messaging platform?
- Your company needs a new communications platform for two major reasons:
To begin, everyone who represents your organization should speak from the same “script.” This script serves as the communications platform. Your employees are at the heart of the most effective marketing plan.
Your brand will become clearer and more engaging if everyone who speaks on your behalf uses the same messaging. That includes everyone, whether they are working or not, on the clock or off.
Remember that a customer/client/user/student may need dozens of interactions with your company before recalling and engaging with you. That’s specific, and it’s crucial to send out consistent signals.
- The process of developing a messaging platform may be more effective than the platform itself, which is the second reason you need one.
Although you must hire an outside agency to build your messaging platform (see below), you and your team will provide the relevant source materials and insights. If your agency directs you correctly, your team will have numerous insightful and interesting talks about your company often talks you’ve never had formally (or at least not in a long time).
This isn’t strategic planning; it’s addressing the root of your overall objectives and putting it in the cleanest, most attractive language accessible.
- What Should You Look for in a Mobile Messaging Platform?
- These are all the three things you’ll need to text-enable your company.
- A text-messaging-enabled phone number. This might be a local line, a toll-free number, or a shortcode.
- A method of instantly sending a message to hundreds or thousands of individuals. Like a group SMS message but without the ability to react to everyone!
- A method to submit a list of connections who have approved to be texted.
- There are a few more features you should look for in your platform to ensure you’re choosing a reliable business that’s worth your money and effort.
- Two-Way Messaging: You must be able to send and receive messages on your platform.
- MMS: Look for a provider that can transmit both text (SMS) and rich media (photos and videos) communications (MMS).
- Defined Network Coverage: Ensure that your platform can send messages to all major mobile carriers in the locations and countries where you require them.
You must first assess if it is worth investing in. Your messages may be fragmented, or obsolete, even if you’ve done some internal marketing planning. You may require a complete overhaul or just an aesthetic makeover, but leadership must believe in the benefits of a messaging platform in either scenario.
