Peer-to-Peer Texting

Take your communication strategy to the next level with SimpleTexting’s affordable and powerful peer-to-peer texting service.

  • Have meaningful conversations at scale
  • Maximize engagement with 98% open rates
  • Drive your audience to action
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What Is Peer-to-Peer Texting?

Our peer-to-peer (P2P) texting platform enables agents to initiate a conversation with potential voters or supporters. You simply upload a contact list and assign a list of contacts to each agent–they then reach out and engage them in one-to-one conversations.

Political Campaigns

P2P texting helps campaigns drive event attendance, sign up volunteers, and increase voter turnout.

Fundraising

Engage potential donors in conversation and build a relationship before making your ask—no need to make phone calls or send emails.

Nonprofits

P2P texting helps nonprofits thank donors, fundraise, obtain feedback, and talk about the organization’s impact.

Benefits of Peer-to-Peer Texting

Peer-to-peer text messaging is a crucial component of most nonprofits and political campaigns communication strategy. Here's why.

Open Rates

98% of texts are opened, and 90% of texts are opened within the first three minutes. Your texts are seen and acted on.

Channel Preferences

66% of people prefer texting over phone and email. Don’t send emails or annoy people with phone calls.

Speed

It’s been shown that P2P texting is 77X faster than making phone calls. Think about how many texts you can send in an hour.

Response Rates

Only one in 10 calls and emails are answered. 45% of people respond to text messages from an organization.

Wide Access

The vast majority of Americans – 96% – now own a cellphone. Not everyone Tweets, but everyone texts.

Personal

P2P texting enables one-on-one engagement and a personal touch from your organization that stays with your audience.

How to Get Started With Peer-to-Peer Texting

In just three steps, you can start peer-to-peer texting.

Choose a Text-Enabled Phone Number

Choose a Text-Enabled Phone Number

With SimpleTexting you can add multiple numbers and number types to one account.
  • Text enable a current landline phone number or a VoIP line
  • Register a new local number with area code your audience recognizes
  • Take advantage of a complimentary and versatile toll-free number
  • Add multiple phone numbers to your account with our multi-number feature.

Import a List of Contacts

Import a List of Contacts

If you already have a list of mobile phone numbers, SimpleTexting makes it easy to add them to your account.
  • Include additional attributes like name, email, and personalized notes
  • Upload as many lists as you want and assign individual lists to certain agents
  • No list to import? Use our full suite of free tools to collect phone numbers

Use the SMS Inbox to Manage Replies

Use the SMS Inbox to Manage Replies

Your agents can manage all incoming and outgoing SMS in our powerful inbox.
  • Handle incoming SMS quickly and satisfactorily, filtering conversations by time waiting or most recently received
  • Use our message templates to turn common questions around even faster
  • Collaborate with your team through internal notes, leaving details your agents should know before replying

Powerful P2P Texting Features

Engage your audience with all the features you need to be successful with P2P texting.

Templates

Provide agents with template texts to send to contacts.

Unlimited Agents

Add agents to your account for free so that you can spread the workload.

Analytics

Track your campaign performance with our built-in analytics tools.

Speed Up Response Times

With scheduled texts, your team can create all the essential texts in their calendar all at once.

Bulk SMS

You can also use SimpleTexting to send text blasts to people who’ve subscribed to receive them.

Multi-Number

Assign each agent their own number and then assign them access to lists.

Why Choose SimpleTexting for Peer-to-Peer Texting?

Discover why SimpleTexting is one of the highest-rated companies for peer-to-peer text messaging.

The quick and straightforward to grasp user interface means that even if your agents aren’t tech savvy, they’ll have no problem navigating it.

We focus on delivering empathetic support 7-days a week. We are very responsive via all support channels: live chat, email, SMS chat, and by phone.

Using our mobile app, your agents can text from home, from their couch while watching Netflix.

Unlike some peer-to-peer texting services, you can get up and running with SimpleTexting in a matter of minutes. Our ultimate goal is to make texting as easy and as simple as possible.

Frequently Asked Questions About P2P Texting

Want to find out more about P2P texting? Are you wondering how much it costs? Or how it's different from bulk texting? The answers to these questions and more can be found below.


Does peer-to-peer texting work?

Peer-to-peer (P2P) texting works because it is intimate and conversational. At the same time, it can be done at scale and is 77x faster than making a phone call. Layer on top texts 98% open rates and 45% response rates, and it’s clear why so many organizations are turning to P2P texting.
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Pricing is based upon the number of messages you plan to send. The best part is that the more messages you send, the cheaper they are! Our plans start at a very affordable $25 per month and include a free number, dedicated support 7 days a week, and unlimited agents.
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The main difference is that P2P requires a human to send each communication individually. With bulk texting, you can send text messages to as many contacts as you want in one go.
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Certainly! It’s not only 100% legal to contact voters using peer-to-peer texting–it’s quickly proving to be the most effective way to engage voters.
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You absolutely can. Many organizations are using P2P texting to supercharge their fundraising efforts.
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