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Send group texts for your organization (without the overwhelming “reply all”)

You know the power of group texting because you’ve had one with family or friends. Group texting for your business is just as easy and effective — but without the excessive replies that may annoy the majority of your group.

  • Mass text groups of contacts (without sharing all numbers)
  • Replies go only to you, not the entire group
  • Respond to individuals one-on-one
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10+ years in business. 17,000+ paying customers. Billions of texts delivered.

Meet SimpleTexting: Your group texting service for business

Everyone reads their group texts. We help you send them.

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Businesses of all sizes use SimpleTexting to:

  • Build and manage contact lists
  • Send BCC group texts
  • Reply to individuals one-on-one
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“We needed to reach all of our clients at once in a way that we weren’t able to before. With group texting, we’ve seen an 88% retention rate in terms of our clients coming back to our meetings regularly.”
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Scott Powell Executive Director, Alabama Head Injury Foundation

What is a group text?

A group text is a message a sender distributes to many recipients at once.

Also known as group SMS, this form of fast and efficient communication gives your organization the ability to communicate or market to the masses with the simple click of a button.

A group text messaging service allows businesses to add people to group text messages and connect with assortments of people, large and small, all at once. Share special offers, announcements, all within a single text blast.

Recipients open 98% of text messages, making group texting one of the most effective ways to reach people quickly. But unless you want all of your recipients on one text thread, you can’t use your phone’s built-in messaging app.

That’s where our group SMS marketing software comes in. Our service allows you to send a group text without reply all to any number of recipients. This means when an individual replies to your group text, only you will receive that reply (and not your entire contact list).

Plus, with our iOS and Android apps, you can send group texts and reply to messages while on-the-go.

What are the benefits of group texting?

Group texting enables quick and efficient communication among multiple people, enhances coordination for events or projects, and ensures that everyone receives the same information simultaneously. It is especially useful for organizing group activities, sharing urgent updates, or making collective decisions.

How to send a group text

It only takes three simple steps to send a large group text message. Gather your contacts, send your message, then manage your replies.

Build your list of phone numbers

There are a variety of ways to populate your contact list:

Read: 28 ways to build your text list
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Send your group text message

Keep it simple with 160 characters (short message service or SMS) or add rich media (multimedia message service or MMS):

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Get replies in your inbox (and no one else’s)

Respond to individuals one-on-one (without reply all) and see your results:

  • Sort replies in your inbox based on time waiting or time received.
  • Annotate, snooze, and mark conversations as resolved.
  • Track link clicks and follow up with contacts based on click behavior.
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Everyone texts groups of people

But people get annoyed with excessive group text messaging.

Group texts are a daily norm for most people

99.5% of Americans have participated in a group text.

1 in 5 respond to every group text message

20%+ feel the need to respond to every group text message.

Constant group messaging annoys most people

66% admit that group text messages make them feel overwhelmed.

Everyone wins with SimpleTexting

You can text large groups and reply to individuals without messaging everyone in the group text.

Everyone sees your group text messages

80.5% of people check texts within five minutes of receiving them.

Replies go directly to you (and not the entire group)

53% of people want the ability to text businesses.

The rest of your group isn’t bombarded with messages

89% of people want businesses to text every other week or once a week at most.

“If you want results from your communications — and you want them fast — then SimpleTexting is the way to go. The results have been amazing. A lot of the responses come back within the first few minutes of sending out the text. It has revolutionized the way we communicate.”

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David Hulme Northeast Area Minister, West Virginia Baptist Convention

How our customers use SimpleTexting for group text messaging

Curious how other businesses and organizations are using our group text messaging platform? With SimpleTexting, they:

Coordinate team members, volunteers, and vendors

Nuclear Care Partners, a U.S. medical service provider, uses SimpleTexting’s contact segments feature to send relevant group texts to its staff.

The feature allows them to tailor text updates to their staff’s roles and locations. Now, employees aren’t overwhelmed with an onslaught of irrelevant notifications, and the internal communications team has seen an increase in employee engagement with their texts.

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“If someone was considering SimpleTexting for business purposes, I would absolutely recommend it… It’s just really great and convenient, and you can get really granular with who you’re going to text and what type of campaigns you’re going to send.”
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Kellsie Wells Nuclear Care Partners

Promote deals, special offers, and sales to customers

When Year Round Brown, a tanning salon brand, promoted its largest annual sale, they turned to MMS messaging. This type of texting lets you embed multimedia — like images, videos, GIFs, audio, and PDFs — into your text campaigns to increase clicks to your site.

And with more clicks comes more opportunities to make a sale. In Year Round Brown’s case, group texting led to a 20% increase year-over-year in revenue.

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“Being able to send an image with the text makes it feel very legitimate. Plus, seeing a tanned person makes someone want to tan. We can attribute the 20% increase in revenue to using text messages to promote this year’s sale. We’re delighted with SimpleTexting.”
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Kaitlin Brodeur Marketing Executive, Year Round Brown

Send files like PDFs, audio, calendar invites, and more

MMS group texting isn’t just a powerful tool for retail and e-commerce brands. The Guatemalan Mayan Center, for instance, sends audio messages through SimpleTexting to distribute essential updates to its diverse audience.

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“In the analytics reports, we see that a majority of people click the link and listen to the audio. Not only is it accessible in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, but we also try our best to translate it into the various Mayan indigenous languages.”
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Hafsa Haider Executive Administrative Assistant, Guatemalan Mayan Center

Broadcast emergency alerts

During emergencies, you need an SMS solution that not only sends alerts but also lets you have two-way conversations with your contacts. This one-to-one messaging allows you to collect critical information and get real-time updates from staff.

That’s why healthcare organization Loretto switched from an in-house SMS system to SimpleTexting for emergency text alerts.

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“SimpleTexting has been a highly valuable tool for us, I think more than we anticipated just because we have such a challenge trying to reach our frontline workers to give them updates.”
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Julie Sheedy Chief Marketing and Engagement Officer, Loretto

FAQs

Yes, group texting is regulated by laws and guidelines to ensure consumer protection and privacy. The CTIA, for example, sets best practices for messaging services, including group texts, to maintain a standard of conduct. Additionally, mobile carriers require compliance with these standards and other regulations like the TCPA (Telephone Consumer Protection Act), which governs the use of telecommunications for marketing and communications, ensuring that consumers’ rights are respected.
To send a group text without revealing all participant numbers on SimpleTexting’s platform, use the “Groups” feature. Create a group, add your contacts, and send your message. Recipients will see only the sender’s information, not other group members’ numbers. This is an easy way to send a bcc text message if you need to “blind carbon copy” recipients.