Text Marketing for Small Business

Text message marketing & SMS messaging is a powerful, cost-effective way for small businesses to acquire new customers and improve engagement with existing customers.

  • Send promotions, launch products, and more
  • Save time with automated texts
  • Easily build a list of phone numbers
  • And more!
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Text Marketing for Small Business

Large and Small Businesses Choose Us for Text Marketing

Starbucks is using SimpleTexting for Text Marketing Services
Cisco is using SimpleTexting for Text Marketing Services
LEGOLAND is using SimpleTexting for Text Marketing Services
Century 21 is using SimpleTexting for Text Marketing Services
Samsung is using SimpleTexting for Text Marketing Services
Stanford University is using SimpleTexting for Text Marketing Services
Chick-fil-A is using SimpleTexting for Text Marketing Services
Marriott is using SimpleTexting for Text Marketing Services
Kaplan is using SimpleTexting for Text Marketing Services

How Can a Text Messaging Service Help Your Small Business Grow?

Text message marketing gives you all the tools you need to build and grow your small business, increase revenue, and exceed expectations.

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Improve Customer Satisfaction
Produce consistently positive customer service experiences thanks to faster response times and our two-way SMS messaging abilities.

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Have Your Messages Read
Send bulk SMS offers your customers are sure to read. On average, people open 90% of SMS within 3 minutes, and 45% of text messages receive a response.

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Recruit Stronger Candidates
In search of the perfect employee for your tight-knit team? Texting helps you advertise positions and vet candidates via SMS to avoid costly application management.

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Supercharge Your Sales
From exclusive text-based promotions to one-on-one conversations, strengthen relationships with customers and watch your sales numbers rise as a result.

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Send Targeted Promotions
Only reach out to your customers with messages they actually care about. Our powerful segments feature lets you organize your contact list based on custom data.

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Save Time With Automation
Write your text marketing messages in advance and schedule them to send out at a later date. Drip campaigns, templates, and other product integrations help you set it and forget it!

SMS for Small Business Success Stories

Explore SimpleTexting's case studies to learn how small businesses around the country use our SMS service to drive sales and connect with their audience.

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How Toroe Eyewear Generated an Extra $7K in 30 Days with Our Mobile Sign-Up Widget

Using SimpleTexting’s Mobile Sign-Up Widget to advertise a 10% discount, Toroe Eyewear generated an extra $7,028 in store revenue in a month. That’s a 156x return on its text marketing channel.

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Whisker Seeker Tackle Sees a 25% Conversion Rate From Its MegaDeals Text Promotions

Whisker Seeker Tackle spotted a glaring gap in the market and turned it into a thriving e-commerce and wholesale business. Learn how entrepreneur Matt Davis leverages SMS text marketing services to drive sales.

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Aubrey’s Bead Closet Uses SMS to Drive a 400% Increase in Mobile Web Traffic

Aubrey’s Bead Closet has a loyal fanbase known as the “ABC family”. Learn more about how this e-commerce store uses SMS to communicate with its fans, launch new products, and drive mobile purchases.

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More Success Stories

How Small Business SMS Boosts Customer Engagement

Research shows text marketing for small businesses outperforms other channels, including email marketing. That’s why we built our platform to be both scalable, and easy-to-use.

Mass Texting

Mass Texting

Mass texting helps drive business when you need it the most by making it easy to engage customers with mobile coupons and other promotions. Keep your contacts happy with exclusive deals and see offer redemption rates dramatically increase!
  • Send a text to large groups of customers with one click
  • Include photos, links, videos, etc. even when texting in bulk
  • Segment your audience and send mass texts to different groups for added personalization
Text-to-Join Keywords

Text-to-Join Keywords

Make it easy for customers to subscribe as you work to grow your list and reach a larger audience.
  • Create a short, easy-to-remember keyword customers can text to your number
  • Capture more numbers with a customizable widget on your website
  • Place a web sign-up form on your highly trafficked pages
Two-Way Texting

Two-Way Texting

Your Inbox is a space where you can chat freely with customers and hold real-time conversations.
  • Use our Click-to-Text button generator to instantly launch your customer’s messaging app
  • Cut down on response time with templates aka canned replies
  • Manage conversations with features like snooze, notes, and sort

How to Get Started With Small Business Text Marketing

When you sign up with SimpleTexting, you have the choice: Register a new local number, verify a new toll-free number, provision a dedicated short code, or text-enable your current number. Learn more about the different number types available.
Let your customers know that they can text your business! Set up a web form, mobile sign-up widgets, click-to-text buttons, and share your keyword with your customers. Send out an email to your customers with your number and keyword. Create product inserts with your information. Give folks as many ways to subscribe as possible!
Send out your first campaign to your contact list or chat one-on-one with customers. From sales texts to fielding customer service questions, begin to communicate with your audience in a way that serves your needs!

Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business Text Message Marketing

What Is SMS Marketing?
SMS marketing refers to the use of text messages to promote a business’s products and services, as well as build customer loyalty.
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According to Business News Daily, SimpleTexting is the best overall text message marketing service. Of course, we recommend you do your due diligence.

Before choosing a platform, you’ll also want to read real customer reviews on third-party websites such as Capterra and G2 to see what customers say. Once you’ve done that, the last thing is to sign up for a free trial.

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Absolutely! However, it has to be done within certain guidelines. You should never purchase a list of phone numbers and you must have consent from your contacts to text them. After all, why would you want to spend money sending texts to people who aren’t interested? Especially when we have countless methods to build your list.
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SMS can help businesses in a variety of ways, from boosting sales through promotions to building relationships through 2-way text conversations. This article covers the 13 most popular SMS marketing use cases.
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Text message marketing is a relatively simple yet effective process that consists of two primary steps. First, you need to enable your customers or supporters to opt in to receive your messages. Second, you’ll need a service to send messages to your contacts once they’ve signed up. The best way to get started is to sign up for a 14-day free trial.
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Get Started with Small Business Text Message Marketing

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Published: May 26th 2023