Why choose SMS marketing?

SMS is a personal communication tool. The potential benefits of using it as part of your marketing strategy are enormous. With SMS marketing, you can eliminate noise and communicate directly with your customers. But with the potential gains, comes great responsibility.

If you are concerned about the impact of your marketing strategy, you have most likely come across the term "opening rate". The opening rate illustrates the percentage of recipients of an email or SMS that actually opens the message or newsletter. Another important concept in the marketing universe is "Click-through-rate" (CTR). This term refers to the proportion of recipients who open and read the content, in addition to taking action. This can be in the form of clicking on one of the links. These numbers give you an indication of how many of the recipients are actually interested in the content. They provide an overview of how many people read the messages you send, and how relevant and interesting the content is.

According to a campaign carried out by SuperOffice, the opening rate for e-mail in Norway is equivalent to 18%. The click-through rate is no more than 10%. Now, let's take a look at the corresponding numbers for SMS. It turns out that the average opening rate of text messages corresponds to around 99%. And 97% of these messages are read within 15 minutes of receiving them.

The numbers have spoken! SMS is more efficient than communication via email. Despite the fact that e-mails are generally quite cheap, it will not give as high a return on investment as SMS. Especially when less than one-fifth of recipients open the e-mail.

Place your message directly in the palm of your customers hand, literally! The messages you send tick directly into their mobile phone, which in most cases rests in the palm of their hand. Unlike social media, your message does not have to compete with posts from friends or anything else they might find more interesting than a 20% discount.

In addition, it turns out that 50% of all clicks on Internet advertisements are by mistake. And you'll have to pay for them with cost per click (CPC), without gain. With SMS marketing, you can make sure that you send out content that is interesting and relevant. You can do this by using segmentation. In this way, you show the customer that you care, and that you are not just looking to sell anything to anyone.

SMS marketing requires your customers to agree to receive messages and offers from your company. Your customers are trusting your company. Thus you have a responsibility to maintain this trust. You do this by sending out relevant messages to the customer, and moderating the number of messages you send out.

The customer also must have the opportunity to unsubscribe from the SMS marketing list. To make sure that the trust between your customer and your company is not broken, we have created a "blacklist". This is for customers who unsubscribe off the SMS marketing lists. This means that it will not be possible to send a message to the numbers that have unsubscribed. Even if the number is still in contact lists or re-imported, the message will not be sent. This way you do not have to worry about sending messages to uninterested customers, and the customer does not have to receive unwanted messages.