SMS marketing, or text message marketing, is becoming increasingly popular for all types of businesses.

1. 5 Reasons Why SMS Marketing is
a Must-Have for Your Business

2. What is Text Marketing?
• SMS marketing, or text message marketing, is
becoming increasingly popular for all types of
businesses.
• By incorporating text message marketing software into
your marketing strategy, your business can send out
short text messages to your customers that choose to
opt-in to the service.
• These SMS messages can be special offers, company
updates, or anything you would like to communicate
with them.
• These messages can also be sent as frequently - or
infrequently - as you desire.

3. Five Reasons Why Text Marketing
is so Important for any Business:
• Your text will be read almost immediately.
• Text marketing builds brand loyalty.
• Millennials prefer to receive texts as opposed
to email.
• SMS marketing is actually pretty easy.
• Text message marketing is affordable.

4. #1: Your text will be read
almost immediately.
• 91 percent of adults have their smartphone within arm's reach.
• 90 percent of text messages get read within 3 minutes of
delivery.
• Although it requires an opt-in, there is no spam filter so these
texts immediately go to the user's phone.
• The texts are so short that they are quick and simple to read,
making them less likely to be deleted before being opened.
• The simplicity actually saves you, as a business owner, more
time since there is less planning and execution time involved.

5. #2: Text marketing builds
brand loyalty.
• Since it requires an opt-in, text messages are only sent to
customers that are willing to receive them.
• The opt-out rates for text message marketing are very low.
• With text message marketing, your customer won't forget a
coupon at home because it will be on their phone that they
always carry with them.

6. #3: Millennials prefer to receive
texts as opposed to email.
• The Millennials generation consists of adults between the age
of 20 and 34.
• They happen to be at least part of most companies' target
market due to the fact that they tend to be the most loyal
customers and are entering the high-purchase life stage.
• Consumers in this age range have stated that they would much
rather receive a text from a company than an email.
Learn more about Millenials and brand loyalty here.

7. #4: SMS marketing is
actually pretty easy.
• With Simpli, your customers opt-in to receive your text
messages and all you have to do is think of 160 (or less)
characters that contain an offer on a regular basis to keep them
coming back.
• You can also choose how they redeem the offer.
– The texts can contain a coupon code for online or in-store purchases or
they can simply show the text in-store to receive the deal.
– If they are a loyalty rewards member, they don't even need their phone
- they can just give you information - such as their phone number - and
you can access their offers and redeem them on the spot.

8. #5: Text message marketing
is affordable.
• A mobile loyalty program is much more cost efficient than
purchasing a pricey newspaper or magazine advertisement.
• With Simpli, you can integrate email and text marketing into
your marketing strategy for a low monthly price.
– This marketing solution allows unlimited emails and texts.
– It also handles all of the sign-up for you.
– After your promotions end, you can use the program to track all of your
analytics and see what is working - or not working - specifically for your
business.

9. Thinking about implementing text
marketing into your marketing
strategy?
Learn more about how loyalty marketing can help your business
succeed by downloading our Ten Tips for Customer Rewards
Program Success.