TL Connects is a text messaging platform that helps businesses build customer relationships through targeted text campaigns. Their services include building a customer database through sign-up kiosks and online deals, sending SMS/MMS messages to promote offers and events, and using automated responses to engage customers on their birthdays and anniversaries. Pricing starts at $0/month for basic services and scales up based on the number of monthly credits and keywords included.
1. Founded in 2010, TL Connects helps thousands of merchants drive in new
customers, drive back lost customers, & build a stronger relationship with their
customer using their proprietary text messaging platform.
Text DEMO to 91681 to see how it works.
Reach More Customers, Faster
with Text Message Marketing
v 2.5
98%
Open rate of a text message.
5X
Higher open rate than e-mail.
30%
Avg. click-through rate of text
message links.
90%
Text messages opened within 5
minutes.
2. Help brick and mortar businesses by driving in new customers, driving back
lost customers & building stronger relationships with their customers.
We help solve these challenges:
• Drive in new customers from your neighborhood
• Drive new customers back for a second visit
• Drive lost customers back with a personalized message to win them back
• Increase online positive reviews & social media following
• Drive revenue on slow or rainy days
OUR COMMITMENT
3. How to Build Large Database of Customers
To be successful with text marketing, it starts by effectively building a large database of customers that want to receive
texts. We have multiple ways to ensure you build a strong database of customers.
Claim Keyword
Claim your FREE keyword and market it online
using your website, social media sites, in-
store print materials or any other preferred
advertisement methods.
Use unique keywords to track the effectiveness
of your other forms of marketing and to target
customer.
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4. How to Build Large Database of Customers
TL Connects Kiosk
With the TL Connects LTE-enabled custom sign-up kiosk you’ll increase your sign-ups as much as 10x. The kiosk will be placed at your point-
of-sale, hostess station, or bring one to an event.
Track Your Offers
With the kiosk you can now track all your offers. When sending out a text message customer will be asked to redeem at kiosk and once they
redeem they will receive a time stamp and dated text. You can also promote keywords on Facebook, Instagram, and other through other
marketing with a unique keyword that activates and offer for you customer to redeem at the kiosk.
Available with a rental fee of $25 per month
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Loyalty Kiosk Sign-Up Kiosk
5. How to Build Large Database of Customers
Advertise Online with
Neighborhood Deals
We’ve curated a database of millions
of subscribers looking for deals in their
neighborhoods. We promote your business
at no charge which not only helps you drive
in new customers, but it also helps you build
your database so you can turn them into repeat
customers.
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6. Promote your business with a 98% Open Rate
MMS (image, up to 640 characters)
MMS is a great way to wow your customer with
a picture or a fun gif. It’s also a great way to
show off food or product which increases the
response rate up to 25%. With 640 characters
you’ll easily be able to get your message across.
SMS (up to 160 characters)
Don’t need to say a lot? SMS is a quick and
efficient way to get your message out.
Trigger-based Auto-Responders
With auto-responders you can map out SMS
& MMS’s from the time a customer signs-up.
For example 1 hour after sign-up you can send
them MMS with all links to your social media
& website. Or even ask for their birthday to
celebrate their big day.
Promote Special Offers
Promote Events such as Trivia
Target Slow or Rainy Days
Drive Customers to Your Social
Media Channels
Increase Downloads of your
iPhone & Android Apps
Celebrate Customers’ Birthdays
& Anniversaries
Build E-mail List
Quickly create textALERT campaigns or schedule custom auto-responders sent automatically to customers at pre-determined
intervals, such as 1 hour, minutes after sign-up.
textALERT Types Ways to use Text Campaigns
7. Quickly and Easily Send out textALERTs
Create a textALERT
with just three easy
steps
Use our software’s easy textALERT wizard to
create your textALERT, schedule the blast to go
out & then track your success!
Within minutes you can communicate to your entire database with our easy to use textALERT wizard. Use our in-house
customer engagement specialist to help you with planning and scheduling the most effective textALERT campaigns.
8. Features
Compliance Tools
TL Connects keeps up to date with all CTIA and
TCPA Policy and Initiative changes to ensure that
our customers are always 100% compliant.
Custom Mini-Urls
Create a shortened, custom URL to promote any
web page & include it in a text or e-mail. Every
click can be tracked within our customer user
interface.
Keyword Marketing
Create custom keywords to use in other
marketing efforts such as social media or
coupons to help track your progress.
E-mail Marketing
Capture customer’s e-mail via text and use
current e-mail provider to communicate with
customers.
SMS & MMS Campaigns
Send text messages, picture messages with
a 98% open rate. Track results with offers
redeemed at kiosk.
Birthday Club
Celebrate your customer’s special day with a
birthday offer.
Social Media Engagement
Automatically drive your customers to multiple
social media platforms.
Mobile Coupon Barcode Redemptions
Include a POS barcode within mobile coupons
for POS redemption scanning to gain further
customer data and insights.
Trigger-Based Auto-Responders
Create a meaningful relationship by creating
offers based on your customer’s habits.
Anniversary Club
Remind customers each year how much you
appreciate them being a loyal customer.
Sweepstakes
Drive sales, customer engagement and product
promotions with targeted text to win campaigns.
Map Linking
Text offers can include a custom map link
showing customers the closest location with
directions.
9. PRICING DETAILS
NO CONTRACTS!
aUnlimited Subscribers
atextALERTs Message Scheduler
aUnlimited Automated Text Drip Messages Campaigns
aPicture & Gif Text Messaging w/up to 640 Text Characters
(2 Credits per Subscriber)
aStandard Text Messages w/up to 160 Text Characters
(1 Credits per Subscriber)
aUnlimited Mini-URLs
aE-mail Capture
aBirthday & Anniversary Clubs
aText-2-Win Wizard
aPoll Wizard
aCompliance Tools
1 Keyword
100 Monthly Credits
$.04 per additional credit
Unlimited Keywords
3,000 Monthly Credits
$.04 per additional credit
Unlimited Keywords
15,000 Monthly Credits
$.02 per additional credit
Unlimited Keywords
750 Monthly Credits
$.04 per additional credit
Unlimited Keywords
5,000 Monthly Credits
$.04 per additional credit
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Unlimited Keywords
1,500 Monthly Credits
$.04 per additional credit
Unlimited Keywords
7,500 Monthly Credits
$.04 per additional credit
FREE
BASIC
PRO PLUS
STARTER
BASIC PLUS
ENTERPRISE
STARTER PLUS
PRO
$0 per month
$119 per month
$299 per month
$49 per month
$159 per month
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$75 per month
$199 per month
How do credits work?
Credits are used to send out SMS (text only messages up to
160 characters) and MMS (picture or gif messages with up to 640
characters). SMS uses 1 credit per subscriber the message is sent
to and MMS uses 2 credits per subscriber the message is sent to.