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Break selling records with holiday SMS marketing: 5 tips
Dec 19, 2016 • 3 minutes read
How do you make sure consumers all lay your product underneath the Christmas tree? With an average open rate of 98%, SMS is a highly effective way to stimulate sales this holiday season. Even easier now with these 5 tips for holiday SMS marketing.
5 tips to improve your holiday SMS marketing
1) SMS-coupons
Coupons are a very effective marketing tool. Paper coupons however, can easily get lost. Coupons sent via SMS, in most cases are saved. Because consumers keep their phones on them almost all the time, they will also carry your coupons with them wherever they go. Therefore, an SMS-coupon is more easily used that it’s paper counterpart. Increase your sales by sending your customers an SMS with a discount offer for your (web)shop before Christmas. This way, your product will soon appear on all their wish-lists.2) Customer service
More and more consumers buy online. This means that, during the holiday season, products may easily be sold-out online and delivery may take longer than normal. Inform your customers via SMS when their delivery is shipped and attach a tracking link so they can follow their package. This way, you can prevent dissatisfied customers and unnecessary calls to your Is your product temporarily sold out online? Ask customers to leave their phone number so you can send them an SMS when the product is back in stock. Is the product sold out online but in stock in one of your brick and mortar stores? Send an SMS with an exclusive in store action, so their cash registers keep ringing.3) Grow your audience for holiday SMS marketing
Though SMS is a highly effective tool, it doesn’t have to stand on its own. By promoting your SMS campaigns via social media, you will increase the brand involvement of your customers. Does your company have its own social media page? Ask your followers to subscribe to your SMS-list so they can use your social media deals, for example your SMS-coupons. Also, ask those in your SMS-list to share your deals via social media. By combining the strengths of SMS and social media, you’ll grow your audience and increase your visibility during the holidays.Combine the strengths of your app and SMS to increase app engagement end save costs with Hybrid Messaging
4) Customer loyalty
5) Build your SMS-list
5) Build your SMS-list
Want to know more about how to use SMS in your marketing strategy this holiday? Contact CM to start your holiday SMS marketing or read more about SMS.
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