As more than 5 billion people on the earth have cellphones, SMS messages have been a very good communicating way to reach individual people. According to statistics, 98% of people will read the SMS messages they receive. To small businesses, SMS messages can be a good marketing method.
Text alerts are SMS messages sent to people to alert them of something emergent or important. Usually, text alerts are sent to a large amount for its convenience. For example, governments can send text alerts to their citizens to alert them of extreme weather, or large disasters. Organizations and companies can also send text alerts to their employees to alert them of emergent news and notifications.
To small businesses, SMS messages can be a good start for marketing, for their high reaching and opening rate, also for their cheap cost. Through SMS messages, small companies can reach their customers anytime suitable, to send any content they would like to send. For example, news about products, team introductions, interesting news, discount events, or even greetings. SMS messages can be a terrific way for small businesses to build good customer relationships.
Text alerts are one type of SMS message that sends to people. To small businesses, text alerts can also be a good tool for them to manage the business. For example, when new orders come, orders are being canceled, or some changes to the orders. At times like this, text alerts can be a great help for business managers. People no longer have to watch order status all the time. They are freed from computer or cellphone screens because of text alerts.
Normally, text alert services are provided by SMS platforms. Small businesses can cooperate with SMS platforms, get text alert services, and other SMS messaging services. For instance, SMS notifications, SMS verification, SMS marketing, and voice SMS. These can all be good marketing tools for small businesses to get a start, reach more potential customers, and better serve and communicate with current customers.
Famous SMS platforms in the world are SimpleTexting, ClickSend, Twilio, TextMagic, SMSGlobal, China Skyline, and so on.
