This requirement comes from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).

Thus, the scenario where you text them a business SMS as if it were their birthday and you’re a distant relative isn’t allowed. The truth is, your clients have to opt-in and consent to receive text messages from your organization. In a world where businesses rule, you could just start texting your clients right away. Naturally, there has to be some regulation put in place to protect the consumer so that they aren’t inundated with business SMS. Instead what I’m going to do is provide you with payment reminder text message samples that are practically guaranteed to boost your collections.īefore I provide you with a barrage of effective text messages, I need to cover texting compliance. I could sit here for the rest of this blog post and continue to try to convince you on why you should incorporate texting into your business practices. To be more specific, 86% of businesses say that communicating to their clients via text increases engagement.

They’re also useful in trying to collect from those who’ve already purchased from you and haven’t paid you. However, texting’s value goes far beyond trying to convince your clients to purchase your products and/or services. Sure, I’ve only highlighted its use for marketers thus far. The point I’m trying to make with all of them is that texting isn’t just a viable option for your business, it’s something you can’t afford to miss out on. If you aren’t excited about texting by now, after I threw all of those awesome statistics at you, I don’t know what else I can do for you. Of course, they’re also part of the reason why there’s been a deterioration in our mental health, but that’s a different story. Our mobile devices are such an important part of our life now that we open 81% of our emails on them. Yet, I’d still wager to bet that the relationship and/or routine you have with your phone isn’t that much different.

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