Text Marketing for Local Businesses
Attract, retain, and engage customers in today's digital world
Reach Your customers where they're at
Local businesses face unique challenges. They need to engage with their community and foster lasting relationships with customers.
In today’s digital world, you need to reach your customers where they are: on their mobile phones.
Text messages deliver an impressive 98% open rate and enables you to engage customers instantly with personalized offers, updates, and time-sensitive promotions.
A direct line to your customers
Using the right communication tools makes it easier to attract and retain customers. Text messaging provides a direct line to your customers’ attention. With instant delivery, sharing announcements and promotional offers, collecting feedback, and building loyalty is quicker and easier.
Your customers want convenient, instant communication that fits their busy lifestyles. Text marketing puts your business directly in front of customers—through their phones. This creates an immediate connection that other marketing channels can’t touch.
With 16 million texts sent every minute, text messaging is today's most effective communication channel.
Don't get left behind
If your local business isn't using text marketing, you're missing out on sales.
A personalized Experience
Your customers want personalized experiences, and text messaging delivers precisely that.
A few practical examples
- A local coffee shop can send morning specials.
- Service-based professionals like chiropractors, dentists, automotive services, and salons can remind clients about open appointments, creating relevant, timely engagement.
- A fitness center can send motivational texts to engage with and encourage their clients to continue their routines.
- Have an event coming up? Let your customers know in advance through a text message.
Key Benefits for Your Business:
- Delivery of time-sensitive offers
- Personal yet professional
- Convenient and flexible
- Direct, instant communication
- Quick and efficient
- Higher engagement than email
- Cost-effective marketing solutions
- Build customer loyalty naturally
Do you want to share a flash sale or last-minute promotion? Text marketing ensures your message reaches customers right when they need to see it, helping drive immediate action and boost sales.
Share exclusive deals, helpful updates, and appointment reminders that make your customers’ lives easier.
Your customers prefer Texting
81%
81% of consumers say they’ve signed up for text messages from a business or organization.
72%
72% of people have made a purchase after receiving a text from a brand.
95%
95% of text messages are read and responded to within 3 minutes of being received.
90%
90% of customers prefer text messages over phone calls, and 93% have more trust in text messages than in emails.