“Throughout 2018 and now into 2019, we’ve experienced tremendous business momentum,” says Text Request CEO Brian Elrod. “When we sprinted past the $1 million ARR mark last year, we immediately felt we had the experience under our belts and wind in our sails to successfully double that number in 2019. Getting across the 1,000 active client mark this early in the year gives us confidence that we’re going to hit our goal.”

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Text Request is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product. Customers sign up to text using their current business numbers, and get an online dashboard to manage texts professionally, which they can login to from any device. Features include a shared dashboard for multiple users, message templates, keywords, group messaging, permanent records of messages, picture messaging, SMS live chat, and more. Common use cases include lead generation, scheduling, getting online reviews, and sales follow-up, among others.

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The Text Request client roster is comprised of partner businesses of all sizes from a wide array of industries. Well-known clients include Harley-Davidson, Penn National Insurance, Ticketmaster, DTE Energy, Nissan, and State Farm, among many other marquee brands.

“As is the case with most startups, we worked hard to find our ideal market fit,” says Elrod. “Now that we’ve homed in on that and sharpened our value proposition, we’re in a season of explosive growth. 2018 was an immensely successful year for us, one that has us buckled in for a rocketship of a ride in 2019.”

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