text marketing strategy

Marketing moves fast, and the fastest way to reach consumers today is through their smartphones. Text marketing allows your message to immediately appear on a consumer’s screen — not buried in their email inbox or on a search results page. In fact, texts have an open rate five times greater than email (98% compared to 20%), according to an Acxiom-supported research study, and SMS is more cost-effective than other forms of marketing such as paid social or direct mail. Most marketing pros have heard about text messaging’s…