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SMS Trends: Fill These Gaps with Texts in 2023
There’s a mismatch between what consumers want and what businesses offer. 2023 is your year to fill those gaps and make a profit with text messaging.
1. Text for Appointments
88% of people want SMS reminders to avoid missing appointments.
Texts are also an easy way for customers to schedule their next appointment in advance. They get to choose a slot on their own, while you get to save time and add more revenue by eliminating no-shows.
Mass Texting and Merge Fields can make personalizing appointment reminders at scale easy.
2. Text for Payments
69% of people want to text for payments.
That means there’s a massive opportunity for you to speed up your revenue flow with SMS bill pay and payment reminders.
Our Payments feature gives you the power to accept payments securely through text, and our integrations with Quickbooks, Square, and Clio help you fit texting into your invoicing workflows.
3. Text for Promotions
52% of people want to receive texts about promos and discounts.
But only 29% of people say businesses are sending them.
You don’t have to be a retail business to send promotional texts. Options include:
Showcasing new services and products
Reminders about deadlines
Discounts
Personalized upsells
Company updates and milestones
Event announcements
We have a list of promotion text message templates ready to go for you.
Want to dive deeper? Check out our 2023 State of Business Texting Report.