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Can You Drive Sales Via Text Messages? #1686

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

If You Can Drive Sales Via Text Messages In episode #1686, we talk about if it is possible to drive sales via text messages. Even though email marketing is proven to work, the open rate for emails is not as high as it is for text messages. This and other factors point to the increased use of text as a profitable sales channel in the future. Tune in to learn more! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:29] Today’s topic: If You Can Drive Sales Via Text Messages. [00:30] Text messages' main usage: not to generate new sales. [01:14] Tanner Chidester’s business with an infrastructure to support chat sales messaging. [01:49] Open rates for SMSs are higher than emails. [02:24] Why we will see an influx of chat support services. [02:14] Gains Neil saw when he added SMS marketing as a sales channel. [03:53] That is it for today! [03:53] Go to marketingschool.io/pro to learn more about our free community.   Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:   Tanner Chidester MobileMonkey LTVplus   Leave Some Feedback:     What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.     Connect with Us:    Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips

0:06.4

and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

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All right.

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So today, we are going to talk about if you can drive sales via text messages.

0:55.8

So what do we mean by that exactly, Neil?

0:58.8

So there's WhatsApp, there's your I message, I don't know what Android has a version,

1:04.1

they must have a version of I message, there's SMS, but a lot of times you're getting messages.

1:09.4

Whether it's join a webinar, webinar reminders, sale reminders to join a appointment or a call

1:15.4

or out of stock emails or e-commerce updates, sometimes even get messages from let's

1:20.8

say Amazon saying, hey, we shipped out your product or hey, your product is delivered.

1:24.8

Now, the question is, is most people are using SMS or text messaging for communication,

1:29.9

EX, you have appointment reminder, or we've shipped your package, but can you actually

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