📝 Overview
Text marketing lets you send text message campaigns to your clients. This article walks you through signing up for text marketing and setting up a text message campaign to send to your clients.
⛔️ Stop-gap: Messages will not send until Twilio verifies your messaging account registration. For any questions, chat with our support team or email us at [email protected].
🛠️ Setup
Before you can send text marketing campaigns, you need to sign up for the text marketing service.
📲 Sign Up for Text Marketing
Sign up and activate the text marketing service from the desktop software.
Click the Messaging & Marketing drop-down menu, then click Send New Text Blast.
When you are prompted to sign up for text marketing, click Set Up Now!
Sign in with your administrator email and password.
A message shows the pricing for the text marketing service and how many text messages are included. To continue with the displayed package, click Activate Service.
✍️Note: Additional pricing options are available by calling +1 (866) 617-9939.
Go back to the desktop software. A prompt confirms that you have successfully signed up for the text marketing service. Click I'm Done Signing Up Online.
You are now all set up to begin sending marketing campaigns.
⚠️ Warning: Your clients must opt in to receiving text marketing messages before they can receive your campaigns. To prompt your clients to opt in to text marketing, follow the directions here.
📣 Create a Text Marketing Campaign
Choose who receives your campaign, pick and edit a template, and decide when the campaign sends, either once or on a recurring basis.
Click the Messaging & Marketing drop-down menu, then click Send New Text Blast.
Select the filter criteria you want to use to target the clients you want to send the campaign to, then click Next.
The default text message templates appear. To view a template as a starting point, select it and click Preview Selected. When you find a template you want to use, click Next.
Edit the default template as needed, then click Save Text Message.
Enter the campaign's name in the Campaign Name field and the campaign's description in the Detailed Description field.
Choose the date the e-mail blast should be sent using the calendar tool. Optionally, select the Automatically send this e-mail on a recurring basis bubble and set frequency of recurrence using the Starting on calendar tool. You can also select the end date from the Stopping on calendar tool.
Select the frequency of the campaign to send every ___ day(s), week(s), month(s), or year(s).
Click Turn On Campaign to have your message begin sending to your clients.
The software now starts sending your text marketing campaign to your clients throughout the day.




