How to Send a Blast Text Message

Reach thousands of people instantly with text blast software. Learn how to send text message blasts for pennies through TextSpot, plus the regulations you need to know before you start your first campaign.

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What Text Blast Software Does

Text blasts boost marketing campaigns by giving you instant access to your customers. Let them know about your latest promotions with a single message that goes out to thousands of people. You can also use templates to quickly build text messages you use often and send them straight from your laptop.

Text blasts are a cost-effective way to reach individuals and get conversions for pennies on the dollar—all with a convenient platform that serves as the heart of your campaign.

How to Use Text Blast Services

Sending Text Message Blasts at a Glance

The process you follow while sending text blasts is straightforward—it only requires text blast software like TextSpot and a list of contact phone numbers that have consented to receive your messages.

Follow these simple steps to send a message once you have those two key components ready:

• Select your number: Designate a free local 10-digit number you can use to text either one-on-one with contacts or groups with thousands of recipients.

• Create your message: Typing out your first mass text in TextSpot is just as easy as writing a message you’d send over email.

• Choose your contact list: Select the designated contact list you want to receive your message, along with individual contacts if necessary.

• Send or schedule your text: With software like TextSpot, you can send your mass text immediately, schedule it for later, or automate it to send to individual numbers as needed.

Know and Follow Regulations

Respecting the regulations of mass text messaging sets you apart from the spam your customers get every day. Including an opt-in message for each number you send content to makes it easier to obtain customer consent and ensure you’re targeting the right audience.

This step may seem inconvenient, but it ensures your contacts want to hear from you and keeps you in line with the strict regulations involved—including those from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Personalize Your Messages

Personalization goes a long way with your messages. Providing exclusives based on their birthday or anniversary of interacting with you can go a long way.

Build and Maintain a Contact List

Growing your audience takes time, but you can start integrating their contact information into your campaign early on. As you build, you’ll be able to send texts to authorized numbers and add contacts as you receive them.

You can also speed this process up even more by prompting contacts to sign up in-store for your messaging service or offering incentives for doing so.

Why Use a Service Like Ours?

High Open Rates

Mass text marketing has a higher open rate than almost any other marketing method, with open rates over 95% on average. Make a stronger impression with text messages and get the majority of your recipients’ eyes on your brand.

Because mass texting has such high open and conversion rates and encourages responses, it also has better ROI for your business and puts a nice, bright spotlight on your brand.

Unmatched Reach

Using a text blast service makes it easy to engage with your audience with a few clicks of a button.

Let them set appointment reminders or learn about new offers on their terms, without feeling like you’re intruding on their privacy.

Improved Engagement

Continuous engagement is at the core of brand awareness. You can use text blasts to take a more active approach to this strategy.

However, the opportunities don’t end there. Opening your text line up to responses lets your contacts engage with your brand directly and gives it a face and a voice they can find anywhere they go.

Cost-Effective Communication

Most text blast services model their pricing based on the number of messages you send. Since they’re broken up into SMS segments of 160 characters for the GSM-7 format or 70 characters for the UCS-2 format, they’re more economical for each message sent compared to the cost per view or click on paid social media or TV ads.

TextSpot messages cost pennies to send and reach your customers on a device they constantly check. Compare that to the thousands of emails you’ll send that only a handful of people open.

Who Uses Mass Texting Services?

Your customers are more willing to read your message and engage with you when you send text blasts. If you need to send a message to hundreds or even thousands of people at once, this is the way to do it.

Use it across all different industries, including:

• Hair and nail salons
• Spas
• Chiropractors
• Pet services
• Schools
• Legal Firms
• Dentists
• Doctors
• Personal trainers
• Pizzerias
• Sports teams
• College athletes
• Events
• Golf courses
• Gyms & fitness
• Counseling
• Home repair
• Photography
• Automotive
• Churches
• Real Estate
• Restaurants
• Tutoring services
• Lawn care & landscaping
• Hotels
• Radio stations
• Influencers
• Recruiters

Mass Texting Made Easy

Contact Imports

Upload your contact list through TextSpot using a standard CSV file or Excel spreadsheet. With this feature, you can start sending SMS blasts to your contacts in minutes.

Automation

Autoresponders or other automated messages are helpful for handling large lists when you’re trying to get your recipients to respond to texts. Automatically send messages to your contacts when they reply to your next blast and easily set expectations with your contacts about when you’ll respond to them.

Keyword Features

Create unique words people can text to join your groups or lists with TextSpot’s keywords feature.

With this feature, anyone can text your number and opt into your mass text messages at will. You can market these keywords anywhere. Use it and get meaningful results from your text marketing campaign.

Scheduling

Nobody likes being woken up in the middle of the night with text messages unless it’s a life-threatening emergency. Scheduling future messages is a great way to reach your contacts when they’re most likely to answer and plan your SMS campaigns ahead of time.

Web Forms

Web forms allow your website visitors to opt in and receive your SMS texts through a form on your website on their own terms. Entice website visitors to start conversations with you right from their phones in a matter of clicks.

Analytics

Track how your text blast campaign is performing and take a more proactive approach to engagement. TextSpot has detailed analytics on opens, clicks, and conversions so you can always see how your campaign is performing.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Why Not Just Use Email Marketing Instead?

Sure, email marketing is a great way to market your next campaign, but it has its limits. Your sending reputation is everything with email marketing, and most emails don’t have anywhere near the same open rates as text messages.

Are There Certain Types of Messages I Can’t Send with Text Blasts?

Yes. In most cases, government and industry regulations don’t allow messages that fall under the “SHAFT” use cases, including:

• Sex
• Hate
• Alcohol
• Firearms
• Tobacco

Please note that vapes and e-cigs also fall under the “tobacco” umbrella and cannot be promoted through mass texts.

However, there are some exceptions depending on circumstances relating to age or subject matter. Explore our Terms of Service to learn more about what is and is not allowed.