Adding a website texting widget and text us button to your WordPress or Drupal website makes it easy for visitors to reach out in a way that's comfortable and ..read more

Support your Drupal website visitors with SMS / text message chat by adding "text us" widget. Customers prefer to text. You should let them. Click for more ..read more

If you're looking to send automated reminders for events/appointments created on your Google calendars, you've come to the right place. Click the learn more ..read more

5 Reasons to Avoid Business Texting on Cell Phones Introduction With 80% of people now saying text messaging is the best way to reach them and certain demographics (like those between the ages of 18-36) communicating almost entirely by text, it is clear that in order to best serve your audience you need to text them. For many of the businesses and organizations we chat with, this means texting on a handheld device. Owners of small businesses or organizations may opt to use their own personal devices and larger organizations often obtain multiple hand help devices for staff to use and/or shar ..read more

Examples of MMS Promotions / MMS Marketing Campaigns Introduction MMS, or “multimedia messaging service”, is the combination of text and multimedia content sent over a cellular network. On our mass texting platform, called BROADCASTsms, this “multimedia” can be in the form or an image or an animated gif. Most of the clients who use our service to send promotional messages to their client bases use MMS (examples below). The reason? We humans are highly visual creatures. Research indicates we use half of our brain to process visual information and as a result we have an amazing ability to proc ..read more

Expand Your Use of SMS with our Zapier Integration Introduction: BROADCASTsms & Zapier We're excited to announce that our BROADCASTsms application is now integrated with Zapier. If you're not familiar with Zapier, think of it as an intermediary service that facilitates connections between 1,000s of different applications. Typically, such connections are complicated and complex, requiring the aid of an IT department and intimate familiarity with APIs. Not with Zapier. By creating simple “Zaps” (their term for the personal, custom integrations you create on their platform vai a simple step ..read more

SMS / Text Messaging Plugin for WordPress LEADsms WordPress Plugin Today, 80% of people say texting is the best way to reach them and a growing number of people prefer texting for business-related and sales inquiries. To accomodate this audience, we developed the LEADsms text messaging plugin for WordPress. Our plugin links your WordPress website to our CONNECTsms business texting platform, allowing you to have text message based conversations with site visitors. It can be used as a lead generator, a support tool, a chat-by-SMS option… anything you can think of. The branded version of LEADsm ..read more

Introducing LEADsms: WordPress SMS Plugin Introduction Local Text Marketers is proud to announce the launch of the LEADsms WordPress SMS plugin. Designed for WordPress (which powers approximately 455 millions web sites across the globe, or approximately 43% of all web sites), LEADsms offers WordPress webmasters an easy way to support their site visitors and generate leads and new business via SMS / text message. Currently LEADsms is available for webmasters in Canada and the United States, but other countries may be supported in the near future. If you are outside of either jurisdiction and ..read more

SMS Marketing for Retailers: 9 Ways to Skyrocket Sales Introduction SMS marketing can transform your business. That might sound like a bold statement. However, when you consider that… 97-99% of text/SMS campaign messages are opened and read (vs. 17% for email campaigns and even less for social media). Engagement is massive. Conversions with text messaging can be as high as 45% (source: SalesForce) and click through rates run from 15% and up (Source: Paddle.com). … it becomes much easier to accept. In this article, I'm going to show 9 different ways your business can use text message market ..read more

Secrets to Successful Non-Profit Marketing: 9 Reasons to Ditch Mail for Text Messaging Introduction If your charity / non profit agency is looking for way to… Reduce your messaging and advertising costs. Boost your campaigns’ response rates Increase your ROI. … then you should look to connecting to your audience with SMS, or as it's more commonly known, text messaging. In this article, I'll provide 9 reason why this is so. Let's get started… “SMS isn’t only viable. In many cases, it may be the channel best suited to the goals you’re pursuing.”   “Regardless of your size, SMS is a ..read more