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With a bulk communication medium such as SMS messaging statistics can be a great help in directing your usage of the service. Statistics on delivery rates, or more importantly, failure rates plus uptime and downtime figures as well as delivery speed will inform your choice of provider.

The most interesting statistics however relate to the performance of SMS marketing campaigns compared to other options such as email or print. With 98% open rates for SMS, contrasted with 22% for email, these statistics will make it clear why SMS provides fantastic return on investment and should be adopted as soon as possible.

Every year Salesforce releases its State of Marketing report. It offers insight into how marketers use and see the various tools and channels available today. In the 2016 report, much of the content focused on social and email, but also included a good deal of information on mobile marketing too.

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You’ve read all about getting subscribers, the legal and recommended guidelines, and put great offers out to your list. But people still unsubscribe. Should you be worried? Are you doing something wrong? That depends. As the saying goes, you can’t make 100% of the people happy 100% of the time. You will have opt-outs, but whether you have too many is the question you should be asking.

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SMS marketing is very different to most other more traditional marketing tools, specifically because of its short-form, text only nature. This certainly shouldn't put you off though. We have put together our guide to both the best things about SMS marketing and some of the potential problems, and how to work around them.

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Mobile marketing offers an unprecedented access to your customers virtually any time, anywhere. This is particularly true for SMS marketing because it is “always on”. Customers don’t have to be surfing the web, or using an app to receive messages. Instead, they see the marketing messages right alongside ones from their friends and family.

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