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Find out why bulk SMS is a highly effective mobile channel for customer acquisition, engagement and retention

Staggering open rates with rapid response

99% average open rate for SMS, with 97.5% opens within 5 seconds of being received on handset. (Nielsen Survey 2014)

5X more effective than Email

SMS has 5X higher open rates, 5x higher response rates and 2400x quicker response times than Email. (Oracle Marketing Cloud – MME Guide, 2015)

Increasing use of mobile phones

India has 937 million mobile subscribers with the number expected to touch 1.4 billion in 2020. (TRAI 2015, IAMAI)

Increased mobile reach

75% of online rural population in India is online via their mobile devices (Octane Research 2015)

A constant source of communication

Indians spend around 3 hours and 18 minutes a day on their smartphones, 25% of the consumers check their phones over 100 times (Ericsson Consumer Lab 2014)

Increased usage of smartphones

The number of smartphones grew 54 percent during 2014, reaching 140 million and the number is expected to grow 4.7-fold between 2014 and 2019, reaching over 650 million (CISCO 2015)

Warmly received

Compared to other forms of communication such as email, mobile messaging involves far lesser spam and so, consumers are more attentive to their text messages. There is only 5% opt-out rates for SMS marketing campaigns. (Nielsen Survey 2014)

The preferred choice

Customers prefer to receive promotions by text message rather than mobile web according to research by the Direct Marketing Association (econsulting.com – 2012)

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Customer Service & Support Is Realtime and Excellent. We chose Textlocal due to the versatile options in their product, which cover different areas of communication. Customer Service of Textlocal is the best part of the deal; Hassle-free, real-time support and best in reverting to the query without follow up.


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We had a Smooth Relationship with Textlocal and no issues in the service. Good Co-ordination and great service by the Textlocal team.


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It's been our pleasure that we are connected with TextLocal for the services since long & we are happy to utilize these services, Recently we were looking to send personalized messages because the content of the message was with a link on candidates name and asking some sort of personal information. We approached Textlocal and were told about the "Excel to SMS" feature. We have sent personalized campaigns to 3 lakh+ data and are very happy with the results, all thanks to Textlocal team.


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Dashboard is easy to understand and all the necessary functionality is offered. Alerts setting, Reports, API Integration, SMS scheduling is easily done, along with it we can fetch detail reports anytime. Support Team is available to solve the Query.


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The team is very much supportive and managed all our projects effectively. They were very responsive and worked fast to touch our target. We hope that you will continue to favour us with your extended support.


Saritha

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Their API service works perfectly. Their customer support picks up the phone and responds to our queries within less than 5 minutes *every single time* and the user interface of the product is simple and once again, just works.


Vaidy Bala

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Our experience with Textlocal's E-mail to SMS Gateway service has been very positive - all the way from evaluating the service (received very nice technical sales support to address our key requirements) to adoption (very simple & quick processes + very responsive team that helped us get started quickly) & usage- the service itself has been very reliable so far!!


Intel Corp.

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Easy to use and the SMS campaigns are done swiftly. Batch Scheduling on a specific time has been functioning superbly. Tracking of messages provide a great support to us in analyzing the outcomes.Overall a great experience !


Deepika Radhu

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