12 POWERFUL FEATURES YOU MUST LOOK FOR IN A BULK SMS PROVIDER FOR BEGINNERS
Do you want to reach out to your customers and suppliers during festive period at a cheap price?
Are you looking for fast, reliable and cost effective way of reaching your customers, potential
customers, target customers anytime, anywhere within seconds?
Do you want to grow your business by reaching out to new, prospective customers?
Do you want to notify your current customers about changes in your services or products?
Or do you want to reduce the money spent on sending SMS for your personal use?
Then you need a Bulk SMS/text facility. There are many advantages in using a reliable bulk SMS platform.
It is cost effective because the cost per SMS is lower than the cost per SMS of GSM operators. It can be as low as N1 or less!
There is no Setup Cost (You pay only the per SMS cost).
There is no Monthly Fixed Commitment or fixed unit commitment;
The bulk SMS facility is easy to use.
Features Of A Good Bulk sms Platform
a. Ability to personalize the sender i.e. your name instead of number showing as sender
b. Instant Delivery or
c. Differed delivery i.e. message scheduling, you can set up the message to deliver at a later date or to deliver every day or every week or every year e.g birthdays.
d. History of all message sent can easily be retrieved
e. Account balance is always visible
f. Messages will not be sent if the phone number is incomplete or inactive; a error message will notify you of this.
g. Messages can be sent to multiple addresses from excel(.xls) or notepad(.txt) up to 100,000 numbers at once
h. Telephone numbers can be saved on the web through the creation of a web address book
i. Worldwide Coverage
j. No Expiry/Time Period
k. A good and responsive customer support system
l. Good providers also have a gsm database that you can use to start of campaigns.
