Text Blast
Reach your whole audience in minutes with text message blasts
Send everyone the same text at once. Relax knowing it’ll be read in minutes. It’s the best way to share an important message with thousands of people.
- Send your first SMS blast in the time it takes to get a coffee.
- Segment your audience to send different texts to different groups.
- Enjoy lightning fast global delivery — perfect for urgent messages.
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What is an SMS Blast?
What is an SMS Blast?
An SMS blast, or broadcast, is like using BCC in an email. You can send the same single text message to a group of contacts. Each person receives your text but doesn't see any of the group details. And, if you use a dedicated number, your contacts can reply.
Text broadcasting (or blasting) is great for businesses sending one-off campaigns and promotional messages. It’s a type of bulk SMS messaging.
Why Use an SMS Broadcast Service?
Text messaging is a very effective way to reach people, quickly and easily. With unmatched open rates of 98%, you know that your message will be seen. In comparison, open rates for email are 20-30% at best. And when 75% of consumers welcome marketing offers from their favorite brands via text message, why not talk to your customers on the channel they prefer?
Mass Text Message Broadcast
Reach thousands at once, from one simple platform.
Regardless of how big or small your contact list is within a few clicks you can have your vital text blast delivered.
- Sales promotions
- Emergency alerts and notifications
- Scheduled updates
Mass messaging is super easy with ClickSend.
Scheduled Text Messaging
Schedule your messages to be sent at the perfect time.
Create your text message blast campaign and schedule it to be sent on a day or time of your choosing to anywhere in the USA or the world.
- Perfect for dealing with the multiple timezones of the USA and even better if you have a global contact list.
- Have your messages delivered at optimum times. For instance, when promoting takeaway meals, do it at meal times - wherever your customers are.
Send text blasts using a reliable, fast and helpful service.
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Security and Reliability
The ClickSend platform is built on enterprise-level security and provides a 99.95% Uptime SLA guarantee.
Lightning Fast Delivery
ClickSend lives and breathes high performance direct routes. Your messages get delivered on time.
Personalized SMS Blast
Personalize thousands of texts instantly.
Each text can be auto-updated with names and individual details so everyone feels like you’re speaking directly to them — all while you’re talking to thousands.
- First and last name placeholders are set-up by default.
- Pull custom details from your list by easily editing placeholders.
For easy sending of relevant and targeted text message blasts.
Send Targeted Messages to Contact Segments
Right person, right message, right time
Segment your contact list by demographics to send relevant SMS broadcasts to each of your audience groups.
- Improve engagement by sending tailored content to each audience.
- Reduce opt-outs by engaging the right contacts at the right time.
- Add relevant details based on custom data and your audience.
Discover how simple personalization can be. Talk to us about your next message blast.
Send a text blast in 3 easy steps
1. Upload Contacts
Upload your contact list as CSV or spreadsheet. If you don’t have a list of phone numbers yet, read about building your opt-in contact list.
2. Create Your Message
Write a clear and concise message. Use MMS if you want to include images. And, try features like custom fields, emojis and short links.
3. Click Send
Send messages immediately or schedule them to send later. Track delivery, click through rates and monitor replies — all in the one platform.
Ways businesses use text blasts
1. Alerts and Notifications
Use SMS broadcast alerts to contact people, fast.
- Perfect for emergency situations, weather and mass covid alerts.
- Great for non-emergencies too; change of time or place, cancellations or delays.
2. SMS reminders
Send thousands of reminders in seconds with a text blast.
- Remind people about an upcoming game, concert or one-off event.
- Improve attendance and reduce no-shows with text reminders.
Reminders can be sent as a broadcast or individually, based on user behaviour. Even for hundreds of contacts, you can send text reminders quickly, bulk text messaging
3. SMS Surveys and Polls
Use polls to gather customer feedback or get more detailed feedback via surveys.
- Score high engagement on your polls and survey results by sending via a text blast.
- Make your text blast polls interactive with automated replies for targeted feedback.
4. Broadcast Promotions and Sales Events
Make sure 98% of recipients know about your offer with SMS.
- Add an SMS broadcast to your marketing messaging to really drive exposure and engagement for your sales promotions.
- Send coupons to drive people in-store or include a link to your online store.
Top questions about SMS broadcasting
How Much Do Text Message Blasts Cost?
That depends on how big your contact list is and therefore how many messages are sent. Message pricing can range from $0.0234 to $0.0084 USD per message depending on how many are sent and replies are always free. And with us you only pay for what you use there are no recurring monthly fees. Full pricing can be found at ClickSend Pricing.
Can I Send An SMS Broadcast To Anyone?
You must have consent to send text messages from your business; this is obtained through getting contacts to opt-in. Here at ClickSend, we do not allow the use of purchased lists.
What Number Do I Use to Send Messages?
There are very specific messaging restrictions in the US. SMS gateways need a direct connection to guarantee message delivery. Here at ClickSend, we use high-quality, direct connections to deliver your texts in the US and globally. In the US, you can use a toll-free number, a 10-digit long code or your own dedicated 5-6 digit short code. Read more about US Sender Numbers here.
How Many Characters Can I Use?
A standard SMS message has a maximum of 160 characters. Longer messages are definitely possible; messages are broken into multiple message parts which cost one message per message part. The recipient will still see this as 1 long message on their handset. Our dashboard features a character count so you know exactly how many message parts you are using. If sending an MMS you can access up to 1,500 characters.
Can I SMS Blast From My Mobile Phone?
Yes we have both Android and iOS text messaging apps that allow you to do text blast campaigns from any device. You can download the free ClickSend app from the App Store or Google Play.
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