Reach Your Audience Instantly with Text Broadcasts

Sakari’s Text Broadcasts let you effortlessly send mass SMS messages. With just one click, you’ll deliver important updates, promotions, and alerts to your entire audience.

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What are Text Broadcasts?

Text Broadcasts allow businesses like yours to send a single SMS text message to their entire contact list at once. Broadcast text messages are most often utilized to send promotions, exclusive offers, reminders, or important updates to subscribers’ mobile phones.

Reach Large Audiences Instantly
Text broadcasts allow your business to reach your entire audience at once with just a click. Craft your message, select a contact list, and hit send.

Cost-Effective Mass Communication
Compared to other forms of marketing communications– like email or direct mail– texting has the highest open and engagement rates, often for a lower average cost.

Personalization at Scale
With SMS text messaging, personalization is crucial to engagement. Sakari’s SMS texting platform gives you the tools to customize and personalize messages – so that every customer feels special

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Benefits of Using SMS Text Broadcasts

Higher Open Rates Than Email
SMS text broadcasts go right to a customer’s phone. This quick access produces higher open and response rates than email.

Ideal for Promotions and Announcements
Because of this instant delivery and faster response, text broadcasts can be a great tool to ensure your audience gets time-sensitive messages.

Works on Any Device, Anywhere
Unlike other marketing media, text messages are delivered right to the palm of every customer’s hand. So, no matter where they are, they’ll be able to see your text messages.

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Common Use Cases for Text Broadcasts

There are many ways you can put text broadcasts to work for your small business. Here are some of the most common ways customers use text broadcasts with Sakari:

Promotional Campaigns: Reach your entire contact list to announce special offers, new product releases, discounts, or limited-time sales.
Event Reminders: Send your customers deadline, special event, or appointment reminders.
Urgent Alerts: Deliver notifications to your audience quickly about time-sensitive alerts, such as changes, emergency alerts, or critical updates.
Internal Communications: Keep employees informed about important company news or updates.

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How to Send a Text Broadcast with Sakari

Sakari’s user-friendly interface makes it easy to create a text broadcast campaign. Here’s how to get started:

Select, Craft, Send

Setting up and sending a text broadcast is simple. First, choose the contact list you want to send your message to. Once you’ve selected the list, craft your message. Be sure to include personalization tokens to make your message even more personal for the audience. Then, once you’ve written your message, all you need to do is send it. It’s really that simple.

Schedule or Send Instantly

Sakari gives you the flexibility to send text broadcasts as soon as you write your message or schedule messages in advance to be sent at a specific time. This functionality allows you to time your messages for increased impact while also giving small business owners like you the opportunity to compose an entire campaign at once.

Real-Time Tracking and Reporting

Sakari’s real-time analytics tools make it easy to track delivery rates and click-throughs in real-time. With our analytics dashboard, you’ll get timely insights about your campaign’s performance, allowing you to make informed, real-time decisions.

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SMS is by far the primary way we engage with customers today, following by email and phone. More than 95% of our sales are closed virtually without requiring an onsite visit.”

Daniel Francis

Chief Product Officer, Treehouse

With Sakari, there are no limits to the number of texts you can send to contacts.

With messaging support to over 100 countries internationally, you have a variety of phone number options, include mobile numbers, local phone numbers, toll-free and short codes.

Yes, when you use SMS broadcast software like Sakari, you can personalize text message broadcasts with things like customer names or the last time they visited the business.

In a group text, the sender and all of the recipients are in the same message chain. Everyone within the group can send and receive messages while being able to see all sent messages in the group. In contrast, an SMS broadcast creates individual message chains between your business and each individual in your contact group. This is a 1-on-1 message, just sent to every member of a specific contact group.

Scheduling a text broadcast is simple. Once you’ve crafted your message, you can schedule the send for a certain date and time.

After sending a text broadcast, you can see real-time analytics, including delivery rates, open rates, and click-through rates.

Yes, Sakari’s SMS API integrates with some of the top CRMs, helping you keep all of your customer interactions in one place.

One of the biggest things to keep in mind when sending text messages from a business is that customers must opt-in to receive these texts. Sakari can offer support to ensure your messaging is compliant with these regulatory requirements.