Text Messaging

A Guide to Registering Your Business for Texting

A Guide to Registering Your Business for Texting

New registration requirements for businesses who use texting Mobile carriers have implemented a new registration requirement to help verify SMS text messaging traffic from business phone numbers. This requirement is designed to prevent fraud and spam traffic. Businesses who register and have their toll-free texting numbers verified will be allowed to send text messages without restrictions. Carriers will block some… [Read more »]

How to Get a Text Opt-in from Your Customers

How to Get a Text Opt-in from Your Customers

How do you get an opt-in from your customers for text messaging? Getting an opt-in is important, but it is not complicated. You can get the “express written consent” needed for compliance when the conversation starts by phone, text, or face-to-face. What is a text messaging opt-in? Opting in to receive text messages from your business means your customer has… [Read more »]

Getting More Responses from Business Texts

Getting More Responses from Business Texts

Do your texts look like SPAM or a legitimate business offer? If people are not responding, it’s probably because your messages don’t include the five things needed for a trustworthy text. The typical bad business text The typical business text has a name, it’s called SPAM. We all get them and probably no one responds to them. That’s because these… [Read more »]

BellesLink Phone and Text System: What’s Included

BellesLink Phone and Text System: What’s Included

One of the things that makes BellesLink unique is our phone and text system. Combined with our people searches and batch searches, our virtual phone features let you find contact information for a customer and contact them by phone or text, all in one app. A Phone and Text System Our virtual phone and text system is full-featured and includes… [Read more »]