 How to use SMS to make money insider secrets, part two of two. Okay guys, this is the second half of the training I started in video one. If you haven't watched video one, go ahead and complete this video, that's okay. But at the end, go back and watch video number one and check that out because it's got a lot of good information there and it's got seven different things you can do in that one, as well as this one here, it's got seven different things you can do. Now, in this video, I'm gonna show you how you can make money using texting. Now, one thing about texting that you may not realize is there's certain services you can use to do this texting, and I didn't mention this in the first video, I probably should have, but you wanna use something that is gonna automate this process for you. You don't wanna just be actually sending texts. The best company I found out there right now is called Twilio, Twilio, I'm gonna say that a couple of times, Twilio, Twilio. Yeah, Twilio, you wanna use Twilio and the reason I wanna use Twilio, well, first off, I have a software that I use for webinars and that integrates with Twilio and it's the only one it integrates with. So, since it only integrates with Twilio, guess what? I picked Twilio. Twilio also integrates with Kartra. Kartra is by far the best online marketing software you can get for emails and courses and sales pages and funnels and all that stuff, all built into one place. Look in the description below. There is a link down there for Kartra. It's a free video you can watch and if you're interested, you can get Kartra for a $1 trial, so that's pretty good. But make sure you get Twilio too. I will put a link in the description for Twilio so that you can also get that because you're gonna need the software to do it. Now, these softwares don't really cost you anything unless you use it. So, they usually charge you based on how many texts you send out, but it's a very, very low cost. You can also get a phone number with Twilio. At the time of this recording, a phone number cost you $1 a month, a dollar. You can probably afford that. If you can't, you shouldn't be selling online if you can't afford a dollar. So, you wanna check that out, use my link below and you'll get some special deal, whatever that deal is. Number eight, because we left off on number seven, is to offer discounts and build top-of-the-mind awareness. Now, offering discounts is a great deal, but I say when you offer these discounts, I would also put a sense of urgency on there. So, if you're having a 30% off sale or a discounted product, I would say up until midnight tonight or for the next 72 hours, whatever, however you wanna use this, but make sure there's some urgency on top of the sale. You can also use it for top-of-the-mind, like congratulations, it's your anniversary or happy birthday today or happy president's day. We're offering this for free. You can go download this. There's so many different things you could do with text messaging to be top-of-the-mind and offer discounts. That's number eight. Here's an example right here of Domino's. You jump on this whopping 40% discount on all delicious medium pizzas and enjoy yummy goodness in every single bite. Click here now. Then they've got 25 minutes delivery guarantee. Then they've got one that says, have a TGIF party with us, nine J.A. style. Enjoy any of our piezas, chicken, beef, sousas and sweet and hot pizzas starting from in 1500. Not quite sure what they mean by that, but you can kinda see how they're using that there. And let's see here. Here's another one from ARM. Let your savings earn you up to 13% interest, download Payday Investor Now with the highest investment options for future. So that's a couple examples right there. Number nine, boost your revenues by getting instant customer feedback. So somebody could come and buy something from your website and that could trigger a text that goes out an hour later or two hours later or you could ask them about their buying experience. Do they like it? Do they enjoy it? Whatever. You could offer them a discount on another product. It could also be triggered by when something ships out to them. Let's say you know it's gonna take about three days to get to them, maybe five days later you could send them a text and say, hey, we saw you got your product or hope you're enjoying it. Can you do this quick survey on it about your experience or what you thought of it? So that's another good thing you can use with text messaging. Number 10, abandon cart notification. So you can have a two-part order form where they put in their name and email and phone number and they have to click through to the next step to go ahead and buy and if they don't buy you could send them a text and say, hey, you were just at our website. My goodness, if you didn't finish, here's the link to go back and grab X product, whatever it was. A lot of times we think people just change their mind but a lot of times that's just not the case. Most people abandon carts for all kinds of different reasons. The number one reason is shipping but the other reasons can be they got interrupted. Something came up. Their phone rang at the same time they were working on buying that product and they totally forgot about it. So it could be all kinds of different reasons so that follow-up text can get you a lot more sales. Number 11, it can be delivery alert and customer service. So if you wanna have really good customer service you can send them a text and say, is there anything else we can help you with? We really appreciate your business. We saw that you just got your delivery of your new survival food, your canned meats that you just bought from us and we wanna make sure that you really enjoy them. Here's some free recipes that go along with the click here to download the recipes. So you can build that customer loyalty by giving them something extra like that. Here's an example right here. It says, hi Sandra, Ellen Health Medical Center has a message for you. Click here to view or call and then they've got a phone number right there. So what's the message? Well, they obviously want them to go to that link because they could have just put the message in the actual text but they didn't do so. They want them to go to the link. Here's one right here that is from DHL and it says AWB and it's got a number here to Marina Valley and then it's got the date and time here with delivery courier and it's got all the information on there if you have any questions. So it's just kind of updating them right here. Brands like Amazon DHL already use this channel because it's effective and you can copy them safely and do the same thing for your customers. Why not copy success? Number 12 is product launch, new stock and product updates, okay? So maybe you've got a new product coming out and you wanna announce it. I have a webinar that I'm gonna be doing and I want people to actually go to that so I'm gonna use that text messaging to let people know they can go to that and they can go through the training and I can sell something at the very end. So maybe you've got new stock that came in. We were out of survival food for a long time and we got new stock in so we can now text those people and say, hey, we've now got this inventory here that nobody had before. Click here now to go grab it while it's in stock. You can do that or product updates. You know, maybe you've changed some of your products. Maybe you've got new products in. All kinds of things you can do with text messaging. Now I'm gonna put this chart up on the screen here. This is pretty interesting. If you do SMS only before contact, it's a negative 4.8% average conversion of contacted leads. But if you do an SMS before and after contact, okay? It was a 19.6% but check it out. 112.6% on SMS only after contact. SMS messages have a 209% higher response rate than messages on apps, email or Facebook. A study showed that sales leads who got a text message during a product launch converted 40% higher than those who didn't get a text message. Matter of fact, Salesforce even says that 89% of marketers report that SMS marketing commands more results than business websites and display ads. So more 82% of marketers either maintained or increased their investment in SMS marketing. Guys, if you're not doing SMS marketing, you gotta do it, you gotta do it. You know, I told you in the beginning about Twilio, I'm gonna have a link below. You can sign up for Twilio for free. I mean, it's really free and the way it works is you put some money in your account and they actually deduct money from your account as you send text out. So, you know, you're not gonna be spending a ton of money if you don't want to. You can save my budgets $20 this month and that's all I wanna spend on text messaging. Once that $20 is eaten up, it's not gonna send out any more text. It works like that. Number 13, managing your customer's appointments. Man, this is so good. This is so good. This can be done in so many ways. You know, and I know my dentist does it. I know when I had to go to the hospital to get some tests done, they did it. You know, this text messaging thing, the entire medical field is using it now. I mean, it just works so well because I think people, they tend to forget about going to the doctor. They don't wanna go. They don't wanna show up. They don't wanna get their teeth drilled. They just don't. So, you know, that text messaging kind of reminds them like, hey, you got an appointment. You need to come on in. But it's also good if you're doing webinars. If you're doing anything like that where you want people to show up for a webinar online, it's a really good idea to text these people. And, you know, you've gotta have it available though. I know you gotta go through all your forms. That's one thing I will tell people is you gotta go through all your forms. I just sat down and did that. I still got some more to go through. There's so many out there that need to have that phone field filled out there. I do recommend, if you're selling international, make sure you have the country code in there plus the phone number. In Cartra, which I highly recommend, there's a link below. You can get Cartra, best marketing software in the world. There's a free video down there. There's my little plug, because I'm an affiliate. But in Cartra, you can select how you want the phone number to be US or if you want the country code or whatever you want in there. And it'll just throw it into the form for you. Now, people who are thinking about canceling an appointment, 70% of them in a recent survey said getting a text message prevented them from canceling an appointment. That's pretty strong. Number 14, distribute coupons to more people. If you've got a coupon on your product and you wanna get it out to people and especially make it time-sensitive, that's the best way to do that. You can actually put the coupon in the text. Some texts will allow you to put a link in a picture. Some of them allow you to put a picture. You don't really need it though. All you really need is a link where they can click and go get that coupon or get that discount. This will definitely increase your sales. It just definitely will. It's pretty cool too. They can opt out at any point they want. All of our phones now, I think we just type in the word stop and you're opted out of that sequence unless somebody opts into it again. So you're not gonna offend people. For the most part, if you send a short text and it's worthwhile, it's not gonna be a problem. Now, that's one thing I will tell you is make sure it's worthwhile and texting is not like email. You can't overdo it. Not that you can't overdo email because you certainly can't overdo email but it's a whole lot easier to overdo text. I would never suggest somebody texting people more than once in a day unless it's for an appointment and you wanna send a couple of reminders or for a webinar or something like that. But you have to be a lot more cautious about how often you're sending text because people do look at them. They do see them. They're a lot more apt to opt out of a text because they consider that a little bit more personal. It's a more personal way of contacting them. So you wanna make sure that you're doing that in a way that is sensitive to those people. I mean, how many texts would you wanna get a day from a business? Probably one or less, okay? And I wouldn't want a business to text me every single day. I wouldn't want that. So you gotta use it sparingly. Don't overdo it. Not to mention the fact that text costs more than sending emails. Like I know in CARTRA, which you gotta get CARTRA, there's a link down there below. You can watch an entire video on CARTRA I am an affiliate for CARTRA. But in CARTRA, they don't charge you for more emails. So I could send a million emails today and a million emails tomorrow. It's not gonna cost me anything. You can't do that with text messaging. It's gonna cost you. And in many cases, some people have plans where it actually costs them to receive a text. So if you're sending a bunch of text to them and you're costing them money, they're definitely gonna opt out. But the point being is that texts do work and they can improve your income. They can improve your profits. They can improve your loyalty, your customer service, your retention if you use them properly. Now I've gone through 14 different things you can do. If you missed the first seven, it's because you haven't watched video one. You gotta go back to video one in the description. There's a link down there for video one. Click on that, go back and watch video one. I hope this helps you out. I hope you understand that text messaging is kind of the future. I don't think social media messaging is because I don't check them all the time, but I see my texts constantly. I always have my phone with me and I never turn off text notifications. I just don't, unless it's nighttime, you know, when I'm sleeping, I probably haven't turned off then outside of for family members and all that, but that's a whole nother story. Bottom line is you can make a lot of money. Go back and watch video one if you haven't seen it. I hope you enjoyed this video. Don't forget to subscribe, hit that big subscribe button down there and give me a thumbs up if you would. 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