Text Marketing

SMS text marketing to drive ROI and loyalty

Run text message marketing campaigns on your customers’ preferred communication channels, like SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp

Customer engaging with SMS marketing

Text messages engage and convert

98%

open rate for SMS text messages

90%

of SMS text messages are read within 3 minutes

45%

response rate for SMS text messages

157+ billion

messages sent and received yearly

Text marketing with Twilio


How does SMS text marketing work?

UI showing SMS marketing experience on the channels that customers use: SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Google’s Business Messages

Deliver the right message on the right channel

SMS (or text message) marketing is a way to reach customers with messages that are tailored to them. It can be as targeted as 100 hyper-personalized messages to your most loyal customers or as expansive as millions of notifications about your annual sale.

With Twilio, you have unlimited flexibility to create the ideal text marketing experience on the channels your customers use: SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Google’s Business Messages.

Use cases


SMS marketing for every stage of the customer journey

Onboarding messages

Grow your list of SMS subscribers and keep them engaged throughout the onboarding process.

Promotional discounts

Deliver personalized messages with promotional offers and discounts to drive conversions.

Ongoing and seasonal campaigns

Reach customers with offers, especially during peak times like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and back-to-school.

Reactivation campaigns

Bring customers back to your brand and nudge shoppers toward purchase with abandoned cart or back-in-stock campaigns.

Upsell and expansion messages

Drive existing customers towards new purchases with relevant offers based on purchase history.

Customer loyalty programs

Retain customer loyalty and spend through exclusive access campaigns, sneak previews, status rewards, and more.

Need help building? No problem.

Work with one of our trusted partners to get coding support or explore a pre-built text marketing solution.

Work with Twilio Professional Services to set up global call tracking for your company

Text marketing features for optimal engagement

Message scheduling

No need to hit send at just the right time. Schedule SMS, MMS and WhatsApp messages for future delivery.

Link shortening

Include your company name within the URL for increased deliverability and trust.

Click tracking

Track link clicks for data analysis, A/B testing, and optimizing your campaign ROI.

SMS Marketing ROI


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What’s the ROI from text marketing?

Tell us about your text marketing program and we’ll calculate the potential ROI for your business. Or learn strategies for SMS success with tips on personalization, testing, and measurement.

Text marketing channels


Let customers choose how to hear from you

  • Twilio Messaging logo
    SMS marketing

    Initiate global SMS marketing campaigns in 180+ countries with 99.95% uptime and 1500+ global carrier partners.

  • Twilio WhatsApp Business API logo
    WhatsApp marketing

    Deliver engaging marketing messages on the world's most popular messaging app with WhatsApp's rich messaging features.

  • Chat bubble with list
    Conversational marketing

    Engage customers in two-way conversations from ads or search results to provide recommendations and drive conversions.

  • Twilio MMS Messaging logo
    MMS marketing

    Deliver rich multimedia marketing messages using MMS. Rest easy with Twilio’s MMS converter for fallback to SMS when needed.

  • Twilio Facebook Messenger logo
    Facebook Messenger

    Connect to billions with rich messaging, live cross-channel support, and ads that click to message.

  • Twilio Google Business Messages logo
    Google's Business Messages

    Reach customers with messages directly from Google search results, maps, and owned channels.

Customer engagement platform


Start with SMS marketing. Grow into our Customer Engagement Platform.

Go beyond text message marketing with the Twilio Customer Engagement Platform (CEP), which allows you to reach customers on any channel while powering campaigns with real-time, first-party data.

Illustration showing screens with user engagement across multiple communication channels.

Customizable, omnichannel engagement

A single communications provider with APIs for any channel, serverless developer tools, and powerful services to connect with customers today and in the future.

Illustration of  an agent enhancing SMS marketing campaigns with real-time personalization.

Data-driven, personalized experiences

Enhance your SMS marketing with real-time personalization. With Twilio Engage, you can deliver hyper-targeted messages on the channel your customers prefer.

See SMS marketing in action

Learn how Panera Bread and Allergan implemented Twilio SMS text marketing to engage customers. The results? Customer convenience and increased sales.

 

SMS marketing service pricing


Simple pricing. So easy to get started.

Only pay for what you use. There’s no subscription required. And it’s easy to get started. Sign up for free to build and send your first message with a few lines of code. Or talk to sales to learn more about SMS marketing with Twilio.

New

Introducing Twilio Messaging Engagement Suite

Get simpler development, quicker time to market, and higher deliverability rates.* See how Message Scheduling, Link Shortening with Click Tracking, advanced data, and real-time dashboards can benefit your business. 

 

* In an evaluation of more than 63M messages sent through Twilio with shortened hyperlinks, messages with shortened hyperlinks by 3rd party Link Shorteners were filtered at 1.96% or 28x the rate of Twilio which was filtered at a rate of 0.07%