Call & Text Marketing

What is RCS Messaging?

RCS (Rich Communication Services) is a next generation SMS protocol that upgrades text messaging. Rich features like payments, high-res photo & file sharing, location sharing, video calls, and much more, are delivered to a device’s default messaging app.

4 Top Benefits of Call Tracking

An in-depth look at why businesses employ call tracking and how tracking incoming calls helps businesses improve marketing effectiveness & customer experiences.

Call Tracking Best Practice Guide

Discover how Call Tracking is helping marketers increase performance, fine tune advertising programs, and improve customer communications.

Top 5 Reasons to Use SMS and Text Marketing

Discover why the use of SMS and Text Marketing is on the rise, and being integrated into many digital and mobile marketing strategies.

Is SMS Marketing Better Than Email?

SMS Marketing is the fastest way to connect with customers — but email marketing still has its place in your digital marketing strategy.

7 Best Practices for SMS & Text Marketing

Twilio provides developers and marketers with best practices to make SMS marketing and text marketing campaigns more successful.

Mobile Marketing Basics: SMS vs. Push Notifications

Throughout the customer lifecycle journey, there are times when marketers can use push and other times when outreach campaigns deliver better results using SMS.

A Guide to Call Attribution

Understanding how to assign programmable phone numbers is key to accurate call attribution. Learn the details this five part series.

Part 1: Learn The Basics of Call Attribution for Online Directories

Each attribution level provides different granularity to help prove the value of your platform. This is the second article in a five part series.

Part 2: Understanding Call Attribution at the Seller Level

Using call tracking, online directories can provide listing professionals with data to identify interested buyers. This is article part 3 in a five part series.

Part 3: Understanding Call Attribution at the Listing Level

Knowing how to manage assignment and removal of phone numbers is key to optimizing your number strategy. This is the fourth article in a five part series.

Part 4: Understanding Call Attribution At The Visitor-Level

Providing info at the visitor level, online directories can optimize listings to generate the most calls. This is the final article in a five part series.

Part 2: How to Use Dynamic Number Insertion to Track Campaigns

Learn how to display different phone numbers for different types of campaigns in three steps. This article is the second in a four-part series.

Part 1: A Guide to Lead Attribution for Landing Pages

Learn how to use dynamic phone number insertion (DNI) to improve your lead tracking and attribution. This article is the first in a four-part series.

Part 3: How to Use Dynamic Number Insertion to Track Keywords

This is the third article in a four-part series on lead attribution and call tracking. Learn how to track keyword-level attribution for your campaigns.

Part 4: How to Use Dynamic Number Insertion to Track Sessions

Understand how to track and analyze individual user behavior in this final article of the four part series on lead attribution.

The Marketer's Guide to Text Messaging

As evangelists of the mobile messaging industry, Upland Mobile Messaging has a few tips to help newbies just getting started.

Track Hospitality on Driving ROI with Call Campaigns

Learn how using Twilio programmable phone numbers can accurately track your online ads and optimize lead conversion.

Scorpion on the Future of Lead Tracking and Analytics

What’s your cost per lead per source? Are you tracking both online and offline conversions? Tracking, analytics and ROI are critical to any marketing strategy.

Call Tracking: When To Build and When To Buy

How do you know whether to build or buy a call tracking solution? Like any business decision, your choice often depends on your resources.

Sprint Puts The Magic Back in Advertising with SMS Marketing

To reinvigorate the Sprint brand, Goodby Silverstein & Partners turned to Twilio and built an ad campaign around connecting with the people around you.

7 Ways to Improve Lead Conversion With Intelligent Routing

Use Twilio APIs to convert more leads into sales. Follow these conversion strategies and watch your sales numbers go up.

Call Tracking and Analytics Demo

Watch this demo to learn how to track and analyze leads generated from calls at scale.

Three Reasons to Customize Call Tracking

Find out how building a custom call tracking solution can help you track, measure and optimize calls just like clicks.

Call Tracking For Marketing Agencies

Scorpion shares how building a custom call tracking solution has allowed them to help hundreds of clients increase leads and grow their business.

Track Calls Like You Track Clicks

Analytics tools have made it easy to know which digital channels are driving leads. But how precisely can you track leads generated from calls?

How to Build Call Tracking with Twilio

Learn how to build a call tracking solution using Twilio Programmable Voice APIs.

How to Build Click to Call Buttons with Twilio

Learn how to build a click to call button for your website to allow a customer to request a call from your sales or support team.

What Can Online Directories Do with Twilio?

Build a Lead Generation Engine with Communications - Part 1: Learn how to demonstrate value, increase conversion and optimize performance with building blocks.

Three Ways Call Tracking Creates Business Value for Online Directories

Build a Lead Generation Engine with Communications - Part 2: 70% of people call the number listed on the search result. How do you keep the conversation online?

Increase Conversion: Respond Faster, Add Context and Reduce Friction

Build a Lead Generation Engine with Communications - Part 3: Once you enable call tracking, you can add more communication building blocks to convert leads.

Convert More Leads Using Context

Build a Lead Generation Engine with Communications - Part 5: Add context to your conversations with APIs to improve customer experience and increase conversion.

Why Choosing the Right Communication Channel Matters

Build a Lead Generation Engine with Communications - Part 6: A typical person uses some form of messaging 6 times per hour on average. Does your business?

Never Miss an Opportunity with Lead Alerts

Build a Lead Generation Engine with Communications - Part 4: Using the right communication tools can convert 60% of leads to customers. Find out how using APIs.

Fine Tune Online Directory Growth Using Add-Ons

Build a Lead Generation Engine with Communications - Part 7: Capture important information both online and by offline to improve online performance.

Avvo Uses Call Tracking To Demonstrate Marketplace Value To Lawyers

Avvo, a legal services marketplace, relies on call tracking built on Twilio to demonstrate ROI for over million lawyers.

Trulia Converts 60% of Online Leads into Clients

Trulia instantly connects real estate agents and new leads, delivering 100x higher conversion rates using Twilio APIs.

Twilio for Listing Services and Lead Generation

You've done a great job in attracting buyers and sellers to your platform. But what happens when you pass leads to your sellers?

Twilio Talks: The Technology Layer of the Sharing Economy

The sharing economy runs on two primary forces—trust and speed. How do you establish trust among strangers while connecting people, goods, and services in real time? Get answers from our panel of experts.

Building Local Mobile Experiences for Your Global Customers

Have you made the mobile mind shift? Learn how to develop contextualized communications to give your diverse customers what they want when they want it.