![]() ![]() ![]() My assumption is, the longer texts probably allow you to share more complete thoughts… and people are better able to understand your messaging!Īt the end of the day, you’ll hear the usual refrain… Test it for yourself. And, honestly, I’m a bit suspect of the data because it was not a true A/B split test. Improvements are just a few percentage points. Side note: If you’re a client, and you want to send out extended text messages, reach out to customer service and they can enable your account with the flip of a switch! I’ve seen slightly better click rates with the longer messages. Remember these longer messages do cost a few pennies more. These extended text messages can reach up to 600 characters. With MMS messages you can send a much longer text messages… WITHOUT a picture or graphic. Increased engagement is more of a result of how you interact over time… more than an individual message – be it an MMS picture or SMS text. I’ve come to believe engagement on the text marketing level is more about nurturing the client relationship. I’ve done a bit of testing in our own accounts and I have NOT seen significant variances in click rates or engagement with the MMS graphics. So, it makes me think the MMS picture messages vs SMS text only is a coin toss on results. My thinking is… if one format significantly outperformed the other, we’d see them all stick to the one format full time. So, I’m not sure what “Great Metrics” are exactly.Īnecdotally, I see a lot of customers switching back and forth from text to pictures and back to text… then back to pictures. One agency I recently spoke with ONLY sends MMS messages and they report their engagement rates are great… but of course I couldn’t get them to share numbers. We have hundreds of customers using MMS messages. We’re waiting to hear more from the carriers in the next few months. We’re hoping the new texting standards set by the carriers (yet to be rolled out) help eliminate this filtering. Unfortunately they sometimes see these messages as spam. Our quick rule of thumb is… if you are texting on a long code, sending MMS messages with a picture to more than 200 people at a time can result in increased carrier filtering. The evil carriers are starting to flag, and filter, more and more messages as spam. It’s a very interesting question… and, as a text marketing pro, maybe you had the exact same question! He asked if we had any concrete data on people interacting more with Picture MMS messages over a text only sms and a link. How One Chain of Pubs Uses Text Message Marketing to Skyrocket Repeat Customer Visits! He’s had great success using texting to drive customers back to his chain of Pubs.Ĭheck out the case study we did a few months back. He’s been using SMS marketing for some time. ![]()
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