Your text marketing and email marketing campaigns are only as good as the network you send them to. This is why building your text and email lists are essential to your marketing strategy. But how to you build a text and email list quickly?

Use Good Data Collection Tools

The first thing you can do to build your email and text lists is go have good data collection tools. Gone are the days where having a fish bowl of business cards was the marketing go to. To build your email and text lists you will need good collection tools. Four tools CityGro uses to help our customers build quickly are Digital Kiosks, SMS Keywords, Webforms, and Digital Waivers.

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Digital Kiosks

Clients that use our digital kiosks typically double the size of their mailing list within the first 60 days. We found that digital kiosks are the best way to capture your customers data and build your lists quickly.

Digital kiosks are simply an app for an iPad. The app will ask your customers to enter in their phone number to join your digital loyalty reward program. This gives them incentive and a quick painless method to give you their valuable contact information.

After your customers initially sign up they can now use the kiosks to check-in each visit to redeem and build loyalty points. This will give you valuable insight to your customers behavior. You can use this information to automate direct marketing campaigns based on their last visit.

For information on how many daily checkins you can expect for your industry we have broken down the averages for our customers, see our Check-Ins by industry

SMS Keywords

Another tool you can use to build your text and email lists is SMS keywords. SMS Keywords are a quick and easy way to get your customer’s cell phone numbers. Your customers can text in a predetermined keyword to the short-code you give them. They will then have the option to opt in to your digital loyalty program.

Webforms

If you have an active website or social media page webforms are a great tool to capture your customer’s data. Make sure whatever webform you use has a way to link up to your customer retention software. This will give you access to your customers data for your marketing campaigns.

Digital Waivers

 If you require your customers to fill out liability waivers you have a great way to directly market to them. Instead of having them put pen to paper you can use a web app to capture their contact information. After their initial waiver is stored they can easily check in with their phone number every time they come back. Because these liability waivers are required, this tool gives you a unique opportunity to track your customers behavior and collect their data 100% of the time.

Use Good Customer Management Software

Now that you have gathered your customer’s information it is important to have automated systems to market to your customers. Luckily it is no longer necessary to go through your contact lists and manually send out mass text and email blasts. Email and text marketing has never been easier or quicker.

When choosing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software make sure you choose one that has the capability of creating automated campaigns based off of your customers behaviors.

One of the best ways to get grow your Customer Retention is to send them promotions based off of their behavior. Here are some great campaigns we have found very successful for our clients.

1. Promotions based off date last visited. If you offer a product or a service you usually have a pretty good idea of how often your customers typically come in. You can automate your system to automatically send a discount or coupon if you haven’t seen a customer in a while.
2. Birthday promotions are another great way to get clients through your door. Set up your CRM to automatically send a text or email with a birthday promotion for each of your guests.
3. Holliday and event based promotions offer a great way to get customers through your door. If you know there is a holiday or event that really drives sales for the good or service you offer, remind your customers that your business is the place to go with a discount or promotion. You can also run campaigns to drive traffic during periods of low traffic.

 

Don’t Be Afraid to Try New Things

As a marketer I am constantly asked “what can I do to get more customers?” This is a great question but the truth is that there is no magic marketing bullet that will work for every business every time. It is important to always be trying new things as the market changes. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. If a marketing idea fails use that information to guide your marketing decisions in the future. Always trying new campaigns, new promotions, and new discounts is vital to your customer retention and acquisition strategy. With whatever management program you use, make sure that it has a way to show results of each email and text blast you send out.

 

Try CityGro’s Client Retention Software Free for 30 Days

We know that marketing can be expensive. This is why we developed software that takes out the man hours and employees necessary to give you a great marketing plan. We are so confident you will make money off of our software we will let you use it free for 30 days. No credit card necessary. If you decide you love our software after your free trial we offer monthly packages that will allow you market to your customers for a fraction of the cost of your other marketing campaigns. If you would like to speak to one of our marketing experts about what products and services CityGro has to offer call now at (888) 605-4429.

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