Wouldn’t it be nice to text your favorite businesses just like you text your friends? Think about it! From product questions to making appointments, sometimes it’s just easier to text. With TextUs.Biz, businesses can sign up for two-way text service and we can make that a reality! Let your favorite businesses know that you'd rather text than talk!

Nancy Lublin of DoSomething.org gives a great TED talk on the power of texting. Her organization is largest for teenagers in social change and support in America. She mentions that they recently pivoted to using text messaging to reach out to teens and it's been 11 times more powerful than email.

We're kicking off a new Tip of the Week series to help you get the most out of using text messaging for your business! Our first tip is a simple but effective way to inform your customers that you're a text friendly business. When a customer calls and gets sent to voicemail it can be annoying and a potential loss of their business.

West End Salon was one of our first beta testers and has been a TextUs.Biz power user ever since. Located in the heart of downtown Boulder, Texting has become a key piece of their customer communication from booking appointments to asking questions. They provide several options for getting in touch with the salon but as manager Connor Doyle mentions below many are choosing texting.

Planet Text is a great infographic that explains who and what the 4+ Billion texters out there in the world are up to. With nearly 200,000 texts sent per second and trillions of messages per year, is your business joining in on the conversation?

By SOMINI SENGUPTA

TextUs.Biz is the Biggest Breakthrough in Fan Marketing Since Online Ticketing!

A great NYT article that touches on the the loss in email efficiency. Text messaging can rise to help solve this communication breakdown.

In our fast paced world today choosing the right communication channel to reach your customers is vital. Modern businesses today must accommodate cross channel communication to keep up with their customers.

Fourstar Realty & Property Management uses TextUs.Biz in a variety of ways to make their day to day, business workflow far more efficient. Fourstar has hundreds of properties and tenants to communicate with, most of which are college students who don't regularly check their email or even answer their phone! TextUs.Biz provides an instant communication method to manage conversations with individuals or groups, that they know will be received and responded to.

So why not start texting with them? It's easy to activate your businesses landline to send and receive texts with your customers using TextUs.Biz!

By Elizabeth Gold January 18, 2013

Text messaging has become the most ubiquitous and preferred way of communicating throughout the globe. In 2011 there were an estimated 7 trillion messages sent worldwide.