Social Media – If you already have a fan base on social media platforms such as Facebook or Instagram you should regularly invite followers to join your VIP list to receive your Mobile Alerts and Exclusive Offers. Be sure to include the VIP Signup Text Number (844-307-3500) and your Keyword. Consider including a special offer with your post to give incentive for joining your list such as: a discount off their next purchase, just for joining.
In Store Signage – Table tents, window stickers or handouts are a great way for attracting VIP signups because they are already in your place of business and have an interest in your products or services. Again, use offers such as “Get an Instant Discount” on your next purchase or “Receive our Exclusive Mobile Discounts on your phone”.
Prize Giveaway Drawing – Enter everyone who joins your VIP List within a specific period of time (usually a calendar month) into a Promotional Giveaway. Prizes can range from a physical item, to company swag or even a Gift Certificate towards “Dinner for Two”. The more exciting the prize the more excited customers will be to Connect with your business and even download the CONNECTLocal app. Be sure to promote your giveaway on your website, social media, and in-store print media.
Employee Contests – Incentivize your employees to help grow your company’s VIP Subscriber List. Create a month long promotion and offer a prize to the employee who gets the most VIP signups. Be sure to set clear ground rules up front as to what qualifies as a valid VIP Signup. Prize suggestions include: a) a day off with pay, b) lunch with the boss, c) $100 Certificate towards Dinner for Two, or d) a night on the town.
Email – Sending an Email Invite can be a great way to build your VIP list. If you already have an email subscriber list, you can send an email promoting your new mobile Subscriber list. Another great suggestion is to add the CONNECTLocal Text Signup Number (844-307-3500) and your keyword to the signature of your outbound emails.
Newsletters – Do you have a monthly company newsletter or advertise in any print media such as a magazine? Make sure your keyword and the CONNECTLocal Text Signup Number (844-307-3500) are prominently shown.
Off Site Print Media – Are you hosting and event, trade show or conference? Be sure to include signage that promotes your Signup Keyword, gives incentive and invites people to mobile connect with you on CONNECLocal.
Radio and TV – if you advertise on radio or TV make sure you take advantage of that airtime by promoting your keyword and the CONNECTLocal Text Signup Number (844-307-3500). This coupled with a promotion to encourage signups is a great way to add VIP members.
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Dashboard
The Dashboard is a secure location for managing all your CONNECTLocal applications from your desktop or favorite tablet. This includes:
Your Company Profile
You VIP Subscribers
Offers & Specials Builder
MobileCONNECT Message Creator
MobileCONNECT Inbox
Mobile Connect Sent Messages
MobileCONNECT SMS Setting
Access Help Videos
Access How-to Information for building and using your VIP List
Access print collateral to promote SMS Subscriber signups.
Your MobileCONNECT Inbox is the place to view, manage, and reply to, inbound messages.
When a User sends a text message to your business it appears in the Dashboard Inbox. This allows you to respond to messages from any desktop PC.
Simply open your Dashboard to the Inbox and let it run in the background. Your computer will audibly ring every 7 seconds whenever a new message arrives.
MobileCONNECT allows you to send unlimited In-App messages absolutely free.
In-App messages can be sent with Push Notification so that Users are notified of the new message regardless if they have the CONNECTLocal App open or closed.
Be sure to encourage your new Subscribers to download the CONNECTLocal app so they can access all the features in their community.
The keyword signup allows Users to join your VIP List by texting your Keyword to either 844-307-3500 or 866-866-7109.
For example, if you were a pizza shop your keyword might be “PIZZA”. Whenever a User texts the word PIZZA to 844-307-3500 or 866-866-7109 they are automatically added to your VIP list.
New Subscribers are auto-sent your custom “Welcome Message” and are also invited to download the CONNECTLocal app. When Subscribers download the app they receive better access to their community and you are able to send them in-app messages for FREE!
As much as we would like to service our customers 24 hours a day, we all need to sleep.
The After-Hours Autoresponder automatically sends your custom “after-hours” message whenever a customer tries to reach you outside your business hours.
The After-Hours Message provides an immediate response letting customers know you will be getting back to them on the next business day.
There will be times during the course of the work day that you will be unable to immediately respond to new customer messages.
In those cases, you can set the “Pause” feature to manage your incoming messages and automatically send Users a custom “Unavailable” message. Your custom message let’s users know you have received their message and you intend to reply back soon.
Reasons we can’t text most businesses include business owners do not want to give out their personal phone number or carry two different phones.
MobileCONNECT keeps your personal phone number private. When you send customers a text message it is processed through our system and delivered from a phone number in our pool. When the User responds, our system keeps track and relays the message back to you.
This allows you to receive and send messages without revealing your personal number
