People love their coffee and have a large selection of shops in which to get their daily fix. Small town coffee shops can benefit greatly from text marketing in that communicating directly with their customers, ensuring they keep coming back to their shop instead of their bigger competitors.
Industries with a high volume of repeat traffic and a central point-of-sale work best on our platform. Coffee shops and cafes fit this definition perfectly. Coffee is a fairly inexpensive, highly popular product that requires foot traffic and repeat business in a competitive atmosphere.
This is where the TL Connects' Text Marketing Engagement Platform really excels. Using text marketing for coffee shops will keep your shop on your customers' minds and give incentive for them to visit your shop again instead of another coffee shop. Directly communicating to your customers with a 98% open rate helps you increase traffic and fill typically slow days with a special offer or with a loyalty program.
Text marketing starts with a database of customers. To engage customers, you have to be able to get in touch with them. TL Connects has three tried and proven ways to build a large database quickly.
Merchants using our LTE-Enabled, Self-serve Kiosks for In-store sign-ups and loyalty check-ins typically see 1,500 - 2,500 new customer sign-ups per year per location.
Our merchants can add a kiosk that is placed at the point of sale or hostess station. The kiosk is in a tamper-proof case and our application runs over Verizon LTE, so there is no worry about finicky WIFI issues. The only requirement is to plug it in.
Create keywords and market them online using your website, social media sites, in-store print materials or any other preferred advertisement methods. Use unique keywords to track the effectiveness of your text marketing campaigns along with your other forms of marketing to target customers.
What is a "Keyword"?
An SMS Keyword is a word or phrase customers can text to a phone number, such as a short-code like 91681, to opt-in to a text club. After doing so, they are signed up to receive future text messages. For example, if a restaurant asks customers to text "Burgertime" to 91681, Burgertime is the keyword.
After texting the keyword, the customer will receive an auto-response asking them to reply YES to confirm opt-in. Once your customer replies yes they will receive a text thanking them for joining the text club and any other communication the business wants to convey at that point.
Direct traffic to your custom web app we provide by placing a QR code around your business for customers to scan with their phones.
This program includes 16 waterproof stickers per location. Put on tables, front counters, front door, and even drive-thru. Your customer simply opens their camera, points at QR code and is immediately directed to your Custom Mobile Web App.
After texting the keyword, the customer will receive an auto-response asking them to reply YES to confirm opt-in. Once your customer replies yes they will receive a text thanking them for joining the text club and any other communication the business wants to convey at that point.
Quickly create textALERT campaigns or schedule custom auto-responders sent automatically to customers at pre-determined intervals, such as 1 hour or five minutes after sign-up.
