Grow your Salon with SMS

Grow your Salon business with SMS marketing

We’ve now hit September, how has that happened? So the nights will be drawing in and preparation will very soon be starting for Christmas.  I’m starting this post with some pretty interesting facts about SMS, considering the first text message said “Merry Christmas” and was only send on 3rd December 1992 – given the choice I’m sure many would choose not to live without them. 

Did you know…?

• Open rate of SMS is extremely high currently sitting at 90%
• 75% of consumers are OK with receiving SMS
• 5 billion people in the world can send and receive SMS messages. 
• 64% of consumers think business should concat them via SMS more often
• SMS have a 209% high response rate than phone, email or Facebook
• 23 billion texts are sent worldwide each day
• Only 10% of SMS marketing messages are spam compared to nearly 50% of emails
• The average person takes 90 seconds to reply to an SMS
• 80% of people use text messaging for business

Sending SMS to your clients offers;

Why send SMS to your clients? There are so many reasons….

• Back to school 
• Appointment confirmations
• Promotions / Offers
• Seasonal events
• Booking reminders 

One of the biggest problems for many salons is clients not turning up for their appointments. A great way to reduce the number of no shows is manually making calls or sending out emails, however this can take up a lot of time.  To eliminate the amount of time spent contacting clients, salons has seem great results in sending automated appointment reminders by SMS. Here is an example of an SMS sent from a salon to a client;

“Your appointment at GREAT Hairdressing {MERGEFIELD SalonName} {MERGEFIELD SalonPhone} is on {MERGEFIELD BookingDate} at {MERGEFIELD BookingTime}. Please reply ‘yes’ to confirm”

We recommend sending and SMS appointment reminder to your clients 2 days before they are due in. 

“We’ve missed you, now is the time to take some time out for yourself. Call us on {MERGEFIELD SalonPhone} to make your appointment” “We have appointments available this week. Call us on {MERGEFIELD SalonPhone} to book” “Have you booked your hair appointment?” “Have you booked your beauty treats yet? Call {MERGEFIELD SalonPhone} to make your appointment ” “Last few appointments remaining this week, call us now to book {MERGEFIELD SalonPhone}” “We would love to see you in the salon. To make an appointment call {MERGEFIELD SalonPhone}” “Are you in need of some ‘you’ time? If you are we are ready for you. Call {MERGEFIELD SalonPhone} to make your booking” “Back to School this week, so it’s Pamper Time. Call now to book your appointment {MERGEFIELD SalonPhone}”

Remember Salon iQ allows you to adhere to GDPR for every single client that you look after in their own client profile. 

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