SMS Text Blasting Platforms

[Evan Lago]

Hey everyone, I am trying to integrate sms into my wholesaling operation and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations. Smarter contact and launch control would be the two obvious choices, but both are pretty pricy. Any info and advice helps, Thanks!

[Cornelius Garland]

Quote from @Evan Lago:

@Cornelius Garland Great, have you had any trouble with compliance or being marked as spam sense the texting is going through Twilio? How would you recommend avoiding this at all costs? 

I used to get marked as spam all the time when I first started in 2024, but thankfully we were able to fix these issues. Some best practices we use are avoiding "spam" words in the initial message. We avoid saying "buy", "sell", "offer", or "cash".

Instead, we'll say "we're interested in acquiring your property". Also, we only send off texts to each seller number once. I know it's tempting to text the unresponded people multiple times, but this can flag your account as spam. You'll also want to purchase multiple outbound phone numbers (DIDs). Send no more than 100 texts from one DID in a 24-hour period.

The biggest difference, though, is how we have our accounts set up. We don't drip our messages. Instead, we send them out through the workflows section, so it bypasses the carriers' spam filters. This is the custom coding we did. It wasn't overnight we figured this out. It took a lot of work and was a very frustrating process. However, we're able to operate in any market with autonomy. We rarely get sellers saying they've been contacted multiple times, since no one else is mass texting like us.