Preparing teams goes beyond coming up with training routines for games and getting ready for the competition. Whether you’re a coach or athlete at a youth, amateur or professional sports team, effective communication can win a game. Textedly provides texting for coaches and teams. Bring your team together this season using a SMS sports message solution.
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Share Photos: Just won an amazing game? Share pictures with your team and others involved.
Collect Payments for Fees: Send an image to the corresponding parties only with a link and directions to make their payments. You can even add specific balances due per recipient by using custom fields on your text template.
Collect RSVPs: Hosting a fundraising event? Send a message to guests and/or volunteers reminding them to RSVP.
Send Updated Game or Practice Schedules: Last-minute change on the schedule? Instead of calling everyone one by one, send a group text. Sports text messaging is an efficient way to communicate timely with your team.
Your text is guaranteed to be read: SMS open rates are as high as 98 percent.
Reach your team anywhere, anytime: Send messages to large groups in a matter of seconds when you’re on the go.
Ensure higher response rates: Text messaging replies take, on average, 90 seconds to 90 minutes.
Streamline internal communication: Automated sport text reminders and alerts make it easier to communicate efficiently and effectively with the team and anyone else involved.
SMS stands for Short Message Service which allows you to send plain text messages to recipients.
MMS stands for Multimedia Messaging Service. MMS allows you to send various multimedia combined with text. These include photos, videos, audio clips and more.
Individuals can text specific keywords related to your campaign in order to opt-in. For example, you can send a message to parents of your team’s players that says: “Text COACH to 123123 to receive a free team t-shirt during the next game.” Then, parents would text the keyword to participate in your campaign.
Campaigns are used to market specific products, services or even a brand. SMS campaigns are similar to those sent via email but they normally receive a higher and faster response rate. Text campaigns are also less expensive and more time-efficient since they don’t require any creativity, only a 160-306 characters text message.
You can only text those who have subscribed to receive messages from you. As a coach, it’s important to ensure all players and key recipients have subscribed (or accepted) to receive texts from you.
Segmenting your subscribers by specific traits allows you to send out highly targeted text messages. For example, if you only want to reach players who need to be reminded to sign up for the next season then you can segment your mass group of recipients by those who haven’t clicked the registration link. Other ways you can segment your recipients is by area code, whether they have joined via a keyword, when they became a part of your sports team, etc.
If you send the same type of communication often, like game reminders or pep talks the day before a game, templates will make this a lot easier. Have templates scheduled with the generic information and add custom fields like [first name] to ensure each message is sent personalized to your recipient.
Out of town? Set up autoresponders to let parents or players know you have received an SMS from them, but you will reply when you are back in town on a certain day.
Textedly makes it easy to send sports and team texts to anyone related to your team. Best of all? It’s as easy as clicking a button. All you have to do is set up templates and a mass list of recipients that you can later segment for more targeted SMS campaigns. Try a 14-day free trial when your sport’s season begins using Textedly.
