Text-to-Vote: How to Create Text Polls
Creating text polls is a fun and easy way to learn more about your audience.
Looking for customer feedback about your products or services?
Seeking to consistently deliver a memorable brand experience by driving more engagement at scale?
Want to access more customer insights to understand your marketing effectiveness better?
Then it’s time to incorporate EZ Texting into your communication strategy as a powerful, personal, and easy to use text-to-vote tool.
Many industry-leading businesses and organizations utilize our Short Message Service (SMS) polling feature to increase brand awareness, gather valuable customer feedback, analyze purchase intent, and more.
The fact is, SMS pilling is an effective and inexpensive way to generate increased customer engagement. Moreover, text-to-vote polls are simple to set up and cost just pennies to manage and maintain.
The data doesn’t lie – 98% of text messages are opened and read within the first three minutes of receipt. This compares favorably to the 22% open rate for email.
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Text-to-Vote: How to Create Text Polls Using EZ Texting
EZ Texting is a trusted text marketing provider that makes it easy to utilize successful text to vote campaigns and SMS polls with as little as a few well-planned questions and a contact list. Creating SMS polls through EZ Texting is simple and works for nearly every business and organization, including retail, faith-based, food and hospitality, fitness, real estate, and many others.
Getting Started
In just minutes, you can launch your very first text to vote campaign with EZ Texting. Here’s how to get started:
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Create Your Text Poll
Brainstorm and identify the core questions for your audience in conjunction with the Keywords and Sub Keywords they must use to register and engage with your brand further. This step also includes creating and drafting the messaging for your group texts, such as reply templates. This is the simplest way to launch your first text-to-vote campaign, but there are plenty of other ways to poll your target audience.
EZ Texting text polls incorporate both Keywords and Sub Keywords. To help you get started, EZ Texting will provide five quick and easy options to choose from. This is the simplest way to launch your first text to vote campaign, but there are plenty of other ways to poll your target audience.
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Promote Your Keyword & Short Code
Promote your text poll by sending out SMS messages to your database of opted-in text marketing contacts. Let your contacts know what the survey is about, how their feedback will benefit your business, and what steps are required.
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Wait for Customers’ Responses
In minutes, you’ll start to receive answers to your survey questions. Afterward, customers will be greeted with a customized follow-up message. A simple “thank you” should suffice, but some businesses choose to send special rewards or gifts.
Examples of Text-to-Vote Polls
So, what kinds of text to vote campaigns work the best? Here are a few quick examples to help you get started:
1. Keyword SMS Poll
| 2. Multiple Choice
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3. Open Query
| 4. Number Range
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5. Yes/No
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Monitoring Text-to-Vote Results
After you’ve sent your first text-to-vote poll, EZ Texting makes it simple and easy to monitor your results. You’ll receive customers’ replies in real-time. In most cases, results are typically reported via an easy-to-read graph. Results can also be transmitted and exported via CSV file. You’ll also be able to analyze delivery rates, open rates, response rates, and spike in engagement.
Use this valuable information to fine-tune future text polls. Effective SMS polls tend to get shared and remembered, increasing awareness of your brand and potentially growing your database of opted-in customers.
Launch a Text-to-Vote Campaign with EZ Texting
EZ Texting’s polling and voting capabilities allow customers to launch and manage text-to-vote campaigns. There is no better way to make sure that your important polls get answered.
The fact is, text message marketing is one of the most proven and cost-effective methods for getting prospects and customers engaged. The benefits and features of text message marketing exceed text to vote campaigns!
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