Using Bulk Actions with Contacts or Smart Lists, you can perform multiple one-off actions on your chosen contacts. Here’s how to send a one-off SMS to multiple contacts:
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Click "Contacts"
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Select the contact(s) that you wish to send a one-off SMS.
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Click the "Send SMS" button.
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Click "Ok, proceed"
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Click the "Type a message" field.
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Type an SMS message.
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Click the tags icon to insert Custom Values / Merge Fields into your SMS.
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Hover over "Contact", then "First Name," and click "First Name" to insert the contact's first name in each message.
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Click pin icon to add to your SMS.
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Click the emoji icon to add emoji's to your SMS.
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Select the emojis you wish to add to your SMS.
How would you like to send your one-off SMS?
Add all at once - Perfect for sending out a handful of one-off SMS messages
Add all at a scheduled time - Perfect for sending out a handful of one-off SMS messages in the future.
Add in drip mode (RECOMMENDED) - Perfect for sending out even large quantities of one-off SMS messages in bite-sized batches over a specified interval (e.g. send batches of 1 review request via SMS every 5 minutes).
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Click "Send all at once"
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Click the "Action" field.
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Type a description for the action (to be shown in tracking report)
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Click "Send SMS"
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Click "Ok"
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Click "Send all at schedule time"
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Click the "Action" field.
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Type a description for the action (to be shown in the tracking report)
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Click the "Start On" field.
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Click the "Start On" date and time.
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Click the "Green Tick" button.
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Click "Send SMS"
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Click "Ok"
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Click "Send in drip mode"
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Click the "Action" field.
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Type a description for the action (to be shown in tracking report)
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Click the "Start On" field.
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Click the "Start On" day and time.
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Click the "Green Tick" button.
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Click the "Batch Quantity" field.
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Click the "Batch Quantity" field.
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Type in the Batch Quantity. Batch quantity is how many text messages you want to send at a given interval. For example, if you wanted to send 1 SMS every 5 minutes, the batch quantity would be "1".
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Click the "Repeat After" field.
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Enter the "Repeat After" quantity.
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Click the "Days" dropdown.
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Select the repeat after frequency.
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Select the days you would like your drip sequence to go out on.
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Click the "Start From" button.
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Select the "Start From" time.
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Select the "End At" dropdown.
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Select the "End At" time.
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Click "Send SMS"
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Click "Ok"
