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“Thank you Bidvest team for your great service throughout 2024.”
- MTN
“Working with the Bidvest team is a real pleasure. We've thoroughly enjoyed partnering with a local provider for our business' WhatsApp profile - invoicing is simple and our templates are loaded and approved speedily. Prepaid24 would highly recommend Bidvest. Such a seamless process from setup to production!”
- Prepaid24
“We're incredibly grateful to the Bidvest Data Team who go above and beyond to support us with vital customer communication. Their commitment and innovation has kept us at the forefront of electronic customer engagement.”
- Sanlam Retail Mass
“Dear Bidvest team, Just wanted to take the time to say a very special thank you to TEAM BIDVEST. Everyone at OUP thanks all the people involved over the last few weeks and trust me, everyone in our organization now knows how much we can depend on Bidvest and we're all truly grateful for your efforts. Your responsiveness to our changing needs and requests is truly appreciated”
- Oxford
Learn how to create impactful SMS & SVSMS personalized microsites in our comprehensive guide tailored for enterprises. Enhance customer engagement and track measurable results with expert strategies from Bidvest Data.
In today’s digital environment, personalized communication is essential for enterprise success. SMS and SVSMS (Short Value-Added SMS) provide a powerful platform for businesses looking to create tailored experiences for their customers. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the process of setting up SMS and SVSMS personalized microsites, enabling your enterprise to enhance customer engagement, drive interaction, and achieve targeted marketing goals effectively.
SMS and SVSMS personalized microsites serve as dedicated landing pages that offer a customized experience for customers who respond to mobile communications. These microsites allow businesses to deliver specific content and services based on customer behaviors, preferences, or responses.
This guide will help enterprises efficiently set up personalized SMS and SVSMS microsites:
Determine the purpose of your microsite. Whether it's for capturing leads, providing information on products, or conducting customer surveys, having a clear objective will help guide the design and content.
Select a reliable microsite builder that can integrate with your SMS platform. Consider ease of use, templates availability, and analytics capabilities to measure performance.
Create engaging and visually appealing designs. Utilize dynamic content that will change based on customer data, ensuring relevance and personalization.
Connect your microsite to your SMS solution. This step enables you to deliver the microsite link through SMS campaigns effectively. Ensure the URLs are short and easy to access on mobile devices.
Set up analytics to monitor the performance of your microsites. Use UTM parameters to track traffic sources and behaviors to measure the success of your engagement strategies.
Before launching, conduct testing on various devices and platforms. Ensure that navigation flows smoothly and that all content displays correctly on mobile browsers.
Initiate your SMS campaign with personalized links to your microsite. Consider segmenting your audience for more tailored messaging.
To maximize the effectiveness of your personalized microsites, consider the following best practices:
After launching your SMS campaign, it's crucial to analyze the results. Key performance indicators (KPIs) include engagement rates, conversion metrics, and data collected from the microsite interactions. Using these insights, you can adjust your strategies to improve future campaigns.
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“Thank you Bidvest team for your great service throughout 2024.”
- MTN
“Working with the Bidvest team is a real pleasure. We've thoroughly enjoyed partnering with a local provider for our business' WhatsApp profile - invoicing is simple and our templates are loaded and approved speedily. Prepaid24 would highly recommend Bidvest. Such a seamless process from setup to production!”
- Prepaid24
“We're incredibly grateful to the Bidvest Data Team who go above and beyond to support us with vital customer communication. Their commitment and innovation has kept us at the forefront of electronic customer engagement.”
- Sanlam Retail Mass
“Dear Bidvest team, Just wanted to take the time to say a very special thank you to TEAM BIDVEST. Everyone at OUP thanks all the people involved over the last few weeks and trust me, everyone in our organization now knows how much we can depend on Bidvest and we're all truly grateful for your efforts. Your responsiveness to our changing needs and requests is truly appreciated”
- Oxford
Discover our comprehensive solution features designed to transform your business communication experience

Bidvest Data sends on average more than 10 million personalized SMS/SV SMS messages per month, with daily peaks exceeding 2 million messages. This comprises mainly of transactional notifications and hosted transactional data.

The SMS channel delivers a secure, shortened personalized URL to the consumer, directing them to their unique microsite. All consumer activity can be tracked.

PDF documents, HTML content, videos and animations can be hosted on our Zero Rated Data domains. Reverse billing of data on these domains ensure access for end users to content at no cost. Bidvest Data offers this service on all South African and Namibian mobile networks.

Bidvest Data offers custom-built, screen adaptive, HTML environments, enabling features like animation, rotating GIFs, and interactive buttons.

Our service includes automated large file batch sending through sFTP data transfer. The data can selectively drive template messaging. Near real-time SMS sending is facilitated through our API, using templates or dynamic text.

Where another channel in our omnichannel platform is unsuccessful in delivering a message, we can automatically fail over to SMS. Priority and fail over channels are configurable.

Bidvest Data provides near-real-time and periodic aggregate batched reporting on consumer engagement, including link tracking, SMS and SV SMS delivery status, and customized reports on microsite access.