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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
Learn how to effectively measure SMS delivery success with key metrics, best practices, and compliance guidelines tailored for South African enterprises. Enhance your communication strategy today.
In an age where messaging technology is paramount for business communication, understanding how to measure SMS delivery success is crucial for enterprises aiming to enhance their customer engagement strategies. This guide delves into the metrics and best practices for evaluating SMS delivery effectiveness, ensuring your messaging campaigns reach their intended recipients while maintaining compliance with local regulations such as POPIA.
The success of SMS delivery can be evaluated using several key performance indicators (KPIs). These metrics provide insights into not just the delivery rates but also the overall effectiveness of your SMS campaigns. Here are the primary metrics you should monitor:
To improve SMS delivery success, enterprises should implement best practices that focus on data accuracy, audience targeting, and compliance. Below are some of the most effective strategies:
Maintaining clean, updated mobile number databases is essential for minimizing bounce rates. Regularly validate contact information to ensure accuracy and compliance with data privacy regulations.
Segment your audience based on relevant criteria—such as purchase history or engagement levels—to personalize messages and increase engagement and response rates.
Carefully plan the timing and frequency of your messages. Avoid oversaturation while ensuring your messages are sent during peak engagement times for optimal response.
Compliance with POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act) is essential for South African businesses when sending SMS campaigns. Ensuring that you have consent from recipients and allowing them to opt-out of communications easily protects your organization and preserves customer trust.
Regular evaluation of your SMS delivery success through the established KPIs allows enterprises to refine their messaging strategies continually. Analyzing trends and patterns over time will help in adapting your communication approach to better meet customer expectations and improve return on investment.
Leveraging advanced analytics tools can provide deeper insights into delivery performance, engagement levels, and compliance adherence, supporting decision-making processes and future strategy formulations.
By carefully measuring SMS delivery success and adopting data-driven practices, South African enterprises can significantly enhance customer communication strategies. Staying compliant with regulations while ensuring high delivery rates, engagement, and response will yield impactful business results.
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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
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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.
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