A marketer and friend of SHIFT recently asked us, about a data he saw: SMS (text messages) have an open rate of 95%.WE don't know where the original citation came from, so we commissioned a survey of US smartphone owners and asked them if they read every SMS text message sent to them:
82%, or 4 out of 5, said yes. When broken down, the only significant difference was by gender:
Above, women read fewer text messages from anyone than men.Is the open rate 95%? No. Is it still high? Yes; 4 out of 5 of anything is a significant majority. Does this mean you should switch your marketing and communications strategy to immediately begin texting your audience? Of course not. Like any other marketing channel, don't abuse the privilege and trust that your audience has given you.There's also a significantly higher cost-per-message fee with SMS messaging compared to email, so use it judiciously for the activities that generate the highest return on investment.Disclosure StatementSHIFT commissioned Google Consumer Surveys to collect responses from a representative sample of 1,000 respondents who answered the question "Do you read every SMS text message sent to you?". This survey collected 1,907 impressions and 1,030 responses for a 54% response rate with an RMSE score of 1.8%. SHIFT Communications was the sole investor in the study. The survey population was the adult Internet user population of the United States who are active smartphone owners, ascertained by survey deployment in in-app advertising. The date of the survey period was 9/26/15 - 9/28/15.[cta]
What’s a Rich Text element?
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.
Static and dynamic content editing
A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!
How to customize formatting for each rich text
Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.
