This week, we’ve talked quite a bit here on AG about effectively communicating with your clients and how a growing segment of buyers prefer some basic communications to be had over text messages. But maybe you have a client that is ideal other than this one little nagging detail and you’re willing to email, but you’re still on a 1999 flip phone and texting is legitimately too obnoxious.
There is a simple answer. You can email someone a text message. Say what? Yes, it’s true. You can sit at your computer and email your clients and they’ll receive the email in the form of a text directly to their phone number and their responses will be emailed to you. Problem solved!
You can use free services such as TxtDrop to translate email to SMS (text), or if you’re like me and don’t want to use a third party service, you can simply ask your text-insistent client which phone carrier they use and obtain their phone number and use this handy dandy chart below to email them a text message:
Email to text chart:
(Provider) Format
- (Sprint) phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
- (Verizon) phonenumber@vtext.com
- (T-Mobile) phonenumber@tmomail.net
- (AT&T) phonenumber@txt.att.net
So if my client has a Sprint phone, I would open my email and in the “to” line, I would type “5125558892@messaging.sprintpcs.com” and enter a subject and text as normal, but remember that each text message is limited to 160 characters, so keep it brief!
So there you have it, you can bridge the gap for those people (like me) who strongly prefer text messaging over phone calls or even email. Right or wrong, it’s a growing demand and you can ignore it, find the middle ground or become a texting pro but at least now you know your options!
