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MIBO provides features that allows you to send SMS to your customers to send offers, promotions and makes it easy for them to read or claim. SMS is a more direct approach as compared to the other methods. However, you need to have message credits in order to utilize this feature.

Tip

Tip : See our article about message credit.

You can promote using SMS in your Mibo Control Panel > Marketing > SMS

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Create and schedule SMS campaign

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create an SMS campaign by doing the following:

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  • Click Add on the SMS Campaign panel.

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  • In the new

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Step 1 : Basic Details
The basic details include campaign name and tags. Campaign name is a required field while tags is optional. Tags are the keywords to be used that will help searching your campaign more efficiently. To add tags simply do the following: 

→ Input the keyword on the text box.            

→ Press enter.

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Step 2 : Recipient

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  • right layout page you will be able to setup your campaign    
       

Choose your Recipient

SMS recipients are individuals who have opted-in to receive SMS from you. There are two ways to add recipients to your SMS

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campaign → upload manual list or

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add from

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Customer List .      

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Upload manual list

  • Select Manual List from the dropdown.

  • Click Download Template. The template has the following fields: name, email and mobile.

  • Using the template, update the file that will match the recipient details you prefer. 

  • Upload the modified template. There are two ways to upload the template:

    Clicking on the panel
    In the popup that opens when you click the panel, select the modified template from your computer.

    Drag and drop images on the panel
    Drag the modified template from your computer and drop them on the panel to get them uploaded.

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Tip

Tips : In case you uploaded the incorrect file, you can drag and drop the correct file on the panel and it will overwrite the

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existing file.

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Search from your customers 

  • Select Search My Customer from the dropdown. 

  • You can either select All Customer to make all your customers a recipient or you can filter your customers from the available filters.

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Step 3 : Content

The content of the SMS is where you can put all the details of your campaign or any content you prefer to send to your recipients.

Creating the content of your SMS is very easy and flexible, aside from you have the option to select promotion or voucher that will automatically display the details on your content section, you can also customise the content by indicating your preferred text. 

Promotion

Clicking the promotion tab will let you choose from the promotions you created at Mibo Control Panel > Marketing > Promotion. You can include the promotion on the SMS by doing the following:

  • Select the promotion you prefer from the dropdown.

  • After you select the promotion, the SMS Text field will be automatically filled with your <business name> - <name of selected promotion> and the link to your promotion. However, you still have the option to change the content with your preferred text.

Coupon

Clicking the Coupon tab will let you choose from the coupons you created at Mibo Control Panel > Marketing > Coupons. You can include the coupon on the SMS by doing the following:

  • Select the coupon you prefer from the dropdown.

  • After you select the coupon, the SMS Text field will be automatically filled with your <business name> - <name of selected coupon> and the link to your coupon. However, you still have the option to change the content with your preferred text.

Tip

Tip : See our article about how to create coupon.

Custom

Clicking the custom tab will let you choose from the templates you created on the SMS text field. If there are no available template on the dropdown, you can create a template by doing the following:

  • Add content on the SMS text field.  

  • Once you are finished with the template, click Save Template on the bottom left corner of the SMS Campaign panel.

  • In the popup that opens, enter the name of the template.

  • Click Ok to save the template or click Cancel if you do not want yet to save the template. 

  • Review the options from your template dropdown to see if the newly created template has been added.

  • Select the template you prefer from the dropdown.

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Info

Note : Make sure to always indicate the link of the promotion or voucher on the SMS Text. The link is autogenerated by the system so make sure not to change it.

Step 4 : Schedule

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Note

Mibo will match your manual list records to your existing customers via mobile number thus if mobile number on your list not existed Mibo will create new customer record automatically.

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you can blast SMS based on either from your static or active customer list. Read more on article How to create Customer List

  1. From recipient dropdown select Customer list

  2. From new dropdown select desire existing customer list

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Immediately upon selection of list total recipient number will be shown on Maximum to send field

Schedule

Scheduling your SMS will send your SMS automatically based on your chosen time and date. You can schedule your SMS blast by doing the following steps:

  • Click Send Date

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  •  Calendar box.

  • In the popup calendar that opens, select date and click on clock to select desire time you want the recipient to receive the SMS.

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  • Click outside the calendar to apply the date.

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  1. If selected datetime being older than current datetime then system will show the warning that upon of save campaign will be sent immediately

  2. Few minutes before campaign schedule all fields will be locked to disallow any further modification, However there will be count down timer on the campaigns page that will be appear to indicate the time left for you to make your modification on campaign setting.

Maximum to send

  • Indicate

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  • the total Number of SMS to be sent .

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Step 5

  • Click Confirm to send the SMS campaign instantly. To save the SMS campaign as a draft click Save Draft and if you want to go back to the list of SMS campaign and disregard the entries you made just click on Back.

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SMS Text

fill up the field with your SMS Text that you intend to be sent to your customers.

Note

Maximum allowed length of SMS text is 150 characters.

Save SMS campaign

  • Click Save button to send the SMS campaign based on your schedule setting.

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Note : The initial status of

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the SMS campaign is Pending and before few minutes of campaign schedule the status automatically will be changed to Pending Delivery.

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However, once it has been delivered to the recipients the status will become Delivered.

Updating and Viewing SMS Campaign

Updating SMS campaign are only applicable for campaigns with 

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Pending status

Pending Delivery and Delivered status can only be viewed but can not be updated anymore.


You can update your campaign by doing the following:

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  • the desire campaign.

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  • update the campaign details on right side panel.

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  • Save

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  • to commit your changes.

You can view your campaign by doing the following:

  • Click the campaign name on the SMS Campaign panel.

  • In the new page, the campaign details will be displayed.

  • Click Download on the recipients panel to download the list of the recipients of the SMS.

  • Click on Back to go back to the list of SMS campaign. 

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Removing SMS Campaign

You are only allowed to remove campaign with 

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Pending

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 status. You can simply remove your SMS campaign by doing the following:

  • Click on the trash bin icon on the bottom right corner of the campaign you want to remove.

  • Agree on the confirmation message of deletion by clicking Yes or click No if you want to retain the campaign.

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