SMS marketing vs E-mail marketing

Hi Guys!

Just a quick question here.

I have a product which I have been using e-mail marketing to get customers. Recently I've started to have troube with getting e-mails out to inbox and was looking at possibily moving to SMS marketing instead.

I just wanted to know if anyone had any experiance in this field and what the pro's / con's are and if it works in a similiar way to e-mails?

For example.

1) Can my SMS messages get blocked or go to a SMS equivilent of a spam box?
2) Can my SMS message content get flagged and blocked and will it require spinning of content to maintain delivery much like e-mails?
3) Will I get banned from all the mass SMS providers if my SMS list is not opt in?

If anyone can shed some light on some of these questions or any advice on SMS marketing that would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks BHW!

Email marketing. Fullstop.

The laws and regulations around SMS marketing are generally stricter in most places.

That being said, SMS messages have an absurdly high open rate, but are also pretty clearly recognizable as spam. They're significantly more expensive to run at scale.

What eloquence said. SMS is much stricter and the laws are much harder. Most providers know what you are doing and unless you build your own custom SMS server to send it the guys who send are very tough.

I would stick with email marketing, it is much easier non so strictly and more easier to convert the offer.

Definitely e-mail marketing. You can you software like Aweber to get the most optimization as possible on the emails sent.

What about if we try IVR blasting?
Also please let me know if there is any good and reputed email blast provider.
I need it too.

Email is cool, sms has some limitations.

Interesting topic, and the guy asked a question that is still unanswered:

"Can the SMS be flagged as spam by the carriers, causing the non-delivery of the messages?"

Any opinion/knowledge regarding this matter will be appreciated.