Message
By selecting the ‘Next’ button, it displays a screen to create the message content of the SMS Broadcast.
The steps to create the message content that will be used in the SMS Broadcast are the following:
Selecting an existing SMS Template or get creative and start a message from Scratch.
Enter the SMS content in the Message text field (option to select an existing SMS Template or start message from scratch).
Add Personalized Fields into the message content. The displayed options are the existing Subscriber List Fields. These placeholders are then replaced with each of the Recipient’s information.
For example, if I wish to send an SMS Message to my Subscribers saying Hello {Name}!
Select the ‘name’ option from the Personalized Fields
Message text box will display the following:
Note
All Personalized Fields used are marked with [[ ]].
Character Count and Message Count
In the lower section of the Add Personalized Fields box, it will indicate the message Encoding Format, Character Count, and Number of Messages to be sent to each Recipient using that message Length.
 |
For example, the following message content contains a total of 100 characters, where the Broadcast will deliver 1 message to each Recipient.
 |
In this example, the message content contains a total of 170 characters, where the Broadcast will deliver 2 messages to each Recipient.
Note
Every time the total number of characters is exceeded, the SMS counter will be incremented.
Once the message content has been created, click the Next button to continue to the Recipients step.