Nowadays digital marketing is an essential tool to promote the products or services of a business. For this reason, we want to talk about one of the best tools you can use in your digital marketing strategies, today. we will tell you about how you can send SMS messages from your WordPress website.

Some advantages of SMS (Short Message Service or short text messaging) are your speed, promptness and the possibility of being sent from different platforms.one of them WordPress. In this article we will explain how to integrate SMS sending from your WordPress.  

SMS FROM YOUR WORDPRESS SITE

In WordPress you will find a free plugin called "WP SMS" (WordPress), by downloading it you will be able to integrate it to your website and, in this way, create and send text messages, and start your SMS campaigns.

Steps to achieve the installation:

1. The first thing to do is to go to the WordPress main menu, go to "Plugins", go to "add new" and look for the plugin "WP SMS", then install it and activate it.
2. After activating it, you will see in the WordPress admin sidebar, a new menu called "SMS".
3. You will then need to configure it and link it directly to your ClickPanda account.

• In this step, the first thing you have to do is to choose the site as a service website. Secondly, enter your username and password and you're done! By doing these steps you can use the plugin and send SMS to your users, customers or the number you specify.

WHY SHOULD YOU INCLUDE THE "WP SMS" PLUGIN IN YOUR WEBSITE?

The reasons for you to integrate the "WP SMS" plugin into your WordPress are so that you can:

• Connect with your users in a faster and easier way.
• Generate familiarity with your customers or potential customers.
• Send SMS to subscriber and WordPress user numbers.
• Send newsletters by SMS.
• Send codes to complete subscriptions.
• Send notifications about new products, new post, offers, among others.
• Notify your webmaster about comments made by your users, new registered users and those subscribed to your subscription
• Integrate it with the WooCommerce plugin (in case you use it).

Remember that sending SMS will bring you closer to your users, so it is important that one of your marketing strategies is sending SMS. With the tools provided by the "WP SMS" plugin and ClickPanda's services, you will be able to manage the sending of bulk SMS in an easy, automated and effective way.

If you would like more information about the bulk SMS services offered by ClickPanda we offer you can enter our web page and see the SMS plans we have designed to meet the different expectations of our customers. Remember that in ClickPanda you can find advisories to get you started sending SMS or to update the way you are doing it. You can click on the following link to contact one of our consultants.