Business and event texting made affordable, easy, and powerful.
Text, not email- this is the way to reach your audience in today’s world.
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For Rafting Outposts, River Guides, and Ski Instructors
Collect tips, payments, photo orders, and generate repeat customers
It’s often impractical or impossible to collect well-deserved tips from clients who are soaking wet or eager to get back indoors to change clothes and warm up.
Use automated text messaging to allow your clients to tip their guide from their phones while they’re happily munching on their post-river or after-slope snacks.
Invite them to look over their trip photos and make their choice to purchase while they’re sitting comfortably and rehashing the day’s big moments.
When would you rather tip your guide, and when will you be more likely to spend more money with your outfitter: when you’re soaking wet, cold, and hungry, or when you’re five tortilla chips deep into a nice meal at the end of a stellar day?
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For Weddings & Events
Control the crowds through mass text messaging
“When is the raffle starting?”
“Where are pictures happening?”
“Where did everybody go?”
“Where do I sign in?”
“What are the race times?”
“Where can I donate?”
“Where’s the gift registry?”
Chances are that you’ve been to an event where someone is desperately trying to get people moving from one location to another or from one activity to the next. Chances are that these moments are stressful and prevent the event from going smoothly.
Use mass texting to reach everyone (or a specific segment of people) all at once. Everyone will receive the message, but they won’t be stuck in a pesky group chat, and they’ll also be able to unsubscribe whenever they want.
You can send the messages on the spot, or you can even plan them out in advance as far as you like. No more need for runners to find a special person lost in the crowd. No more directing guests to check their emails again and again for the information buried in their inboxes.
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For Business Owners
Keep in touch with your clients and customers. Generate peace and free time for yourself.
Do you spend hours each day or week emailing and texting clients the same questions and having the same conversations over and over again?
Instead, automate as many of those messages as you like. Draft them yourself, in your own voice, or let AI do it. Schedule them to be sent when you want, with the frequency you want.
Need to send payment reminders? Let our service do it for you. Want to schedule a special discount on your clients’ birthdays? Do it automatically.
Jump in an out of the conversation whenever you like, without blowing up your phone with text messages sent to your regular texting inbox.
We are one of over 15,000 brands who use SlickText to power our SMS marketing.
How does it work?
You’ve probably already gotten text messages from DoorDash (a SlickText brand like us), restaurants, churches, or other businesses whose services you’ve used.
According to Forbes Magazine, “SMS has a staggering 98% open rate. That’s 3.7x more than the 26.8% open rate for email and 12.5x more than the 7.8% open rate for push notifications.”
“Most people (90%) respond to SMS messages within 30 minutes,” the author, Ty Morse, adds.
At Flying Fox Solutions, we help you take advantage of these facts.
SlickText is our preferred SMS and MMS marketing provider. We use our corporate account to set up your event or your brand with the number of text messages that you need to reach your target audience.
The platform is easy-to-use, highly customizable, and very accessible. You can use the services on a web browser or via the SlickText app. If you need help, we are happy to help you navigate the features- but SlickText also has its own very robust customer support.
How much does it cost?
SlickText has a tiered payment system: the more credits you buy in bulk, the cheaper the cost per message for you.
At FlyingFox Solutions, we buy huge amounts of credits and sell them to you based on how many you actually use rather than how many you think might use. In addition, we are able to give you a cheaper rate for fewer messages by passing our savings down to you.
SlickText’s smallest package offers clients 500 credits for $29/month, which comes out to around 5.8 cents per credit. We charge a flat rate of 4 cents per credit up for up to 4000 credits. Need more than that? Contact us directly so we can set up a discounted rate for you.
You will never be charged for messages you receive.
What is a credit?
We charge for credits in the same way that SlickText charges everyone who uses the platform:
Each message credit is equal to one industry standard SMS message segment to one subscriber. An SMS message segment contains 160 characters. An MMS (message sent with an image or other supported file types) consumes 3 message credits per segment. However, an MMS message segment can contain up to 1,600 characters.
Read more about that here.
With your texting capabilities come additional business tools- for free.
What extra tools do you provide?
Your access to SlickText’s platform gives you website integrations.
Are you already using some form of tech for your business that you love, like Salesforce, Shopify, Zapier, Slack, Mailchimp, Drip, etc.? Super-power your use of them by using them with SlickText, which integrates with more than 7,000 software tools.
Use analytics to improve your communications and run your event or business more intelligently than ever before.
Monitor click performance, response rates, and contact growth. Track revenue attribution. Monitor response times. Automatically filter messages, and have specific messages sent to specified team members whenever you like. Learn more about analytics through SlickText here.
Use keywords, click-to-join links, QR codes, custom fields, audience segmentation, workflows, campaigns, and more- as much as you want, or not at all.
You are in the driver’s seat of your event or business’ most powerful tools for communication that you have ever had. Move beyond the simple and most basic uses of your website, email, and social media advertisements. Improve them while reaching your audience more effectively than you ever imagined possible before.