SMS Marketing Statistics

22% of Retailers Using SMS to Grow Email Lists

Are you a retailer looking to capture emails in-store? Experian found that 22% of retailers are using text messaging to capture customer’s email addresses in-store. What other methods are retailers using to collect email addresses? According to the 2014 Experian report, which surveyed more than 100 of the world’s leading brands, retailers are actually using a lot of different methods to collect email addresses in-store. You can see below the different methods used by retailers to capture their customer’s email addresses, and what percentage of retailers use each method.

  • Point of Sale System (entered by sales associate): 58%
  • Point of Sale System (entered by customer): 28%
  • iPad: 27%
  • On Paper: 25%
  • Text Messaging: 22%
  • Printed Receipt: 15%
  • Via a Kiosk: 13%

Need more inspiration on how to collect customer’s email addresses using text messaging? Check out these four different restaurants using text messaging to capture patron’s email addresses.

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