Lots of people don’t open their emails. Work and family related emails might be the exception, but email open-rates are declining everywhere. Church leaders and community managers can usually expect a 10% open rate at best. This is a big problem when you want your messages to be read! There’s a better way, and 97% of people will see it. Text messages.
Enter SendHub
SendHub is a simple web and mobile communications platform that was founded to help people like you reach your communities more effectively. SendHub will give you a free second line for your cellphone in less than a minute. Think of this second line as your ministry phone number that you can take anywhere– no more giving out your personal number. You can make calls, share groups of contacts, send texts to individuals or groups of any size and access them from any device.
Thousands of faith groups are using SendHub to simplify their communications with both staff and their entire congregations.
Kevin Cline, Director of the Christian Student Center at Louisiana Tech, for example, uses SendHub to send texts to intramural sports teams reminding them of games, schedule changes and more. “It used to be such a pain to send out different texts to different people, especially our intramural teams…now, it is so easy and fast to contact and know that EVERYBODY on a team or group got the message.”
Bishop James Brown, “The internet’s favorite pastor,” uses SendHub to send scripture passages as text messages to “encourage people in their walk with Christ”.
Here are some other ways that faith groups are using SendHub
- Sending daily prayer reminders to youth group students.
- Building and maintaining an up-to-date contact database of all church members. Congregants can simply text-to-join the church’s group with a simple keyword.
- Reminders for events, schedule changes or requests for volunteers.
- Coordinating community service activities. If time is ever of the essence, and getting your message read is important to you, text messages are the way to go.
Getting a SendHub number is free with limited calls, texts and groups. Paid plans are affordable, offer more minutes, texts, groups and can be super helpful if your church is a bit larger.
Ben says
This is awesome! I’ve been looking for something like this for my small group for a long time. Welcome to the future of SMS group alerts.