ThomasCutting
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4 years ago Hey @ankitshah811 - I literally just learned about your website by seeing your interview with the Social Animal podcast. Hope this is helpful:
We use SMS marketing to help communicate to our audience, but we didn't want to rebuild the wheel.
Using Twilio - we can use their transactional API system. It's fast and easy. It costs $0.0075 per message. They have built out their email + call systems but SMS is a bit elementary versus their other offerings.
Using their alternative, Plivo, it also has a transactional API system - and is marginally cheaper - $0.0050. We recently came across this solution - Plivo vs. Twilio. Using Plivo you can easily create these kinds of surveys/reminders: https://www.plivo.com/docs/sms/use-cases/sms-survey/ / https://www.plivo.com/docs/sms/use-cases/sms-notification/
BTW, I don't work for Plivo 👍 but their solution helped us out.
2 days and 6 hours before tea time, all attendees and hosts should receive notifications by text message regarding their tea time.
Next step is for me to write a spec of what these text messages will say and when they will be sent and to whom.
@markbao I'd appreciate your input on how complicated this might be. Took a quick look at twilio's offering and it looks like they do a good job trying to make it as easy as possible. You'd know better than me though: https://www.twilio.com/sms