SMS vs Email Marketing: The Battle for Revenue in 2025

🥊 The showdown is set — SMS and email step into the ring, ready to go toe-to-toe in their quest to captivate consumers’ attention and drive more revenue in 2025. Which contender will reign supreme?

The Cornerstone Champion: Email Marketing

Email marketing has long been king 👑. It's simple, most businesses are familiar with it, and everyone has an email address...right? With steady open rates (around 20%) attributed largely thanks to permission-based lists ensuring a warm pool of prospects.

Take business X for example, they utilize targeted email campaigns that have worked brilliantly for years. But even they are feeling open rate fatigue and seeing click-throughs dwindling.

The Agile Upstart: SMS Marketing

Here's where ground-breaking platforms like Tells.co come into play! Using AI-powered SMS messages 🤖📱 guarantees instant notifications sparking engagement rates that burn brighter than Supernova SN1987A 😎.

Let's consider our friend Y, a performance marketer, who switched to SMS. He's reaching prospects in an instant and experiencing almost 'read right now' open rates (98%, FYI). The conversion? It's like summer in the Sahara — HOT! 🔥.

The Future Leader: Why SMS May Take the Crown

2025 is just around the corner and its forecast? A hotbed of tech-savvy consumers swarmed with digital advertising on every platform. The way forward lies not only in who can reach audiences but also attain meaningful interactions 🤝. So if we were betting people — which as marketers, lets face it, we often are —we'd say SMS has this fight more or less wrapped up.

Z, a former emailer turned Tells.co enthusiast understands why cutting edge businesses are flocking towards SMS marketing platforms. His response times have improved phenomenally while complaints about invasive emails have all but disappeared 👏!

A Champion's Strategy: Why Not Both?

Nobody said you had to choose one over the other! Achieving business zen 🧘‍♂️ may mean utilizing both platforms strategically for various segments of your customer base or different stages within your sales funnels.

R knows it best; her e-commerce store gives customers options - sign up for their great newsletter by email AND receive notifications about mega-sales via texting from Tells.co! It’s a win-win!