41 text messages 121 emails 5 phone calls and 64 general phone notifications
That’s why SMS marketing best practices preach the importance of clear calls to action in all messages. A link or compelling pitch that encourages folks to click, read, or buy right then and there. It’s a great start, but you still need the occasional message that stands out in your audience’s inbox. Cleverness and creativity often fall down the priority list but are an excellent way to build a strong (and profitable) relationship with your subscribers. One of the most creative and attention-grabbing tactics for text marketers to utilize is text message art.
What Is Text Message Art?
Unlike MMS messaging, which sends photos, videos, and PDFs to your recipient, the characters you type create the visual with text art. Text art isn’t a new technique. Keyboard art, or ASCII art, is a graphic design technique that dates back to 1963. It originated out of necessity as printers couldn’t yet print out graphics. Today, tech-savvy creatives take to their notepad apps to experiment with different configurations of letters, symbols, and numbers to create visuals directly within a text message! There’s also software out there that assigns ASCII symbols to each key or converts your image files into ASCII characters creating your very own keyboard art configurations for the less visual folks out there.
How Do You Send Text Art?
The very best part about sending text message art is how simple it is to send once it’s created. The real work is creating the visuals, which as we mentioned, can be done in several ways. For example, there are a wealth of templates on the internet that do the work for you. The ASCII archive is a great place to start. From there, sending text art is as easy as clicking copy and paste. You can send it the traditional way (from cell phone to cell phone), but it’s also possible to send text art via mass texting platforms like ours! Just select “SMS” as your message type, then paste your image into the text message box.
Mobile Text Message Art Templates
Of course, what would this article be without getting you started with a few text message art templates you can copy and paste right now? If you want to see what they might look like in an SMS marketing campaign, feel free to sign up for a free 14-day trial with SimpleTexting to give it a go.
Holiday Greetings Text Pictures
- Christmas Merry★* 。 • ˚ ˚ 。★Christmas★ ˛˚˛ Π____*。*˚ */______/~＼。˚ ｜田田 ｜門 ｜ ˚ Copy here
- Easter ┊╭╮╭╮ ┊┃┃┃┃ ┊┃┃┃┃┊┊┊╭━━━ ╭┛┗┛┗╮┊╭╯HAPPY ┃┈▆┈▆┃┊┃EASTER! ┃┈┈▅┈┃┊╰┳━━━ ┃┈╰┻╯ ┃━━╯┊ Copy here
- Fourth of July Copy here
- Mother’s Day Copy here
- Father’s Day Copy here
- Birthday Copy here
- Valentines Day Copy here
Animal Text Symbols
- Owl Copy here
- Cat Copy here
- Dog Copy here
- Pig Copy here
- Bunny Copy here
- Otter Copy here
Food & Drink Art Images
- Apple Copy here
- Popsicle Copy here
- Cup of Coffee Copy here
- Cheese Copy here
Sport Text Message Art
- Basketball Copy here
- Dancing Copy here
- Football Copy here
- Soccer Copy here
- Skating Copy here
Miscellaneous Text Message Art
1. Book Copy here 2. Dresses Copy here 3. Candle Copy here 4. Money Copy here 5. Cactus Copy here 6. Camping Copy here 7. Music Notes Copy here 8. Car Copy here
