Guides

Everything we know about sending text messages that arrive.

Three guides, each a full treatment of a subject rather than an introduction to it, with the shorter articles underneath going deeper on specific questions. Start with whichever describes what you are trying to send.

None of it is gated. We build the platform, so the fastest way for us to be useful is to be straight about how the work actually goes.

SMS compliance

TCPA compliance for SMS marketing

What the law actually requires before you send: consent that holds up a year later, quiet hours across time zones, opt-outs that stay honored on exported lists, and where claims really come from.

Read the full guide · Texting for small businesses

Political texting and GOTV

Political text messaging and GOTV

Running the texting side of a campaign: voter file to segmented list, what a political text has to do in 160 characters, the final 72 hours, and what happens to the list after election day.

Read the full guide · Political texting in Illinois

Business SMS marketing

Mass texting for business

Sending to a customer list at scale: what actually drives the bill, why a list gets worse the longer you leave it, why an accepted message may still not arrive, and the numbers worth reading after.

Read the full guide · Two-way texting

Looking for something specific rather than a guide? The full article archive lists everything in date order.