As a country club, you want to make sure that you create the best atmosphere and service for your current members so that they will want to retain their membership. Along with maintaining a strong renewal rate, you also want to find ways to attract new customers so that your club can grow. Group texting is one way that you can engage with current members and attract new ones to grow your business. There are many ways that group texting can help your business

More Successful Membership Drives

Group texting provides you with a powerful promotional tool to help your membership drives. It is easy to add to all your marketing and advertisement collateral. Simply include a keyword and short code with basic instructions for prospective members to text for more information. Text messaging is one of the most powerful calls to action, and it is versatile enough to work in any medium. Many people always have their phones with them, so no matter when, how, and where they see the ad, they can easily text for more information.

You can leverage the same benefits even with your current members to promote events, fundraisers, classes and other events at your club. On your promotional material, include information about your group texting program. Members can text for more information, which, in turn, increases the chance that they will join in.

Improve Customer Service

Customer service is an essential aspect of any successful country club. Your members expect the best. By offering group texting, you can provide it to them. Your texting program does not have to just be a one-way marketing channel. It works very well as a forum for members to contact you with questions and/or problems. A majority of consumers prefer using texting for customer service inquiries. Simply by offering it, you can improve your customer service ratings because you are available, no matter what method customers choose to use to contact you.

Remind Members About Important Information

Another way that group texting can help your country club business is by working as a communication channel for members. Those who opt-in to the program can be reminded about their reservations, appointments, classes and other events at your club. You can send out important membership information to your subscribers, such as emergency alerts, unforeseen closures, construction updates and more. Informed members are happy members, which increases the chance they will renew their membership for another year.

Event Invitations

Your group texting program also provides a channel to contact members and prospective members to invite them to events at your club. Text messages have a much higher open rate than other channels. For example, texts have a 98 percent open rate, while email marketing only has around a 22 percent open rate. By sending invitations through text, you increase the chance of members actually seeing the information. Additionally, they will never have to worry about mislaying the information, as they will always have it there on their phone. (Unless, of course, they mislay their phone, in which case their entire life will be over.)

Group texting has a high open rate and engagement rate, making it a powerful communication and marketing channel. You can capitalize on this in your country club by using it to promote your club, send out discounts to prospective and current members, and improve your customer service. This, in turn, boosts your business and helps you to provide the type of service you strive to give.

Contact us to learn more about how you can include text messaging in your comprehensive marketing strategy to increase membership to your country club.