Emotive: SMS Marketing

Here have been our pros and cons of Emotive:

Pros:
Great customer service and representative team- every member I've worked with on our service has been fantastic.

The service is robust with good analytics and best case studies. However, getting customers phone numbers can prove challenging and there needs to be specific consideration to your strategy of how you will do so.

It is probably the best text tool available on the market at this time, and they have a good ROAs return rate, assuming you have new customers and phone numbers collecting at all times.

They paired us up with a similar company to review what they were doing which was a fantastic aid.

Cons:
You cannot leave their contract and are essentially signing onto a year-long contract.

Currently there are more companies doing this type of advertising and customers are more likely to unsubscribe as opposed to email. We've had several customers be disappointed that they could not call us, or had to explain why we had an American # when we are based in Canada.

Overall, we would recommend them but be aware you are signing up for a year long term and will need strategy on new customer acquisition and for ways to collect phone numbers, which isn't always easiest at times. However, their team has been very helpful.

Highly recommend working with emotive! They helped grow my SMS subscriber list and increase conversion through SMS marketing! They have a very hands-on approach and assign you a member of their team to remain in touch with and depend on. Overall great experience and look forward to continue working with them.

As a small business owner, I can confidently say Emotive has the worst billing practices I’ve ever dealt with. After missing a payment, they tried charging my card 29 times in one month. Yes, twenty nine. When I finally made a one time manual payment, they took that as permission to keep using that card for future charges, even though it was never saved or authorized for ongoing use.

They brushed it off like it was no big deal and hid behind their contract. No accountability. No ownership.

I get it. Everyone deserves to be paid. I’m a small business too. But this kind of behavior is shady and unprofessional.

I’ve already shared my experience with a business group of over 200,000 members and I’ll keep speaking up. If you're considering using Emotive, think twice. There are better platforms out there that won’t mishandle your payment info or your trust.

Emotive has made it very easy to reach out to our SMS list with great segmenting options, awesome support (who will even write your texts for you), & an intuitive user interface. When Emotive created its own pop-up for gathering phone numbers and email addresses from customers, JC and the support team took care of the entire migration for us. This is definitely a good option for businesses using SMS marketing.

I was disappointed that they don't use their Attribution software for more accurate analytics on the SMS side.

Emotive has been great at working with us to ensure we are happy with the results. JC Fajardo has been very hands on with the process, making great implementation and broadcast ideas. We highly recommend emotive for sms marketing.

Emotive is absolutely the best SMS platform that there is. I have tried basically all of them and this has been my favorite. Two-way messaging was essential and their UI is fantastic. Also, they have a great CS team that is always there to help me. I can customize the workflows easily and it integrates so well with Shopify.

As a person new to using SMS marketing I wasn’t sure what to look for. Emotive knows what they are doing to help small businesses, they are a full service provider, organized, helpful with strategy and listen to my requests. I recommend this team.

If I could give them a -10000 Star I would! I am a 50Million Dollar Brand and this company is attempting to steal my list and my short code phone number. They lied to get me on there platform and did not have the integrations and the insights that are up to date. When i said I wanted to leave they told me I had to pay 50K or they would keep my list of over 200K subsciber's that I have spent Millions of dollars over the years to build! They also refused to take there pop up off of my website! I dealt directly with the owner. I have been asking for my list for over 60 days and they refuse to give it to me then shit my services down. Non of this was in the contract and they are breaching the contact in many ways. They have not heard the last of me

Great customer support and customization. Their team helps with creative and copy, which is extremely helpful for lean teams. They are very accessible as well.

We love Emotive! Our customers are engaged and love receiving discount codes and keeping updated as to the sales and events we offer and tracking for their orders and so much more! Its easy to learn and is a big part of our business! Staff is great and will help you with every step!