With the launch of Nutshell SMS, your team can leverage text messaging to increase engagement with leads and customers throughout your sales process. SMS empowers your team to reach out to prospects and customers to start a conversation and move deals down the funnel.
Now with Inbound SMS, conversations can begin both ways. Instead of your team having to be the first to reach out, contacts can text your business directly—and you can seamlessly manage every message in Nutshell to keep conversations organized.
What is Inbound SMS?
With Inbound SMS, anyone can text your business—whether they’re a prospect, customer, or someone entirely new. Inbound SMS opens your business to more opportunities to strengthen relationships and close more deals.
What can I do with Inbound SMS?
Inbound SMS unlocks a new set of settings under Engagement > Settings. The key configurations are:
Team member assignment
When someone new texts your business, who handles the message? With team member assignment rules, you can choose from:
Round-robin assignment: Distribute inbound texts evenly between your team
Assign to a specific user: Assign all inbound messages to a specific team member
Add messages to a queue: Choose not to assign incoming messages but add them to a queue where your team members can assign themselves
Lead creation rules
The best part about joining your CRM with SMS? Automatic lead creation!
You can choose to automatically create a new lead in Nutshell when an inbound SMS is received. Specify which pipeline it should go through and which tags to add to the lead, so all your inbound SMS leads stay organized.
Redirect phone calls
Finally, add a phone number to redirect any incoming calls made to your SMS number.
How do I manage Inbound SMS messages?
Ready to share your Inbound SMS number? Copy it from either the SMS registration page or the SMS configuration dropdown and it to your website, email signature, etc.
When you receive new inbound messages, you can manage them in the same place you manage all SMS text threads: the SMS section within the Engagement suite. From here, admins can see all text threads, assign threads to team members, and create new leads for your prospects.
Inbound SMS is only available on Engagement Suite Pro plans. With the Engagement Suite, your team can send and receive text messages from leads and customers, plus engage with website visitors through Nutshell Chat. Our sales team is happy to answer your questions about Engagement Suite plans!
