You sometimes cannot put everything you want to say in the 160 characters of an SMS message. The best solution is to include a link to your jpg picture or pdf file in the message. You can set this up as follows:
- Sign up/Log in to mailchimp at www.mailchimp.com
- Click on “Templates” at the top
- Click on “Content Management” (top right)
- Click “Upload” (Top right)
- Browse and upload your jpg picture or pdf/doc document.
- Once uploaded, click on the large square of your uploaded file and then click on “View Details” (top right).
- Then click edit image if you wish to add text or alter the image and then click “Copy URL”.
- As the url address will be very long you will want to shorten it to reduce the characters used up in your SMS message. So go to www.bitly.com
- Paste the long url from mailchimp into the long box in bitly.com
- Then make a note of the shortened URL that you get. You can ignore the http:// and just use bit.ly/…….
- Add that shortened url into your SMS marketing message. eg. Find our latest fantastic offers at bit.ly/2p8HOrR.