Text-Em-All

10/30/2026

Planning for the holidays at your store? We put together a simple holiday text plan for grocers: about ten texts, one a week, from three weeks before Thanksgiving through the first week of January. They cover things like order deadlines, pickup times, or your hours.

Plan your grocery store's Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's: when shoppers buy, what to text each week, and how one customer sold 5x more pork chops.

10/28/2026

If you're in the middle of seasonal hiring right now, you already know the tricky part. Reaching good candidates before someone else does can make or break your week.

We put together a post on using SMS to simplify seasonal staffing, covering how to build a reusable list of past applicants, write texts people actually respond to, and make the application quick enough to finish on a phone during a lunch break.

It's aimed at teams juggling holiday coverage, harvest, summer rushes, and the other peaks where every day matters. Give it a read if your inbox-and-voicemail approach is leaving shifts open longer than you'd like.

Discover how to recruit seasonal employees with SMS. Learn the benefits, seasonal hiring strategies, and solutions for roadblocks in this essential guide.

10/27/2026

Every so often it's worth saying out loud why we do this the way we do.

Text-Em-All started in 2005 with four people and one belief: what's right for the team, the customers, and the community is also what's right for the business. Everyone you see on our about page is a co-owner of the company, which is the reason people here care about getting things right for you.

Our long goal is to stay private, stay employee-owned, and build something worth keeping for 100 years. The shorter version is on the page, and it's one line we keep coming back to: the world would be better if nice people finished first.

We’re a different kind of mass messaging service that’s focused on making a on our community. Meet our team & learn more.

10/26/2026

When you hear about a college saving time with texting, the easy assumption is that the win is speed. For Metropolitan Community College, the win was getting their people back.

MCC had student outreach spread across multiple departments on a multi-campus district, each with its own list and deadlines. Every call campaign ate hours the staff would rather have spent with the students who called back with questions. They pulled it all into one system, with de-duping across departments so they weren't paying to reach the same student twice, and automated calling for the volume so the team could focus on the human conversations after.

The new case study has the full story from Kirk, their enrollment marketing manager. It's a good read if your team is drowning in the mechanics of outreach.

See how Metropolitan Community College consolidated its scattered campus call lists into a single system with Text-Em-All and freed up staff to focus on students.

10/22/2026

If you work in a church office, you already know the problem. The pastor is replying to one member, a volunteer coordinator is answering another, and someone at the front desk is halfway through a third conversation, and nobody can see what the others have said.

Our church texting page walks through how one shared inbox changes that. Every reply comes back to the same place, and a typing symbol shows when someone else is already answering, so two staff don't send conflicting notes to the same family.

The same message goes out as a text and as a recorded call, and it connects with Church Community Builder, FellowshipOne, Church Office Online and Icon Systems.

Reach your whole congregation by text or by recorded voice call. Prayer chains, service reminders, volunteer schedules and weather cancellations.

10/19/2026

A good text announcement does three things in order: it identifies the sender, puts the key information first, and gives one clear action if one is needed.

That's the structure behind "Grove Medical: office closed Thursday for building repairs. Appointments will be rescheduled, no action needed." Under 160 characters, one segment, one credit per contact.

Our announcements guide walks through the format, who's using it (schools, clinics, HR teams, retailers), and the delivery, opt-out, and reply handling that sit underneath every broadcast.

Communicate quickly and effectively through personalized and engaging text announcements that capture your audience.

10/16/2026

Flu shot season is in full swing, and if you work in a clinic, a pharmacy, or an HR team running an on-site clinic, you already know what the next few weeks look like.

We put together a page on vaccine and flu shot reminders that might save your front desk some pain. The idea is a simple multi-touch cadence: one text goes out when the season opens, another reminder reaches people as the appointment gets close, and a day-of confirmation seals the deal. Patients can reply directly to reschedule or ask questions, and the whole thread stays in one place instead of bouncing between voicemails.

The same workflow fits a single practice or a health department running a county-wide campaign. It's worth a look if you're staring down a long list of patients due for a dose.

Send vaccine and flu shot reminders to your list in minutes. Text-Em-All helps healthcare providers, pharmacies, and employers reduce missed appointments.

10/15/2026

Here's the part of texting that tends to catch teams off guard. Sending the broadcast is quick. It's the replies that pile up afterward.

Two-way texting in Text-Em-All puts every response in a shared inbox so your team can work through them together. Someone needs to reschedule, someone has a question, someone wants to opt out. All of it shows up in one place, labeled and organized, instead of scattered across voicemails and personal cell phones.

Auto-replies cover the hours when nobody's watching the inbox, and opt-outs are honored automatically so you stay on the right side of compliance. If you've been running broadcasts one-way and losing track of the replies, it's a cleaner way to handle the back half of the conversation.

Manage real conversations with customers or teams. Send and receive texts instantly with Text-Em-All’s simple, compliant two-way SMS platform.

10/15/2026

3 years of employee ownership is grounds for celebration!! ☕️🥳 In honor of 3 years, we had a personal barista come to the office to whip us up some afternoon treats today after Scoreboard! 😋

10/14/2026

Black Friday is almost here, and if texting is part of your holiday plan, now is the time to get your sends lined up. We put together a post with best practices and ready-to-use templates for the season.

A few things it covers: splitting your list by purchase history and region so the right deal goes to the right person, personalizing in ways that go beyond a first name, and keeping your messages short enough that the offer is the first thing people see.

There are templates for early-access alerts, doorbusters, and Cyber Monday follow-ups. Grab what works and adapt it to your voice.

Build buzz, excite your base, and capitalize on the year’s largest shopping event with these Black Friday SMS strategies and message templates from Text-Em-All.