Text messages for your Eloqua Campaigns
In This Guide:
- How to use SMS Text Messaging for Eloqua
- URL shortener for personal tracked links
Send SMS text messages from your Eloqua campaigns.
Here's how it works:
To start, you place our SMS/Text Messaging action onto your Campaign Canvas.
Then simply right-click then click 'configure' to set the message.
This is the content of your text message.
You can insert field-merges into this message.
Just select any contact field from the 'Insert Field Merge' dropdown.
You can use the 'Insert LP Link URL' field above the message area to automatically generate a short URL.
We will generate a tracking URL which is unique to that contact.
This lets us track opens, and it also lets you personalize the landing-page. This URL is sent via. a URL shortener so it is ultra-short and so that the tracked link is less obvious.
Once you have customized your message, click 'Test' on the right hand side.
This will send a message to every contact on your 'test contacts' list. (Add or remove test contacts with the '+' and '-' icons: