TextMarks, a next generation SMS Text Messaging platform, allows organizations to communicate seamlessly with staff and other stakeholders via mass text messaging. This TextMarks feature is especially helpful during shelter in place orders when residents of specific regions are required to stay within their homes to avoid risks such as infection or contamination.

Such orders can be devastating to organizations that rely on people being onsite for work or events. To minimize operational impact, it’s critical to have a plan and tools in place for communicating remotely with vendors, contractors, employees, and clients. Ideally, this should be an omni-channel plan for sustained communications that goes beyond email and videoconferencing.

While email works well for daily communications, it falls short as a means of reaching team members in urgent situations. This is due to the sheer deluge of nonessential emails many people receive with the end result being they do not check their inbox regularly.

Group chat tools like Slack and videoconferencing tools like Zoom work well for bringing team members together, but only if everyone has been informed of a meeting time and tool to begin with.

By contrast, the SMS group text messaging TextMarks offers is flexible, convenient, and easy. TextMarks SMS messages do not require a smartphone, and studies show text messages are typically checked and responded to immediately. Whether the aim is to get employees together for a teleconference or to inform them of an urgent company development, mass text messaging gets the job done precisely and easily.