Introducing MyRepChat to Your Clients
Best practices for rolling out texting to your client base
Here are some best practices and tips for introducing texting to your clients.
Step 1: Send Test Messages to Coworkers and Yourself
Before texting clients, try MyRepChat out first by sending messages to your own mobile phone or a colleague.
Step 2: Send an Explanatory Email
Let clients know about your new texting capability and what, if anything, they need to do.
- Explain that you now have business texting capabilities, and share the phone number.
- Let them know they'll receive a text from you soon.
- If your broker-dealer requires positive consent, ask them to text your MyRepChat number the word "Accept."
- Ask them to save your MyRepChat number as a separate contact — labeled as your "mobile number" — for future texting.
Step 3: Add Your Clients as Contacts in MyRepChat
- If you use a CRM: Search your CRM and click each contact to add them to MyRepChat. See How Do I Import Contacts From My CRM?
- If you don't use a CRM: Create contacts manually, or upload them via CSV. See How do I Upload Contacts From a CSV File?
Once a contact is imported or created, it's saved to your MyRepChat account.
Step 4: Start Texting!
Choose a client and send them your first text from MyRepChat.
- Go to Messages and click Compose Message.
- Search for the contact and select them from the results.
- Type your message and send. That's all there is to it!