- How To Build An SMS Text Autoresponder Using Google Voice And Gmail?
In the field of digital marketing, SMS still plays a major role. SMS stands for Short Message Service which is used widely for marketing through text.
The phones are the most used electronic medium among the modern crowd. Google voice is an internet calling service in which a user can use a single voice call number for many devices.
You can always stay connected through this. Google voice has a lot of killer features like voice mail transcription low-cost call rates, cool group texting, etc.
Have you ever wondered about having an SMS text autoresponder for Google voice? Yes, it’s possible. You just need a Google voice account and desktop/laptop computer. Just follow these simple steps
- Open your Google voice and go to the hamburger menu
- Select ‘Settings’ and turn on the “forward messages to email”.
You don’t need to do any programming. The above process is handy, helping you to customize your SMS auto-response.
It would provide a code that you need to complete this process, per an article on the Google Voice Autoreply website.
Besides, it’ll allow you the freedom to initiate when you need the autoreply to kick in.
Now we’re done with Google voice configuration. The next one is connecting the google apps script.
- Go to Google Drive and select new
- There you can see the “more” option. Select it
- Then click “Connect more apps”
- Search “Google apps script” and select connect
- Now click “OK”.
Next step is Customization and Configuration of the script
- Open Google apps script and create a new script
- Change the current script to your customized one
- Configure the script with the help of guidelines
- Go back to the code editor. Click run and run function then.
- At last select allow.
Everything should be released after a testing segment. Test your autoresponder like a customer.
Here we are going to read about Gmail. Gmail is a well-known free email platform. It’s a widely used service all over the world.
A user can schedule his mails, set expiry dates to the emails, select notifications for the particular email, etc. Nowadays you can let Google’s artificial intelligence to compose your emails. Isn’t it so cool? Here also you can use that text autoresponder method.
Here also you have some pre works before you set an autoresponder. You must set a message to display as an auto-message.
- Go “Settings” and select “Advanced”.
- You can see an option called “Canned responses”. Enable it.
- Save the changes
The pre works are finished. Let’s see how to build an autoresponder text.
- Compose your email. When you finish it, Do a right-click in the email space.
- Select “New canned response” after selecting “canned response”.
- Type your message and click ok.
Finally, we are going to set up an auto-reply
- Go “Settings” and select “Filters and blocked addresses”
- Select “Create a new filter” and finish it
- Check the box – “send canned response”
- End it with clicking “Create filter”
We completed Gmail’s text autoresponder too. Still, the Google Voice Text isn’t so versatile.
It doesn’t have all the features available on high-end business texting software such as Message Desk.
Per an article on the Message Desk website, Google Voice SMS still operates but is handicapped by the inability to assign team mates to respond or route texts to folders and views.
Yet another reason why the Google Voice Autoresponder isn’t quite widespread is that it’s limited to certain geographical regions.
These cover basically Western Europe and North America. Hence the densely populated online states in Asia are left out of the loop. Besides, the toll-free line is limited to the US and Canada only.
Per an Open Phone Blog publication, the text length is restricted and images are almost non-existent.
All in all, Google Voice to Texts Autoresponders are key factors in email marketing. Time is a valuable thing and the autoresponder will help you to save it. You do not need to worry about missing a client while sending emails.
Autoresponders never miss any emails or messages. This method will cost a little amount but gain a lot of profit. I suggest that if you follow the above steps you can surely get fame for your business and brand.
