The best landline texting services make it easy and fast to start. Because if text enabling your landline feels like filing taxes, you won’t do it. If they force you to spend weeks following up like a debt collector, you won’t do it. Basically if it’s hard to start, chances are you won’t finish and reap the rewards landing texting offers!

These best business texting services make it easy and fast to enable existing landlines. To get yours going here’s what this article will highlight:

1. How Your Customers Feel When Your Landline Isn’t Text Enabled
2. Announcing the Best Landline Texting Services by Salesmsg
3. How Much Should You Pay To Enable Your Landline
4. How Long Should It Take To Text Enable Your Landline
5. Landline Texting FAQs
6. Text Enabled Your Landline In Seconds

PROBLEM SOLVED: If your leads, customers, and contacts call your office line, but text you on another number, get ready to pick the best landline texting service, without switching numbers or phone carriers.

How Your Customers Feel When Your Landline Isn’t Text Enabled

If you’re one of the 50 million people in the U.S. who have a long established landline, changing your number is not an option. Yet, if you don’t do something, dozens if not hundreds of leads and customers, will text you and… “crickets.” Nothing will happen.

Uhhh, that’s actually not true.

Something will happen. According to a MacWorld article, “Most of the time, your message will just disappear into the ether—it won’t be delivered or received.” Then your lead, customer, or contact will feel a little something, let’s call it “disappointment.”

That’s the best case scenario.

And while this article isn’t about doom and gloom, it's worth mentioning “never received” texts from leads and customers have a cost. Whether it’s measured in lost sales, lower satisfaction scores, or poor reviews.

Everyone from Amazon to Aunt Jo, texting. It’s how people stay updated and informed. Having a sorry-can’t-text-ya landline is kind of like selling stone square wheels to people who are buying circular rubber tires.

It won’t be long before everyone expects every number to be “text enabled,” including your landline.

Announcing the Best Landline Texting Services by Salesmsg

Starting now, within just sixty seconds, you can start the process to enable your business landline to send and receive SMS messages. 

It doesn’t matter what landline service provider you have (as long as it’s not VOIP) or how old your number is, or if you have a vanity number or an ugly number. 

Your landline is now text-enabled. 

Boom. Cue the happy dance.

Check out our video about landline Texting Services by Salesmsg

The technology for text-enabling a landline number has been around for a while, but many businesses didn’t make the change. Maybe you didn’t know how. Or perhaps you knew it was possible, but it was too technical, too expensive, or too something.

And that kind of sinks. Because if your business can’t text, you’re kind of “up the creek.” That’s why today marks a huge milestone in the journey of thousands of small businesses.

This is a turning point that can launch new heights of revenue, improve your customer support, and make your life a bajillion times easier. 

You can text from your landline. 

How Much Should You Pay To Transfer Your Landline

The best landline texting services, including Salesmsg, make the process of enabling your landline fast and easy. But they should also make the process free. That's right, completely free. You may need an existing account with a credit card on file, but you should never pay to enable texting on your landline.

So what should you expect to pay for and how should you evaluate those cost?

As you have probably seen, landline texting providers charge for similar things, such as message credits (one credit is 160 character SMS), additional numbers, and users seats. Those are the standard “things” to expect.

What’s probably more helpful to you is a set of question you can use to evaluate whether those costs make sense for you and your business.

1. Does the provider offer free landline transfers
2. Do they integrate with your CRM
3. Do they an have iOS and Android apps
4. Does the provider offer shared team inboxes
5. Do they offer a free trial

You’re most likely to choose the right provider when you’re clear on how to evaluate the best landline texting service.

How Long Should It Take To Text Enable Your Landline

Depends. Less than the best business texting providers rely on a manual process that could take weeks. If their customer support department is understaffed, you'll likely need to babysit the process yourself. You’ll have to check in on them. Sad face.

The best of the best landline services will get you text enabled in under 48 hours following a process similar to the Salesmsg way:

Step 1: You’ll enter your existing landline number to confirm it’s eligible for texting. That might take a minute or two to process.

Step 2: You’ll enter the address associated with your landline number. This is part of verifying your ownership of the line.

Step 3: You’ll get a call to verify your number. You’ll then enter the pin show on your screen. That should take about another min.

Step 4: Almost immediately after verification you’ll get an email with a request to “e-sign” a letter of authorization, aka: “the LOA”.

Step 5: It takes about 24 hours for the LOA to process. As soon as it does, you’ll get a final email inviting your to configure and assign your new text enabled landline.

You have enough on your plate to manage! That’s why the best landline texting services make the process of text enabling your long established landlines “hassle free”.

Landline Texting FAQs

Choosing the best landline texting service shouldn’t be hard. If you’ve really read this article then you now have a clear idea of what to expect. That doesn’t mean you have everything you need, that’s why these questions should help you take the next step.

Q: I assigned my number, but I don’t see it on my numbers page.
A: Hmm. The problem is probably this. If you assigned it as a shared inbox it will show on that page, not on the numbers page. Don’t worry, this will be updated soon.

Q: Will this work for my VOIP number?
A: Not yet. Landline texting is only for true landline numbers at this time.

Q: I am waiting for the LOA (Letter of Authorization), but nothing from has come through.
A: The LOA comes from our network provider with the subject line “Hosted SMS Letter of Authorization.” The subject line is a bit eye-glazing jargon, but you do need to open it. Sorry and thanks.

Q: I used up my three attempts. What do I do now?
A: Ah, snap, but don’t worry. It happens. Just call or text our support team and we’ll get you fixed up.

Q: I don’t like where I assigned my number. How do I change it?
A: Salesmsg has awesome support. Shoot us a text or give us a call at (561) 788-7898.

Text Enabled Your Landline In Seconds

If text enabling your landline feels like filing taxes or forces you to spend weeks following up like a debt collector, that’s probably not the provider for you. The process should be clear, simple, and free. The monthly or annual costs of the services should match the needs of your team and company.

PROBLEM SOLVED: Transfer your landline to Salesmsg for free, so your leads, customers, and contacts no longer need to call your office line and text you on another number.