Ask your existing email contacts to opt into SMS

Use the SMS Sign Up email template to share your Sign-up Landing Page with your existing email contacts, and ask them to opt into SMS to start sending them text message campaigns

Important: If you have contacts with home, work, or mobile numbers already in their contact records, you're not able to send SMS messages to them. They may not even be mobile numbers! Your contacts must first opt-in to receive SMS messages from you. Please see Constant Contact's SMS permission policy for more information.

You've spent time growing your email list, and now you want to start using SMS. An SMS-enabled Sign-up Landing Page is a sign-up form that's hosted by Constant Contact. It can be used to capture new contacts, but it can also be used to update your existing contacts with SMS permissions too! Once you've created it and enabled it for SMS, you can link it in our specially designed "SMS Sign Up" template, and invite all of the contacts you email to give their permission to receive text messages from you.

1. Create an email, and in the template picker, search for "SMS."
2. Click or tab on the SMS Sign Up template thumbnail image.
   
    
    
3. Click or tap the Select button. If you want to take a look at the template first, click or tap the Preview button.
   
    
    
4. Click on the Sign Up for Text Messages button to open the Button toolbar and Customize button menu.
5. Click the Update Link button and select the "Landing Page" option.
   
    
    
6. (Optional) Update the text you want to display as the button's call-to-action.
7. Select your Sign-up Landing Page with SMS opt-in enabled.
8. Click the Insert button.
   
   
    

Once the content and branding is how you want it, go ahead and send it to your contacts. Give them a little bit of time to open your email, and then check your email reporting and the reporting for your Sign-up landing page to see how many new SMS sign-ups you receive.

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