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title: "Getting Started with SMS Messaging with FunnelFLARE"
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With FunnelFLARE it is easy to send SMS messages, engage in SMS conversations, and route SMS messages to your phones.

 

First you have to **Rent a phone number **that support SMS capabilities

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**Sending Text Messages**

You can send a text message using

1. The Power dialer (Chrome Extension)  
You can choose an SMS template to send an SMS message
  
2. The Simple Dialer (Chrome Extension)
  
3. Using the SMS Messanger App (Chrome Extension)
  Messages App:

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The browser **Messages **tool:

1. The user's contacts that have SMS messages
2. The (i) shows the details of the message
3. The user's messages
4. Email shortcut (email this contact)
5. Select the contact's phone number to send a message to
6. Show only messages from the selected phone number

 

 

3. From the contact page in the web app

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**Receiving Text Messages**

 

If your prospect sends you a text message, you can read it from the Chrome extensin SMS Messenger app

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You can set up automatic text forwarding on the number edit screen

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The default text in the Forwarded Text Message edit identifies where the SMS came from.

Account: %CONTACT.PROSPECT_ACCOUNT.BUSINESS_NAME%

Contact: %CONTACT.NAME%

Phone: %CONTACT_HISTORY.TEXT_MESSAGE.FROM_PHONE.PHONE_NUMBER%

Texted to: %CONTACT_HISTORY.TEXT_MESSAGE.TO_PHONE.PHONE_NUMBER%

View Contact: %CONTACT.EDIT_LINK%

 

%CONTACT_HISTORY.TEXT_MESSAGE.MESSAGE%

 

 

Or you can route the SMS to your phone number. Every time someone texts **to **a tracked number this workflow fires:

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We suggest putting in a decision to route SMS messages:

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with this query

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Then daisy chain queries to get the right message to the right salesperson

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We suggest something like this for your sales rep query

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Using this dynamic field to relay the message to Mary : 

From: %CONTACT.FULL_NAME%:%CONTACT.PHONE.PHONE_NUMBER

%CONTACT_HISTORY.TEXT_MESSAGE.MESSAGE%

 

 

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