As a school, you can use bulk SMS to make your school well-known, highly-successful, and impacting. Here are creative ways you make use of bulk SMS to achieve your school’s corporate goals…
1. Promote your school to your community – Want new students? You can use bulk SMS to promote your school to parents in your community. We have millions of Nigerian phone numbers arranged by local governments that you can rent to send your messages to.
2. School fees collection – Collecting school fees takes a lot of hassle and time, by using bulk SMS, you can easily let parents know that school fees are due for payment. You can even automate it.
3. School fees payment reminders – For those who haven’t paid, you can use bulk SMS to remind them easily and instantly.
4. Summer coaching announcement – You can use bulk SMS to announce to your students’ parents that there will be summer coaching and let them know the time, duration, and cost of the coaching.
5. Student truancy information – If a student is absent from school, you can use bulk SMS to inform his or her parent and ask to know whether they know about it. This will help your student to become responsible (assuming he left home without his or her parents’ knowledge). And if that’s not the case, you will demonstrate to parents that you care about the well-being of their children.
6. School events announcement/cancellation/postponement – You can use bulk SMS to announce to parents, teachers, and students that you are about to host an event or go on excursion and ask them to get organized and prepare for it. This will ensure that your information reaches all parents, teachers, and students. And in case any event is cancelled or postponed, you can also use bulk SMS to instantly get the information across.
7. Ask for referrals – You can use bulk SMS to ask the parents of your students to refer other parents to enroll their children in your school. This will increase new intake and increase your revenue.
8. Sports Day announcement – Having a sports day? You can use bulk SMS to inform all your parents to prepare their children with the correct clothing and kits and you can use the opportunity to invite the parents to come and watch their children display. This will increase their loyalty to your school.
9. Teachers-only day announcement – Let your students, teachers, and parents know that there will be no school on a particular day because it is teachers-only day.
10. Early school pick-up information – If your school is going to close earlier than the normal time, it pays to inform parents to pick up their child at the time school will close. You can use bulk SMS to achieve this.
11. Speed up debt payment – Are you being owed by students and it’s running into hundreds of thousands? Use bulk SMS to speed up your debt collection. By constantly reminding parents of their debts, you increase your chances of getting paid… and on time, too.
12. Increase in school fees announcement – Have you recently increase school fees? Save money on printing letters by informing parents using bulk SMS.
13. Library books overdue reminder – You can use bulk SMS to inform parents to search their children’s room for library books due for return.
14. PTA meeting announcement – Get maximum attendance to parents and teachers meetings by informing all parents and reminding them of the upcoming PTA meeting.
15. Conduct opinion poll – You can use bulk SMS to get opinions of parents and teachers before you embark on any project. For instance, you can ask them for their opinion on the introduction of a new school uniform.
16. Fundraising – To succeed in raising funds for any school project, people need to know. Bulk SMS comes in to help you let as many people as you want to know of your fundraising initiative… and cheaply at that.
17. Holiday announcement – Bulk SMS is useful in informing all your stakeholders (students, parents, teachers, school board) on the day your school will close and go on holiday.
18. School re-open date announcement –You can also use bulk SMS to inform and remind parents and teachers of your school reopen date.
19. End of year party announcement –Inform parents and teachers of your end of the year party and the costume they and their children are to wear, among other requirements.
20. Referral to website – Does your school have a website? Save money and stress by referring current and prospective parents there to get answers to frequently asked questions.
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