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Β· 2 min read
Zakery Kline

Do you want to privately and personally message a lot of people at once on your iPhone? You've probably looked for how to send a mass text on iPhone without it being a group text but couldn't find anything in your Settings on your phone to do it. We had the same issue! That's a key reason we made Hit Em Up: the best way how to send a mass text on iPhone without it being a group text! The best part is that it's free to try!

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How Does Hit Em Up Send a Mass Text on iPhone Without it Being A Group Text?​

A: Hit Em Up allows you to select contacts from your contact book and even create groups within the app. Once you've chosen the people you'd like to send a mass text to on your iPhone without it being a group text, you can compose your personal message to them, complete with inserts for their first or last name so that each message is unique:

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When you're satisfied, you just tap 'Next' to preview how your mass text will look like to your particular recipients. Notice how each message is unique and one on one! It truly is a mass text on your iPhone without it being a group text, and it's already ready to go!

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When you're ready, tap 'send to X number of contacts' and Hit Em Up will queue up your Messages app to deliver your personalized message to all your recipients without it being a group text. It's basically like a Group Text with BCC because your recipients cannot see each other and each reply comes back individually, without it being a group text.

Check out the 5-star reviews on the app store from the leaders who discovered how using Hit Em Up to send a mass text on iPhone without it being a group text has changed their organizations, businesses, and communities for the better! Hit Em Up is free to try or seven days. Give her a whirl today!

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Β· 2 min read
Zakery Kline

Do you want to communicate with a lot of different people, but don't want to start a messy group chat where everyone can see each other's replies? Wouldn't it be great to have a group text app without reply all?​

Well, we thought so too. That's why we created Hit Em Up, the absolute best way to personally mass text messages to individuals. It's a group text app without reply all, and it works out of the box. The best part? It's free to download and try!

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Just select the folks you want to send to in your contacts in the app, write your message, and press send! You will be prompted to broadcast individual texts and iMessages that are personal and one on one like a group text bcc. Your recipients will see the text-messages privately like any regular message you would send them directly (think group text bcc, but even more personal because you can customize each text message with your recipients' name and other contact information to make personalized messages in bulk). They can't see the other members of the conversation, so it feels personal and thoughtful.

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Hit Em Up lets you even create groups from your contacts in the app or import them from existing groups you may have so you can send to those folks again later. Other cool features include saved templates and text personalization where you can insert (for example) a first-name into the body of your message.

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You have nothing to lose as we have a zero commitment free trial (no cc required) to try the best group text app without reply all: Hit Em Up App. It's available for iPhone and soon Android too!

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Β· 4 min read
Zakery Kline

How to send text to multiple contacts without group message?​

In times when everybody has at least three messengers, tons of emails, and accounts on social media it seems easy to reach to people. However, when we need to send text to multiple contacts without group message and make sure they read it, SMS is still the #1 way to send mass texts.

Recent research shows that SMS have the highest open rate comparing to emails and messengers. It happens because to see a message on WhatsApp or Telegram people must open the app, while SMS just strike them, and there’s no way out but to see it.

Say you want to notify your customers that your shop starts a massive sale. Emails will likely end up in the spam folder. Group SMS is not an option because it shows your customer that they are not the only one who received it. Everybody wants to feel important so what you need is to personalize those texts. So how to send text to multiple contacts without group message?

Introducing Hit Em Up Mass Texting App​

Hit Em Up is an app for iOS for send text messages to multiple contacts without using group message feature. The app is used worldwide by business owners, event promoters, personal accountants, clergymen, fitness coaches and many more audiences. HitEmUp lets people send mass texts that can automatically include contact’s first and/or last name.

Event promoters use it to tell their audience about the upcoming events. Coaches send everyday motivations to their trainee. Clergymen notify their congregations about the prayers. Small businesses can text their employee to tell about meetings and some changes, and their customers as well.

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How to send use Hit Em Up for mass texts?​

The app is available for iOS, Android, and Mac. You can download the app from the AppStore or Google Play. Hit Em Up is free to download and all users get a week trial. The interface is simple yet feature-packed. Let’s study how to perform the simplest task – sending texts to multiple contacts.

To send texts to multiple contacts you need to:

  1. Select contacts
  2. Write a message
  3. Tap β€˜Send’ Hit Em Up ensures none of the texts are spammy, so users need to tap send for each contact. In total, you can send a hundred of SMS to multiple contacts in 2 minutes.

Three simple actions save hours of your time, and the recipients get personalized messages feeling that you care about them. In times when we all have some many ways to communicate, it’s difficult to ensure they read our messages.

Other features​

Templates are great when you know you’re going to say the same words to different people, like β€˜The meeting has been rescheduled to ::time::. Small business owners know that it’s always pain in the ass to notify 15 members of their team about some change, especially if they’re not using a corporate message software, like Slack.

Availability & Subscription​

Hit Em Up is currently available for users worldwide, but some features may only be available in USA and Canada. To send texts to multiple contacts without group message, you users need to have an active subscription to the service. The current price is $4.99/month when you buy a year. The great part is, only you need to have the app with an active cellular connection to use it. Your recipients don't even need to know you have it! Messages appear as a normal SMS or iMessage to them.

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Bottom Line​

SMS has and will be the most effective way to convey a message to a large audience. Even if all your contacts aren’t connecting on a single network, like Facebook or Telegram, it’s not a problem for Hit Em Up.

The app makes it simple to send text to multiple contacts without group message, making it a great alternative to iPhone’s Group Message feature. Instead of typing a message, and then copy-pasting it a hundred time, you create a single message, select contacts and tap send. Easy as that.

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Β· 6 min read
Zakery Kline

Disclaimer: We are not providing LEGAL advice in this video or article. We are in no way suggesting that if you follow the rules or tips herein that you would be complying with the law or your local regulations which govern your rights and/ or limitations with regard to sending or receiving communication across any medium. If you have concerns about the legal implications and ramifications of your desired texting and messaging needs, we suggest you seek proper legal counsel. We are not your agents and take no agency in your actions with regard to your usage of our application and software or any other methods you employ for sending messages or otherwise use communication services or mediums.

We get a lot of confused folks asking us why they can't send a huge list of recipients text messages all at once and why their messages bounce back with a "failure to send" message on iPhone.

If you're sending a small amount of messages, these errors could be related to network connectivity problems on your device, but if you're experiencing these issues when sending a lot of messages, it's more likely that you have been inadvertently flagged for being POTENTIALLY spam and thus got your message rejected.

Cell Phone Carriers and Messaging Service Providers like Apple's iMessage have adapted the technics from e-mail spam filters to try to reduce the amount of unwanted messages such as scams, advertisements to folks who didn't ask for them, and other threats β€” which we think is a great thing!

The problem is sometimes legitimate emails and text messages get caught in the spam filters too because they LOOK LIKE SPAM, but aren't. And chances are if you're reading this you may feel like this applies to you.

So firstly, we must define what spam is. You may think of it as messages which are unwanted or annoying. But actually there are a few definitions of spam. There is the common definition above, the legal definition, and what carriers and ISP look for in trying to identify it.

This article and video above do not focus on the legal definition because each country and region may have different definitions BUT it is crucial that you educate yourself on the law and obey any rules and regulations which govern your ability to send messages. In the U.S. you may choose to look at F.C.C. regulations and any other state regulations that may govern your rights to use communication and telephony services.

Rather, we're going to look at what carriers' and ISP's definition of spam is and what they are doing to determine what messages are spam to help you get your legitimate messages through the spam detection filters.

To carriers and ISPs: Spam is defined as BULK and UNSOLICITED messages.

Here's the list of ways they try to determine that:

  1. Quantity. Sending a message that says "Happy New Years!!!" to your contacts on your phone will most likely go through, but sending "Happy New Years!!!" to a bunch of folks you don't know would be bad.

  2. Links. Further, carriers look at the type of language and links you include in your text messages. If you use links or link shrinkers which may be commonly used by scammers and spammers (like bit.ly for example), your message looks more like spam. You inherit the reputation of the links you put into your messages.

  3. Brands. Carriers look for phishing attacks by seeing if messages contain references to brands which are not owned by the sender to avoid sending scams which steal credit cards and worse. So don't use or make reference to brands which you don't own.

  4. Identity & Owning Responsibility. Further, carriers and ISPs are looking to see if you keep a consistent identity when you send messages and if it's transparent as to who is sending the message. That means you shouldn't send the same messages from multiple phone numbers and you should have references as to who owns your phone number on some published pages like the white pages and on your website (the more documentation the better). Carriers and ISPs want to see you are responsible for the messages you are sending and are a good actor which means being available to take take complaints from your texting and messaging behavior seriously and that you are not just using a burner phone number or email.

  5. Sending Rate. Carriers and ISPs know what the normal sending rate is for normal people (somewhere around 15-50 messages a minute and no more than 1 per second). The problem is that there are legitimate reasons to want to send at higher volumes because your messages although they may be bulk, are solicited or explicitly desired. Carriers and ISPs are working hard to figure out the difference, but for the time being, you will want to be in that range if you're using your own personal phone number as not to get rate limited by your carrier and have your messages get the "failure to send" error.

  6. Content Should Be Unique and Not Spammy. Make sure your message content does not sound aggressive or salesy.

  7. Consent. For optimal delivery, you want to have the explicit consent of your recipients before you send messages. The best way to do this is to have an opt-in protocol and implement an official way for people to opt-out from receiving messages from you. This is especially important when sending in bulk to a lot of people. Carriers want to see you are giving people a way to not receive messages from you. Also, along the same lines, make sure people know who you are before sending them messages.

That's it! Hopefully this helps you navigate the SMS and email ecosystems and get your bulk messages delivered and read by the people who are eagerly awaiting your messages πŸ˜ƒ

If you think you can play by the rules, and you haven't downloaded Hit Em Up already to send your messaging campaigns, here is a direct link to get started: Get Hit Em Up Now!

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Β· 2 min read
Zakery Kline

How to Send Mass Text Individually ​

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A lot of people ask us for a guide on how to send text messages in bulk, but individually and one on one as a Mass Text so we decided to face that question head on and give you a guide from start to finish on how to Send a Mass Text Individually One on One as a sort of BCC Group Text from your iPhone:

1. Download Hit Em Up App (it's free to try on the app store):​

2. Select the contacts from the list you'd like to send to OR if you want to send mass texts individually as BCC Group Texts to the same people more often than just the one time, create a Group from the "Groups" tab and press "Add People" in the upper right corner to add those people to a group for sending to any time you want.​

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3. Tap "Compose" and write a personal message and use the "firstname" and "lastname" buttons above the keyboard to personalize it so that each message is customized for the contact!​

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4. Press "Next!" in the upper right corner of the screen after pressing Done on the compose screen to preview and send your message!​

5. Sit back and enjoy sending your BCC Group Text individually to your group so that your message comes in individually and personal to your contacts even though it's a mass text!​

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Β· One min read
Zakery Kline

Hit Em Up makes sending a personalized mass text to all contacts on iPhone easy!​

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Download Hit Em Up Mass Text for Free! No commitment: 7 day free trial

2. Open the app from your phone and after it syncs your contacts, tap the "Select All" button in the upper left to select all your contacts on your iPhone.​

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3. Tap "Compose" next to the "Select All" button and type the mass text you want to send to all contacts on your iPhone. Helpful Hint: Use the "Firstname" and "Lastname" buttons to insert your contacts' first or last name into the message to make it personal!​

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4. Press the "Next!" button in the upper right corner with the paper airplane on it to preview your message.​

5. Press Send! That's it! Hit Em Up will prompt you to send your message through your normal iPhone Messages App quickly for each person!​

And that's how to send a mass text on iphone without it being a group text!​

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Β· 3 min read
Zakery Kline

Import Excel CSV Contacts to iPhone​

A lot of people ask us how to send a mass text to a list in a csv or excel file so we made the definitive guide on how to do just that. Here we cover how to import a csv, outlook, CRM export, and Excel doc into iCloud and Apple Contacts on your iPhone for sending with Hit Em Up! In this guide we will make a group on your computer (Mac or PC are fine) via your iCloud account which will automatically sync with your contacts on your phone! We also provide a file below to make the process super easy!

So let's get started:

Step 1.​

Download this Blank CSV for use with Google Contacts

Step 2.​

Copy the contents FROM YOUR csv / excel file's contents TO the file you just downloaded, matching the title fields on the downloaded file (contained in the first row) with your corresponding data and save it. Make sure you DO NOT DELETE OR ALTER THE FIRST ROW TITLES.

Step 3.​

Go to https://contacts.google.com/ and tap "Import" in the bottom left corner. import-contacts-hit-em-up-csv-using-google-contacts

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Click import from the side menu, click "Select file," and upload your file using the file picker (the file you downloaded above, with your data in it). import-csv-upload-google-contacts-how-to-hit-em-up-app-mass-text-bulk-sms-vcard-to-apple-icloud.png

Step 5.​

Find the newly imported list on the side menu and ensure the contacts look right. Then navigate to the "Export" button on the left. Select the newly imported list from the drop down and select "Export As vCard (iOS)"

Step 6.​

Navigate and sign into your iCloud account which is on your iPhone here: www.iCloud.com and click "Contacts."

Step 7.​

Press the plus under the side menu and create a new group called whatever you like such as "Hit Em Up Sender Group"

Step 8.​

Click your new group and drag and drop your vCard you downloaded from Google.

Step 9.​

Open Hit Em Up Personal Mass Text on your iPhone and select your group which should now be imported and press "Next" in the upper right to start Sending to your freshly imported group!

If you don't see the group yet you can press import from the menu of Hit Em Up and ensure that you're signed into iCloud on your device!

Tap to Open Hit Em Up and Start Sending

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Β· 2 min read
Zakery Kline

Too Much Joy Mass Text

Text messages can seem cold and distant when you end sentences with hard punctuation. Or Warmmm And Bubbbbbly when you use expressive language and emotional affect through spelling distortions and emojis! πŸ€— But how much happiness should you convey in your messages and what are the effects of over doing the excitement?