Welcome to EDS SMS Marketing Solutions in Doha, Qatar

Unlock the Power of SMS Marketing with EDS

At EDS, we are your trusted partner for SMS marketing services in Doha, Qatar. Our cutting-edge solutions and deep industry knowledge help businesses harness the potential of SMS marketing to reach their target audience effectively.

About Us:

About EDS: Your SMS Marketing Experts in Doha

Founded in [Year], EDS is a leading provider of SMS marketing services in Doha, Qatar. With a team of dedicated professionals and a commitment to excellence, we’ve been at the forefront of delivering innovative SMS marketing solutions to businesses of all sizes.

Our Services:

SMS Marketing Services Tailored for Success

  • Bulk SMS Campaigns: Reach thousands of potential customers instantly with our powerful bulk SMS campaigns.
  • Personalized Messaging: Deliver customized messages that resonate with your audience.
  • Campaign Analytics: Measure the impact of your SMS marketing efforts with real-time analytics.
  • Compliance and Legal Support: We ensure your campaigns adhere to Qatari regulations.

Why Choose EDS:

Choose EDS for Your SMS Marketing Needs in Doha

  • Local Expertise: We understand the Doha market intricacies and regulations.
  • Data Security: Your customer data is safe and handled with the utmost care.
  • Exceptional Support: Our team is available to assist you every step of the way.
  • Proven Results: We have a track record of driving tangible results for our clients.

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sms marketing qatarQatar officially the State of Qatar is a country located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Whether the sovereign state should be regarded as a constitutional monarchy or an absolute monarchy is disputed. Its sole land border is with neighboring Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) monarchy Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf. The Gulf of Bahrain, an inlet of the Persian Gulf, separates Qatar from the nearby Bahrain.


In early 2017, Qatar’s total population was 2.6 million: 313,000 Qatari citizens and 2.3 million expatriates. Islam is the official religion of Qatar. The country has the highest per capita income in the world. Qatar is classified by the UN as a country of very high human development and is widely regarded as the most advanced Arab state for human development. Qatar is a high-income economy, backed by the world’s third-largest natural gas reserves and oil reserves.

ECONOMY

Before the discovery of oil, the economy of the Qatari region focused on fishing and pearl hunting. A report prepared by local governors of Ottoman Empire in 1892 states that total income from pearl hunting in 1892 is 2,450,000 kran. After the introduction of the Japanese cultured pearl onto the world market in the 1920s and 1930s, Qatar’s pearling industry crashed. Oil was discovered in Qatar in 1940, in Dukhan Field.The discovery transformed the state’s economy. Now, the country has a high standard of living for its legal citizens. With no income tax, Qatar (along with Bahrain) is one of the countries with the lowest tax rates in the world. The unemployment rate in June 2013 was 0.1%. Corporate law mandates that Qatari nationals must hold 51% of any venture in the Emirate.

As of 2016, Qatar has the fourth highest GDP per capita in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund. It relies heavily on foreign labor to grow its economy, to the extent that migrant workers compose 86% of the population and 94% of the workforce. Qatar has been criticized by the International Trade Union Confederation. The economic growth of Qatar has been almost exclusively based on its petroleum and natural gas industries, which began in 1940. Qatar is the leading exporter of liquefied natural gas. In 2012, it was estimated that Qatar would invest over $120 billion in the energy sector in the next ten years. The country was a member state of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), having joined in 1961, and having left in January 2019.

In 2012, Qatar retained its title of richest country in the world (according to per capita income) for the third time in a row, having first overtaken Luxembourg in 2010. According to the study published by the Washington-based Institute of International Finance, Qatar’s per capita GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) was $106,000 (QR387,000) in 2012, helping the country retain its ranking as the world’s wealthiest nation. Luxembourg came a distant second with nearly $80,000 and Singapore third with per capita income of about $61,000. The research put Qatar’s GDP at $182bn in 2012 and said it had climbed to an all-time high due to soaring gas exports and high oil prices. Its population stood at 1.8 million in 2012. The same study published that Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), with assets of $115bn, was ranked 12th among the richest sovereign wealth funds in the world.

DEMOGRAPHICS

The number of people in Qatar fluctuates considerably depending on the season, since the country relies heavily on migrant labour. In early 2017, Qatar’s total population was 2.6 million, with non-Arab foreigners making up a vast majority of Qatar’s population. Only 313,000 of the population (12%) were Qatari citizens, while the remaining 2.3 million (88%) were expatriates.

The combined number of South Asians (from the countries of the Indian subcontinent including Sri Lanka) by themselves represent over 1.5 million people (60%) of Qatar’s population. Among these, Indians are the largest community, numbering 650,000 in 2017, followed by 350,000 Nepalis, 280,000 Bangladeshis, 145,000 Sri Lankans, and 125,000 Pakistanis. The contingent of expatriates which are not of South Asian origin represent around 28% of Qatar’s population, of which the largest group is 260,000 Filipinos and 200,000 Egyptians, plus many other nationalities (including nationals of other Arab countries, Europeans, etc.).

Qatar’s first demographic records date back to 1892, and were conducted by Ottoman governors in the region. Based on this census, which includes only the residents in cities, the total population in 1892 was 9,830. The 2010 census recorded the total population at 1,699,435. In January 2013, the Qatar Statistics Authority estimated the country’s population at 1,903,447, of which 1,405,164 were males and 498,283 females. At the time of the first census, held in 1970, the population was 111,133. The population has tripled in the decade to 2011, up from just over 600,000 people in 2001, leaving Qatari nationals as less than 15% of the total population. The influx of male labourers has skewed the gender balance, and women are now just one-quarter of the population.

Projections released by Qatar Statistical Authority indicates that the total population of Qatar could reach 2.8 million by 2020. Qatar’s National Development Strategy (2011–16) had estimated that the country’s population would reach 1.78m in 2013, 1.81m in 2014, 1.84m in 2015 and 1.86m in 2016 – the yearly growth rate being merely 2.1%. But the country’s population has soared to 1.83 million by the end of 2012, showing 7.5% growth over the previous year. Qatar’s total population hit a record high of 2.46 million in November 2015, an increase of 8.5% from the previous year, far exceeding official projections.
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SMS Marketing FAQ’s

Sure, marketers have been experimenting with it for months, sending one or two short messages. But few of you have fully integrated it into your email marketing strategy, even fewer into your overall marketing plan.

As with anything new, learning how this new channel fits into your cliché of marketing initiatives can be painstaking. However, by avoiding it, you could be missing out on building more powerful brand awareness, increasing the performance of your other channels, and driving new leads.

In fact, when most consumers spend an average of five hours a day on their mobile devices, we’d say you’re missing out BIG time.

To help you understand SMS marketing more fully, and use it to its fullest potential, we’ve put together these SMS marketing FAQs to explain the who, what and how of this channel.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) created rules that must be followed if you want to use SMS marketing:

You must state the frequency of your SMS messages. In other words, how often you’ll be sending these messages to people who have signed up for them.
You must provide a way to reach customer support, e.g. “Text HELP”
You must include a message about cellular providers, e.g. “Msg & Data rates may apply”
You must include a link to your Terms and Conditions
You must always let your subscribers know they can opt out of messages and provide a way to do so, e.g. “Text STOP to unsubscribe.”

The TRA incites harsh punishments for those who don’t follow the standards it’s set out for SMS marketing. We’re not talking a slap on the wrist – more like a slap with heavy fines.

The sender-id is the originating number (or alpha string) that appears on the recipient’s phone. A sender-id is a string of up to 11 characters. First 2 characters represents “AD” means Promotion, which followed by an hyphen(-). You can use remaining 8 characters of the sender-id. It could be your company name or brand name. For example, if your company name is BulkSMS then the sender-id can be like AD-BulkSM

Yes, technical support is available through email and phone. We have technical staff available 24 Hours a day. You can raise a support ticket to notify a problem with our tech support team.

It’s important to regularly maintain your contact list to ensure that you are not sending messages to invalid numbers. We provide you with real time delivery reports with details of message sent and their delivery status.

No, it is recommended to have the recipient’s consent to send messages to them. They should identify who is sending the message. You should provide a functional unsubscribe facility for the target recipients.

There can be various reasons for this.
• You might be sending the messages to a number listed in TRA registry.
• The mobile is in a not reachable place with low or no network signal.
• There may be a handset problem. Put your mobile SIM card in another handset and try.

Developer API (Application Programming Interface) is a medium which provides the options to request and execute the SMS functionalities. Our HTTP based API extends our sms functionalities by allowing you to integrate the sms features with your Web and Desktop applications

Frequency of messages should be no more than two to three times a month, especially as you’re building your list and nurturing trust with your subscribers on this channel. Don’t send the same message over and over again. If it’s the same offer, say it a different way.

Set your SMS marketing campaigns to send only during business hours of business days. This channel is still personal. Even though subscribers have explicitly opted in to receiving messages to you, they’re still going to be wary of this marketing channel. Don’t wear out your welcome; be respectful of subscribers’ time and attention.

The best topics to promote with your SMS messages include:

promotional – giveaways, discounts, special sales
surveys – ask your prospects or customer what they think
customer service – follow up with your customers with appointment times or to get feedback on service interactions
transactional – send receipts and reminders
event invitations – invite guests to your events with a short message

That’s a big no. At least at this point in the lifetime of SMS marketing, there’s no way to include images in your SMS messages. Less work for your creative team, but a little more work on the creative side for you.

Not many. This is no time to be verbose. Network providers limit SMS marketing messages to 160 characters in English and 70 Characters in Arabic message. You’ll have to get to the point while enticing your SMS subscriber to take action. We won’t lie – this is no easy feat. SMS marketing is a new channel, and as such, comes with new challenges. No doubt learning to write concisely AND persuasively will be a learning curve, but it’s a must if you want your SMS marketing to be a success.

SMS is a casual communication channel in our personal lives, so striking a more casual tone in your SMS marketing messages is appropriate. Striking too professional of a tone with SMS can come off sounding cold or standoffish. However, avoid swinging too far to the other side of the fence in being overly casual. Don’t use abbreviations or slang unless it’s a typical part of your already established branding.

You can ask existing subscribers to opt in for SMS marketing campaigns. Remember, you must gain explicit consent from them and record exactly how and when you received that consent. You can also gain new SMS subscribers along with new email subscribers by updating any website forms to include an option for SMS marketing. Again, make sure it is 100% clear what people are opting in to receive.

SMS isn’t just a powerful channel on its own. It increases the potency of an entire lifecycle marketing strategy when combined with other channels such a website and email marketing. Integrate your SMS messaging through marketing automation campaigns. When someone takes an action (or doesn’t take an action), you can set up a personalized SMS message to send to them to increase the likelihood of conversion.

You can choose to set up your SMS marketing through software services dedicated to this one channel. You can also set up your SMS marketing through many marketing automation services and email service providers who have now built SMS capabilities into their systems. We recommend the latter approach, as it supports an integrated lifecycle marketing approach that will ultimately make your entire marketing program a success.

When it’s all said and done, SMS isn’t a solution for every marketing challenge out there. SMS does have its advantages and definite downsides. These should probably be considered, depending on your use case, before settling on it.

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