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Beem Africa alternatives in Tanzania

  • agnes2718
  • 2 days ago
  • 3 min read

Updated: 1 day ago

In Business today, especially in East Africa with countries like Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, SMS marketing still remains an extremely powerful tool that has aided customer engagement and lead generation for businesses.

Why is this so?

  • An alarming increase in mobile phone usage for both smart and non-smart phones.

  • Introduction of mobile money where users send and receive money making it very easy to transact and communicate

  • It is very simple and has a personal feel to it making it very effective.

  • It is most definitely instant, whether you're confirming an order, promoting a product, scheduling an appointment, you name it.

  • Very affordable and scales to over 1,000 phone users instantly in case of a campaign or promotional message.


  • Guarantees an uptime of 99.9%

  • The platform is very robust; it can support millions of transactions in SMS.

  • It supports many mobile networks across Africa and globally.

  • It has good APIs for sending and scheduling messages.

  • It also has a competitive tier-based pricing


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Let us then, dissect the best other options for SMS marketing in Tanzania, shall we?


A marketing automation tool that will scale your reach to over a million phone users instantly.

  • Bulk SMS sending – Send messages to millions of people instantly across the globe. Onboarding is very easy: Create an account, choose sender name, purchase credits and automate!

  • Personalization: Craft the short and carefully thought-out message you want to send to your clients depending on consumer behavior and purchasing history.

  • Segmentation: Choose your preferred industry, department, and target class of people to send to. Every business has an identity and target market. Which one is yours?

  • Messaging API: It enables you send a transactional / promotional SMS via API with absolute ease. They are sent instantly, reliably and precisely. Can be used for billing message, SMS analytics, real time tracking, trigger sign in, sign up or forgot password messages

  • Automated follow ups: It helps you automate and schedule SMSs for follow up. Do you want to follow up after 24hours, a day? a week? The choice is fully yours.

  • Analytics and reporting: To help measure effectiveness of your marketing campaign in regard to open rates, click-through rates and conversion rates. You get a real time report on what has been delivered, opened or even failed and give you an overall performance report.  



A telecommunication service provider with core focus of simplifying communication in Tanzania and across while offering a broad set of services and not just SMS.

  • Offers quality bulk SMS Marketing, transactions and notifications

  • They have bulk SMS for GSM networks through an API. This enables connectivity between clients and partners.

  • They have a reliable, dependable and cost-efficient mass messaging system.

  • Thay boast of a user-friendly interface for managing campaigns.

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This platform is prominent especially for its features:

  • Instant delivery reports to the numbers sent to.

  • They are directly connected to the top providers in the country thus good delivery rates.

  • Allows business owners to schedule their messages for a preferred time and date.

  • Enables you create templates for multiple similar messages

  • You are able to send text to speech voice calls instantly.

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They preach:

  • Affordability

  • Free customer sender ID

  • Versatile and customizable SMS API

  • Message Scheduling for a specific date and time

  • Self-service platform where you can send Bulk SMS within a few minutes of signing up

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How do these other players in the market compete with Beem Africa?

Features

Beem Africa

Alternatives

Bulk SMS Messaging

Wider reach of over a million contacts instantly

Most have that same wider reach but if you're looking for more than just SMS, Trembi Campaigns and Fast hub can get you there!

API / Developer tools

Great API tools

Fast hub, Trembi campaigns and NextSMS would fairly compete.

Scalability

For large volumes, Beem takes the advantage but may not favor small scale users.

Trembi Campaigns is favorable for both large and small scale, Fast hub

Affordability

Beem offers broader services like mobile money. It may fairly support large businesses

NextSMS, BulkSMS by Aptons and Trembi campaigns hold the flag on this one!

Beem Africa is a multi-channel platform combining payments with SMS among others. This gives it an advantage point for businesses looking for multi-channel support in line with Trembi campaigns whose channels also scale to WhatsApp and Email for customer engagement.


Nonetheless, bulkSMSby Aptons and NextSMS that specialize in that field may deliver most reliably at a very fair price especially for SMEs working within a budget.

So ultimately, business owners need to identify their need and prioritize leaning toward what their businesses require in order to achieve greater returns!

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