For World Emoji Day, Hustle with Emojis 🎉

Today is World Emoji Day, and to celebrate, let’s incorporate more emojis in your Hustle texts!

Like many of us, I almost exclusively communicate through text messaging these days, and I almost never send a text to my friends without an emoji. My favorites are the laughing emoji 😂 because my friends are hilarious, the thinking face 🤔 to ask people to go deeper in the conversation, the plane emoji ✈️ because I’ve been traveling a lot, and the heart, ❤️ to show all my love! For me, emojis help me better express my hilarity, happiness, or just to put images to my activities.

Just like texts to our friends and families, you should incorporate emojis into your Hustle texts often.

In fact, we find that texts with emojis added feel more personal, and contacts are more likely to reply to them. Hustle allows admins to easily add emojis to scripts in the admin panel. When you’re creating your script, just click on the +emoji button and emoji away!

You can even change the skin tone of your emojis right in Hustle, just click on the skin tone selector below the emojis!

Here are three quick tips to incorporate emojis in your texts:

1. Put an emoji in your initial text: this means keeping it casual!

Whether you’re doing a big event build, asking recent alumni to donate to their alma mater, or checking in on your labor supporters, you can add an emoji to the ask. I usually work with political clients, so I like using the thinking emoji in when asking my contacts if they are supporting my candidate. The text might look like this:

2. Put an emoji in the yes and no response script, especially the no, because if you keep it personal, it might be a yes!

A great response script to a yes may include a thumbs up emoji, and for no, ask them if they can make it next time, and use a warm smiling face emoji. Whatever the response is, don’t leave them hanging and be friendly so they continue to engage with you.

3. Encourage your agents to send personal texts if they are in a good conversation, and text like they would any one else.

When I was Hustling, I personalized many of my texts messages after the initial text, because many people did not respond a yes or a no. For example, when I was at Planned Parenthood I invited people out to a cupcake social, but they didn’t say yes or no, they started telling me how unhappy they were with our state legislature! To which I sent them the face palm emoji. Just using my regular conversational voice put my contacts at ease.

It’s so easy and natural to incorporate more emojis in your Hustle texts, and it’ll be make it more fun! So for World Emoji Day, use more emojis!