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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Are there other founders, business leaders, partners, or administrators? Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? Logging/Auditing What key operations need to be logged for auditing? What metrics will you need for future funding rounds or operations? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)?

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How to Increase eCommerce Sales — Growth Tips from Industry Experts

Up and Running

Known as omnichannel marketing, this strategy is built around creating a defined and consistent presence that translates between your website, email messages, SMS, social media, traditional and digital ads, and even in-store. To determine what you need from a CMS platform review your business plan and operating goals.

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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

The model was simple: we’d build a SMS texting tool that matched the food insecure with a free meal from a partner restaurant, all covered by donor dollars. We could build a technical backend that matched food insecure individuals with partner restaurants.

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Will NFC Technology Take Off In Singapore?

YoungUpstarts

The Finnish telecommunications giant, for example, partnered the country’s largest taxi operator ComfortDelGro to offer an NFC-enabled option to consumers to book a cab. By simply tapping their NFC-enabled phone at over 400 locations across Singapore, consumers can initiate a booking via SMS.

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Why old-school SMS is still a powerful mobile marketing tool

The Next Web

Coupled with numerous other corollary studies that show how people would rather give up brushing their teeth for a week than relinquish their mobile phone, or even prefer to spend the morning cuddling with their tablet rather than their partner, well, now we get a clearer picture on the impact of mobile in our lives. SMS as a gateway channel.

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30 Entrepreneurs Say What Changes They Expect in Their Business Due to Technology

Hearpreneur

Our focus on digital channels like email and SMS has made it simple for us to engage customers and prioritize their needs. Our business is entirely dependent on the whims of the stock market, so it has a major impact on the way that we’re able to operate. 15- Reduced operating costs. 17- Operating exclusively online.

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18 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Pivot They’re Making in Their Business in 2020

Hearpreneur

Here’s the pivot other entrepreneurs are making next year: #1- SMS marketing. What we realized is that SMS marketing campaigns are significantly more effective for us than email campaigns when qualifying the interest of new potential customers. They view our SMS communication and marketing at that point to be spammy.

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