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The Benefits of Using SMS online

The Startup Magazine

Using SMS communication is ideal for marketing, especially since it has an incredibly high open rate, robust response rate, and fantastic reach. But did you know using SMS isn’t restricted exclusively to smartphone and text messaging? You can use SMS online as well. Here are a few benefits of using SMS online.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? Often this ties to marketing support. For example, you might want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive.

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

Apps popularly started out as a means for communication (call, SMS), which then evolved to a platform for content consumption in the early stages of data (news, MMS and YouTube), and finally to what we now define as demand services (food delivery, transport and e-commerce). .

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Manage And Schedule Appointments With TimeCenter

YoungUpstarts

We previously looked at YourAM , a web-based application that automatically organize and manage business appointments in real time via the web and SMS, designed specially for small service-focused businesses that need to handle appointments for groups of people.

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[The Philippines] Harnessing Apps To Tackle Traffic

YoungUpstarts

Sakay.ph , a web- and SMS-based app that gives commuters printable transit directions for. Rklamo , an app that provides a tipping mechanism via SMS for PUV drivers with good behavior, received the Voter’s Choice award.

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Implementing Social Media’s Secret Weapon

Feld Thoughts

Every web app sends transactional email – rather than build all the code yourself, just let SendGrid to it. While mobile phones used to only really work effectively with SMS, you now have SMS, email, and push notifications. So we invested in Urban Airship who does for push notifications what SendGrid does for email.

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

The Next Web

All it took was a quick Web search to help me figure it out. With nearly all phones equipped with SMS capabilities, and with consumers reading virtually every text within minutes after receipt, why is it that businesses still choose to forego this channel and rely solely on mobile optimized websites and native applications?

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