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Why P2P Texting Should Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy in 2021

Social Media Strategies Summit

SMS Marketing is One of the Fastest Growing Channels. We also know consumers are spending more time on their devices: over half of web traffic comes from mobile – a trend that’s been on the rise since 2015 – and this trend is projected to increase 25% by 2025. Screentime 2015-present. Source: Smart Insights.

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Global Investors Tune in As Live Video in Ecommerce Takes Off 

The Realtime Report

The technology is state-of-the-art, infinitely scalable and contains a proprietary layer on top of video using text, chat (WhatsApp and SMS) and voice to make the entire shopping experience human-like.

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16 unexpected ways to use WhatsApp for business

Sprout Social

Gartner predicts that by 2025, 40% of customer service will go from a major organizational expense to a significant profit driver as direct messaging streamlines sales pipelines. Mukuru , one of the largest money transfer providers in Africa, realized more than $1 million in reduced SMS costs after implementing customer service via WhatsApp.

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The Beginner’s Guide to SMS Marketing: Everything You Need to Know

Hootsuite

SMS marketing can be an effective complement to social marketing, allowing you to reach customers—and potential customers—in real-time with targeted and effective messaging. Let’s look at what SMS marketing is and how you can incorporate it into your marketing strategy. What is SMS marketing? What is SMS customer service?

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The complete guide to chatbots for marketing

Sprout Social

Chatbots typically operate within SMS text, website chat windows and social messaging services—like Messenger, Twitter, Whatsapp and Instagram Direct—to receive and respond to messages. billion by 2025. Some can be entertaining, like Cleverbot , which was built to respond to prompts like a human would in normal conversation.

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9 of the Most Popular Messaging Apps in 2023

Hootsuite

Unlike SMS and text messages, you are connected via the internet, not through phone reception. billion people worldwide will be using messaging apps in 2025 — WhatsApp alone already has more than two billion of those active users. What are social messaging apps? Many include video chat. A predicted 3.51