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Black Friday – sales, sales and more sales! How best to be heard

Black Friday has become a sale, offer and discount phenomenon. It has taken the retail industry by storm in America and travelled quickly over to the UK with some truly incredible results. Cast your mind back a year ago and on…

Goodbye loyalty cards… Hello loyalty SMS

Recently we have seen a lot of talk about brands launching new loyalty schemes and ones which seem to signal the end for the old plastic loyalty card – but what do we put in its place? To begin with, loyalty…

How to engage and hook your customers

Before we answer that question we need to address another… Why do customers engage? Two simple answers… Because they were made to feel special and not like just another number, treated on a personal level placing them as the centre of…

We wish you all a very Merry October

Yes you guessed it, this post does have some connections to Christmas but don’t worry. Throughout this post we’ll try to refrain from referring to the Merry word. Much like you we’re sure, it’s way too early to break out the…

ekmPowershop ecommerce platform partners with our powerful SMS

ekmPowershop is one of the UK’s leading ecommerce platforms – with years of experience in the ecommerce world, it seems like the perfect natural partnership. Their fantastic ecommerce solution is packed full of great website themes and helpful tools to help…

Ecommerce retail marketing: SMS vs Email the facts

Some years ago it would’ve paid to hedge your bets on how the traditional brick-and-mortar shops were going to get hit by the introduction of the internet and ecommerce shopping, as retail and tech experts made their predictions. Oh how they…

SMS is too cool for school

School may be out but it’s time to step up your marketing game. In the midst of the Summer holidays, parents are already looking for ways to keep the kids entertained. Once the summer vacations, weekday trips and Summer club antics…

Turn website traffic into customers with SMS sign up fields

Loyalty and reward schemes within mobile marketing are becoming more and more popular, but why? Businesses prefer them due to their high response rates and low cost while consumers choose to opt into them to reduce any chances of missing a…

Marketing – This time it’s personal

We’ve all had those moments, leaving our mobile phones unattended in a room with our other halves or friends – fearing the worst that they’ve looked through it while we’ve been away. But not because we’ve got something to hide, because…