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SMS Strategies 7 Father's Day Marketing Ideas to Level Up Your Strategy (and Drive Revenue)

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Trends and Insights 35+ E-Commerce Statistics Every Marketer Needs to Know

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SMS Strategies The More You Know: How We Built An AI Marketing Tool That Writes SMS Copy in Seconds

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We Surveyed 900 Brands Around the Globe and Analyzed 25 Billion Messages. Here’s What You Need to Know.

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SMS Strategies 7 Memorial Day Marketing Ideas to Boost Engagement and Sales

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SMS Strategies The Top 13 SMS Marketing Questions We Get (and Our Answers)

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SMS Strategies 7 Mother’s Day Campaigns to Inspire Your Marketing Strategy

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Trends and Insights 900,000 Conversations Show This Is What Consumers Want to Talk About With Brands

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SMS Strategies 9 Inspiring Ideas for Travel Brands to Drive More Revenue With SMS

What the "Barbie" movie marketing strategy can teach marketers about product launches

Trends and Insights 3 Things Brands Can Learn From the "Barbie" Movie Marketing Strategy

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SMS Strategies 10 Resources for Getting Started With SMS

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SMS Strategies The Ultimate 4-Step SMS Campaign Checklist

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Trends and Insights How Solo Stove Made Starting a Fire Accessible to All

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SMS Strategies Here's How You Can Build More Intelligent Email and SMS Journeys—All in One Place.

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Trends and Insights What Excites Marketers Most About the Possibilities of AI? We Asked 5 Brands at Shoptalk.

2023 SMS Marketing Benchmarks Report

Trends and Insights We Surveyed 900 Brands Around the Globe and Analyzed 25 Billion Messages. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Top AI platforms for scaling your SMS copywriting

SMS Strategies Top 6 AI Marketing Tools to Scale Your SMS Copywriting in 2023

2023 State of Conversational Commerce Report

Trends and Insights 8,000 Global Consumers Told Us What Keeps Them Coming Back

Introducing Attentive AI—automated and integrated AI features for SMS and email

Trends and Insights Meet Attentive AI™: Automated and Integrated Artificial Intelligence

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SMS Strategies Food & Beverage 2023 Text Messaging Calendar

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SMS Strategies 9 Spring Marketing Ideas to Grow Engagement and Revenue This Season [With Examples]

Trends and Insights [Webinar Takeaways] Harnessing Salesforce Data for a More Powerful SMS Program

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SMS Strategies Bulk SMS Marketing: Why It’s Not the Best Strategy for Your Brand (and What To Do Instead)

SMS Strategies Marketing Privacy and Data Glossary: The Most Common Terms

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SMS Strategies The Best Times to Send SMS Marketing and Email in 2023

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Trends and Insights BÉIS’ Director of Digital and E-Commerce Unpacks the Brand’s Customer-First Approach to Marketing

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SMS Strategies 10 A/B Testing Examples to Boost SMS Performance

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Trends and Insights Glassie’s Christian Sagert and Cameron Oehlers on Breaking Out and Getting In With Gen Z

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SMS Strategies 2023 Text Messaging Calendar: Important Dates & Actionable Tips

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SMS Strategies Your SMS Toolkit for Setting and Maximizing Your Strategy [With Templates]

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SMS Strategies SMS Marketing Strategies You Need to Drive Efficiency and Scale

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SMS Strategies The SMS Marketing Metrics You Need to Measure Your Program’s Success

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SMS Strategies 10 Valentine’s Day Marketing Ideas Your Shoppers Will Love [With Examples]

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SMS Strategies SMS Segmentation: Creating Your Strategy

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Trends and Insights Very Good Light’s Co-Founder and President Michael Engert on the Power of Blending Editorial and E-Commerce

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SMS Strategies SMS Segmentation: Best Practices to Power Personalization

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SMS Strategies SMS vs. MMS: What’s the Difference?

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SMS Strategies How to Choose an SMS Marketing Platform [Checklist + Examples]

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SMS Strategies The 2023 Australia Text Message Marketing Calendar [Key Dates + Tips]

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SMS Strategies 2023 UK Text Message Marketing Calendar [Downloadable PDF]

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SMS Strategies The 2023 Canada Text Message Marketing Calendar

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SMS Strategies Texts We Love: New Year’s Edition

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Trends and Insights These Are the Marketing Trends to Watch in 2023

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SMS Strategies The Marketer's Guide to SMS Compliance

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SMS Strategies 5 Reasons Brands Should Invest in Text Messaging

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SMS Strategies Text-to-Buy Strategies That Get Subscribers to Convert Faster (With Examples)

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Trends and Insights Looking Back on the Marketing Trends That Defined 2022

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SMS Strategies Conversational Strategies to Add to Your SMS Program

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SMS Strategies Texts We Love: Boxing Day Edition

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SMS Strategies During Cyber Week, Brands Drove $1.1B in SMS Revenue. Here are Some of the Texts They Sent

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News Meet Our Chief Technology Officer, Todd Berman

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SMS Strategies For goodr, the Fun Never Stops—Especially When it Comes to SMS

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SMS Strategies What is SMS Delivery, and How Can You Reach the Main Inbox?

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SMS Strategies Text Messages With Mobile Coupons Convert 4x Better. Here's How to Send Them.

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SMS Strategies Texts We Love: Black Friday & Cyber Monday Edition

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Trends and Insights The Most Personal, Luxury Shopping Experience is on Mobile

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SMS Strategies Your Guide for Using TikTok and SMS Together in 30, 60, or 90 Minutes

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SMS Strategies When is the Best Time to Text Subscribers During BFCM?

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SMS Strategies Top Questions Brands Have About Black Friday Cyber Monday (and our Answers)

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Trends and Insights How Taraji P. Henson Finds Opportunity Where No One Else Thinks to Look

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Trends and Insights How Bobbi Brown Built a Trailblazing Career by Avoiding Trends

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SMS Strategies Texts We Love: Halloween Edition

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News Thread 2022: The Highlights From Our Customer Conference

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Trends and Insights Conversations are the Thread Between Commerce and Convenience

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SMS Strategies [GUIDE] Building Customer Loyalty Throughout the Holiday Season

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Trends and Insights There’s a Major Shakeup In Advertising, and That’s Not a Bad Thing

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Trends and Insights What You Need to Know Before Texting Canadian Shoppers

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SMS Strategies [GUIDE] Why SMS is the Key to Hybrid Marketing This Holiday Season

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News Attentive Product Spotlight: Text-to-Buy with Shop Pay, International Offerings, and New Integrations

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SMS Strategies What is a Customer Data Platform (CDP), and How Does it Fit Into Your Marketing Stack?

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SMS Strategies How to Use Your Product Data to Send Better Text Messages

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SMS Strategies What is SMS Marketing? Definition, Benefits, and How to Get Started

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Trends and Insights The Most Important KPI to Focus on This Holiday Season, and More Tips From Our Expert Panel

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SMS Strategies Texts We Love: National Coffee Day Edition

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Trends and Insights 5 Trends That Will Shape Brands' Holiday Marketing in 2022

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SMS Strategies Campaigns vs. Triggered Messages, and How to Use Them in Your SMS Strategy

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News Attentive’s Compliance Features and Two-Tap Validated by Florida Federal Court

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Trends and Insights Shady Rays Founder & CEO Chris Ratterman on Building a Rare Brand Promise

Trends and Insights SMS Marketing by the Numbers: 30+ Texting Statistics You Need to Know

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Trends and Insights How Igloo Is Bringing Their DTC Strategy to Life With SMS

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SMS Strategies [GUIDE] Level Up Your Holiday E-Commerce Marketing Strategy With SMS

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SMS Strategies Texts We Love: Labor Day Edition

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Trends and Insights How to Make the Most Out of Your Web Traffic

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SMS Strategies Black Friday Marketing Resources We’ve Bookmarked for Holiday 2022

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SMS Strategies The Email Marketer’s Guide to SMS

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SMS Strategies 10 Examples of Non-Promotional Content to Engage Without Discounts

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SMS Strategies How to Plan Your New Product Launch With SMS

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News Most Browsers Never Buy. Text-to-Buy is Here to Change That.

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SMS Strategies 6 Types of Transactional SMS Messages to Send [With Templates]

SMS Strategies Holiday Planning Starts Now: How to Make Sure Your SMS Program Is Ready

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Trends and Insights How iOS 16 Could Impact Your SMS Marketing—and How to Prepare

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SMS Strategies Texts We Love: Back-to-School Edition

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SMS Strategies Texts We Love: Amazon Prime Day Edition

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Trends and Insights How Shop Pay Works, and the Benefits of Streamlining Mobile Payments

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News Attentive Product Spotlight: Concierge, Subscriber Profiles, and Magical Journeys

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SMS Strategies Texts We Love: 4th of July Edition

SMS Strategies SMS Marketing for Shopify Merchants: Everything You Need to Get Started

SMS Strategies The Powerful Ways Two-Way Text Messaging Builds Long-Term Customer Relationships

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