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Best times to send SMS marketing messages and email

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

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SMS Marketing What Is a Customer Preference Center? Spoiler Alert: It’s More Than Just Communication Preferences

The AI marketing trends that will shape 2024

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SMS Marketing 7 Boxing Day Marketing Ideas to Boost Your End-of-Year Sales

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AI & Automation AI in Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your Strategy

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Amanda Kwasniewicz, VP of Customer Experience at Love Wellness

Success Stories Love Wellness’ VP of Customer Experience Shares Her Blueprint for an Exceptional CX Culture

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SMS Marketing Why You Should Combine Your SMS and Email Marketing on the Right Platform

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FEATURED

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

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Product News Attentive Product Spotlight: New AI Tools, Email Enhancements, and Core SMS Features

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Email Marketing Email Marketing Segmentation: Best Practices to Power Personalization

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

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Email Marketing Email Marketing Deliverability—Best Practices to Reach the Primary Inbox

Problem Hunting by Brian Long, Founder and Executive Chairman of Attentive

Trends and Insights This Book for Founders Is a Practical Guide for Both Boom and Bust Times

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Trends and Insights 3 Holiday Marketing Trends That Will Shape the 2023 Season

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Success Stories Our Place Uses SMS as a Key Ingredient in Their Retention Strategy

Company Thread World Tour 2023: Highlights from Across the Globe

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Trends and Insights 600 US Consumers Told Us Their Shopping Plans for Amazon Prime Day. Here's What You Need to Know.

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SMS Marketing 5 Halloween Marketing Campaigns That Are Scary Good

SMS Marketing 9 Marketing Agency Leaders Reveal Their Top Tips for BFCM

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Email Marketing 11 Creative Email Marketing Examples to Inspire Your Own Program

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SMS Marketing Your BFCM Marketing Toolkit for Planning and Tracking Your Holiday Strategy

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Marketing Automation Get Ready for BFCM: Automation Strategies That Increase Conversions

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

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SMS Marketing 5 Prime Day Marketing Ideas to Try (Even If You Don’t Have an Amazon Store)

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SMS Marketing Black Friday Marketing Resources We’ve Bookmarked for Holiday 2023

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SMS Marketing When is the Best Time to Send SMS Marketing and Email During BFCM?

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SMS Marketing [GUIDE] Balancing Your Omnichannel Marketing Strategy During Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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SMS Marketing [GUIDE] Building Customer Loyalty Throughout an Extended BFCM Shopping Season

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SMS Marketing 7 Holiday Marketing Campaigns to Drive Revenue During BFCM

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AI & Automation How Email and SMS Marketers Are Actually Using AI (With Examples)

How marketers are planning for BFCM

Trends and Insights How 6 Marketers Are Prepping for the 2023 Holiday Season

Success Stories For Knix, Delivering the Best Possible Customer Experience Starts With SMS

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Product News A Partner-Empowered Future: Our Vision for Technology Partners and Agencies

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Email Marketing [Guide] Migrating Your Email Marketing Platform

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Product News Attentive Product Spotlight: Date Collection, Custom Attributes, and More

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SMS Marketing 5 Labor Day Marketing Ideas to Boost Your End-of-Summer Revenue

Success Stories Catbird’s Retention Strategy Is All About Helping Customers Build a Jewelry Collection Over Time

How marketers are using Threads

Trends and Insights Will Threads Stick Around? Exploring the Opportunities for Marketers

Consumers are comfortable with AI-generated SMS copy and images

AI & Automation Are Consumers Wary of AI-Powered Conversations? Survey Says No.

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SMS Marketing 8 Back-to-School Marketing Ideas to Score More Engagement and Revenue

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

Consumers are more likely to engage with MMS compared to SMS

Trends and Insights Picture Perfect: 73% of Consumers Agree MMS Creates a Better Brand Experience

How to decrease SMS opt-outs

SMS Marketing High SMS Opt-Out Rate? Here Are 6 Tips to Improve It

Success Stories How Neiman Marcus Is Transforming the Luxury Shopping Experience

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SMS Marketing 9 Advanced Audience Segments You Should Build (and Why)

Career advice from Zipporah Allen, Strava's CBO

Success Stories From Fast Food to Fitness: Strava’s Chief Business Officer on Risks, Pivots, and Leadership

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SMS Marketing 4th of July Marketing Ideas to Spark Engagement and Revenue

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AI & Automation The More You Know: How We’re Making Marketers’ Lives Easier with AI-Generated Campaigns That Increase ROI

7 strategies for increasing SMS conversion rates

SMS Marketing 7 Ways to Increase Your SMS Conversion Rates

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

Success Stories LIVELY’s Engagement and Retention Strategy Is Anything But One-Size-Fits-All

What Succession can teach marketers

Trends and Insights What Marketers Can Learn from Succession’s Writers

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Product News Introducing: Custom Reporting Tools and Home Dashboard Updates

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

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Company Our Next Chapter: Announcing Amit Jhawar as Attentive’s New CEO

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

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Product News New in Attentive AI™: Smart Product Recommendations and More

Advanced marketing automation strategies for SMS

Marketing Automation Maximize Your Budget & Bandwidth with These 3 Advanced Automation Strategies

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Product News Attentive Product Spotlight: New AI Features, Email Integrations, and More

Memorial Day Text Message Ideas

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

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

Attentive AI™ FAQ

AI & Automation The More You Know: Questions About Attentive AI Answered by One of the Engineers Who Built It

SMS Glossary

SMS Marketing SMS Glossary: 48 Most Common SMS Marketing Terms

Mother's Day Text Message Ideas

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

Attentive Concierge™ powered by Attentive AI™

Product News Announcing the Next Evolution of Concierge, Powered by Attentive AI™

The top conversations consumers want to have with via text messaging

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

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SMS Marketing 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 Marketing 10 Resources for Getting Started With SMS

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SMS Marketing The Ultimate 4-Step SMS Campaign Checklist

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Success Stories How Solo Stove Made Starting a Fire Accessible to All

Build intelligent email and SMS journeys with Attentive Email

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

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AI & Automation 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

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

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

Product News Meet Attentive AI™: Automated and Integrated Artificial Intelligence

2023 State of Conversational Commerce Report

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

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SMS Marketing Food & Beverage 2023 Text Messaging Calendar

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SMS Marketing 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

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

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

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

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Product News Attentive Product Spotlight: Custom Reporting, Attentive Email, and Magic Composer

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

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

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

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

The SMS marketing metrics you need to measure

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

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

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SMS Marketing SMS Segmentation: Creating Your Strategy

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

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SMS Marketing SMS Segmentation: Best Practices to Power Personalization

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

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

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

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

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SMS Marketing The 2023 Canada Text Message Marketing Calendar

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SMS Marketing Texts We Love: New Year’s Edition

2023 marketing trends

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

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SMS Marketing The Marketer's Guide to SMS Compliance

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SMS Marketing 5 Reasons Brands Should Invest in Text Messaging

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

Looking back on our 2022 marketing predictions

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

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SMS Marketing Conversational Strategies to Add to Your SMS Program

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

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Company Meet Our Chief Technology Officer, Todd Berman

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

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

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

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