Marketing
January 4, 2022
Ninety percent of consumers want to receive texts from their favorite brands. Image credit: Afterpay
By Katie Tamola
There is a gold mine marketing opportunity available for brands and retailers, and the source is in many consumers’ pockets: smartphones.
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