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Pan-African Mobile Technology Company Bongo Live! Rebrands to Beem
Beem, one of Africa’s largest enterprise communication providers, has rebranded from the name Bongo Live!. Marking their 10 year anniversary, the company has changed its name to better serve their international audience, with a more aggressive expansion...
Bongo Live Rebranding: What’s Changing and What’s Not
As you already know, we are rebranding and changing our name from Bongo Live. Over the next few weeks things will begin looking a little different. That means the way we look will change. Our logo, colors, social media and website will change too, certainly a more...
We are rebranding
When Bongo Live started in 2010, the goal was to empower business through technology. We are proud to say that 10 years later, we are still dedicated to this. So why are we rebranding? Our current name, Bongo Live is reminiscent of the favourite music of Tanzania, the...
5 Ways to use Bulk SMS during Holiday Season
Holidays are some of the busiest events of the year for retailers. As a retailer, a holiday is your chance to make up for lost revenue and to grow your customer base. Bulk SMS is a great way to let shoppers know about your deals and promotions directly on their mobile...
Running an Airtime Marketing Campaign
Mobile Airtime Campaigns are ideal when a business' objective is to create awareness and drive product sales. In an Airtime campaign the brand incentivizes individuals to buy a product or service to participate in a campaign. Customers are rewarded with airtime when...
Mobile Airtime for Agencies and Marketers
Is it possible to pay people for a few minutes of their undivided attention, rather than trying to compete for their attention via more expensive means such as billboards, TV ads, and radio? The answer is Yes. Bongo Live has made it possible to give customers rewards...
Protect yourself from being sued for sms spamming
Can your business afford a lawsuit for sending out too many or irrelevant SMS Messages? Probably not. So, how do you determine how many marketing messages you can send to customers without pissing them off? Sometimes it's tricky to know, you don't want to send out too...
How Much Time Did You Spend on Your Apps Design?
Its your startup’s first minimum viable product (MVP) and you just barely managed to get the product online within your scrappy budget. Spending time and money on a slick user interface (UI) design wasn’t the top priority, a template theme UI did the job. This is the...
Leveraging on SMS to Reach Millenials
Millenials also known as generation Y or the net generation were born in the digital age. To them, the digital revolution does not represent disruption. It represents the norm and, to a significant degree, their generation’s opportunity. As Millennials develop more...
Seamless Southern Africa 2020 at a glance
We were honoured to attend the Virtual Seamless Southern Africa Conference in August, the first fully digital payments event. The virtual event took place in two days where we got insights from banking, payments and commerce leaders across a series of live...
How to Effectively Communicate for Your School
Schools and educational institutions have to grapple with sending vital information to hundreds if not thousands of parents at once. Traditionally schools have used paper based flyers sent with students, emails and phone calls. Flyers can get lost and are...
9 Ways to Use Mobile Communication in Healthcare
Mobile communication offers various stakeholders such as hospitals, pharmacies, clinics and Non-government organizations (NGO’s) and government agencies a quick and effective way to reach out to patients and citizens in order to communicate vital information in a...
The API Economy Is Here. Are You Prepared?
Leading enterprises and technology companies globally are capitalizing on their technology asset, their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). to offer more value, retain customers, innovate, build partnerships and much more. Is your business prepared for this new...
6 Reasons Why You Should Leverage Two Way SMS Messaging In Your Business
Two Way SMS messaging means you can send SMS messages and also receive back SMS from your audiences on the same number, resulting in a conversation between your business and consumer over text messages. Many brands, businesses and retail giants are adapting to two way...
Use Cases & Benefits Of SMS Messaging To The Education Sector
SMS is a powerful communication tool that can help the education sector to quickly convey important messages to students, parents, teachers or other staff employees. Currently, the mobile phone is the method of communication that accompanies us everywhere. It is the...
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