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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 expensive,...
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...
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...
Is Your Startup Making Data Driven Decisions
As our startup has been growing rapidly over the last few years we have consistently been faced with having to make difficult decisions on various aspects of the business such as markets for expansion, marketing spend, staff performance, key customer segments etc....
Leveraging SMS Marketing To Boost Your Online Business In The Period Of Social Distancing
The corona pandemic has dramatically shifted the strategies and operations of almost all retailers both locally here in Tanzania and around the world. This is particularly true for brick and mortar retailers who have had to close their stores because they were deemed...
Starting A Bulk SMS Business As A Reseller
Are you planning to start an online business? Well, why not start a bulk SMS reseller business. You can join the Beem reseller program and start your own profitable business of buying and selling bulk SMS while working from home and earning a consistent income. Who Is...
Working Remotely During COVID-19: Tips On How To Work Productively
Working remotely is not a new concept. In fact, it has taken center stage for the last couple of weeks across many countries since the COVID-19 outbreak officially reached the pandemic status. Many companies, organizations and non-essential businesses have made...
Communicating Through SMS During The Corona Crisis
In times of crisis such as the current corona virus pandemic, communicating thoroughly and effectively becomes very critical. The corona crisis has forced many business sectors and organizations to find alternative ways to communicate with employees, clients,...
A Day in the Life of a Technical Support Agent at Beem
We are continuing with our "A Day in The Life" series that showcases what its like to work in various roles at Beem. In this article we'll be featuring Hashim Karim, one of our Technical Support Agent. Read on as he talks us through his typical working day, the best...
Building a Foundation for the Next Decade
In my last story, I spoke in depth about the pace of technology change in the communication sphere, the prevailing trends as well as some predictions of what is to come over the next decade. To prepare for the changes on the horizon, at Beem, we’ve been working on...
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