Email has historically been the primary owned-channel for retail. This is because brands who did attempt Text years ago didn’t have the ubiquity of internet enabled smartphones. They were doomed to fail on the channel. However, the cautionary tale of Text marketing is a thing of the past as user behavior has officially caught up. This doesn’t mean, though, that all Text programs are created equally. The winning retailers have built Text strategies that drive incremental revenue for their company without cannibalizing their email efforts—not something easily done on your own.
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