Oct 6, 2017 | Humanitarian Agencies, Market Research, SMS
Email is one of the most basic online communication tool that most companies use to reach out to employees and customers across the globe with over 3.7 billion email users. However, according to 2016’s statistics on internet users, only 40% of the world’s population...
Aug 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ever wonder what the groups dropdown in your reports summary page does? I remember there was a time when someone asked me about why it’s there. Every button, dropdown, tab, column, and toggle on the engageSPARK platform certainly has its function and the groups...
Jul 26, 2017 | Businesses, SMS, Surveys
At engageSPARK, we are often asked for advice on how to write effective messages for SMS marketing, which prompted us to write this article about using SMS templates for marketing. While SMS marketing benefits from a very high opening rate (much higher than Email...
May 22, 2017 | IVR (interactive Voice Response), SMS, Surveys
At engageSPARK, we’re often asked the question: which is more effective – IVR or SMS? So we decided to write an article comparing the benefits of IVR (or automated phone calls) versus SMS campaigns. IVR (interactive voice response) is a technology that allows...
May 21, 2017 | Businesses, engageSPARK Platform, Technology, Uncategorized
How do you balance speed of delivery and quality in your software development process? Add elimination of waste to the mix and you’ll never get bored. To find the right balance is about asking the right questions, asking them often, and experimenting. Inspired...
Mar 25, 2017 | Businesses, SMS, Technology, Uncategorized
SMS shortcodes for texting are toll-free phone numbers (also referred to as reverse-billed numbers) that allow your customers or clients to send you text messages at no cost to them. In other words, when a person sends an SMS to your shortcode, no load is...
Feb 7, 2017 | Businesses, Technology, Uncategorized
Are you having problems in finding specific test cases among the hundreds, or perhaps thousands of test cases in your test suites? Are you having difficulty remembering the last time when a specific test passed or failed? Perhaps you’ve tried using tools such as...
