SMS Marketing is becoming quite important for most Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) brands. In fact, whenever I sign up for a brand’s product nowadays, I tend to see more SMS notifications than in the past.
SMS text messages to existing customers can have an open rate in excess of 80% and conversion rates north of 20%. When you think about the typical 1% conversion rate of social media ads or the low open rates of email marketing, you can understand why SMS is now perceived as a vital channel for repeat orders / abandon carts, etc.
The two leading platforms for SMS…
Over the past few months, I have by chance spoken to several people who left the world of entrepreneurship behind in order to fully commit to their craft.
Popular culture says that you must pursue entrepreneurship / start-up life in order to fully realize your dreams. However, three unrelated conversations have done a complete 180 on my opinion towards this topic.
CASE 1: The Lawyer
At a corporate dinner hosted by the telecom industry, I was seated next to a lawyer. In the course of the evening, the lawyer told me that she used to be a partner at a…
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This article was written by Jay Bhatti on 12/03/2001 for the Wharton School
It was still a few years before World War II. General Douglas MacArthur was a pretty popular man. Given his status, the executives at JP Morgan offered him a very high level position at the bank. One that would have made him very rich and amongst the most high-class people in New York City. His wife at the time (he later divorced her!) was constantly egging him on to take the job. She was, after all, very keen on being associated with the elite and having the…
New York City was known as Silicon Alley for a long time, now it’s just called New York. It was one of those rare cities that was able to break away from “Silicon” and create it’s own identity.
Austin Texas is an ideal place for many young companies
A great team is critical to the success of any startup
Jay Bhatti
Venture Capitalist Investing In Direct To Consumer
