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Jul 14, 2022 • Marketing

How to Boost Fan Engagement - A Formula 1 Heineken Dutch Grand Prix Use Case

What’s so great about sports is that it connects all kinds of people. On the other hand, knowing no two sports fans are alike makes it challenging for sports organizations to address different fan segments. The organization behind the Formula 1 Heineken Dutch Grand Prix acknowledged this challenge and didn’t just pack the CM.com Circuit Zandvoort with their best fans. Instead, they’ve managed to enhance their fan experience right at their first racing event in 35 years. What’s more, they keep improving fan engagement year on year. Curious to know how? We’ll share five insider tips on how the Dutch Grand Prix enhanced its fan engagement before, during, and after the race.

Jul 05, 2022 • Messaging

How to Optimize Customer Relations via Instagram's Direct Messages

Building meaningful relationships with customers is something we all wish to do. A good customer relationship will increase brand loyalty and, in the long run, revenue. Instagram is an excellent place to build good customer relations due to its social nature.

Jul 03, 2022 • Payments

Smooth Payments for the Ultimate Dutch Grand Prix Experience

What is needed for the best Formula 1 Heineken Dutch Grand Prix experience? A good, fair race of course. Racers who are on top of their game? Good food and a nice cold beer? All the above are true. But there are also unseen factors that contribute to a great day at the Dutch Grand Prix. Payments during an event are seen as a given, a necessary evil perhaps, but they can truly make or break the experience for a visitor. Learn more about our Payments solutions at the Dutch Grand Prix and how they contributed to this awesome event.

Jun 28, 2022 • Customer Experience

Create Outstanding Customer Experiences With an Integrated Marketing & Service Solution

Consumers are nothing like the consumers of, say, ten years ago. They are more critical than ever before and have razor-sharp requirements. They expect speed, convenience, and reassurance right at their fingertips. Meeting these expectations is quite a challenge. Especially if the marketing and customer service departments operate independently, these departments need to work together seamlessly to serve today's consumers best.

Jun 27, 2022

The Benefits of A2P Messaging for Business

Amid the thicket of technology TLAs with 2 in them (B2B, P2P, 2FA,...) is one of the simplest A2P messaging, or “Application-to-Person”. You may not be familiar with the acronym, but it’s probably touched your life several times in the last week alone. Let’s see why A2P remains relevant as a messaging technology today.

Jun 24, 2022 • Trust Center

The Trust Center: a Clear Insight in Security, Privacy, Risk and Compliance Within CM.com

At CM.com, we enable organizations to connect to their customers and offer them a superior customer experience through our state-of-the-art cloud software. Transparency, quality, and trustworthiness are at the core of our products and services. This is why we are happy to announce the introduction of the Trust Center, a place where everyone can have insight into security, privacy, risk, and compliance within CM.com.

Jun 24, 2022 • SMS

Do You Want an Open Rate of 98% For Your Marketing Campaigns?

The success of any marketing campaign rides on your open rate. If no one opens your marketing content, then generating new business will become futile. There are a plethora of ways to influence open rates. That’s why so many A/B tests are performed on titles, images, colors, and content. But what channel is the best performer when it comes to getting eyes on your brand?

Jun 20, 2022 • Sign

Whitepaper: Innovative, Green and Efficient With Digital Signing

Innovation, sustainability, and efficiency are critical to gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage in the coming decades. Putting these issues at the center of your strategy can have a major positive impact on all of your organization's stakeholders.

Jun 19, 2022 • Instant Messaging

What Is Google’s Business Messages, Google's Mobile Conversational Channel?

Google’s Business Messages launched in 2017 and has been gaining traction over the past couple of years. With desktop emerging in 2021, it's a great solution for businesses and customers to interact directly from their Google My Business listing. We’ve broken down everything you need to know about Google's Business Messages to prepare you for this new addition to your omnichannel toolkit.

Jun 16, 2022 • Marketing

How to Get More Leads With SMS and Email Marketing

If you use SMS or email - or better yet, both - as marketing channels, you set up your message, send it out and analyze the results. But how do you improve that message for better results the next time you send out your SMS or Email?

Jun 15, 2022 • SMS

10 Applications of an SMS Gateway Within One Company

Login codes for access to the cloud, SMS reminders for meetings, birthday greetings, voting during MT-meetings. The ways to use SMS within one company using our SMS gateway are countless! Here, you’ll find examples of 10 frequently used SMS applications within a single company.

Jun 14, 2022 • Ticketing

10 Reasons Why Event Organizers Should Centralize Data

Many event organizers have gold in their hands, namely data. And they get it completely free from their ticket sales and other interactions with their visitors. The only problem with data is that unless you have an efficient way of handling it, you won't be able to take advantage of the insight it provides. The first step to using it is to recognize the benefits it will bring - so keep reading and find out how data can elevate your event.

Jun 13, 2022 • SMS

SMS Marketing Use Cases for B2B to Build Your Business

You’ve heard about SMS marketing campaigns for consumers, but what about SMS marketing for B2B? B2B text messaging is an effective way to communicate with your business clientele, enabling you to build relationships with decision-makers and offer information that helps them make buying decisions.

Jun 12, 2022 • Ticketing

Ticketing as First Touchpoint of the Formula 1 Heineken Dutch Grand Prix Fan Experience

Ticketing is the first touch point of the total experience for every event, so also for the Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix. That's why you want it to run smoothly so that everyone who can get a ticket looks forward to their visit. However, due to the immense popularity of Formula 1, there is a lot of interest in tickets for this event - more than there are actual tickets. Therefore, the Dutch Grand Prix was looking for an innovative ticketing system to help them manage ticket allocation smoothly, and CM.com offered the solution.

Jun 09, 2022 • SMS

Scale Your Business Communications With an SMS API Integration

When it comes to business messaging and message delivery - SMS works brilliantly. It’s the most accessible channel people still use every day, and it’s unlikely to go away any time soon. And that’s why SMS is used by most businesses, big and small, to communicate with their customers whenever they want and wherever they are.