Recently, ITNIO TECH, a trusted provider of international intelligent verification solutions, and Longham Group, a leading one-stop overseas marketing agency, announced a strategic partnership. As a provider of reliable international intelligent verification solutions, ITNIO TECH will collaborate with Longham Group to achieve resource sharing and complementary advantages, jointly creating integrated overseas marketing solutions. They aim to provide "hosted" services for DTC enterprises in overseas crowdfunding, online marketing and customer acquisition, private domain operations, and offline channel promotion, among other stages.
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As international competition intensifies and product homogenization becomes more severe, consumers are increasingly focused on brand value and improving user experience. More and more international brands are starting to pay attention to a comprehensive marketing matrix across all channels. According to the " Overseas Retail Report," consumer demand for seamless integration between online and offline shopping channels is growing, with nearly half (44%) of global consumers hoping to achieve omnichannel shopping.
The collaboration between ITNIO TECH and Longham Group is a significant move to meet consumer demands and adapt to the trends in consumer development. They are expected to assist DTC brands in deploying an effective "marketing combination" and accelerate their entry into international markets.
ITNIO TECH's core team has been deeply involved in the cloud communication industry for nearly 20 years, integrating multiple international mainstream communication channels such as international SMS, international voice, , global virtual numbers (DID), and cloud call centers. They can provide DTC enterprises with one-stop communication marketing services, delivering business information to every corner of the world.
Taking as an example, after companies integrate the official API interface provided by ITNIO TECH, they can integrate internal proprietary systems for account management, template management, number management, message sending and receiving, etc., to easily achieve communication automation and help companies create personalized marketing and customer service processes.
Longham Group is dedicated to providing comprehensive online and offline marketing solutions for Chinese brands in overseas markets. Its main business includes overseas crowdfunding, full-case operation of independent websites, and InnoStudio overseas offline curated product flash collection stores. With a global perspective and profound integrated marketing capabilities from both China and the United States, Longham Group has helped thousands of brands successfully go global, accumulating a total GMV of $180 million and creating more than 50 million-dollar crowdfunding projects. Its clients include well-known brands such as Anker, Xiaomi, and Ninebot.
Starting this year, Longham Group will also gradually open InnoStudio curated product flash collection stores in the most prosperous commercial districts in North America, such as Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and Manhattan in New York. This provides a new channel for Chinese brands to easily deploy physical retail and "pack and enter" overseas physical stores with low thresholds.
Currently, DTC brands have entered a new era of omnichannel marketing. ITNIO TECH will take this opportunity to join hands with Longham Group to fully leverage synergies and launch comprehensive and in-depth marketing cooperation in the field of brand globalization, contributing to the development and transformation of brand globalization marketing models and promoting the high-quality development of global DTC brands.
Rich Communication Services (RCS) is the next generation of Short Message Service (SMS). It is a form of text messaging that includes a host of interactive and enhanced features similar to those found in dedicated apps such as and iMessage. RCS is no gimmick: it opens up a range of genuinely valuable opportunities for businesses to communicate with customers more effectively.
Back to the basics
RCS is a communication protocol for cellphones and carriers. Basically, it is an improved successor to the way SMS allows text messaging between different devices running on different carrier networks. It works over cellular data networks.
For RCS to work, the protocol must be supported by the sender&#;s device, the recipient&#;s device, and the carrier.
How did RCS emerge?
RCS is a long-term project of the GSM Association, the main cellphone industry body. While some manufacturers began using the protocol in the early s, the current specification known as the Universal Profile first appeared in .
Google&#;s support has arguably been the key to RCS becoming better established. For example, the default Messages app on Android handsets, which handles SMS messaging, supports RCS. Originally, this support was limited in practice as it relied partially on support from carriers that wasn&#;t always in place.
In , Google switched its approach so that its servers handled the RCS element of messages sent through the app. That prompted major carriers in the United States to work together on interoperability. In principle, most Android users around the world now should either have access to RCS or can reasonably expect it will be available in the coming years.
Although Samsung handsets have their own default messaging app, they also support RCS. Apple devices, on the other hand, do not yet support RCS although their iMessage app has many similar features.
Key features of RCS
RCS removes many of the restrictions of SMS. It has no limit on message size, allows full multimedia integration, makes group chats possible, and supports read receipts. It also shows typing bubbles making the experience closer to a live chat than SMS&#;s exchange of messages.
Business opportunities
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With many new or improved technologies, businesses must look through the capabilities and try to figure out a way to use them. This isn&#;t the case with RCS &#; many of its features are solutions to existing problems and requirements that businesses have for serving customers.
Many businesses already offer chat and support services to customers through &#;rich&#; messaging applications such as because of the benefits they have over SMS. The big drawback is that this relies on customers already having the app in question or being willing to install it simply to communicate with a business. Using RCS dramatically increases the potential audience because almost every customer will not only have a compatible messaging app, but already be familiar and comfortable with it, regardless of how tech-savvy they are.
Some of the features in RCS include:
a) Location
RCS supports location sharing, which can benefit businesses in both directions. It becomes easier to share details such as nearby branches or events. It also makes it simpler for customers to provide accurate location details, particularly when away from home &#; for example, when arranging to hire a private vehicle.
b) Read receipts
Businesses will know exactly which messages have been received and read. This could have legal benefits in proving somebody received a demand or instruction. It could also make it easier to track the success of marketing messages, both in terms of measuring what proportion of messages are read and establishing an accurate baseline then to measure response rates.
c) Multimedia
Support of audio, video, and images means RCS is valuable for customer support. For example, a utility customer can send a photograph of a supply meter&#;s serial number and usage reading without the risk of typing errors. Businesses can send images of staff who will be visiting a vulnerable customer&#;s home, building trust.
d) Sender verification
RCS allows bodies such as cellphone carriers to act as a verification authority with the ability to check a business&#;s identity. They can then issue a verification mark such as a check mark that will appear beside the name and any logo of the business when it uses RCS. This not only builds trust for legitimate businesses, but reduces the risk of scammers defrauding potential customers.
e) Payments
As RCS supports web links, it already makes it possible to replicate the payment opportunities of : that is, by including a link to a secure online payment portal, potentially with some pre-filled details about the purchase.
The GSMA is working on long-term solutions to securely build payment facilities directly into the RCS protocol itself. Naturally, this will require both technological capabilities and credibility among potential users before it can become viable.
Conclusion
RCS is no gimmick. It turns text messaging into a powerful tool for businesses to better serve customers. The widespread availability on Android devices will make it part of everyday use for billions of people. It will reach those users unable or unwilling to install dedicated third-party messaging apps.
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