This is what customers and prospects mean when they join your community by giving you permission to connect with them and send them stuff by email, text messaging, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

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Users send an invite by email or text message, and the invitee taps a button to enter a browser chat, which opens a browser-based chat room on their phone.

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Seriously, should I send this message by email instead?

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Don't send credit card information by email - it's not as safe as the secure connection between your browser and the store.

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Companies must not send "persistent and unwanted" communications by telephone, fax, mail or email.

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Then you seamlessly send out an email campaign to your past customers, which you filtered by analyzing them with the Zoho CRM, finding who were your best customers over the last year.

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