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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lee: Bite Size SMS campaigns average a 6% reply rate
“So a good median percentage that you can gauge is six percent, which if you compare it to social media, it's a lot higher or any ads, Google ads, it's like more than 10 times higher.”
Jess Lee Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 7:23 744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
Disclosure
Lee: Bite Size charges 25 cents per text message
“We charge 25 cent per text, which is significantly Higher than if you were just sending a mass text.”
Jess Lee Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 5:41 744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
Disclosure
Lee: Phone data costs Bite Size up to 16 cents per text
“Data can be, you know, anywhere up to 16 cents.”
Jess Lee Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 6:42 744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
Disclosure
Lee: Bite Size ran over 140 campaigns in six months
“We've helped over a 140 campaigns over the last six months.”
Jess Lee Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 8:14 744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lee: Bite Size is currently profitable and not raising outside capital
“No more after that because we're profitable currently.”
Jess Lee Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 8:46 744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lee: Bite Size charges between $10,000 and $100,000 per campaign
“So really so I need to go back, but to give you a good idea, each campaign is 10 K to a hundred K.”
Jess Lee Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 10:13 744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lee: Bite Size made $300,000 in 2016 from pilot campaigns
“In 2016, we got about 300 K from six months of pilots.”
Jess Lee Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 13:15 744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
Assertion Supported
Lee: TCPA prohibits algorithmic number generation and automated texts
“Under the FCC, there's a law called Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and with that, you can't randomly generate numbers with algorithms. Or send texts without human intervention.”
Jess Lee Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 3:37 744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
Disclosure
Lee: Bite Size requires human intervention for every outbound marketing text
“What we do is we help clients send those texts with human intervention, many, many human interventions, so that they are all touched by human before it's sent out.”
Jess Lee Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 3:54 744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lee: Bite Size generated just $250 in revenue in 2013
“Like, 250 dollars.”
Jess Lee Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 13:07 744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
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