Ilaria Carofiglio

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April 11, 2024

How to get started with WhatsApp Marketing

Ilaria Carofiglio of TextYess gives us her top tips for how businesses can get started with WhatsApp

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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