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The DMly Journal

Ideas for growing a
local business by message.

Playbooks, templates and stories on WhatsApp automation, bookings, reviews and everything in between.

Local Business

How to Connect Google Calendar to Your Booking System

Two switches, five minutes, and one habit you have to change afterwards. Deleting an event from Google cancels the appointment,…

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DMly Team
Sep 10, 2026 · 18 min read
Messaging Strategy

Customer Segmentation by Spending, Activity and Interests

Include two tags and a customer needs both. Exclude two tags and one is enough to remove them. That asymmetry…

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DMly Team
Sep 10, 2026 · 24 min read
WhatsApp Marketing

WhatsApp Message Templates Explained: Marketing, Utility and Authentication

One dropdown with three options decides whether your message is approved, what it costs to send, and sometimes whether it…

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DMly Team
Sep 10, 2026 · 22 min read
WhatsApp Marketing

WhatsApp Marketing vs SMS Marketing: Which Converts Better for Local Businesses?

One of these channels will carry a message to somebody who has never heard of you. The other will refuse…

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DMly Team
Sep 9, 2026 · 31 min read
Social DM Automation

How to Build an Instagram AI Chatbot

Instagram hands you fewer tools than any other Meta channel: no templates, no delivery receipts, text-only quick replies. Build for…

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DMly Team
Sep 9, 2026 · 24 min read
Local Business

How to Automatically Ask Customers for Reviews After an Appointment

One small habit at the end of the day decides whether this works. It also quietly decides two other things…

DT
DMly Team
Sep 9, 2026 · 20 min read
Ecommerce & Revenue

How to Create Online Payment Links for Customers

Six providers work and nothing else does. Which one takes your customers' money was settled by a decision you made…

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DMly Team
Sep 8, 2026 · 21 min read
Ecommerce & Revenue

How to Recover Abandoned Shopify Carts With WhatsApp

The message is the easy part. Whether it can be sent at all comes down to a permission checkbox in…

DT
DMly Team
Sep 8, 2026 · 22 min read
Local Business

How to Reduce Appointment No-Shows With WhatsApp Automation

The lever most businesses reach for last is the one that works hardest. It also sounds, at first, like the…

DT
DMly Team
Sep 8, 2026 · 19 min read
Messaging Strategy

How to Automatically Create CRM Contacts From WhatsApp Messages

The contact is created the moment somebody messages you. What decides whether it is worth having is a handful of…

DT
DMly Team
Sep 7, 2026 · 33 min read
WhatsApp Setup & Fixes

How WhatsApp’s 24-Hour Messaging Window Works

One rule explains most of what confuses people about business messaging on WhatsApp: why some messages send freely, why others…

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DMly Team
Sep 7, 2026 · 22 min read
WhatsApp Setup & Fixes

How to Build a WhatsApp AI Receptionist for Your Business

Most small businesses have never had a receptionist. They have a phone that rings while someone is busy, and a…

DT
DMly Team
Sep 7, 2026 · 18 min read

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