How to End Installation Nightmares by Scheduling with Text Messages
One of our team members recently had carpet installed in her home. The new carpet is beautiful, but the installation experience was a nightmare. Her tale of woe included missed phone calls and lost emails while she was trying to schedule installation and a costly miscommunication on the day of installation. She had a really […]
SMS Tool For Call Centers Drives Customer Service Excellence
To meet the demands of today’s customers, many contact centers are investing in a SMS tool for call centers to balance operational excellence with service excellence. Conversational messaging is one technology that helps contact centers achieve that balance, while giving customers what they want. Customers want to be heard. But they also want to experience […]
5 Reasons a SMS Tool For Call Centers is Gaining Traction
When it comes to service, customers want results—and they want them fast. That’s why a SMS tool for call centers can make all the difference. Research from Marketing Strategies International found that 46% of consumers prefer texting for customer service over phone or email. For millennials, this percentage preferring text for customer to business communications […]
SMS for Customer Service: Why Your Customers Will Thank You
Though SMS is not a new technology, it’s experiencing a renaissance as the most used function on smartphones worldwide. The largest generation is the world—millennials—prefer it over any other form of communication for interacting with the brands they love. Using SMS for customer service can help you build better relationships, increase customer lifetime value, and […]
Why Call Centers Must Use a SMS Tool For Contact Centers
Consumers want to be served on the channels they use every day, not those that happen to be convenient for your business. Research conducted with contact centers conclude that they’re enabling messaging channels for customer service, but consumers say the reality just isn’t so. What’s interesting is, if a majority of organizations have enabled digital […]
SMS Tool For Call Centers to Reduce Customer Effort
Of consumers asked, 59% said they have higher expectations for customer service now than they had a year ago, according to the 2018 State of Global Customer Service Report. And when asked if the process of engaging with customer service to get questions answered is getting easier, only 39% said yes. Using a SMS tool […]
Deliver Fast Customer Service with SMS Messages
The timeframe expectations for customer response are shrinking. If your customer must wait endlessly to be heard on calls and then has to repeatedly explain the issue to different service agents every time he or she calls, they lose confidence in you. That’s when they look for an alternative. SMS messages offer the fastest time-to-response […]
Use Surveys via Text Messaging to Gain Customer Insights
Sending your customers surveys via text messaging gives you a natural, convenient way to learn more about your customers’ experiences with your service organization, your product offerings and your company in general. Messaging is an intuitive conversational medium your customers use every day. When you ask your customers about their experiences, their perceptions, and their […]
Why Businesses Need a Message-Enabled Loyalty Program
A successful loyalty program is one that makes the overall brand experience better—as perceived by your customers. There’s significant opportunity to drive business growth, retention and customer satisfaction through loyalty programs as only 22% of Members[1] felt their experience was better than non-Member customers. Only 29% felt the program made their experience with the brand […]