I've got a number but I haven't opted in customers or got anything moving
yet.


Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Josh are you using Twilio? I am thinking about integrating it with my
> powercode billing server myself
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:42 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Powercode uses Twilio for SMS.  I don't see why you should avoid it, it's
>> another medium to connect with customers.
>>
>> As far as customers calling you direct personally I just ignore it and
>> handle it when I'm done fixing stuff.  If they want an urgent answer they
>> can call the main office.  I would start with a voicemail message saying
>> you'll get back when you can buy for any service issues it is best to call
>> the office.
>>
>> Protip:  outgoing outage message when people call in so they know and
>> hang up before talking to anyone
>>
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Kurt Fankhauser <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have had the same personal cell number for almost 10 years now and
>>> because of things like me calling a client while on the road and them
>>> saving my number I have a boatload of them that are always texting/calling
>>> it whenever they have an issue. Its really annoying since I have hired an
>>> office assistant and I am paying them to answer calls now. I had an outage
>>> a month ago and probably had 20 of the same message from numbers I did not
>>> know who they were all asking if the internet was down. I am considering
>>> changing my personal cell number now and keeping the old one and just
>>> having it forward to the office number and maybe get some sort of text auto
>>> reply set up on it to send a message back whenever anyone texts it saying
>>> that this is an auto response, for support issues please call the office
>>> number at xxx-xxx-xxxx. Then when I get my new number I now have a VOIP app
>>> that can call out from the cell and make it appear like the office number
>>> so this issue doesn't happen again.
>>>
>>> The only downfall to this is there are a lot of important contacts i
>>> have that have the cell number that I do need to be in contact with for
>>> emergency situations. And is anyone doing any sort of SMS messaging for
>>> customer service? Or should that be avoided?
>>>
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