Our aurireply for the SMS mailbox is: "Thanks for sending us a text.  If you 
did not include your name and service address, please do so.  We cannot assist 
you without that information."


Jim Bouse

Owner

Brazos WiFi

979-985-5912<tel:979-985-5912>

[email protected]


-------- Original message --------
From: Ken Hohhof <[email protected]>
Date: 9/8/16 9:08 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AFMUG] customer support via text message

Earlier this year we enabled SMS messaging on our main business phone
number.  We never announced anything, but people do send us texts, which
makes me wonder how many were dropping off the end of the earth previously.
We don't actually get a text message, it gets turned into an email to our
support address.

Problem is, customers often don't include their name, all we have is their
cellphone number.  Their expectation seems to be that we will text back and
forth with them.  In reality we have to call them.  But we can't investigate
the problem first unless we can correlate the cellphone number to a customer
account, and then when we call them, lots of people don't actually answer
their phones, they do everything by text message.

How are people handling this?


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