Interesting.  Land line phones quit working ages ago so everyone uses their
cell here.  Every once in a while a spouse has a different mobile, but not
very often.


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

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:

> IDK bro, I just know it's super common to get one number when they sign up
> and then receive their calls from another.  Maybe it's a house number they
> never use and then a cell.
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: 9/8/2016 10:17:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] customer support via text message
>
>
> What other number?
>
> I can see commercial accounts, though I wouldn't expect them to be texting.
>
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Because they give a different number when they sign up.
>>
>>
>> ------ Original Message ------
>> From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]>
>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: 9/8/2016 10:12:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] customer support via text message
>>
>>
>> How the hell do you not have their numbers tied to their accounts???
>>
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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