SMS messages in business is often thought of as purely transactional. It’s commonly used for password verification, appointment reminders, package delivery updates, service appointment arrival times, coupons and promotional offers—all of them transactional communications. But messaging can have much more impact as a conversation. Most transactional messages are push messages sent out based on triggers
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
Customers who are emotionally connected are more than double[1] the value of highly satisfied customers, on a lifetime basis, according to Harvard Business Review (HBR). Empathy gets a lot of lip service from marketers and salespeople, but to grow our companies we need to actually show empathy for our customers with messaging that resonates over
Prospects and customers are more elusive than ever. As the volume of communications goes up, they’re adopting more tools to block out brands competing for their attention. DVRs make it easy to skip TV ads, Caller IDs enable us to skip calls from unknown numbers, Ad Blockers help us avoid online ads, email inboxes have
Text messaging and SMS Messages is the most widely used feature or application on a smartphone. Financial services clients use text messaging; perhaps even prefer it, as their means of communication. This introduces concerns for financial services organizations that are required by law to maintain a record of every interaction with a client – both