If your customers feel that you don’t care, they’ll take their business elsewhere. Experiences are the differentiating factor between businesses. Big efforts to improve the overall experience in tiny ways by crafting a voicemail greeting script can make a huge difference when customers are asked by their friends and family how easy it was to work with you. And word spreads quickly in the age of social media. The more positive experiences you offer, even when you’re not available, the more likely those people will call back.
Of course, we want to know as soon as an incoming voicemail is saved, so again, it’s Twilio to the rescue. By adding a few lines of code to our Python script, Stacey and I each get an SMS notification telling us there’s a new message. Note that Twilio’s API requires a separate call for each message to be sent, which is why the similar code repeats once for Stacey’s phone number and then again for mine. If you plan to send bulk messages from Twilio, I expect that you can build a list of phone numbers and loop through them with the API call. Since we only have two contact numbers and don’t expect to add any more, I decided not to loop through a list of two elements.

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