While businesses have adopted social media to communicate with their customers, many companies are only now starting to experiment with the value of text messaging as a convenient and easy…
With nearly two-thirds of Americans owning a smartphone, it’s no surprise that SMS has become one of the most preferred communication methods among businesses for interacting with their customers. A mix of…
This article describes how to run a simple Python app that can receive inbound SMS messages from your Flowroute phone numbers via the Flowroute API and drop them into the…
The days of depending on postcards and voicemails for appointment reminders might not be over just yet, but they’re coming to a close due to the rising popularity of text messaging…
The way in which customers consume communications to engage with brands has drastically changed over the last few years. Now more than ever businesses are seeing the strategic impact that…
Azure Functions provide the unique opportunity to develop cloud-based applications that are scalable, elastic, and resilient without worrying about the backend infrastructure. These features are all handled by the Azure…
The Flowroute messaging API enables developers to programmatically send and receive SMS text messages. Many scenarios require the ability to provide notifications by sending mass messages to a list of…
The evolution of virtualization and cloud platforms combined with mature adoption of agile methodologies and DevOps has impacted the way organizations build and ship software. The traditional waterfall-style approach that…
80% of companies already use or plan to use chatbots by 2020. Chatbots on the rise The use of chatbots is on the rise to solve problems and improve the…
According to Forrester Research SMS wasn’t even a statistically significant communications channel in 2010. Fast forward to today and SMS is the third most used communications method for business to…
The combination of the Internet, cloud and mobile access has created unprecedented access between buyers and sellers of services. Companies like Netflix (movies), Uber (Taxis), and Airbnb (hotels) have completely…