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Messaging

Power up your web and mobile apps with APIs for SMS, chat, and notifications with minimal effort. Explore the latest research.

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Five ways to use SMS messaging to enhance customer experience

The digital era is now mobile. What does that mean? 75% of consumers would like to receive more texts...

Severine Griziaux, Sr Manager - Strategic Content Programs
Article

When to Use Short code vs Toll-Free SMS

Should you use short code or toll-free sms? We compare the two to help you answer.

Arvind Rangarajan, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Ebook

Business Continuity for a Resilient Global Communications Solution

A white paper on Twilio’s business continuity program that details our approach and priorities.

Rose Reilly, Business Continuity Program Manager at Twilio
Video

Here’s how to use Twilio for Salesforce to reach your audience

With Twilio for Salesforce, you can integrate world-class text messaging into Salesforce in just a few minutes. Use the Salesforce data and components you rely on every day to customize SMS messaging and report on results.

Charlie Weems, Partnership Engineer, Twilio.org
Video

Drift: How AI & Machine Learning Drives Conversational Marketing

Drift uses intent data and machine learning to improve customer engagement. See Guillaume Cabane, VP of Growth at Drift, discuss how conversational marketing improves top-of-the-funnel lead acquisition in this video from Twilio’s 2018 SIGNAL conference.

Severine Griziaux, Sr Manager, Content Marketing
Report

Why Messaging with Customers Makes Sense

Why add omnichannel solutions to your customer communications processes? Read this executive brief to learn the top eight reasons why you should embrace SMS and other messaging channels today.

Pranav Deshpande, Product Marketing Manager
Article

7 Best Practices for WhatsApp Business Messaging

Top considerations for creating an effective communication and engagement strategy using the WhatsApp Business Messaging API.

Pranav Deshpande, Product Marketing Manager
Guest Article

How Iterable, Crowdskout, and Curology Increase Engagement With SMS

Learn about Iterable’s powerful SMS engagement tool, run by Twilio on the backend. Read how Crowdskout and Curology utilize SMS to target custom audiences with personalized messaging for maximum engagement.

Alyssa Jarrett, Senior Content Marketing Manager, Iterable
Article

Getting Started with the WhatsApp Business API

Discover how to integrate the WhatsApp Business API into your customer engagement strategies and explore three use cases for business messaging.

Pranav Deshpande, Product Marketing Manager - Messaging
Article

SMS Alerts Best Practice Guide

Best practices and real world use cases of businesses using SMS text alerts and notifications to connect with customers on urgent matters and timely offers.

Pranav Deshpande, Product Marketing Manager - Messaging
Article

Five Reasons To Use The WhatsApp Business API

Discover how to improve your customer’s experience by incorporating WhatsApp Business messaging within your communication platform.

Pranav Deshpande, Product Marketing Manager, Messaging
Ebook

E-Book: Your Guide to Customer Messaging

Improving customer engagement requires integrating messaging into ongoing conversations. Download this roadmap to effectively engage during each intersect of your customer’s journey, from SMS to Facebook Messenger to web chat.

Pranav Deshpande, Product Marketing Manager, Messaging
Ebook

Financial Services Guide to Messaging

Learn how banks, advisory firms, insurance companies, and other financial services organizations are using messaging to inform, engage, and alert customers in ways they prefer. Read this e-book.

Pranav Deshpande, Product Marketing Manager - Messaging
Article

What is RCS Messaging?

RCS (Rich Communication Services) is a next generation SMS protocol that upgrades text messaging. Rich features like payments, high-res photo & file sharing, location sharing, video calls, and much more, are delivered to a device’s default messaging app.

Ari Sigal, Sr Product Marketing Manager
Article

SMS Bulk Messaging 101

Cloud-based SMS Bulk Messaging solutions help businesses deliver real-time notifications and marketing promotions to improve customer communications.

Severine Griziaux, Sr Marketing Manager
Article

4 SMS Bulk Messaging Best Practices

Explore SMS Bulk Messaging best practices & get key considerations for implementing an effective mobile messaging platform to support your business requirements

Severine Griziaux, Sr Marketing Manager
Report

How to Create Your Blueprint for Mobile Messaging

Learn how to use mobile messaging to build a better customer experience. This framework will help you develop an effective strategy for your business.

Devang Sachdev, ‎Director, Solutions Marketing
Article

What are SMS and MMS and How do They Differ?

SMS and MMS drive the majority of messaging communications. We define them and show their crossover with products like iMessage, Whatsapp, and other apps.

Pranav Deshpande, Product Marketing Manager
Article

How to Automate Mass SMS, Push, and Chat Notifications

When you’re building a mass notification system, it’s good to have options. Reach users on their preferred device and channel with an API like Twilio Notify.

Sophie Asher, Customer & Solution Marketing Manager
Article

Why You Shouldn't Settle for Low-Quality Bulk SMS

Build your own bulk SMS platform to send highly-targeted and segmented messages that ensure your marketing campaigns connect with your customers.

Ece Ergen, Solutions Marketing Manager
Article

Power Life-saving Medical Alerts with Multi-channel Notifications

Make sure your medical alerts for life-threatening emergencies reach their right people across devices and platforms with a single API.

Ece Ergen, Solutions Marketing Manager
Article

Emergency SMS Alerts Let Police Notify Constituents Faster

When the message is urgent, SMS alerts reach the community faster. Learn how police are using an API to send important safety information by text message.

Sophie Asher, Customer & Solution Marketing Manager
Article

Text Alerts: The Fastest Way to Reach Your Customers

Texts keep customers informed, especially when messages are time-sensitive. Adding text messaging to your business is easy with an API like Twilio.

Nichole Wong, Solution Marketing Manager
Article

Build A Mass Text System Using Bulk SMS

Text messaging in bulk is easy when you can reach people by SMS with one simple API request.

Sophie Asher, Customer & Solution Marketing Manager
Article

How to Respond Faster to Incidents with SMS Alerts

People read text messages faster and are more likely to respond than on other channels. For urgent alerts, SMS is the way to go.

Nichole Wong, Solution Marketing Manager
Article

Why Add SMS to Your Incident Management System?

Unplanned network incidents are fixed faster when communications are streamlined. Building SMS into your alerts platform delivers flexibility and customization.

Sophie Asher, Customer & Solution Marketing Manager
Article

Shift Scheduling Made Easy With Two-Way SMS

Learn how an employee scheduling app lets workers connect with their peers and managers by text, a channel they already use and love.

Sophie Asher, Customer & Solution Marketing Manager
Article

3 Easy Ways to Use Text Reminders

Businesses like Yelp, Netflix, and Airbnb are using text reminders to reach their customers in new ways.

Nichole Wong, Solution Marketing Manager
Video

How to Use SMS and Messaging APIs

Learn how to integrate messaging, such as SMS, in-app chat, and push notifications, into your business communications. APIs from Twilio make it simple.

Nichole Wong, Solutions Marketing Manager
Video

When I Work’s Katie Braun and Sam Tape on Programmable Chat

Hourly workers don’t always have a business email address or phone to communicate with their supervisors and coworkers. That’s why When I Work built WorkChat.

Katie Braun, Product Mgr & Sam Tape, Engineering Mgr, When I Work
Video

Hustle’s Tyler Brock and Soleil Kellar on Personalized Engagements

SMS is far more effective at engaging people than email or cold calling. But how do you send millions of text messages and still keep them personalized?

Tyler Brock, Co-Founder & CTO, & Soleil Kellar, Head of User Research, Hustle
Article

What is Commerce Communications?

A customer’s interaction with your business shouldn't end once they complete their transaction. In fact, that’s where it should really begin.

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Ebook

Four Pillars of a Great Customer Messaging Experience

People tend to communicate with friends and family through text messages, making mobile a natural medium to talk to businesses. Here’s how to get started.

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Ebook

APIs: The New Messaging Infrastructure

Choosing the right infrastructure used to be a decision between costly customization or slightly less expensive outsourcing. Now, there’s a new way.

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Ebook

Which Mobile Messaging Interface Should Your Business Use?

Your interface determines whether or not people will read your messages. Here’s how to decide which interface your business should use.

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Ebook

Route Calls Intelligently with Mobile Messaging

Your customers all want something different when they text you. Here’s how you can meet their needs.

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Ebook

The Ultimate Checklist for Building Your Mobile Messaging Strategy

In this checklist, we’ve summarized all the strategic insights we’ve gained from our customers. Use it to answer the tough questions about mobile messaging.

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Ebook

How to Scale Customer Communications with Bots

Enable chat bots to communicate with your customers, so your human agents are free to focus on hard problems and provide better customer experiences.

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Article

Reduce No-Shows with Appointment Reminders

Missed appointments cost businesses millions of dollars a year in lost revenue. Appointment reminders are an easy and cost effective way to reduce no-shows.

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Infographic

How Consumers Use Messaging Today

9 out of 10 consumers want to message brands. But, is your business ready to start texting?

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Article

Create On-Demand Customer Support Experiences with SMS

Text messages are the perfect way to engage customers. Leave the stiff customer experience behind and create the people-centric experience of the future.

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Article

Reach Customers Fast With SMS

Your customers use text messages with their friends and family. They expect you to do the same. So, why aren’t you texting them yet?

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Video

How to Build Web Chat with Twilio

Use live chat to resolve customer questions and engage with prospects on your site.

Ari Sigal, Product Marketing Manager
Video

How to Build SMS Account Notifications with Twilio

Learn how to build SMS Account Notifications with Twilio

Justin Pirie, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Customer Story

Netflix Chills With Twilio’s SMS And Voice

The video on demand leader keeps members across the globe streaming with quick password resets and other critical alerts via Twilio SMS and Voice

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Customer Story

Nordstrom Reinvented Personal Shopping With Mms

America's leading fashion specialty retailer increased sales with private texting and MMS for customers and sales associates.

Sophie Asher, Solution & Customer Marketing Manager
Report

Understand How Consumers Use Mobile Messaging

We surveyed consumers around the world about how they use messaging with businesses. Here's what we found.

Devang Sachdev, Solutions Marketing Director
Article

How To Add Messaging To Your Communication Mix

Messaging is so simple. Yet when it comes to messaging customers, why do businesses struggle to get it right?

Devang Sachdev, Head of Content
Ebook

A Blueprint for Mobile Messaging

97% of Americans use messaging at least once a day, but businesses struggle to add messaging to their channels. Here's a blueprint to build better customer communications experiences.

Devang Sachdev, Solutions Marketing Director
Video

APIs for Modern Field Service Communications

Increase your field service customer satisfaction with Twilio APIs for SMS, MMS, and voice calls that reach customers much more efficiently than email.

Zeeshan Yoonas, Senior Director of Product Marketing
Infographic

Why Mobile Messaging Works

Mobile messaging has quickly become a powerful way to communicate for people. Here are seven reasons why.

Devang Sachdev, Head of Content
Video

Hello SMS: Netflix Goes Global

Communicating with members in a way that keeps them coming back is the Netflix messaging team’s holy grail. Twilio’s easy mobile messaging APIs put that grail within grasp.

Devika Chawla, Director of Engr. & George Abraham, Sr Software Engr., Netflix
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