How can I make people interact with the chat feature better?

It starts with your team downloading the app to their phones and unlocking the feature that they can only view their own chats. The more people that see notification, the more you're likely to see more interactions. Incorporating the templates to make it easy for your employees to use it when "leaving a message" or "answering after hours" will make it more convenient and easy.

Let you customers know the Podium App is for the customers to have a voice in the company. Good reviews as well as bad reviews are most welcome. If you dont have any bad reviews how can you address the issues that need to be fixed. Thank you Jeff@goodnewspest.com.

Let them know about how easy it is to connect to the company they are using. It's a direct connection between the customer and service techs.