Author: Franz Malten Buemann

  • Anyone know of good B2B sales automation services?

    Hello, I have been in digital marketing for over 4 years and seen quite a bit of different automation services, I currently use a linked in automation services that connects and sends out up to 100 messages per day to targeted prospects. I noticed it was working well earlier this year but I believe it is becoming widely overused as I am receiving a ton of automated messages from people as well. I have used other services for instagram outreach in the past but I am looking for more services that could help me get in front of businesses who may need digital marketing services. Let me know what you have used/using and how they work!
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  • UJET Unveils Next-Generation Virtual Agent for Less Robotic Interactions

    Conversational AI Provides Enterprises with Intelligent Automation for Better Customer Experience and ROI
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 13, 2020 – UJET Inc., the ultra-modern cloud contact center platform for customer-centric enterprises, today announced the general availability of its Virtual Agent, a new solution powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and UJET’s highly sophisticated next-generation customer experience platform. Unlike other virtual solutions that are optimized to offload agents, the UJET Virtual Agent is designed to truly improve the customer experience. With UJET’s Virtual Agent, businesses can leverage prior interactions to deliver personalized and effective assistance via a natural interaction while improving customer satisfaction and enhancing contact center efficiencies.
    Businesses are steadily turning to conversational AI solutions as a means to improve customer experience, provide 24/7 customer service, personalize interactions, and intelligently manage their contact center operations, including measuring start-to-finish resolutions or agent deflections. According to Gartner’s Predicts 2019: CRM Customer Service and Support, by 2025, customer service organizations that deploy AI in their customer engagement center platforms will increase their operational efficiency by 25%. While a recent study from UJET and Canam Research found that 50% of customer service professionals surveyed said they are planning on implementing a chatbot into their contact center within the next 12 months, and that contact center professionals are predominately looking to leverage AI to reduce repetitive tasks (48%), improve customer experience (CX) (46%), and lower costs (40%).
    “The adoption of intelligence, automation, and self-service capabilities are fueling the evolution of the contact center and customer service. Yet while the positive impacts of intelligence and automation have been felt by contact center agents, the digital experience for customers is still largely fragmented,” said Omer Minkara, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Contact Center and Customer Experience Management, Aberdeen. “With functionality such as intelligent routing and the ability to add multiple specialized Virtual Agents, UJET takes a flexible and modern approach to transforming customer experiences, streamlining operations, and ensuring that companies can get the most out of their virtual agents.”
    “Virtual assistance has rapidly become an intricate component of modern contact center operations. But so many of the solutions we’ve seen in the marketplace have been too heavily focused on offloading demand from agents without addressing or improving the actual customer experience. It was important for us to leverage intelligence and automation as a way to not only provide better service and experiences for our customers but also to empower our agents and improve contact center operations as well,” said Ivar Sköldvall, Customer Experience Operations Manager, iZettle, a PayPal Service. “UJET’s Virtual Agent is not just cutting-edge technology, they are a partner in ensuring that we are building, testing, and delivering the best virtual experience possible.”
    The UJET Virtual Agent provides proactive start-to-finish conversational AI support aimed at gathering intent, processing the situation, and either resolving the issues automatically or handing off to an agent. With an emphasis on empowering both customers and contact center operations through next-generation virtual assistance and conversational AI, some of the key aspects of UJET’s Virtual Agent include:

    Creation of Generalists or Specialized Virtual Agents: As an optional configuration, contact center leaders can add multiple Virtual Agents to the support experience, creating the flexibility needed for faster and more accurate virtual conversations, less maintenance, and more effective Virtual Agents. Configure Virtual Agents for more general interactions or finely tune them to handle specific responsibilities.

    Intelligent Routing: UJET’s intelligent routing engine is the first of its kind. Real-time and historical data can dynamically inform routing decisions to either a virtual or human agent based on the customer record, their journey, or predicted intent. If the Virtual Agent decides at any time to introduce a human agent, the agent is presented with this full context and a high-level summary of the customer journey, for a seamless handoff, more personalized service, and quicker resolution.

    Natural Language Processing (NLP): Read, decipher, and understand the intent of the customer and the issue at hand through modern, human-like interactions. Leverage context and sentiment to intelligently resolve issues or escalate to the appropriate queue.

    “Two significant trends impacting the digital transformation of customer service are the rising adoption of conversational AI and the generational shift towards digital and mobile native consumers.  We see these tools not only as a way to optimize operational efficiencies, but also to modernize customer communications,” said Anand Janefalkar, Founder & CEO, UJET. “UJET’s Virtual Agent showcases our customer-centric approach to delivering cutting-edge innovation that not only delivers a better bottom line for the contact center but does so by providing more natural, less robotic experiences for their customers.”
    To learn more about UJET’s Virtual Agent and to request a personalized demo visit https://www.ujet.co/virtual-agent
    *Gartner, Predicts 2019: CRM Customer Service and Support, December 2018.
    About UJETUJET offers the world’s most secure, scalable all-in-one cloud contact center platform, developed specifically to transform customer experiences for the digital economy and smartphone-era. The UJET Mobile SDK enables ultra-modern digital and in-app customer service, with seamless experiences and actionable data across voice, chat, email, and self-service channels. Deep CRM integrations and an amazingly intuitive administration support automated operations and provide consistent customer interactions across sales and support. UJET is trusted by innovative, customer-centric enterprises including Google Nest, Instacart, Wag!, and Atom Tickets.
    UJET is PCI-DSS, SOC I, II and III, HIPAA, GDPR, FINRA, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, and EU-US Privacy Shield compliant.
    Learn more at www.getujet.com.
    Media ContactsJason SophianHead of Communications, UJETjason@ujet.co
    Chad TorbinSpeakeasy Strategiesujet@speakeasystrategies.com
     
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  • How to Choose an Appexchange Tool: Browse the Marketplace the Right Way

    If you need to cover a need in your organization, whether that’s for users, administrators, or clients, the AppExchange is undoubtedly one of the first places you should look. Not only it will give you ideas, but it will also show you how the Salesforce… Read More
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  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Admins

    Many of you would have heard about the management book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’? Although Stephen Covey’s bestseller is over 30 years old, the principles are still valid. Which made me wonder: ‘what if we replace ‘people’ with ‘Salesforce Admins’?’ Would the… Read More
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  • 10 New Salesforce Flow Features to Shout About in Winter ’21

    Every time the Salesforce release notes are published, I get straight to reading them because I know that there will be updates to Salesforce Flows. The Winter ’21 release has new improvements – and plenty of them to shout about! Here is the summary of… Read More
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  • Growing a business is tough. Have 1-on-1 conversations with growth-marketers that sincerely want to help you grow.

    I started off my career as a software engineer. After working for about 6 years, I decided to try my hand in entrepreneurship. After building 6 solid products without much traction, I am slowly realizing that “**build it and they will come**” doesn’t work. These days, I spend most of my time learning marketing and sales. I feel like marketing is becoming the new coding. In a world where building products is becoming easier every day, marketing is becoming more difficult. And more important. I started growthchat.co to learn how other people are growing their businesses. If you are a marketer, salesperson, or founder, let’s connect at growthchat.co. we are 3,240 strong and 1-on-1 calls are happening every minute.
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  • Security, Privacy, Pardot, and You

    Security and privacy are top-of-mind for our customers, so these topics are top-of-mind for us, too. Consent is an important part of this conversation: to deliver personalized experiences, we need consent to collect and use a website visitor’s activity on the site. Implementing strong cybersecurity practices and following privacy laws demonstrates respect for our customers, which is crucial in building a trusted relationship. 
    Security, privacy, and consent are the pillars on which trust is built. When data is exposed or systems fail, our customers and their customers lose trust in or brand. Cybersecurity failures may also lead to serious financial losses from statutory penalties, civil action, and cleanup costs. If we lose control of someone’s personal data, we suffer loss of trust — and potentially loss of capital.
    Consent is the cornerstone of meaningful privacy practices in marketing. It’s how people maintain control of their personal data, which is why it’s a foundational concept in privacy regulations like the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
    As a product manager at Salesforce Pardot, my primary responsibility is security and privacy from a product perspective. I’m responsible for reactive privacy and security, such as responding to changes in privacy law or browser security. I’m also responsible for proactive privacy and security, like understanding the changing landscape and our customers’ needs. I promote ways to help our customers remain compliant, including ways our customers can keep ahead of their competition through strong security and privacy.
    We are planning to bring the information you need about security, privacy, and compliance to the Pardot blog. In future posts, we’ll explain how the browser privacy landscape is changing — and how Pardot and our customers can respond. We’ll talk about consent mechanisms, and discuss how changing privacy laws affect Pardot users. We’ll also explore how brands can use privacy practices to show customers respect and build trust.
    There are many reasons for brands to care about privacy in marketing, and we’re going to discuss them all — from the obvious to the obscure. Ultimately, we’re here to help our customers learn what they need to know to succeed with Pardot while keeping a watchful eye on customer security and privacy. 
    For more information, tune into our privacy and consent webinar.

  • Why Government Agencies Need Salesforce Now More Than Ever

    Crises will expose weaknesses and design flaws in processes, technology infrastructure, and even the stakeholder experience. We’ve seen it with almost every major natural disaster, economic event, and most recently with the global pandemic. It’s typically the sectors and organizations still reliant on legacy systems… Read More
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  • How to Improve Salesforce for Higher Ed Using Web Forms

    Higher education institutions are realizing there are great returns to investing in the student journey. Students are making a considered, emotive purchase when enrolling in a course or degree program because it can determine their future. Collecting data is a huge driving force in building… Read More
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  • 8 Incredible Facts About Salesforce Tower

    Since 2017 when we first posted about the incredible Salesforce Tower, Salesforce have increased their revenue by another $7.1, taking them to a whopping $17.1B, but what else has changed? Let’s go ahead and check out some most amazing facts about the momentous Salesforce Tower!… Read More
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