Disrupting traditional sales teams — Brian Podolak // Vocodia

Vocodia CEO and Co-Founder, Brian Podolak continues discussions about innovative forms of communicating with prospects and customers. In addition to customer support, AI is helping marketing teams to collect more customer data. Now, companies are using AI to boost revenue generation. Today Brian looks into how AI is disrupting traditional sales teams.
About the speaker

Brian Podolak

Vocodia

 - Vocodia

Brian is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vocodia

Show Notes

  • 02:32
    Using AI to drive sales
    Using internal and external data, AI is able to quickly respond to leads at the right time, thus increasing conversions.
  • 04:21
    AI callback turnaround time
    It varies by client. Callbacks can happen at a time convenient to the customer. Theres also the option of an instant callback and customers can contact support through their browsers.
  • 06:05
    How consumers are responding to AI customer support
    Virtual agents are humanized to better connect with customers. Its important for customers to be able to request a human agent. Virtual agents generally have less escalation calls.
  • 07:23
    AI and the sales funnel
    AI is able to do the complete sales process. Then it can follow-up after delivery to ensure customer satisfaction with the product or service received.
  • 08:32
    AI in B2B sales
    AI is used for appointment setting, cold calls, and gauging prospective customer interest. Once interest is determined, leads are handed off to a human for follow-up.
  • 09:22
    Live agent availability
    Virtual agents will only reach out to prospective customers when human agents are available. It is built this way to avoid long hold times for customers.
  • 11:05
    What happens when AI transfers to sales
    They hand off the prospect to sales, providing all the data gathering during the interaction. Data can also be pulled from the CRM to create a customer profile for the sales rep to use.
  • 12:04
    AI integration with other platforms
    AI allows you to test what types of communication customers are most responsive to. Using that data, AI can determine whether a customer would prefer a text versus a phone call.

Quotes

  • "AI intelligence builds up, over time, the best dates and times to contact people, using external and internal data." -Brian Podolak, Vocodia, CEO & Co-Founder

  • "If customers want to speak with a human, at any time during a conversation, DISA can transfer them to a human. That's good to have for the first 30 to 90 days." -Brian Podolak, Vocodia, CEO & Co-Founder

  • "Typically, for every 25 human agents handling calls, you have 1 supervisor for escalations. With AI, over time, it becomes 35 virtual agents because the AI learns and gets better every day." -Brian Podolak, Vocodia, CEO & Co-Founder

  • "AI can help schedule an appointment or a demo for a salesperson." -Brian Podolak, Vocodia, CEO & Co-Founder

  • "With AI, we get through gatekeepers, find the owners of organizations, and see if they're interested. Once there's an interest, we immediately transfer to a live person to take over." -Brian Podolak, Vocodia, CEO & Co-Founder

  • "Because our switch and AI talk to each other, if we send over 20 calls, and only have 20 sales people, well immediately stop dialing until someone becomes available." -Brian Podolak, Vocodia, CEO & Co-Founder

  • "For every 100 calls people get, they may answer 2-3, maybe 5. You have to do a true omni-channel approach while staying TPA compliant." -Brian Podolak, Vocodia, CEO & Co-Founder

  • "With AI, we can get and make data-driven decisions. So we can call, email, or text them first to see what's a better customer experience and what makes more sense to the company's bottom line." -Brian Podolak, Vocodia, CEO & Co-Founder

About the speaker

Brian Podolak

Vocodia

 - Vocodia

Brian is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vocodia

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