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The company is a swimming pool retailer. They sell equipment to repair pools, filters, cleaning equipment and chemicals. The pool industry in South Africa is very competitive: large chains, hardware companies and specialised pool businesses all compete against each other. It’s a cliche to say that the difference is service, but it’s more true than […]
There’s a retailer I buy from occasionally. Yesterday I saw their Facebook advert saying send a WhatsApp to <xxxxx> for daily specials. The reason I saw the advert was because I was considering buying something and remembered they also supply it, so had visited their Facebook page. I sent the WhatsApp yesterday at 8:56am.I received
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No, that’s false. AI is not an expert, but it can become an expert on some things in your business. You and your staff are experts in what the business does and what you want it to do. It could be technical issues that your technical department is expert at, it could be HR, it
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The answer is slowly and carefully.Most big businesses ignore this advice and are spending millions on the most expensive consultants and then designing expensive software that will never work and be overtaken by better technology before it is implemented. Who remembers the early days of e-commerce? Around the year 2000, Standard Bank spent millions creating
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🚀 AI isn’t the enemy. It isn’t magic either. It’s a tool. And how you use it determines whether it becomes a saviour or a villain.Recently, I’ve seen articles on AI about this topic. The common concern?👉 AI gets things wrong.👉 AI hallucinates. We’ve all read about law firms submitting fake case law to judges,
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One of my big complaints when I deal with companies is they never get back to me, or take days or weeks to reply. On Friday I ordered something on-line. Soon afterwards I received a message that the item will be delivered on Saturday between 8am and 8pm. This meant I had to stay home
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Am I the only one who gets very irritated that it takes companies days and sometimes weeks to respond to a simple query? I’m a customer and they pretty much ignore me or say “they’re busy – will get back to me when they feel like it – 48 hours, 5 days, 3 weeks, etc”
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Our AI chatbots and WhatsApp responders can integrate with most other systems. There are various ways that this is accomplished: Examples Our client has a large data base of information and wants all questions and answers stored there. They gave us an API Key and we integrated our data into their system. It is now
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Automate. Automate – the act of getting work done in your business automatically. We are all familiar with a production plant that runs almost automatically. That fills up bottles, closes them, seals them, put a label on them ready for delivery, all without human intervention. We all are familiar with a website that takes your
One of our client gets so many messages via Facebook and Whatsapp that it became unmanageable. They wanted something to answer Whatsapps and told me they recognize that the faster they can reply, the better the chance the customer will buy. That’s marketing 101! Not exactly rocket science! Their customers don’t stick to office hours.
