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WhatsApp - the future medium of Customer Support

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Using our AI-driven WhatsApp Bots, a business can automatically send a reply to such customers who want to interact with the business over WhatsApp. The idea is to ensure that the user does not have any unfulfilled requests.

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A Primer on Google Business Messaging (GBM)

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Imagine a situation where, as a business, you are able to cut this 1 step where the user comes to your website to find the Contact Us form or the chat widget. Imagine a situation where the user directly is able to connect with you from the Google search page. Won’t it generate more leads for your business and reduce drop-offs from your website?

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A detailed primer on Cobrowsing (and how to successfully implement it)

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To solve this problem at the first level, most companies have a call-center team. The job of the call-center team is to watch out for customers who have dropped off from the website, call them on their phone and help them complete the purchase. However, this happens in an extremely ad-hoc manner. Look at the images below where the call center agents are trying to share and collect customer data over WhatsApp.

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Building the future of Customer Experience, together

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Recently, Cogno AI had entered into an acquisition agreement with Exotel for an undisclosed amount. In this post, I wanted to talk about why this acquisition makes sense, and how will it benefit the Customers and the Team Members of Cogno.

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How to make effective sales presentations?

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Because there are so many stakeholders involved, a deal closure typically takes 3 - 6 months of time. Anything better than that is usually an exception, irrespective of how low your product is priced. To reduce the deal time, focus on how to move fast with each stakeholder. The idea is simple - show the stakeholder exactly what they want.

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Customer Success for Large Enterprises

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Enterprises care a lot about the experience and the value that we are delivering. More often they are not worried about how much they are spending. They are concerned about the justification and outcome of what they are spending on.

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Books that helped us grow to $1M revenue in 2.5 years

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We at Cogno AI grew to $1M in revenue in 2.5 years. In this period, I had to learn a bunch of things - hiring, negotiations, team building, customer acquisition, selling, support, and whatnot. I had to constantly learn new things every day. In this post, I will talk about some of the books I read that helped me learn important things that led to this growth.

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How to structure your B2B SaaS Startup for Growth?

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In this article, I will talk about how we’ve structured our Team for growth. Some of the learnings may also be applicable to SMB-focused SaaS companies as well. Just that, we are Enterprise focused and Sales-led as against marketing-led.

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How Cogno AI helped this leading Life Insurer to grow conversions by 29%?

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One of the key challenges in selling insurance is that it is never bought, but rather it is always sold. This means that a typical customer does not want to purchase insurance by themselves. Someone has to convince them to make a purchase.

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What to look for when hiring a SaaS Product Manager?

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We’ve made our fair-share of mistakes in hiring for this role, and ultimately corrected those mistakes to hire a fantastic product manager. In this blog, I’ll be writing about my learnings from these experiences. I hope that you’ll find some really useful insights from this blog post on what to look for when hiring a Product Manager!

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The single thing that can make or break your Startup

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4 years and 1 co-founder exit later, we crossed $1M in revenue with a team of 80+ members. What went right? I recently wrote about the broad journey from being almost bankrupt to $1M in the last 2.5 years. Many people messaged me — “Hey Aman, great to hear about your journey. However, there must be something more to it rather than just focus.”

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We went from an almost bankruptcy to $1M in revenue in 2.5 years

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Services businesses are almost always unscalable. They are great cash-cows for people who are just starting up. However, scaling them is really difficult. We were one such services business — no wonder, my Co-founder left 1.5 years after we started.

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How to sell to large enterprises?

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At Cogno AI, we work with a lot of large Financial Institutions as our Clients. When I say large, I mean really large - think of companies with over 100,000 employees and over $50 Billion in market cap - yes, that’s how big ICICI Bank is. ICICI Bank is not just our client, but also one of our oldest clients. We have been working with them for over 3 years now. I am sure reading this, you’d have many questions in mind.

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Screen sharing software - the next big thing in Online Sales?

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Today, a large number of companies of all sizes are shifting to a marketing-driven model wherein, they acquire customers online. The idea is to capture leads online through SEO and then convert them by helping them fill the onboarding form. Companies are using this process for both Sales as well as Customer Service.

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How to grow sales using co-browsing in an outbound call center?

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A lot of Online/Digital sales today is being driven by Outbound Call Centers. The idea is to get a customer lead through some Digital channel and subsequently, an agent calls the customer and helps them make a purchase. The purchase is typically driven by the following flow.

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