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How to Build a Better Contact Center with Salesforce and Vlocity
Contributing authors: Paul Le and Chris Kennedy Although customers are increasingly moving to digital channels, traditional contact center support will continue to remain an important service channel. At many contact centers, the ability to serve customers is negatively impacted by agent’s need to access multiple legacy applications — frequently with a need to re-key and...
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How Salesforce Extends Beyond CRM for Banks and Credit Unions
The last few months have certainly strained industries across the map — shining light on ability and inability to adapt, scale, and meet changing demands from consumers and employees alike. Likewise, businesses have found that they need solutions that extend beyond CRM. For financial institutions, the changing requirements for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and...
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Webinar Recap: Axcess Financial Sees 3x Lift in Originations
Last week, we chatted with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Regional VP Sarah Katz, and Axcess Financial Senior Director of Growth Optimization, Scott Dalton about all things Salesforce. Dalton detailed how Silverline helped Axcess Financial optimize their Org to leverage a multimedia approach to marketing Marketing Cloud and FSC. Silverline + Axcess Financial We discussed their journey...
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Delivering an Interactive Onboarding Process for Insurance Agents
So a successful candidate for your insurance agent opening has been moved to the offer stage — great! If you’re already leveraging Salesforce for your candidate community, you can seamlessly onboard new hires. The following are key considerations for automating and personalizing the process. An intuitive onboarding portal An automated email can be sent to...
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How to Improve the Application and Interview Process for Carriers and Agents
Mining Salesforce, your next insurance agent candidates may already be contacts in your database. Building a contact conversion capability can easily make any contact in Salesforce into a candidate for hire. It is important to build a new workflow so as to not confuse your relationship or put a sale at risk; beyond that, the...
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Why Should Insurance Carriers Integrate Their ATS with Salesforce?
No matter your target hire, to activate your strategy and identify and attract talent, digital tools and intelligent network mining will play critical roles. An appropriate attraction strategy must include social and mobile/SMS strategies to reach and engage key target resources. Your recruiting function may leverage a type of CRM of their own called an...
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Unparalleled Speed to Market: Creating a Custom Covid-19 Communication Solution for BCU
BCU is a full-service, not-for-profit, $4B+ financial institution providing SEG and community banking to over 260,000 members across the United States and Puerto Rico. As a credit union, BCU has set new standards in bringing together technology and member service in the ever-evolving world of financial services. As the Coronavirus pandemic came to a head,...
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AI Journeys and Einstein Insights with Stonebriar CTO Steve Siler
In May 2020, McKinsey issued a report about the future of work in the wake of coronavirus, making key observations about firms effectively carving out a competitive edge in this market by changing the way they look at their data. Opportunities abound to mine the mountain of data on which most firms sit; it is...
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The Smarter Approach for Recruiting Insurance Agents and Faster Onboarding
We cannot yet know the long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak has presented major challenges to all kinds of financial service businesses as they rush to shift strategies and tactics in response to changing customer needs. For insurance carriers, likely effects of the pandemic will include slower growth, additional pressure on profitability, as...
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Webinar Recap: 2020 Insurance Industry Trends
Last week, as a part of our WFH series, Silverline hosted a webinar to discuss the top 2020 insurance industry trends industry and the impact that COVID-19 has had on those trends. Our panel for this discussion included the insights of Doug Stitzer, Global Director of Insurance at Salesforce, along with Silverline team members Fred...