{"id":17403,"date":"2020-05-22T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/?p=17403"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:26:45","slug":"smith-ai-expands-to-24-7-virtual-receptionist-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/fow\/smith-ai-expands-to-24-7-virtual-receptionist-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Smith.ai Expands to 24\/7 Virtual Receptionist Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Smith.ai has a well-regarded omnichannel solution providing not just basic call answering and message taking, but also supporting Facebook and text messaging. The company takes on much of the workload after the initial greeting: Their live agents, who are reinforced by AI technology, screen new leads, schedule appointments, call back leads generated by web forms and content magnets and help clients who call in with requests to make bill payments and other common tasks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith.ai offers these extended 27\/7 services because phone tag and delayed follow-up reduce the likelihood that new prospects will become paying customers. As Smith.ai client Matthew Grosso puts it, &#8220;Now we&#8217;re capturing at least twice as many leads as we would have previously, and their professionalism is astounding!&#8221; Client Jeremy Treister said, &#8220;Smith.ai is my inbound sales team. Having a trained and personable voice has transformed our ability to answer the phone and convert callers to clients.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may recall our recent interview with Maddy Martin of Smith.ai \u2013 her company provides a virtual receptionist which also includes an AI-driven chatbot. We saw here at the Future of Work Expo \u2013 part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">ITEXPO <\/a>#TECHSUPERSHOW in Florida. She explained how chatbot tech can help companies by allowing them to focus on what they do rather than customer interaction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Smith.ai Interview at the 2020 #TechSuperShow\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EeIds8u-6rI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re proud to offer our top-rated Virtual Receptionist and Live Chat\nservices every hour of the day,&#8221; said Aaron Lee, co-founder and CEO of\nSmith.ai. &#8220;Thanks to a combination of our highly trained remote staff of\nservice and sales professionals, our state-of-the-art AI, and our proprietary\noperations system, we didn&#8217;t skip a beat when the COVID-19 crisis hit. Instead,\nwe doubled down.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin Maxwell, Smith.ai co-founder and Chief Design Officer, continues,\n&#8220;What our businesses needed was more comprehensive services, around the\nclock, to handle what they couldn&#8217;t get to, as they juggle childcare, new\nwork-from-home arrangements, and other business disruptions that consume their\ntime and attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Business owners and sales team leaders operating within law firms,\nmarketing agencies, SaaS\/software companies, and the like, also rely on us to\nget work done on these calls. Leads and clients are calling far outside\nstandard business hours these days, and when they call, they want answers \u2014\nthey want to move the ball forward, not just a friendly voice. We were already\noperating extended hours and completing real work during our calls on behalf of\nclients, so 24\/7 service was the natural next move.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The bottom line,&#8221; says Aaron, &#8220;is there is no longer any\nreason for a business, large or small, to miss out on a single lead or keep a\ncurrent client waiting. The most responsive businesses have the best\nreputations, but hiring is hard \u2014 especially now amidst this crisis. Smith.ai\ntakes on the work of hiring and training the best receptionists, so business\nowners can focus on their operations.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 24\/7 receptionists staffing businesses&#8217; phones, websites, and messaging platforms either in place of or alongside in-house teams, Smith.ai helps businesses capture more leads, across the most important communication channels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We deliver peace of mind.&#8221; exclaimed Justin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See the ONLY SD-WAN, Contact Center, Tech and Communications companies that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/east\/exhibitor-list.aspx\">matter&nbsp;<\/a>at the&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/\"><strong>ITEXPO<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;#TECHSUPERSHOW<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This Event has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/east\/testimonials.aspx\">called the&nbsp;<strong>BEST SHOW in 5 YEARS<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>Best TECHNOLOGY EVENT of 2020<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>2020 participants included: Amazon, Cisco, Google, IBM, ClearlyIP, Avaya, Vonage, 8\u00d78, Comcast Business, BlueJeans, CoreDial, Dell, Edify, Epygi, FreeSWITCH, Fuze, Grandstream, Granite,&nbsp;Intrado, Frontier Business, Fujitsu, Jenne, West, Konftel, Intelisys, Martello, NetSapiens, OOMA, Oracle, OpenVox, Peerless Network, Phone Sentry, Phone.com, Poly, QuestBlue, RingByName, Sangoma, SingTel, SkySwitch, Spracht, Spectrum, Sprint, Tallac, Tech Data, Telarus, TCG, Teledynamics, Teli, Telinta, Telispire, Telstra, TransNexus, Unified Office, Vital PBX, VoIP Supply, Voxbone, VoIP.MS, Windstream, XCALY, XORCOM, Yealink, Yubox, and ZYCOO.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/east\/exhibitor-list.aspx\"><strong>Full List.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Join 8K others with $25B+ in IT buying power who plan 2021 budgets! 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