Talla Company Blog

Today I'm excited to announce that all Talla customers now have access to our new "Learning Dashboard."  Think of the learning dashboard as a series of analytics around the AI models that power Talla - it's sort of like a report card that tells you how well Talla is learning and how well you are teaching.  This post will highlight a few of the key metrics and explain how to use them.

Topics: knowledge base, knowledge management, Customer Support

One of the contributing factors to social media addiction is FOMO, or fear of missing out. It's an unhealthy condition wherein smartphone users constantly check their notifications for fear they are being left out of rewarding social situations. It is a terrible reason to use -- or not use -- your smartphone or social media.

Unfortunately, a similar mal-adaptation is driving the artificial intelligence strategy at many businesses. They have FOMAI, fear of missing artificial intelligence.

Topics: AI, knowledge management, Bots, Artificial Intelligence

 

Every time a sales representative responds to a prospect with the words "I don't know," your knowledge base has failed. While most knowledge base solutions aren't designed to explicitly support sales teams, there are still steps you can take to optimize your knowledge base content for sales success.

Topics: Sales, sales enablement, knowledge base, knowledge management

A properly organized and implemented knowledge base makes your customer support teams more effective and efficient by shortening the time it takes to solve customer problems. With quick, easy access to accurate technical and procedural documentation, your support team can close help tickets faster, improve customer satisfaction, and decrease customer churn.

Topics: Customer Support, knowledge base, knowledge management

Bad software is a waste of money, but the worst software hurts revenue -- and a bad knowledge base solution can be the worst software of all because it costs you money in ways you can't easily see. And, frankly, most knowledge base solutions on the market today turn out to be secret cost centers.

Artificial intelligence can change that.

Topics: knowledge base, Customer Success, Customer Support, knowledge management

 

Your customer-facing teams need quick access to important information, and they need it to be reliable. Their ability to do their job depends on the quality of information in your knowledge base and speed at which they can access it. However, traditional knowledge bases don’t live up to their promises. Traditional knowledge bases just aren’t good enough.

Topics: knowledge management, knowledge base

For the past 15 years, every content management system and enterprise knowledge base has been built around some version of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to make it easier for readers to find the valuable data hidden in your documentation. But that's a passive approach to making your data discoverable and relies on the hope that the answers your employees and customers need have already been documented and published.

Topics: Active Content, knowledge management, AI

First impressions matter, which is why Customer Success Teams are crucially important to the success of your company. They are often the first non-salespersons your customers meet, and they make sure that customers are satisfied and, well, successful with your solution.

Topics: Customer Success, AI, knowledge management

There are lots of chatbots on the market today, and many of them are (supposedly) designed to help with customer support. While each type of support bot has its pros and cons, none of them are truly ready to fully replace human support representatives. Understanding that reality is key to implementing your support bot the right way.

Topics: Customer Support, chatbot, knowledge management

The best customer support representatives don't just know the best answers to common questions, they know how to find any answer to any question -- and they depend on an internal knowledge base to do it. Unfortunately, too many modern knowledge base solutions let down the support reps that rely on them.

Topics: knowledge management, Customer Support, AI