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April 29, 2022Customer Service
Blog: image 1 10 Ways to Improve Agent Productivity in Customer Support
How can you improve agent productivity? You have access to so much technology as a customer support leader these days, yet studies show frustrated customers complain most about things like ineffective and slow customer support agents. If customer support technology is so good—the platforms, IVR...

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5-Point RAG Strategy Guide to Prevent Hallucinations & Bad Answers This guide designed to help teams working on GenAI Initiatives gives you five actionable strategies for RAG pipelines that will improve answer quality and prevent hallucinations.
April 26, 2022Customer Service
Blog: image 3 11 Revealing Contact Center Statistics in 2022
Leaders across all departments—including the contact center—are now dealing with hiring challenges AND problems with legacy technology just a few years removed from the 2020 pandemic. More contact center agents are working remotely than ever before, managers are struggling to boost agent...

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April 19, 2022Customer Service
Blog: image 4 Call Center Decision Trees 101: How Your Support Team Can Benefit
How can developing a call center decision tree help your team? Do you know how much time your support team wastes each year finding answers to complex customer questions? Inefficiency costs companies more than you might realize: 516 million hours each year from inefficient software alone according...

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March 30, 2022Knowledge Management
Blog: image 5 3 Tips to Avoid Common Knowledge Management Mistakes
Every contact center knowledge manager I’ve met knows the frustration of selling an IT initiative up the ladder only to have it rejected. You spend hours speaking to different vendors, comparing feature after feature, giving recommendations to your manager, responding to emails—all to no avail....

By Colin Kennedy

March 3, 2022News/Events
Blog: image 6 Shelf Stands with Ukraine
Shelf stands united with the Ukrainian people in the fight against the unprovoked Russian attack on Ukraine. Putin has stated that he wants to disarm Ukraine and end its democratic independence. We are outraged by Putin’s war crimes and clear violation of international law. Thousands of people...

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March 1, 2022News/Events
2022 Gold Stevie Award Winner Logo - Shelf Shelf Wins 2022 Gold Stevie® Award for Sales & Customer Service
Stamford, CT – March 1, 2022 – Shelf announces today it has won a Gold Stevie® Award in the IVR and Web Services Solution category. Award winners for the 16th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service were announced last night. This Stevie Award® win comes on the heels of being named a...

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January 25, 2022Knowledge Management
Blog: image 7 Why It’s Time to Revisit Your Knowledge Management Strategy
Knowledge management is one of the most overlooked parts of the support experience. What exactly does a robust knowledge management strategy allow your organization to do? In this blog post, we take a closer look. The maturity of a company’s knowledge management strategy has a funny way of rearing...

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December 14, 2021News/Events
Blog: image 8 Shelf recognized as leader in the Contact Center Knowledge Space
G2 has named Shelf.io a leader in the Winter 2022 Grid® for Contact Center Knowledge Software. 90% of respondents have rated Shelf 5 out of 5 stars, noting high customer satisfaction, ease of use, and quality of support. For the sixth consecutive quarter, Shelf has been awarded Easiest Setup,...

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November 18, 2021AI Deployment
Blog: image 9 How Retailers Can Keep Customers Happy and Satisfied This Holiday Season With AI
This article was originally published on TotalRetail blog. The busy holiday shopping season is already upon us, bringing today’s brands an important opportunity to strengthen relationships with new and existing customers. As increasing numbers of consumers rely on e-commerce to meet their shopping...

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August 23, 2021News/Events
Blog: image 10 Shelf Raises $52.5M to Accelerate Answer Automation
STAMFORD, Conn., August 23, 2021–Shelf.io, the world’s leading AI-driven answer automation company, today announced a Series B round of $52.5 million led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Base10 Partners, Connecticut Innovations, Contour Venture...

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June 14, 2021Knowledge Management
Blog: image 11 6 Knowledge Management Best Practices to Benefit Your Contact Center
There is more content, on more platforms, in more locations, than at any time in the past. If you’ve managed knowledge in any context, you know how time consuming it can be to find what you need, especially if knowledge is siloed in multiple locations (as it is for many companies). You know how...

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