The Threads Blog

Top 5 Hubspot Integrations for Small Businesses

Are you a small business looking to find new and useful integrations for your HubSpot account? I’m here to tell you that there are countless integrations you can choose from, but the list we have for you today is based on the integrations that can help you the most. Small businesses are always trying to…

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automatic speech recognition technology

Losing the Thread?

We often think of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) as a technology to save us getting up from our armchair to change the music or to save the banks from employing humans, but in fact, its benefits can have far more far-reaching effects - especially for the hard of hearing.

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What’s the difference between a shared inbox and sharing an inbox?

If you work for a company where collaboration is important - and tell me one where it is isn’t - you may have come across the idea of a so-called “shared inbox”. However, it is just as important to understand that a “shared inbox” is not the same as “sharing an inbox”. In this article we discuss the differences between the two.

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5 HubSpot Integrations for Customer Service Productivity

The main goal for any business that has a customer service team is to increase productivity. It is simple: higher productivity leads to happier team members, which leads to happier customers, which ultimately leads to more revenue for your business. It is a win-win for everybody involved. Having an exceptional team of customer service employees…

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10 good reasons to pick up the phone

In this era of social media, chatbots and email, written communications are the obvious choice for interacting with potential customers and suppliers. But next time you send an email instead of picking up the phone, take a moment to consider whether this really is the best option.

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Email Transparency Articles & Resources For Companies

Companies thinking about making email transparent for employees within their organization may need some inspiration to make the leap. This transition will allow your team to build the trust and transparency your business needs to be successful. In this article, we gather some of the best resources around email transparency to provide a holistic view of a shared inbox

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CRM Data Entry

5 Tools to Reduce Time Spent on CRM Data Entry

According to a recent report conducted by HubSpot, 27% of people who work in sales are spending over an hour a day on data entry work instead of selling. This means critical time is lost to administrative work. But there are now a number of tools available that can be used in conjunction with traditional CRM’s to make this job easier. In this post, we look at some of the best tools to reduce CRM data entry.

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Automated Call Tagging In Threads

New Feature: Automated Call Tagging In Threads

One of the most useful but often overlooked features in CRMs is the ability to tag records to enable you to search, filter and sort your records. But tagging records can be a time consuming manual process meaning that records can go ‘untagged’ and consequently won’t appear when you search for a specific tag. Our new automatic call tagging feature in Threads solves this problem.

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You Can’t Find That Important Email

4 Reasons You Can’t Find That Important Email

Have you ever been frustrated because you can’t find an email that you know should be in your email client? And even when you use the search function, you end up with so many search results that you end up having to read through hundreds of emails just to find one you want? We’ve all been there. And it’s no surprise to find that employees waste up to 12 hours a week trawling their email inboxes. This might sound like a lot but even this is a conservative estimate. So why are emails so difficult to search?

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Phone Call Transcription on Demand

Phone Call Transcription on Demand

It is difficult to imagine how many business users would be able to cope without being able to search their emails but once they start using Threads, they soon wonder how they ever coped without being able to search their phone calls. However, the costs of automatic speech recognition can rack up if all calls are being transcribed. In this post, we discuss the new “transcription on demand” feature of Threads which enables users to transcribe just the calls they want.

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