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Campaign Dialer History and the Current State of the Art in Amazon Connect

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A Brief History Amazon Connect was introduced in 2017 as a revolutionary, cloud-native contact center solution from AWS. That same year, DrVoIP installed its first Amazon Connect instance for a paying client. Having decades of experience building…
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Would you answer a call from a toll free number?

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Campaign Dialer Feature Request? We are often asked to comment on how to increase answer rates on cold calls.   Calls either made manually by an Agent in an outbound contact center, or an auto dialer or campaign dialer.   Generally, in…
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Enable Callers to Dial an Agent Direct?

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Direct Dial and Agent? Not every contact center wants callers to be able to dial a specific agent directly.  In fact, more times than not, it is discourage entirely.  Certain enterprises however find it a real necessity.   Customer service…
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How can an Agent Originate an SMS message in Amazon Connect ! - Part 2 Routing the Return Message

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SMS Return Message Routing In part 1 of this blog we looked at three options that enable an Agent to make originate an SMS message: Option 1 - User a TASK Template Option 2 - Create an HTML Form (DrVoIP favors this approach) Option…
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How can an Agent Originate an SMS message in Amazon Connect !

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Pinpoint SMS For some time now, you have been able to channel SMS messages through the Amazon Connect CHAT API, using Pinpoint services.  Typically, you would create a new project, enable SMS and then use SNS to trigger a lambda function to…
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Membership notification system using AWS Pinpoint SMS!

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The Challenge! We had a voice notification system setup to alert member of our "club" about meetings and special events.  It consisted of a Dynamodb table that listed the phone numbers of the club membership; several lambda functions to access…
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Amazon Connect Emergency Notification System

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Emergency Notification? There are a number of use cases for an application that can process a list of contacts to be notified by voice message of an impending event.  The event may be an emergency or  a notification of a community activity…
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"Do it yourself" kit for deploying an advanced Amazon Connect Instance!

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Dynamic Call Centers? We can dynamically reconfigure our contact flows, the experience a caller has when calling our contact center.   To do this, we us DNIS (i.e. dialed number information services) essentially using the number the caller…
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WTF is a DNIS Map?

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Route by DNIS? A common call center request is to provide a custom greetings or route a call to a Customer Service Queue (aka CSQ) based on the number the caller dialed.   DNIS or "dialed number information service" is usually the solution…
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Powerful Amazon Connect Call Back from Queue Configuration Strategies!

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The Amazon Connect Call Back from Queue Dilemma! Assume you have a call center that follows the sun from coast to coast!  You team starts in NY at 7AM EST and ends in California at 7PM PST.    You offer call back options to callers waiting…
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Amazon Connect - Setting Caller ID and Name for Outbound dial by Agents

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Amazon Connect Caller ID Name and Number basics! Historically, the only caller ID you can send, is that of a phone number that actually appears on your Amazon Connect instance.  This has now been modified and AWS will let you send the CID…
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Direct Extension Dialing and queue based Voice Mail for Amazon Connect!

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Call Center with PBX like features? One of the most requested features folks deploying Amazon Connect typically ask for is the ability to directly dial an extension to reach a specific agent or team member.   Clearly Amazon Connect is not…

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