Have you ever considered automating your SaaS and B2B email marketing campaigns?

In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the CEO of Userlist, Jane Portman, to discuss email marketing automation strategies going into 2022.

At its core, Userlist is helping to automate the email marketing lifecycle with its new email automation tool. It makes starting email marketing campaigns and delivering custom email blasts that are personally tailored to SaaS businesses easier than ever before.  It’s event-based email marketing, taken to the next level through data.

Through data-driven analysis, Userlist’s email campaign tools and autoresponders are able to learn about your customers on a deep level. Then, they’ll take all of the necessary actions to onboard, engage, and nurture your marketing leads throughout the full customer lifecycle.

In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the CEO of SecondKeys, Amber Hayes to discuss AI enhanced property management and predictive analytics for homeowners.

SecondKeys is bringing artificial intelligence and automation into the property management

space using machine learning to predict maintenance needs for properties ahead of time. However, that’s just the beginning of where this is all going in the future.

What are the aspects of property management that can be automated and how can the information provided in a Maintenance Intelligence Report increase profitability for property managers? How exactly does Automatic Scheduling work?

In this podcast, we’re learning all about property management systems and the role that artificial intelligence is going to play.

The US healthcare system is broken in many ways, and functions great in others, but what are some approaches to actually solving the problems we are seeing currently in medicine?

In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with James Lott, the CEO of Scripted to discuss how pharmacies can become point of care destinations. This could be a game-changer for both pharmacies and the patients that they serve.

During Covid-19, we witnessed the staffing shortage in healthcare first hand and saw how it affected patients. However, by empowering pharmacists to utilize their medical training and do more, Scripted is helping to fix our broken healthcare system. Pharmacists can make a difference, helping people to get treatments faster and cheaper, when they need it most, right at their local neighborhood pharmacy.

Waiting in long lines at the doctor’s office is no fun for anyone, but Scripted is helping individuals to skip the doctor’s office altogether and get treatment for common conditions at the pharmacy instead. They are empowering pharmacists to offer prescriptions and various treatments, and trying to get the insurance companies to pay.

What parts of contract management can be automated and what role does data-driven decision making play? Where do blockchain and smart contract technology fit into all of this?

In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the co-founders of the AI-powered digital contract management platform, Revnue, to discuss contract automation tools and where this is all going. Sunny Sharma, CEO, and John Cortez, COO, explain how contract management has typically been a highly fragmented space with dozens of different interacting parties.

“About $28 billion worth of trade was done last year in 2021, and if you look at trade, all that was done by contracts. On an average, organizations lose about 9% of their revenue due to inefficient contract management,” explains Sharma.

However, Revnue’s contract management software aims to change that, allowing companies to automate and unify numerous business processes related to contract management. Plus, they take it to the next level with their contract analytics, advanced reporting, and other tools related to contract management.

Sports analytics and data science in sports are topics that are getting a lot of traction lately in the sports world. Every year, more and more teams are being united around intelligence, and in this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with the CEO of Kitman Labs, Stephen Smith, to learn why.

Kitman Labs is a company focused on improving human performance in sports by analyzing athlete data. Their Intelligence Platform  allows you to consolidate millions of data points about game stats, market value, scouting scores, training volumes, speed, strength, injuries, sleep, mental state, basically everything about an sports player. Even biometrics and blood markers are on the table.

However, it’s not solely about the data either. At Kitman Labs, the real focus is on turning that data into intelligence and empowering the right people on the team to make the right decisions at the right times.

DemandJump is a marketing strategy platform that uses AI to determine the most important keywords for driving search engine traffic, and in this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the CEO of DemandJump, Christopher Day to learn more.

Based on Google keyword analysis and understanding search intent, DemandJump’s AI keyword research tool provides a game plan for content marketers who want to increase first page rankings. Artificial intelligence does the SEO keyword research, and in addition to providing the keywords, it also tells you the actual questions that people are asking related to the keywords.

Once the new content goes live, you’ll get a full analysis of which pieces of content and campaigns are actually driving sales. Plus, DemandJump gives you regular consumer insight reports that tell you how customers are behaving and what other competitors are up to.

In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the CEO of Improovy to discuss how he took his painting contracting company and turned it into a tech company. Along the way, he has become an expert in SEO strategy, so he will also be sharing some of his top tips for local SEO and search engine marketing.

Kazimierski has a fascinating Founder’s Journey, and in many ways, Improovy now functions kind of like an Uber for the home improvement industry.

Instead of spending hours figuring out who to hire, how to schedule the work, and coordinating everything, Improovy’s AI system handles the entire process. The consumer simply requests a quote for a painting job, and after agreeing to the terms, the painters show up at the house ready to work — it’s that easy!

Improovy’s algorithms know which contractors are available, who has the specific expertise necessary for the job. Plus, all of the payments and logistics are handled on one simple platform that has an interface designed to improve the lives of both homeowners and contractors.

Why are artists creating NFTs and what are the various NFT use cases going to be in the future?

In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson talks to art expert Monty Preston from Saatchi Art to learn more about NFT, digital art, cryptocurrency, blockchain tech, and where this is all going.

At its core, Saatchi Art is an online marketplace for independent artists to sell their artwork. It currently features over 1.4 million original artworks created by 94 thousand emerging artists from around the world, and 110+ countries are represented to date.

But in the future, it’s likely that the focus is going to be more and more about digital art. The real questions are, what will NFT in the Metaverse actually look like and how soon are we heading towards mainstream adoption? Plus, what are the environmental impacts of NFT and cryptocurrency, and should we be worried?

In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the SVP & CMO of Denodo, Ravi Shankar, to discuss data virtualization and the future of big data.

Through various use cases and examples, Shankar walks us through the exciting history of data analysis, what his company is currently up to, and where this is all going in the future. With Denodo’s data virtualization platform, companies can use modern data integration and management to sift through mountains of data to gain a unified view of the information faster, cheaper, and less effort.

Under the surface, data analysis is quite complicated, but Shankar explains how his company aims to make it as simple as turning on a water faucet — you turn the knob and the water simply flows out the end of the pipe.

Denodo’s powerful logical data integration and management enables data to flow from databases, data warehouses, and data lakes, on-premises or in the cloud, to applications used by business users, where ultimately, they use the most up-to-date data to analyze everything and deliver useful, business-accelerating results.

In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with Mo Asady, the CTO of Convirza, to learn about how marketing teams are tracking and evaluating sales calls using AI.

If you only have one or two sales calls to make, it’s easy to evaluate what happened after the call. However, if your team needs to examine the trends across hundreds of hours worth of conversations, artificial intelligence is likely a better solution.

Through speech recognition, natural language processing, and ultimately, machine learning algorithms, Convirza’s tech is learning about how your team does business. Then, it’s analyzing the calls, providing actual scores about lead quality and a team’s phone skills.

In the near future, this call tracking technology will even be able to help guide the sales conversation itself, giving the salesperson specific directions about which parts of the script to hit next.

It’s not just about going down a sales checklist, it’s about understanding exactly what is going on in the conversation, in real-time, and then using this information to make data-driven marketing decisions.