As we move into the “next normal,” have you considered what your customer experience will look like, and how you’ll deliver it safely? In virtually every industry, the customer experience is changing. Restaurants have turned to contactless delivery, and takeout placed right in the trunk of your car. Libraries are offering curbside pickup. Banks are […]
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As the leading customer service platform for parking operators, we signed 27 new deals in Q2. The new agreements include parking management companies across 13 states, in the following verticals: real estate, higher education, healthcare, and private operations. “It’s telling that in a time when the entire parking industry is under unprecedented financial pressure, we’ve […]
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We use a constant flow of information to supply our feedback loops. We take information from our team to make our environment better, from our vendors to make our supply chain better and from our clients to make our offering better. Today I would like to dive into the client feedback loop and make sure you know how important it is and what we do with the information.
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“Parker Technology provides a quality call service to several of our garages. Answering all the calls myself previously, I was worried about quality control and how the CSR’s would handle the incoming traffic. I continue to be pleasantly surprised by their professionalism to my parkers and attention to individual unique details at each of my locations. Using their back-end software is very user friendly and I can listen and track all the calls from each location, spending very little time a day.”
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I spend a lot of time thinking (and worrying) about ways to build and maintain a great culture at Parker Technology. As I sought my next “hook” to launch this LI article, I was fortunate enough to catch a vignette on NPR by Anya Kamenetz, Cory Turner and Chloee Weiner, entitled “Kindness Can Be Taught. Here’s How.” The story explored research about how to raise awesome children; however, as I listened and then later read the story online, I became positively “giddy!”
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We just went “live” with our second garage at UT Health San Antonio – the Medical Arts & Research Center (MARC) garage. Last year, in mid-October, the Mays Cancer Clinic came online. Last week, the MARC garage came online. Mitchell Time, out of Austin, TX, installed our hardware (2 audio-only and 6 two-way video intercoms) on the existing Amano PARCS […]
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The other day I was on a train with my family, and as the next group of passengers embarked, I nudged my teenage son to move so that a kind woman, “much older” than him, could take a seat. The woman smiled and shared that she had just recently encouraged her daughter to do the same thing. With an exasperated expression, she shared that in that moment, her daughter failed to comply and said “Why? I’m never going to see them again.” Interesting. It took 24 hours before I could connect the dots. Then it hit me.
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Self-service automation is taking over. You can’t go to a grocery store, an airport or a restaurant without interacting with a machine where a human once stood. The automated machines in parking garages known as PARCS equipment are no different. The parking industry led the way when operators started replacing cashiers with automated payment kiosks more than 15 years ago. And while it’s true that automation is becoming the norm, human failure in front of that automation is happening much more than you realize.
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