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		<title>The Benefits of Using Chatbots for Apartment Complexes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chatbots are exciting phenomena. We have seen them in the hospitality and eCommerce industries. In recent times, chatbots have been making their way into real estate. Before you can embrace the importance of chatbots in this industry, you must appreciate &#8230; <a href="https://soolis.com/community/the-benefits-of-using-chatbots-for-apartment-complexes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chatbots are exciting phenomena. We have seen them in the hospitality and eCommerce industries. In recent times, chatbots have been making their way into real estate. Before you can embrace the importance of chatbots in this industry, you must appreciate the benefits that come with this AI technology.</p>
<p>Chatbots present a more interesting and fun way to interact with your customer base. On top of this, chatbots present numerous benefits for apartment complex managers. Below are some of the benefits of using chatbots for apartment complexes:</p>
<h2><strong>1. Round the Clock Customer Service</strong></h2>
<p>You may keep regular office hours, but some of your prospects don&#8217;t. No matter the time of day or day of the week, someone is always looking for a place to rent. in person, it is virtually impossible to be available round the clock.</p>
<p>Thanks to chatbot technology, you can set up a 24/7 customer service system. Day or night, weekday or weekend; you can tend to your customers without lifting a finger.</p>
<p>Your chatbots can answer your clients&#8217; questions and help them find suitable apartments. Whenever you resume work, you can follow up on the prospects and close the deals. With chatbots, you will never miss out on business.</p>
<h2><strong>2. Affordable Customer Service Solutions</strong></h2>
<p>Chatbots are cheaper than human customer service agents. Once you purchase the technology, you are good to go. You can use your salaried employees for more complex tasks.</p>
<h2><strong>3. Capture More Contacts</strong></h2>
<p>Contact information is a valuable currency in real estate. Not everyone that visits your site is ready to buy or rent a property. You need to nurture these relationships before you can fill your rental property. Everything starts by collecting contact information.</p>
<p>A chatbot can capture contact information easily and effectively. Apart from sending and receiving data, chatbots are quite useful in encouraging lead generation. They accomplish this by asking the customer the right questions.</p>
<h2><strong>4. Chatbots Qualify Leads</strong></h2>
<p>You can not show all apartments to every prospect that you capture. There are chatbots in the market that can qualify leads. Chatbots can collect and gather the appropriate information from your prospects.</p>
<p>From your database, the chatbots can match available apartments to the prospect&#8217;s needs and abilities. Such a system will save you a lot of time and generate more sales.</p>
<h2><strong>5. Branding Capabilities</strong></h2>
<p>You can program a chatbot to speak in your brand&#8217;s tone. You can weave your brand&#8217;s identity in your messages. With every word that you send, a prospect engages with your brand. This is an effective way to leverage brand loyalty.</p>
<p>With these benefits, it&#8217;s easy to see why chatbots are becoming popular in the real estate industry. If you haven&#8217;t already, consider adding a chatbot to your site. Once integrated, you can enjoy these benefits.</p>
<p>For more information, contact soolis at 854-999-2728 or visit soolisai.com.</p>
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		<title>The Importance of AI/Chatbots for Leading Service Companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 15:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do service leaders think about the importance of AI and virtual customer assistants? Is there a place for this technology in the future? In 2018, Gartner conducted a Technology Roadmap Survey. During the investigation, they interviewed 452 service leaders &#8230; <a href="https://soolis.com/community/the-importance-of-aichatbots-for-leading-service-companies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do service leaders think about the importance of AI and virtual customer assistants? Is there a place for this technology in the future?</p>
<p>In 2018, <a href="http://www.gartner.com" data-cke-saved-href="http://www.gartner.com">Gartner</a> conducted a Technology Roadmap Survey. During the investigation, they interviewed 452 service leaders from a variety of locations, industries, contact center sizes, and business models. The topic of discussion was 45 established and emerging technologies.</p>
<p>The goal of the exercise was to identify the types of technology that we use in the service landscape and their internal or external impact. How will such technology be relevant to service leaders and contact centers in the future?</p>
<p>Service technology is like a bullseye with five slices. These slices include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Channel technology</li>
<li>Voice-of-customer tools</li>
<li>Infrastructure technology</li>
<li>Customer engagement tools</li>
<li>Employee engagement tools</li>
</ul>
<p>In this article, we shall look into channel technology. We shall be exploring whether there is a place in the future for such technology.</p>
<h2><strong>Channel Technologies in the Service Industry</strong></h2>
<p>This is the most significant slice of the bullseye. This slice supports technologies that facilitate self-service and live channels. Quite a number of service leaders believe that providing the customer with multiple channel choices is an effective way to serve.</p>
<p>For such a strategy, you must recognize the benefits, <a href="https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/top-digital-challenges-for-service-leaders-in-2019/" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/top-digital-challenges-for-service-leaders-in-2019/">costs, and limitations</a> of such channels. The bullseye model can make you understand the technology landscape as well as benchmark the right strategy.</p>
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<h2><strong>AI Bots and Virtual Customer Assistants</strong></h2>
<p>The popularity of AI bots is growing as the industry is embracing these virtual customer assistants (VCA). As of now, AI bots are of medium importance. We expect these AI/chatbots and VCAs to grow in importance as we march to the future.</p>
<p>Chatbot technology acts on behalf of your organization. They collect and deliver information to and from the customer. You can use them to perform a transaction with your clients or offer support. AI/Chatbots and VCA are quite effective in guiding customers to the appropriate resources. Having such a setup can lift off some of the pressure from your support teams.</p>
<p>According to Lauren Villeneuve, Senior Principal Advisory, Gartner, 68% of service leaders believe that virtual customer assistants and Chatbots will be essential to the industry in the coming two years.</p>
<p>Service centers must consider how they can integrate this technology into their current operations. There must be a way of integrating the tech into both customer-facing and rep-facing systems.</p>
<h2><strong>Practical Use of AI Systems and Chatbots</strong></h2>
<p>Using AI bots and VCAs in web chat platforms has been a success to many service centers. There are many benefits to the deployment of AI and Chatbots. These benefits include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Greater Capability and Scale: </strong>AI bots can solve the small issue while your advisors focus on complex tasks. With such a system in place, your customer support teams will have a lighter workload. You can serve a growing customer base without the need to hire more personnel.</li>
<li>F<strong>aster Chat Speeds: </strong>A chatbot replying a text is five times faster than a human performing the same task. Ai bots can reduce customer wait time.</li>
<li><strong>Better Gatekeeping: </strong>AI bots can act as security. The AI programs can detect other bots trying to gain access to your system. Such a setup frees up your advisory team so that they can focus on actual customers.</li>
</ul>
<p>The future is bright for AI systems and chatbots. Do you use these systems? Are you considering having this technology? If not, what are you waiting for? AI could be the advantage you need over your competition.</p>
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		<title>Chatbots: Helping Businesses During and After Coronavirus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown businesses into a spin. The strict lockdown measures undertaken by authorities have forced businesses to close. Their customer support departments have been hit particularly hard as call centers across the world remain closed. Now, more than ever, &#8230; <a href="https://soolis.com/community/chatbots-helping-businesses-during-and-after-coronavirus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown businesses into a spin. The strict lockdown measures undertaken by authorities have forced businesses to close. Their <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/calls-to-companies-rise-amid-coronavirus-but-operators-arent-standing-by-11585483200" target="_blank" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/calls-to-companies-rise-amid-coronavirus-but-operators-arent-standing-by-11585483200">customer support departments have been hit particularly hard</a> as call centers across the world remain closed.</p>
<p>Now, more than ever, businesses are turning to AI and chatbots to keep communications with the rest of the world open.</p>
<h2>Filling the Gap</h2>
<p>Chatbots are helping fill the gap left by human operators currently restrained by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This helps businesses stay relevant and respond to the uptick in queries. Businesses that have already deployed chatbots are reaping benefits such as:</p>
<h3>· Quick response</h3>
<p>Chatbots, unlike human operators, are not restricted by time. They are never tied down by other tasks. They can also serve thousands of people simultaneously. To this end, responses to queries are almost immediate.</p>
<p>People hate waiting on the line, so the quick response improves the customer’s user experience. It can also help nurture a long-term relationship with customers as they will feel more valued and appreciated.</p>
<h3>· No hold time</h3>
<p>Holding is just as frustrating as waiting. It is, however, inevitable when using human operators. Oftentimes the operators have to consult their colleagues or run searches to answer customers’ queries satisfactorily. Some operators also do it just to get the customers to hang up.</p>
<p>Chatbots don’t ask callers to wait or hold. They are advanced algorithms programmed to answer customers’ questions. Answers come quickly to them, so callers don’t have to wait. They also don’t mind working with annoying customers so that no one will be ignored or cut off.</p>
<h3>· No human interaction</h3>
<p>People apparently prefer having their queries handled by chatbots instead of human operators. A study <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/over-half-of-consumers-will-choose-a-chatbot-over-a-human-to-save-time/" target="_blank" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/over-half-of-consumers-will-choose-a-chatbot-over-a-human-to-save-time/">published by Zdnet found more than half of respondents prefer chatbots to human operators</a>. 69% of the respondents also acknowledge the quick response time afforded by chatbots.</p>
<p>People prefer dealing with chatbots because they are quick and straight-to-the-point. Human operators, as mentioned, can be rude to customers and don’t always go all the way when answering queries.</p>
<h2>Benefits Beyond the Pandemic</h2>
<p>More businesses were switching to chatbots and AI even before the COVID-19 pandemic. This trend is expected to continue well after the pandemic is over, and the benefits will be bigger and better.</p>
<p>Developers of <a href="https://www.hubspot.com/stories/chatbot-marketing-future" target="_blank" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.hubspot.com/stories/chatbot-marketing-future">chatbots are using Artificial Intelligence</a> technology to try to make these bots more human-like. The goal is to make them so efficient that callers think they are talking to real human operators.</p>
<p>Chatbots currently have limited capabilities. Most only answer commonly asked questions, but some are sophisticated enough to understand unique queries and come up with relevant answers, albeit the answers sometimes seem inappropriate or bizarre. Some chatbots are also sophisticated enough to answer voice calls and mimic speech.</p>
<p>Chatbots are also getting integrated into CRMs. This gives them better access to data that helps them respond to queries. Their scope of utility is expanding beyond the basic FAQs to being able to answer individual, unique queries using data analysis.</p>
<p>As such, besides the benefits discussed earlier, chatbots will have long-term benefits such as:</p>
<h3>· Saving money</h3>
<p>Businesses will not need call center services or in-call customer support departments once chatbots become sophisticated and widespread enough. This will save them lots of money since chatbots are basically free and can handle thousands of queries simultaneously.</p>
<h3>· Improving brand-customer interaction</h3>
<p>Most brands don’t interact with their customers as much as they should. They do not have enough time or resources to communicate with as many of their customers as necessary. This, however, will change in the future as chatbots will be capable of holding direct conversations about virtually anything regarding the business with as many people as necessary.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Chatbots will help you keep in touch with your customers despite the lockdown imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. They may also be instrumental in the future growth of your business as they become more sophisticated.</p>
<p>Any business, including yours, can and should use chatbots. Eligible industries include medicine, fitness, real estate, manufacturing, and more!</p>
<p>For more information about chatbots contact soolis at <a href="http://www.soolisai.com/">soolisai.com</a></p>

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		<title>Even with layoffs, businesses can increase customer service</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rapid spread of COVID-19 has left many business at loss. Companies that rely on physical interaction with their customers like the hospitality, banking, and retail are worst hit, given most governments’ directives to lockdown towns. Even those in operation &#8230; <a href="https://soolis.com/community/even-with-layoffs-businesses-can-increase-customer-service/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>The rapid spread of COVID-19 has left many business at loss. Companies that rely on physical interaction with their customers like the hospitality, banking, and retail are worst hit, given most governments’ directives to lockdown towns. Even those in operation have to work with smaller teams, which leads to delay in the delivery of services.</p>
<p>Google, for example, warned its Google Store customers to expect longer wait times because it is working with a limited team. Call centers are also getting slammed, not to mention banks that are reporting hold times of 10 hours or longer.</p>
<p>Consequently, many companies are beginning to leverage on AI technology to bridge the gaps in communication. While there’s a need for human contact, the deployment of AI technologies like chatbots is demonstrating how valuable automation can be for brands in a crisis.</p>
<p>Chatbots are tailored to cater to provide curated information. As such, responses to particular questions can be provided interactively and more rapidly in comparison with traditional online search methods. Other ways a company can benefit from integrating chatbot technology include:</p>
<h2>Improved Customer Engagement</h2>
<p>According to a <a href="https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-short-life-of-online-sales-leads/?utm_source=BotsCrew&amp;utm_medium=blogpost&amp;utm_campaign=chatbot%20guide&amp;utm_term=chatbot&amp;utm_content=chatbot" data-cke-saved-href="https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-short-life-of-online-sales-leads/?utm_source=BotsCrew&amp;utm_medium=blogpost&amp;utm_campaign=chatbot%20guide&amp;utm_term=chatbot&amp;utm_content=chatbot">Havard Business Review</a>, companies that reply to customers within an hour of receiving a query are seven times more likely to generate leads. Chatbots provide a real-time response, thus increasing a company’s conversion rate.</p>
<p>What’s more, chatbots that have voice automation offer more interactive communication as they can also ask questions to understand the customer’s problem and provide a better solution. The devices also provide customers with rich content with blog entries, product pages, and tutorials based on the user’s response.</p>
<h2>24/7 Availability</h2>
<p>With a chatbot, your business is never out of service, even with the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, you are confident about your customers getting responses at any time. The company creates the ultimate customer experience as a result, by addressing user’s requests at any time.</p>
<h2>Ability to Monitor Consumer Data</h2>
<p>Chatbots also collect a lot of data through the simple questions they ask. Companies can use the feedback to make improvements in their products and services. They can also use feedback to monitor customers’ purchasing patterns and consumer behavior. This way, a business can identify services or products that need aggressive marketing and those that need relaunching.</p>
<h2>Reduced Bounce Rate</h2>
<p>With chatbots being available 24/7, businesses reduce the bounce rate significantly. Companies require potential customers to fill out long forms to interact with users. The practice is off-putting for many users causing others to quit halfway.</p>
<p>Chatbots eliminate such procedures by collectong the user’s information more conveniently. What’s more, bots that have been integrated with voice automation allow users to ask queries and get instant feedback, order products, receive payments, among other tasks, without leaving the messaging applications.</p>
<h2>Eliminate Repetition</h2>
<p>With many companies working with a small number of customer support representatives, it is essential to reduce repetitiveness. Many customer service representatives answer the same questions throughout the day, which can be time-consuming.</p>
<p>Setting up chatbot systems enables businesses to deal with monotonous conversations. As such, customer representatives can deal with more sensitive questions that need more time input. Hybrid solutions consisting of a chatbot and a human agent are even more useful as they increase employee satisfaction and reduce the high turnover in call centers.</p>
<h2>Cost Saving</h2>
<p>Setting up remote workspaces presents an additional cost in an already struggling global economy. Implementing a fully functioning chatbot is more cost-effective. What’s more, automated solutions allow organizations to handle as many customers at once.</p>
<p>Without a doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic has become an accelerator for the implementation of chatbot technology. It allows brands to retain normalcy even with the continued emphasis on remote contact centers and work from home solutions. Chatbot technology means their communication channels remain open to consumers without routing voice calls in remote locations.</p>
<p>For more information on chatbots or to get a free consultation visit <a href="http://www.soolisai.com/">soolisai.com</a>.</p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which Is Better: Chatbots Or Mobile Apps? There&#8217;s a debate, and there are plenty who are on either side. The side winning the debate right now tends to be that which favors Chatbots. There are quite a few ways chatbots &#8230; <a href="https://soolis.com/community/chatbots-vs-apps/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Which Is Better: Chatbots Or Mobile Apps?</strong><br />
There&#8217;s a debate, and there are plenty who are on either side. The side winning the debate right now tends to be that which favors Chatbots. There are quite a few ways chatbots can be exceptionally advantageous, and it&#8217;s expected that <a href="https://www.gartner.com/imagesrv/summits/docs/na/customer-360/C360_2011_brochure_FINAL.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.gartner.com/imagesrv/summits/docs/na/customer-360/C360_2011_brochure_FINAL.pdf">more than 80% of clientele interactions will be handled autonomously</a> through such software options by year&#8217;s end. Here&#8217;s where the &#8220;crux&#8221; is.</p>
<p>Both mobile apps and chatbots are key means of maintaining customer relationships. Mobile apps are effective, but unless you can get yours to be regularly used by those who download it from you, there will be a steep drop off in the effectiveness of such apps to manage customer relationships.</p>
<p>In this writing we&#8217;ll go over several reasons why the professionals tend to favor chatbots over mobile apps in terms of digital methods to manage customer relationships. A few things you&#8217;ll definitely want to consider include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>People Prefer Bots To Representatives, Reducing Messenger App Value</strong></li>
<li><strong>Mobile Apps Are Getting Old, Boring, And Sometimes Even Irritating</strong></li>
<li><strong>Expedited Communications Through More Streamlined Interaction</strong></li>
<li><strong>Simplified Interaction Optimizing Customer Relationship Management</strong></li>
<li><strong>A Potential For Cost Reduction From Several Angles</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>People Prefer Bots To Representatives, Reducing Messenger App Value</strong><br />
Representatives generally take longer to respond through a messaging app, and they may not have all pertinent information readily available. Additionally, they have the propensity to incidentally render incorrect information.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, chatbots can respond instantaneously, and if there is an issue that isn&#8217;t something they can take care of, they can certainly funnel clientele to the appropriate representative immediately. The majority of issues will be something the bot can handle, and those which aren&#8217;t represent a prime opportunity for conversion or up-sale.</p>
<p><strong>Mobile Apps Are Getting Old, Boring, And Sometimes Even Irritating</strong><br />
Back when the iPhone was getting popular in 2008, everyone had that fun little &#8220;lightsaber&#8221; app. That was twelve years ago. Since then, mobile apps on smartphones have become ubiquitous, and operating them is often difficult. Furthermore, they take up time, and many users are flat-out bored.</p>
<p>So if this is what you offer when clients come to your company, it&#8217;s not likely to foster positive engagement. A few years ago it definitely would have. The winds of change have come. Chatbots, by contrast, are novel, effective, and burgeoning.</p>
<p><strong>Expedited Communications Through More Streamlined Interaction</strong><br />
The majority of users who interact with a chatbot don&#8217;t even realize it. Oftentimes what users want to know is information that an automated AI can produce more swiftly and accurate than a representative interacting with the individual over an app. Also, apps that don&#8217;t include messenger functions have diminished interaction potential. Accordingly, chatbots are more efficient from either angle.</p>
<p><strong>Simplified Interaction Optimizing Customer Relationship Management</strong><br />
Interaction is simplified through a bot. With an app there may be a FAQ section, some promotional section, and perhaps a messenger; perhaps not. With a chatbot, the client visits your site, the bot pops up, they type in their question, and they get their answer. It&#8217;s simpler, and more straightforward.</p>
<p><strong>A Potential For Cost Reduction From Several Angles</strong><br />
If you have your own app, good luck getting it made for under $10k. It&#8217;ll likely be much more expensive. Also, you&#8217;ll need tech support, and you&#8217;ll have to manage it. Logging, upgrade, troubleshooting&#8211;the works will be necessary. A chatbot you just put in place. It saves money in acquisition, production, and management over an app.</p>
<p><strong>What To Take Away</strong><br />
Well, chatbots save you money, simplify interaction in client relationship management, have novelty owing to their newness, and are preferred by many clients to apps. Unless you&#8217;ve got a very lucrative customer management option in place, consultants will likely recommend looking into chatbots.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chatbots Expedite The Buyer&#8217;s Journey Website &#8220;funnels&#8221; are designed in a way that impels potential clientele toward conversion. If clientele were livestock, strategy behind website funnels would be cowboys spuring the cattle back to the &#8220;ranch&#8221; of conversion. Since at least &#8230; <a href="https://soolis.com/community/chatbot-vs-website-funnels/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Chatbots Expedite The Buyer&#8217;s Journey</strong><br />
Website &#8220;funnels&#8221; are designed in a way that impels potential clientele toward conversion. If clientele were livestock, strategy behind website funnels would be cowboys spuring the cattle back to the &#8220;ranch&#8221; of conversion. Since <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ATVs-replacing-horses-to-herd-cattle-on-the-range-2600148.php" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ATVs-replacing-horses-to-herd-cattle-on-the-range-2600148.php">at least 2007</a>, cowboys have been using All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) like four-wheelers rather than horses. If you think of websites as horses in your clientele cattle drive, and ATVs as chatbots, you&#8217;ll see how advantageous chatbots truly are.</p>
<p>Many cowboys swear by their horses, but more successful ranches have made the ATV switch. Some agricultural groups use both. As a business, you&#8217;d do well to consider the advantages of chatbots over traditional website funnels. Website monetization manages to &#8220;rope in&#8221; up to 3% of traffic, <a href="https://www.experian.co.uk/blogs/latest-thinking/marketing/convert-97-website-data/" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.experian.co.uk/blogs/latest-thinking/marketing/convert-97-website-data/">while the other 97% of visitors</a> won&#8217;t buy a thing. Meanwhile, conversational marketing cuts wasted efforts in this regard substantially, initiating <a href="https://www.ometrics.com/blog/conversion-rate-optimization-and-chatbots/" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.ometrics.com/blog/conversion-rate-optimization-and-chatbots/">at least three times the conversion rate</a> seen through older methods. It&#8217;s the difference between a horse and an ATV&#8211;or a horse and buggy and an automobile.</p>
<p>With chatbots, your website can <em>automatically</em> and <em>immediately </em>&#8220;talk back&#8221; to curious clientele through services like Facebook Messenger. This chatbot &#8220;conversation&#8221; can be dynamic and personalized; designed to specifically represent the interests of all involved. Following we&#8217;ll briefly cover a few introductory items pertaining to how chatbot innovations outshine older website marketing strategies so you can figure out how best to incorporate them:</p>
<ul>
<li>Personalization</li>
<li>TOFU Expansion</li>
<li>Content Marketing Via Messenger</li>
<li>Bots For Customer Journey Facilitation</li>
<li>Lead Generation Bots That Enable Sales</li>
<li>Key Advantages Of Messenger Marketing</li>
<li>Implementating FB Messenger Marketing On Your Site</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Personalization</strong><br />
Chatbots have high levels of personalization potential that can be used to directly meet clientele needs as pertain to your specific business. Figure out where clientele belong, then personalize based on this content using messages that follow a gameplan&#8211;your website can&#8217;t do that.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a six-step process you can alter to fit your needs, it&#8217;s generally going to look like this: the first message is high-value content, the second has more &#8220;fun&#8221; content, you suggest a soft-sell with the third, send some more &#8220;fun&#8221; content on the fourth, trickle out high-value content with the fifth chatbot message, and selll on the sixth. Mix and match to fit your needs; consultation helps you maximize.</p>
<p><strong>TOFU Expansion</strong><br />
Top Of Funnel marketing strategies are abreviated &#8220;TOFU&#8221;. The wider the mouth of your &#8220;funnel&#8221;, the more potential clientele you can encourage toward conversion at its bottom. Driving traffic to chatbots produces a wider funnel than traditional website marketing. Clientele can be sent to different segments of a given chatbot&#8217;s programming as well, helping the bot most appropriately respond to what clients are searching for.</p>
<p>Pop-up &#8220;messeges&#8221; on your website do this well, facilitating more effective clientele &#8220;opt-ins&#8221; than emails are known to produce. Users can engage by just clicking the pop-up message window, and entering their info. So substitute out email pop-ups for chatbot messenger pop-ups which <em>additionally</em> capture clientele email&#8211;you&#8217;re &#8220;doubling down&#8221;.</p>
<p>All you&#8217;ve got to do is install a widget on your homepage. The pop-up will have some customized messages that are variations on&#8221;How can I assist you?&#8221;, followed by appropriate calls-to-action. You can alter such messages as it suits you.</p>
<p><strong>Content Marketing Via Messenger</strong><br />
You can use exchanges between clientele and chatbots to suggest relevant content based on client queries. Chatbot content should be calibrated for classic buyer&#8217;s journey stages: awareness, consideration, evaluation, decision-making, and purchasing. Chatbots can automatically guide clientele through these stages as they gather information and deliver answers to relevant queries, helping customers decide.</p>
<p><strong>Bots For Customer Journey Facilitation</strong><br />
Dovetailing from content marketing, bots calibrated to pull clients further down the sales funnel are infinitely more effective than &#8220;static&#8221; websites, and save your marketing division a lot of work, further helping you consolidate and maintain sales resources.</p>
<p><strong>Lead Generation Bots That Enable Sales</strong><br />
In terms of lead generation, several best practices suggest themselves. Bots should be calibrated based on factors like where users are coming from, existing onboarding procedures, email capture via chatbot messaging, gift-giving in terms of coupons, or discounted services through chatbots.</p>
<p>Additionally, gamifying clientele preferences by allowing them to rate things or demonstrate what they prefer, defining discounts in exact dollar amounts rather than percentage reductions, soft-pressure messages like those telling visitors certain inventory is running out, and leaning into clientele patterns additionally produce effective lead generation through chatbots.</p>
<p><strong>Key Advantages Of Messenger Marketing</strong><br />
Effective messenger marketing facilitates key advantages. Do it right, and expect the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Expanded Email Open-Rates &#8211; <a href="https://chatbotslife.com/chatbots-vs-email-when-to-use-them-as-marketing-support-channels-3a9e5567dc20" data-cke-saved-href="https://chatbotslife.com/chatbots-vs-email-when-to-use-them-as-marketing-support-channels-3a9e5567dc20">More Than Double That Of Email</a></li>
<li>More Reliable Clickthrough Rates; <a href="https://chatbotslife.com/chatbots-vs-email-when-to-use-them-as-marketing-support-channels-3a9e5567dc20" data-cke-saved-href="https://chatbotslife.com/chatbots-vs-email-when-to-use-them-as-marketing-support-channels-3a9e5567dc20">Up To 60% Better Than Email</a></li>
<li>Increased User Data Collection Automatically; Including Insight And Data</li>
<li>Exceptional Reduction In Marketing Costs Per Lead&#8211;<a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/facebook-messenger-marketing-experiments" data-cke-saved-href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/facebook-messenger-marketing-experiments">Up To 477% Reduction</a></li>
<li>Natural Opportunities For Content Marketing Specifically Matching What Clients Want</li>
<li>Increased Levels Of Signups Without Clients Being Pressured In An Uncomfortable Way</li>
<li>Exact Personalization Precisely Matching Business Needs And Desires Of Your Clientele</li>
<li>Moare Automation Than Is Available Through Traditional Personal And Website Marketing</li>
<li>More Effective &#8220;Micro-Targeting&#8221; Incorporating Exact Data As Recouped By The Chatbot Messenger</li>
<li>Expanded User Base: Clientele Already Use Options like Facebook Messenger; You&#8217;re Just &#8220;Leaning In&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Marketing cost reduction alone strongly specifies incorporation of chatbot technology in addition to existing website techniques. You&#8217;ll likely end up phasing out website lead generation tactics entirely, as they&#8217;re roundly outshone through chatbots; but every business is different, and consultation is always wise.</p>
<p><strong>Implementating FB Messenger Marketing On Your Site</strong><br />
Proper implementation includes determining who clientele are, asking the right questions to classify them through chatbots, designing content for classifications to meet clients where they are in the buyer&#8217;s journey, matching content to clientele, and using this information to relay clientele to salespeople who &#8220;close the deal&#8221;. All these things provide clear advantage to websites which don&#8217;t have such marketing options available.</p>
<p><strong>A More Successful Sales Process</strong><br />
Chatbots help personalize outreach, expand sales funnels, disseminate appropriate content, facilitate a more streamlined sales journey, generate more leads, reduce overall expenses through key advantages, and maximize your site&#8217;s sales generation potential thorugh their implementation. This is a broad overview presented in brief, but there&#8217;s much more to recommend chatbots. For competitive viability, trade in that old website horse-and-buggy for a souped up chatbox autombile.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 17:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding Chatbots and AI Chatbots are an application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for functions traditionally requiring human activity. Basically, a chatbot pops up on a website like an Instant Messaging window, and could even have the &#8220;avatar&#8221; or &#8220;profile picture&#8221; of &#8230; <a href="https://soolis.com/community/chatbots-in-business/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Understanding Chatbots and AI</strong><br />
Chatbots are an application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for functions traditionally requiring human activity. Basically, a chatbot pops up on a website like an Instant Messaging window, and could even have the &#8220;avatar&#8221; or &#8220;profile picture&#8221; of a real person, depending on how the business configures the bot. This chatbot handles clientele queries so people don&#8217;t have to, and in a way that seems organic.</p>
<p>The effectiveness of AI has progressed exponentially as technology has. It can be expected this trend will continue. One way this continuous innovation directly affects businesses in the form of AI chatbots. These cut time in customer query resolutions, reducing physical personnel needs for your business.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s expected by 2020&#8217;s end, <a href="http://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-02-19-gartner-says-25-percent-of-customer-service-operations-will-use-virtual-customer-assistants-by-2020" data-cke-saved-href="http://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-02-19-gartner-says-25-percent-of-customer-service-operations-will-use-virtual-customer-assistants-by-2020">1 out of 4 digital customer service activities</a> will be the responsibility of chatbots. It&#8217;s expected within five years of that, the market for this particular AI will be worth <a href="http://www.statista.com/statistics/656596/worldwide-chatbot-market/" data-cke-saved-href="http://www.statista.com/statistics/656596/worldwide-chatbot-market/">one and a quarter billion dollars</a>. What AI chatbots are, and what they do, is something your business should take into consideration. In this writing, we&#8217;ll briefly examine them in more detail.</p>
<p><strong>Chatbot Applications</strong><br />
Businesses choose chatbots for a few reasons, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Facilitation Of Better Social Experiences</li>
<li>General Entertainment Value</li>
<li>Exploration And Curiosity</li>
<li>Productivity Enhancement</li>
</ul>
<p>In terms of social experiences, chatbots drive conversations and allow people to ask any question free of human judgment. In terms of general entertainment, it&#8217;s hard not to crack a smile at what an AI algorithm thinks you intend with a question; plenty of people kill time this way, and you can even design chatbots expressly for this purpose.</p>
<p>Similarly, since AI &#8220;personalities&#8221; are a relatively recent innovation, people are curious to test chatbot abilities. Lastly, chatbots can provide people immediate assistance on a website as necessary.</p>
<p><strong>Ways Chatbots Help Your Business</strong><br />
Several key positive outcomes of chatbot applications that are already known include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Personal Assistance</li>
<li>Continuous Availability</li>
<li>Reducing Operational Expenses</li>
<li>Exposition Of New Business Features</li>
<li>Promoting Greater Customer Satisfaction</li>
<li>Expanded Opportunities For Effective Marketing</li>
</ul>
<p>Customers want to talk to somebody whenever they have a need, not during regular business hours. Chatbots make this possible, and in a way that&#8217;s more cost-effective than options like live-chat. They&#8217;re available around the clock. This can be additionally convenient in terms of personal assistance&#8211;you can send search queries to bots, rather than a secretary or intern. Accordingly, you conserve personnel resources.</p>
<p>Chatbots are also excellent at helping provide exposition into new features of your business with a friendly tone, and a comprehensive nature exactly matching your requirements for showcasing products. This is, again, direct and immediate, facilitating greater satisfaction among clientele.</p>
<p>Finally, they can be used to send clients matching a specific criteria varying offers. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software utilizes chatbots directly and indirectly: directly when clients interact with them, and indirectly when clients match criteria for later messaging along CRM profile protocols.</p>
<p><strong>Designing Your Own Chatbots</strong><br />
There&#8217;s a four-fold strategy to pursue in designing your own chatbots:</p>
<ul>
<li>Goal Definition</li>
<li>Channel Specification</li>
<li>Methodology Of Approach</li>
<li>Customization Of Final Products And Their Launch</li>
</ul>
<p>You need to know what you want out of chatbots; consultation helps you define goals. You need to know where you&#8217;ll use them, the way you&#8217;ll implement them, customized components of their launch, and how best to launch them. These things are reasonably straightforward, and certain best practices are already becoming common.</p>
<p><strong>What To Take Away</strong><br />
Chatbots are here to stay. They&#8217;re growing in popularity, they make things better for customers, save money, and you can configure them to directly enable the your business needs. As a cherry on top, they&#8217;re perfect for marketing. You may want to look into them if you haven&#8217;t.</p>
<p>For more information on chatbots or to request information about having a chatbot created for your business, contact soOlis at 877-789-8773 or soOlis.com.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Customer expectations have increased over the last few years. In fact, a recent study by Google showed that 61% of people expect businesses to deliver personalized brands. Similarly, the number of people who want to reach businesses through messaging has &#8230; <a href="https://soolis.com/community/are-chatbots-a-better-martketing-tool/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Customer expectations have increased over the last few years. In fact, a recent study by <a href="https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/data/personalized-brand-experience-statistics/" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/data/personalized-brand-experience-statistics/">Google</a> showed that 61% of people expect businesses to deliver personalized brands. Similarly, the number of people who want to reach businesses through messaging has increased. However, it’s difficult for companies to keep up on chat. This challenge has led to many businesses losing leads who attempted to reach them through live chat.</p>
<h2>Live Chat May Not Work</h2>
<p>While live chat may help you to communicate with your visitors, you’ll need a solution that can help tailor your conversations to your visitors and their problems. You need to sift through each and every conversation and answer all your customers’ questions. Unfortunately, your sales team may have a difficult time keeping up. The poor customer experience may add unnecessary friction to your site visitors.</p>
<h2>A Chatbot is a Better Alternative</h2>
<p>A chatbot that can engage prospects, organize them, and also direct them to the right place will be a win-win both to your site visitors and the sales team. But before you build your chatbot, it’s important to have a look at the live chat transcripts. They’re important, especially when it comes to conversational marketing because you get to hear the prospect’s words on what they want to do.</p>
<p>To start your chatbot, bucket all intents from live chat into three classifications: sales, support, and others. Visitors to your website can then select the chatbot that matches their intent.</p>
<p>Getting technical support for a particular product on the website can be a challenge. But there are more thorough resources that are better-suited to provide your visitors with answers. Therefore, instead of keeping visitors in the chatbot, you can use what you know about them from the CRM to direct them in the right place. The chatbot can look into their contacts, and serve them with a detailed webpage depending on the products they’re using.</p>
<h2>Visitors Want to Talk to Your Sales Team</h2>
<p>Most of your website visitors who interact with live chat want to reach your sales team. However, this doesn’t mean that they want to connect to a human right away. For your sales team to communicate with prospects, they need the visitors&#8217; name, email, and website. Therefore, the ideal chatbot should be programmed to collect this information naturally.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.newvoicemedia.com/en-us/resources/serial-switchers-strikes-again-us" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.newvoicemedia.com/en-us/resources/serial-switchers-strikes-again-us">NewVoiceMedia</a>, prospects can become frustrated if they are required to repeat themselves. To combat this problem, you can check the CRM and collect the needed information up-front. This way, your sales team won’t spend valuable time requesting email addresses.</p>
<h2>Expected Results</h2>
<p>Your chatbot success can come in a few ways:</p>
<ul>
<li>It can anticipate the next step of a conversation and use quick replies. Opening up a new chat and clicking on a button is less laborious than typing in a text field. Therefore, your prospects won’t have to create the first message.</li>
<li>A chatbot has multiple-choice options that can drive more engagement. This makes it easier to start and maintain a conversation.</li>
<li>Chatbots can write like humans. Prospects often don’t want to talk about sales. Instead, most of them want to talk about products they are yet to use.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Bottom Line</h2>
<p>Chatbots can help you meet your prospects wherever they are. Before you get started, interview your sales team and look at the chat transcripts. Group the questions your visitors ask into different categories. It’s also important that you and your team think about the best ways to help your visitors.</p>
<p>For more information about chatbots, message soOlis <a href="https://m.me/soolisdotcom?ref=Welcome%20Message">here</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chatbot market is expected to rise to $1.25 billion U.S dollars by 2025, which is a significant increase from 2016’s $190.8 million U.S dollars. Gartner also predicts that 25% of all customer service operations will use AI virtual assistants &#8230; <a href="https://soolis.com/community/are-you-there-when-your-members-and-prospects-are/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/656596/worldwide-chatbot-market/" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/656596/worldwide-chatbot-market/"><span lang="EN-US">chatbot market</span></a> is expected to rise to $1.25 billion U.S dollars by 2025, which is a significant increase from 2016’s $190.8 million U.S dollars. <a href="https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-02-19-gartner-says-25-percent-of-customer-service-operations-will-use-virtual-customer-assistants-by-2020" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-02-19-gartner-says-25-percent-of-customer-service-operations-will-use-virtual-customer-assistants-by-2020"><span lang="EN-US">Gartner</span></a> also predicts that 25% of all customer service operations will use AI virtual assistants by 2020. As the popularity of chatbots continues to grow, all businesses need to take advantage of the benefits of AI technology. If you are still deliberating, here are the benefits of using chatbots for your business.</p>
<ol>
<li>
<h3>Reducing Operational Costs</h3>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Chatbots automate customer service operations such as query collection, providing instructions, and repetitive answers. Funding your agents to be available 24/7 all year-round is costly. According to <a href="https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson/2017/10/how-chatbots-reduce-customer-service-costs-by-30-percent/" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson/2017/10/how-chatbots-reduce-customer-service-costs-by-30-percent/"><span lang="EN-US">IBM</span></a>, businesses spend $1.3 trillion to respond to 265 billion customer service call every year. You can use chatbot technology to answer up to 80% of routine queries and free up your agents and free your customer service agents for more critical queries. Consequently, you can slash your customer service costs by up to 30%.</p>
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<li>
<h3>Around the Clock Customer Service</h3>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Chatbots are virtual assistants that do not need sleep, customer breaks, vacations, and are not prone to illnesses or disasters. They provide 24/7 customer service assistance to your customers. You can also update your virtual assistants to collect information from customers, sell your company’s portfolio and catalog, and make a recommendation based on previous customer preferences. Both your business and clients will stay happy after interacting with chatbot technology.</p>
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<li>
<h3>Customer Retention</h3>
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<p>Did you know that <a href="https://chatbotsmagazine.com/how-with-the-help-of-chatbots-customer-service-costs-could-be-reduced-up-to-30-b9266a369945" data-cke-saved-href="https://chatbotsmagazine.com/how-with-the-help-of-chatbots-customer-service-costs-could-be-reduced-up-to-30-b9266a369945"><span lang="EN-US">91% of unsatisfied customers</span></a> will not return for a service? If you keep losing new clients, there is a high chance that your business will sink. As more customers continue to seek immediate responses, not being able to respond immediately will leave them unsatisfied and cause them to find solutions from your competitors.</p>
<p>Chatbots provide instant answers and engage clients as soon as they visit your website. They also inform a client that their query has been received and direct them to customer service agents, which will help you gain their goodwill.</p>
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<h3>Consistent Customer Service</h3>
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<p>While human beings can deal with queries that you cannot automate, they also work depending on their mood. Personal problems, general dislike, hunger, and the time of the day can affect the productivity of your customer service agents. If your agent is not in the right mood, they may not give your customers a satisfying experience.</p>
<p>Chatbots, on the other hand, work tirelessly and always adhere to rules. They only respond as programmed, in a polite manner, which provides consistent customer service. If you need responses in multiple languages, you can achieve it with a program &#8211; a skill that may be challenging for your customer service agents. Once you program the virtual assistants to work in various languages, you will improve the customer service experience in your business.</p>
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<h3>Extended Marketing Avenue</h3>
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<p>Chatbots do more than improve customer service- they can also market your business. How? As they engage your customers, they can sell products to your customers in a personal way. Since these virtual assistants retain customer query data, they can recommend products based on a customer’s previous queries. You can also improve your business&#8217;s customer reach by automating responses on multiple platforms. It would be impossible to expand your reach at the same rate if you do it manually. Lastly, virtual assistants also eliminate gaps in your sales funnel by responding immediately to customer queries. They smoothen the transition between engagement and conversion to improve your marketing and sales.</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>Utilizing chatbots for your business has numerous benefits. They cut down operational costs, provide 24/7 consistent customer service, extend your marketing, and help you retain customers.</p>
<p>For more information on chatbots click this <a href="http://soolis-855410.hs-sites.com/how-chatbots-impact-business">link</a>.</p>
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