Marketing is the key component of any business. When it comes to the digital playground, content becomes the king and thus, content marketing is something that every online business owner deals with. Be it telling about your services and products or selling those online, content plays an important role in getting more and more customers.
How can Content help you become the King?
Content is the tool by which a firm can target the emotions of the consumer. The content can persuade the people visiting your website to buy from it, or to avail your services. Content, if used wisely, can bring down marketing expenses by a huge amount as good content will automatically lead to good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and people will organically access your site, says a report from a well-known provider of Digital Marketing Services.
Furthermore, the advent of Social Media has played a pivotal role, as people can now share your content in their own networks and give you more and more visitors. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, VK, etc. are full of pages about products and services and companies are trying their best to interact with the users on these platforms. The firms' whose content is found interesting can be seen trending on the social handles and this definitely is one of the best and the cheapest digital marketing solutions available to the firms.
How can you make people share your content?
After doing some in-depth studies and collaborating with a popular SEO Services Company, we have found the conclusion that emotional messages delivered through content leave a deeper mark on the consumers rather than using promotional messages. So, making people feel connected with the content is the way you can make people share your content over the internet.
But you may ask how? Well, we have identified the five key emotions that must be targeted in your content so that more and more people share your content.
Amusement: People love to share jokes and funny incidents with their friends and relatives. This is true when it comes to content too. If you can create a funny infographic related to your business or can come up with a comic ad for your brand, then that type of content is more likely to be shared in the social circle.
Happiness: Positive news is something which brings a smile to the face of everyone. Marketers must create content that can show the brighter side of things. A content that tells about benefits and advantages are more likely to be shared by the people.
Surprise: It is globally accepted that humans love surprises (sometimes they hate it too). Surprising your audience by giving them something they didn't expect while clicking on your link will surely hold their attention. Such a content will be definitely shared over the social media and give you the much needed exposure.
Interest: Make money, become rich, get something for free, such lines immediately invoke the interest of the people. Content that can tell people what they'll be gaining from the product or the service is a great way to make people share your content. Make sure the content focusses on what they get and not on what they have to pay to get it.
Delight: People are delighted by offers, sale, rebates, cash backs and freebies. Framing the content in such a way that it gives more focus to your freebies and offers and will definitely grab the attention of the probable consumer and also make him share it with his friends and relatives. AS per the reports of an online marketing company, almost 70% of the people share a content on their social media circles if the content is based on something that has delighted them, like an offer or discount. Apart from this, people can also be delighted by a vivid description of your services or products and this can also be a great way to engage with your consumers.
As we know the content is the king, so it is very important for us to understand the importance of content. Digital marketing company focuses on the content sharing and link building equally.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9303363
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Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Monday, 9 December 2019
Don't Be Scared To Pay For Ads On Social Media
When you're using social media marketing to get the word out about your business, it's important to understand that using organic methods is the long haul.
But, there are ways to speed up the process. Sometimes the best way to get your word out is to pay for it. Paying doesn't mean you're succumbing; it means that you're smart. It's important not to be afraid of paying for ads, because it's a fast way to get more reach and make more conversions if you have the right content.
To run ads the right way, you need to be clear on a few options first. These include:
Learn the Platform
Before you post any ads, it's imperative that you understand how to use the platform properly for placing your advertisement and targeting your audience. Using it right will make a huge difference. Using it the wrong way will waste your money.
Hire Someone
If you don't know how to run an advertisement profitably, you may want to consider hiring an expert. Choose someone with a track record of success. If they do their job properly it should not cost you anything as their fee will be a small percentage of the extra profits you generate from your ads.
Know Your Target Audience
If you don't know who your target audience is, it's too soon for you to try to run paid ads. Fully understand exactly who your ideal customer is before you get started.
Ensure Your Content Is Perfected
Before running ads, you want to ensure that your content is otherwise perfected. Although you can run tests and continue to run tests even with imperfect content, try to get it close to perfect before using it for an advertisement.
Spend the Right Amount
You need an understanding of how much money you should spend on any given advertisement. Some platforms like Facebook are good at making suggestions. Start with a small budget and then scale up as you start to get the response you want.
Watch the Data
Once you do place an advertisement, you want to monitor the data to ensure that what you're doing is working. That way you can tweak it as you go.
It's important not to be afraid of paying for advertisements. It can make a huge difference in how fast you expand your reach and start making a profit, getting more email sign-ups, and building your audience.
The majority of business owners who use social media to advertise their business claim Facebook is the best, most productive advertising service on all social media networks. The good news is that you can run a Facebook ad campaign for as little as $5.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10213285
But, there are ways to speed up the process. Sometimes the best way to get your word out is to pay for it. Paying doesn't mean you're succumbing; it means that you're smart. It's important not to be afraid of paying for ads, because it's a fast way to get more reach and make more conversions if you have the right content.
To run ads the right way, you need to be clear on a few options first. These include:
Learn the Platform
Before you post any ads, it's imperative that you understand how to use the platform properly for placing your advertisement and targeting your audience. Using it right will make a huge difference. Using it the wrong way will waste your money.
Hire Someone
If you don't know how to run an advertisement profitably, you may want to consider hiring an expert. Choose someone with a track record of success. If they do their job properly it should not cost you anything as their fee will be a small percentage of the extra profits you generate from your ads.
Know Your Target Audience
If you don't know who your target audience is, it's too soon for you to try to run paid ads. Fully understand exactly who your ideal customer is before you get started.
Ensure Your Content Is Perfected
Before running ads, you want to ensure that your content is otherwise perfected. Although you can run tests and continue to run tests even with imperfect content, try to get it close to perfect before using it for an advertisement.
Spend the Right Amount
You need an understanding of how much money you should spend on any given advertisement. Some platforms like Facebook are good at making suggestions. Start with a small budget and then scale up as you start to get the response you want.
Watch the Data
Once you do place an advertisement, you want to monitor the data to ensure that what you're doing is working. That way you can tweak it as you go.
It's important not to be afraid of paying for advertisements. It can make a huge difference in how fast you expand your reach and start making a profit, getting more email sign-ups, and building your audience.
The majority of business owners who use social media to advertise their business claim Facebook is the best, most productive advertising service on all social media networks. The good news is that you can run a Facebook ad campaign for as little as $5.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10213285
Friday, 15 November 2019
Habits - The Big Secret to Marketing Success
What do you think you need more than anything else to attract more of your ideal clients?
Many people will say, "better information to show me how to do what works."
Others will say, "more motivation and drive to implement what I already know."
Another common answer is, "more time to fit marketing activities into my schedule."
And lots of people will say, "I need better goals and more clarity about what I want to achieve."
In writing this ezine/blog for the past 20 years I've talked about the importance of all of those.
But I'm finally understanding a factor that is much more important: good habits.
Over the past year, I've been a big advocate of the writings of James Clear. He writes a blog about success and habits. And he just came out with his first book, Atomic Habits, which is fantastic.
Even though James isn't a marketing expert, I'm convinced he's right when he says that the ultimate determinant of success is building positive habits.
This idea is simple but true: Self-employed professionals who establish regular marketing habits have a much better chance of succeeding than those who don't.
And the crazy thing is that the four items - information, motivation, time, and goals - I mentioned above don't actually make a huge difference.
Information. These days, we have access to more information about marketing than ever before in history. And much of it is free and instantly available through a Google or YouTube search.
The problem is that most of us have not established a regular habit of studying what we need to know to become better marketers. The information is useless unless we become proficient at implementing it.
And even if we pay good money for courses and programs, much of it goes to waste. I just learned recently online that 97% of people who buy a course online never complete it.
Motivation. If we measured motivation by intention, we are all motivated. Don't we all want and need to grow our businesses? But we keep getting distracted and don't follow through on our intentions. Again, the issue is poor habits.
Time. If only we had more of it. But unsuccessful marketers have just as much of it as the most successful ones. The key is that they dedicate more time to implementing regular marketing habits.
Goals. Nothing wrong with goals except that they are only a starting point for success. And they can get us stuck in the future, instead of doing what needs to be done today - the routine marketing habits that we perform every day or week.
"A habit or system beats a goal every time." - James Clear
The research is in and the conclusion is clear.
Establishing positive and consistent marketing habits have a bigger impact on marketing success than anything else.
We may have great information, high motivation, lots of time, and clear goals, but unless marketing activities are performed regularly and habitually, the chances of success are slim to none.
The question you should be asking is, "How do I start establishing better marketing habits?"
James's Atomic Habits goes to great lengths to share a multitude of ways to become an expert habit practitioner. So I highly suggest you get his book. It could be the most valuable 'marketing' book you'll ever read.
But let me also give you my perspective on what it takes to establish new marketing habits.
The C - SPAT Model
This is a model I came up with for one of my marketing programs.
Coaching or Context. A coach declares the game, how it is played and how to win at it. And this creates the context in which you play the game. It helps if you have an outside source that can hold you accountable to play by the rules necessary to succeed.
This principle is why when you're working with a coach or in a program that you suddenly find it's easier to take action and form positive habits. The context of the game helps shape your behaviors.
Notice that all professionals such as doctors, lawyers, and accountants go through rigorous training in the form of a professional school and internship. And in this context, professional habits and protocols are established.
As independent professionals, we'd all prefer to do things on our own, charting our own direction. That's nice, except that it doesn't always work very well, does it?
Study. A big part of the game is study and learning the body of knowledge necessary to perform effectively. Again, the information required to be an effective marketer is readily available, but you need some assistance in sorting the wheat from the chaff and studying what is most useful.
Planning. All successful marketing needs a plan. The alternative is implementing random marketing activities with little structure and direction. So it's not how much you know, but how you put what you know into action.
Action. Success doesn't come from being busy or doing a lot of things, but in doing the right things at the right time. This is where establishing regular marketing habits comes in.
To some, it might be writing an article once or twice a week. For others, it may mean setting up more meetings with networking contacts. Or it could be booking regular speaking engagements.
The secret to making this work is to leverage the first three steps of the model - Coaching, Study, and Planning, into marketing Actions that you perform as consistently as possible.
Tracking. What gets measured gets done. And when we fail to measure, habits don't tend to stick. When we measure and track habits, the chances increase dramatically that they are performed consistently.
It can take some time to establish positive habits. You know that's happened when you don't even have to think about it anymore; you just sit down and write that article every Monday or make five calls to prospects every week.
And when you're in action like this, you create a feedback loop, learning what works the best and what doesn't. This enables you to fine-tune and adjust over time until your marketing habits become more established.
So, stop putting so much attention on searching for the "perfect" marketing strategy, getting motivated, finding more time, and setting goals.
Instead, use the C - SPAT approach to establishing positive marketing habits.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10105413
Many people will say, "better information to show me how to do what works."
Others will say, "more motivation and drive to implement what I already know."
Another common answer is, "more time to fit marketing activities into my schedule."
And lots of people will say, "I need better goals and more clarity about what I want to achieve."
In writing this ezine/blog for the past 20 years I've talked about the importance of all of those.
But I'm finally understanding a factor that is much more important: good habits.
Over the past year, I've been a big advocate of the writings of James Clear. He writes a blog about success and habits. And he just came out with his first book, Atomic Habits, which is fantastic.
Even though James isn't a marketing expert, I'm convinced he's right when he says that the ultimate determinant of success is building positive habits.
This idea is simple but true: Self-employed professionals who establish regular marketing habits have a much better chance of succeeding than those who don't.
And the crazy thing is that the four items - information, motivation, time, and goals - I mentioned above don't actually make a huge difference.
Information. These days, we have access to more information about marketing than ever before in history. And much of it is free and instantly available through a Google or YouTube search.
The problem is that most of us have not established a regular habit of studying what we need to know to become better marketers. The information is useless unless we become proficient at implementing it.
And even if we pay good money for courses and programs, much of it goes to waste. I just learned recently online that 97% of people who buy a course online never complete it.
Motivation. If we measured motivation by intention, we are all motivated. Don't we all want and need to grow our businesses? But we keep getting distracted and don't follow through on our intentions. Again, the issue is poor habits.
Time. If only we had more of it. But unsuccessful marketers have just as much of it as the most successful ones. The key is that they dedicate more time to implementing regular marketing habits.
Goals. Nothing wrong with goals except that they are only a starting point for success. And they can get us stuck in the future, instead of doing what needs to be done today - the routine marketing habits that we perform every day or week.
"A habit or system beats a goal every time." - James Clear
The research is in and the conclusion is clear.
Establishing positive and consistent marketing habits have a bigger impact on marketing success than anything else.
We may have great information, high motivation, lots of time, and clear goals, but unless marketing activities are performed regularly and habitually, the chances of success are slim to none.
The question you should be asking is, "How do I start establishing better marketing habits?"
James's Atomic Habits goes to great lengths to share a multitude of ways to become an expert habit practitioner. So I highly suggest you get his book. It could be the most valuable 'marketing' book you'll ever read.
But let me also give you my perspective on what it takes to establish new marketing habits.
The C - SPAT Model
This is a model I came up with for one of my marketing programs.
Coaching or Context. A coach declares the game, how it is played and how to win at it. And this creates the context in which you play the game. It helps if you have an outside source that can hold you accountable to play by the rules necessary to succeed.
This principle is why when you're working with a coach or in a program that you suddenly find it's easier to take action and form positive habits. The context of the game helps shape your behaviors.
Notice that all professionals such as doctors, lawyers, and accountants go through rigorous training in the form of a professional school and internship. And in this context, professional habits and protocols are established.
As independent professionals, we'd all prefer to do things on our own, charting our own direction. That's nice, except that it doesn't always work very well, does it?
Study. A big part of the game is study and learning the body of knowledge necessary to perform effectively. Again, the information required to be an effective marketer is readily available, but you need some assistance in sorting the wheat from the chaff and studying what is most useful.
Planning. All successful marketing needs a plan. The alternative is implementing random marketing activities with little structure and direction. So it's not how much you know, but how you put what you know into action.
Action. Success doesn't come from being busy or doing a lot of things, but in doing the right things at the right time. This is where establishing regular marketing habits comes in.
To some, it might be writing an article once or twice a week. For others, it may mean setting up more meetings with networking contacts. Or it could be booking regular speaking engagements.
The secret to making this work is to leverage the first three steps of the model - Coaching, Study, and Planning, into marketing Actions that you perform as consistently as possible.
Tracking. What gets measured gets done. And when we fail to measure, habits don't tend to stick. When we measure and track habits, the chances increase dramatically that they are performed consistently.
It can take some time to establish positive habits. You know that's happened when you don't even have to think about it anymore; you just sit down and write that article every Monday or make five calls to prospects every week.
And when you're in action like this, you create a feedback loop, learning what works the best and what doesn't. This enables you to fine-tune and adjust over time until your marketing habits become more established.
So, stop putting so much attention on searching for the "perfect" marketing strategy, getting motivated, finding more time, and setting goals.
Instead, use the C - SPAT approach to establishing positive marketing habits.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10105413
Thursday, 14 November 2019
The Five Pillars of Marketing Success
Does the following give a pretty good picture of your current marketing activity?
You have a website but you're not really satisfied with it. You go to networking events once in awhile. If someone asks you to give a talk, you're happy to do it. You post on Facebook and/or LinkedIn semi-regularly. When you find the time, you send an article to those on your relatively small email list. You occasionally set up meetings with colleagues to explore opportunities.
Now there's nothing wrong with any of those marketing activities. And usually, they will result in landing some new clients.
But this is not the approach that works to get a steady, predictable stream of new clients.
Please don't tune me out here, thinking, "Well, I really can't do more than this. I'm already stretched thin. If you give me too much to do I'll get overwhelmed."
I agree. It's not that you need to do more marketing, it's that you need to shift your marketing paradigm from one of "Randomness" to one that is "Focused."
Random marketing is just that; it's all over the place. You do a little bit here and a little bit there on an inconsistent basis. You are trying to keep your face, name, and message in front of your prospective clients but the results are unpredictable.
The Random marketing paradigm is not very effective because it doesn't gain a lot of momentum. You don't do enough of one marketing activity to grab the attention of your prospective clients and move them to take action.
The Focused Marketing Paradigm is very different. It's based on repeatedly communicating very directly to your target market with a very definite end in mind. It gets the attention of your prospective clients and they ultimately take action.
The Focused Marketing Paradigm has Five Pillars
Understand and implement these five pillars and I promise you'll see a shift in your marketing results.
Pillar One: Focused Goals
A Random goal is saying something like, "I'd like to attract a few more clients to my business." Not very compelling is it?
A Focused goal is much more specific. "My goal is to land 3 new clients in the high-tech plastics business in the Houston area with an average project size of $30,000 each by the end of the year."
The more detail, depth, and specificity about the goal, the better. You've really thought through what you want to achieve and also have confidence that you could deliver if you did reach your goal. It's so real to you that you can taste it.
What is the Focused Goal for your marketing?
Pillar Two: Focused Program or Service
Random programs or services are generalized consulting, coaching or training programs. "I offer management consulting and training to corporations." Kind of vague, right? But this is what I hear all the time.
A Focused Program or Service is more tangible. "I offer the high-tech plastics industry Management Acceleration Programs for emerging leaders in the industry."
In my business, I've always offered programs: The Marketing Mastery Program, the Marketing Action Group, and the More Clients Club. And each program has very specific parameters, deliverables, and objectives. It sure makes intangible services easier to market and sell.
What is the Focused Program or Service you're offering?
Pillar Three: Focused Target Market
In the above example, the target was the "high-tech plastics industry." But it's more common to hear things like, "I work with large companies who want to increase productivity." This is too general and it makes it hard for clients to know if you understand them and can help them.
A Focused target market is where you are absolutely clear what kinds of people or companies can most benefit from your expertise. And then you articulate that clearly.
I worked with a financial planning company last year that targeted middle class families in the Buffalo New York area. Guess who they attracted to their practice? When people read about who they worked with on their website, they said, "That's Us!" and called them.
Who exactly is your Focused Target Market?
Pillar Four: Focused Message and Value Proposition
A Random message or value proposition tends to be too general and can be hard to pin down. It avoids making a promise that is meaningful to the prospective client.
Messages such as, "We offer the best service in the industry," or "Smart insights into great management," are meaningless to your prospective clients. The value is not immediately obvious.
A Focused message or value proposition zeros in on exactly what your clients get and what it means to them. I admit that this can be the marketing pillar that is hardest to pin down. Ultimately you have to test a number of different things.
For the re-launch of the More Clients Club, my current value proposition is: "Everything Self-Employed Professionals Need in One Place to Attract More Clients." And now, of course, I'm bending over backward to deliver on that promise.
And a marketing message or value proposition is much more than a sound bite. Your message must permeate every aspect of your marketing, from your website to the emails you send out. Your prospects need to be constantly reminded of the value you offer.
What is your Focused Message or Value Proposition?
Pillar Five: Focused Marketing Strategy
A Random marketing strategy is much like the collection of marketing activities I outlined at the top of the article. You're just all over the place, throwing something at the wall, hoping it will stick, with no organized system or plan.
A Focused marketing strategy is more like a putting on a theatrical production. You have the script, the actors, rehearsals, and opening night, all executed on a strict timeline.
Two examples:
For my Marketing Mastery Program, I held a series of introductory teleconferences, invited those interested to apply for the program, interviewed each applicant, and then converted 50% into participants. Over a 6-week period, I filled my business for a full year - four years in a row.
A career coach in one of my programs recently filled her practice in three months with a focused campaign of personalized emails designed to get appointments with her ideal clients. Then she converted a large percentage into paying clients.
That's the power of a focused marketing strategy.
You need to identify the right marketing strategy for your business, but even more important is the way you organize and implement the strategy.
Developing a focused strategy is the most complex and challenging of the Five Pillars. You can't just put together something haphazardly and hope you get the equivalent of a professional Shakespearian production.
What is your Focused Marketing Strategy?
If you work to build a focused plan with these five solid pillars, your marketing will work better and faster, attracting more of your ideal clients, usually at a higher rate.
I recommend you work on one pillar at a time. Write them out and fine-tune them until you feel confident and excited about them. Yes, you will need to do some research and study to make sure your plan is viable. But this is certainly better than spinning your wheels with a random strategy that is going nowhere.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10106361
You have a website but you're not really satisfied with it. You go to networking events once in awhile. If someone asks you to give a talk, you're happy to do it. You post on Facebook and/or LinkedIn semi-regularly. When you find the time, you send an article to those on your relatively small email list. You occasionally set up meetings with colleagues to explore opportunities.
Now there's nothing wrong with any of those marketing activities. And usually, they will result in landing some new clients.
But this is not the approach that works to get a steady, predictable stream of new clients.
Please don't tune me out here, thinking, "Well, I really can't do more than this. I'm already stretched thin. If you give me too much to do I'll get overwhelmed."
I agree. It's not that you need to do more marketing, it's that you need to shift your marketing paradigm from one of "Randomness" to one that is "Focused."
Random marketing is just that; it's all over the place. You do a little bit here and a little bit there on an inconsistent basis. You are trying to keep your face, name, and message in front of your prospective clients but the results are unpredictable.
The Random marketing paradigm is not very effective because it doesn't gain a lot of momentum. You don't do enough of one marketing activity to grab the attention of your prospective clients and move them to take action.
The Focused Marketing Paradigm is very different. It's based on repeatedly communicating very directly to your target market with a very definite end in mind. It gets the attention of your prospective clients and they ultimately take action.
The Focused Marketing Paradigm has Five Pillars
Understand and implement these five pillars and I promise you'll see a shift in your marketing results.
Pillar One: Focused Goals
A Random goal is saying something like, "I'd like to attract a few more clients to my business." Not very compelling is it?
A Focused goal is much more specific. "My goal is to land 3 new clients in the high-tech plastics business in the Houston area with an average project size of $30,000 each by the end of the year."
The more detail, depth, and specificity about the goal, the better. You've really thought through what you want to achieve and also have confidence that you could deliver if you did reach your goal. It's so real to you that you can taste it.
What is the Focused Goal for your marketing?
Pillar Two: Focused Program or Service
Random programs or services are generalized consulting, coaching or training programs. "I offer management consulting and training to corporations." Kind of vague, right? But this is what I hear all the time.
A Focused Program or Service is more tangible. "I offer the high-tech plastics industry Management Acceleration Programs for emerging leaders in the industry."
In my business, I've always offered programs: The Marketing Mastery Program, the Marketing Action Group, and the More Clients Club. And each program has very specific parameters, deliverables, and objectives. It sure makes intangible services easier to market and sell.
What is the Focused Program or Service you're offering?
Pillar Three: Focused Target Market
In the above example, the target was the "high-tech plastics industry." But it's more common to hear things like, "I work with large companies who want to increase productivity." This is too general and it makes it hard for clients to know if you understand them and can help them.
A Focused target market is where you are absolutely clear what kinds of people or companies can most benefit from your expertise. And then you articulate that clearly.
I worked with a financial planning company last year that targeted middle class families in the Buffalo New York area. Guess who they attracted to their practice? When people read about who they worked with on their website, they said, "That's Us!" and called them.
Who exactly is your Focused Target Market?
Pillar Four: Focused Message and Value Proposition
A Random message or value proposition tends to be too general and can be hard to pin down. It avoids making a promise that is meaningful to the prospective client.
Messages such as, "We offer the best service in the industry," or "Smart insights into great management," are meaningless to your prospective clients. The value is not immediately obvious.
A Focused message or value proposition zeros in on exactly what your clients get and what it means to them. I admit that this can be the marketing pillar that is hardest to pin down. Ultimately you have to test a number of different things.
For the re-launch of the More Clients Club, my current value proposition is: "Everything Self-Employed Professionals Need in One Place to Attract More Clients." And now, of course, I'm bending over backward to deliver on that promise.
And a marketing message or value proposition is much more than a sound bite. Your message must permeate every aspect of your marketing, from your website to the emails you send out. Your prospects need to be constantly reminded of the value you offer.
What is your Focused Message or Value Proposition?
Pillar Five: Focused Marketing Strategy
A Random marketing strategy is much like the collection of marketing activities I outlined at the top of the article. You're just all over the place, throwing something at the wall, hoping it will stick, with no organized system or plan.
A Focused marketing strategy is more like a putting on a theatrical production. You have the script, the actors, rehearsals, and opening night, all executed on a strict timeline.
Two examples:
For my Marketing Mastery Program, I held a series of introductory teleconferences, invited those interested to apply for the program, interviewed each applicant, and then converted 50% into participants. Over a 6-week period, I filled my business for a full year - four years in a row.
A career coach in one of my programs recently filled her practice in three months with a focused campaign of personalized emails designed to get appointments with her ideal clients. Then she converted a large percentage into paying clients.
That's the power of a focused marketing strategy.
You need to identify the right marketing strategy for your business, but even more important is the way you organize and implement the strategy.
Developing a focused strategy is the most complex and challenging of the Five Pillars. You can't just put together something haphazardly and hope you get the equivalent of a professional Shakespearian production.
What is your Focused Marketing Strategy?
If you work to build a focused plan with these five solid pillars, your marketing will work better and faster, attracting more of your ideal clients, usually at a higher rate.
I recommend you work on one pillar at a time. Write them out and fine-tune them until you feel confident and excited about them. Yes, you will need to do some research and study to make sure your plan is viable. But this is certainly better than spinning your wheels with a random strategy that is going nowhere.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10106361
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
How to Successfully Meet the Three Biggest Marketing Challenges
I like to think I'm a pretty good marketer of my professional services.
After all, I've been at it for 34 years, read hundreds of marketing books, thousands of articles and studied with the very best marketing gurus.
But marketing is still challenging for me and the majority of independent professionals. If it weren't, we'd all have more clients than we could serve, they'd be paying us high fees, and we'd never having to worry where our next clients would come from.
And we wouldn't need the thousands of marketing coaches and consultants like me offering services of all kinds to help you attract more clients.
So, why is marketing so challenging?
There are many marketing challenges, however, if you look at marketing closely, there are actually only three big challenges that give us the most trouble.
Learn how to meet those challenges and your marketing will become more successful, easier, and fun.
Here are those three marketing challenges:
Challenge #1. Clearly communicating the value of what you are offering. Someone will not buy your services if they don't see the real value to them. Your message can't be vague or confusing; it must be clear and beneficial.
One way to zero in on the value of your service is to define the top three attributes your service possesses. One or two is not enough; five or six tends to dilute your message.
So, for instance, a sales training company might want to emphasize that their training is guaranteed to increase sales, improve sales confidence quickly, and can be delivered virtually in 45-minute online modules.
That's easy to understand and obviously beneficial. That kind of clear and valuable message is likely to generate attention, interest, and response.
Seems simple, but not so easy to do. In my experience with thousands of independent professionals, their messages tend to be vague, not specific, and weak in terms of value.
And if that value is not clear, prospects won't respond.
Taking the time to work on your message, fine-tune it, and test it until it gets a favorable response is one of the most important things you can possibly do in your business.
To succeed at this task you must get inside the heads of your ideal clients and ask what they want the most, what problems they struggle with frequently, what isn't working for them, and what could make their jobs easier and more productive.
Jaynie L. Smith of Smart Advantage consulting says that 90% of companies don't really know what their clients value the most. No wonder marketing messages are so bad.
You can improve your marketing messages by reading and research (ask Google), sending questionnaires to your clients (Survey Monkey), or conducting a virtual focus group (via Zoom Video). Ultimately, you want to find out their biggest challenges and what they value the most.
When you have that marketing intelligence, it will be a lot easier to come up with powerful marketing messages.
This is challenging because it takes time and deep thinking. But if you realize its importance, you'll invest your energies to come up with a powerful message that makes your service attractive, interesting, and compelling to your ideal clients.
Challenge # 2. Making your business visible with repeated impressions of your message over time. It can take several impressions before someone responds to your marketing message.
Just today, I noticed a message that one of my first level connections had sent to me on LinkedIn. When I checked the message, I noticed that he had sent me a total of 13 messages over a one-year period.
The messages were actually very good. They had the right tone and great calls-to-action. It's just that I don't pay a lot of attention to my LinkedIn messages and had completely missed the first 12!
He understood the value of repeat impressions over time and had developed a system within LinkedIn that had enabled him to send a unique, personalized message every month for a year. Pretty impressive.
If he had only sent one or two messages, the chances are good that I wouldn't have seen them.
Again, my experience with the majority of self-employed professionals is that their marketing visibility is, at best, random and inconsistent, and at worst, non-existent.
As you may know, I've sent out an email newsletter to my list pretty much every week for 21 years. That's visibility. It's really quite simple, but not so easy.
If you want to be effective at your marketing, you must identify marketing strategies that enable you to get your message in front of your prospective clients consistently.
And again, this is challenging. What is the best marketing activity for you, your personality and talents? How can you fit something into your schedule and do it consistently, not for a few weeks but for years?
The question is not just what marketing strategies to use. Networking, speaking, blogging, email newsletters, webinars, social media, and direct outreach can all work.
The more important question is what strategies will work the best for you and how exactly you can implement those strategies without spinning your wheels.
You're looking for proven, step-by-step instructions so you can evaluate if a strategy is right for you and something you can fit into your schedule on a regular basis. Remember, sporadic implementation is a waste of time.
Implementing visibility strategies takes commitment and persistence. Is growing and succeeding in your business important enough for you to make that kind of effort? If it is, you'll succeed at finding the best strategy for you.
The final challenge may be the most important of all to overcome.
Challenge #3. Maintaining the right marketing attitude and mindset over time, despite setbacks. If you can't maintain The 3 R's of success - responsibility, resourcefulness, and resilience, your marketing will never achieve the results you want.
These 3Rs are absolutely essential.
Responsibility is the stance that the buck stops with you. You are the only one who will find a way to attract clients and you won't give up until you find that way. You won't make excuses or blame circumstances, but instead will be accountable for making results happen.
Resourcefulness is the skill to utilize your talents, and abilities to quickly find smart ways to overcome difficulties and find solutions. And to be resourceful, you can't be full of doubts and fears of failure or rejection. A responsible person commits to finding a way; a resourceful person tries every way possible until they discover the best way.
Resilience may be the most powerful trait of all. It's what enables you to bounce back from adversity, setbacks, and even failures. And if you're working to attract great clients, you'll inevitably experience all of those many times. People who are not resilient don't even try, let alone succeed.
All of these essential qualities are in short supply. But if you work to grow those qualities persistently, over time, they will help you succeed with the first two challenging things in marketing - messaging and visibility.
Despite these three marketing challenges - messaging, visibility, and mindset - there is good news.
Improving your skills or abilities - even a little - in any of these three challenge areas will increase your marketing effectiveness.
There is no perfect way of tackling all three challenges and you can't do it in big leaps that get you there overnight. But you can work on all three slowly, with persistence, making small gains every week.
When you improve your messages, you'll start to see a better response in communicating to your prospects. Marketing then becomes like a game that starts with the question, "How can I communicate my value more clearly and powerfully?"
When you increase your visibility, you'll also notice a better response because to some degree, marketing is a numbers game. Your question might be, "How can I get my message in front of more of the right people this month?"
And when you enhance your responsibility, resourcefulness, and resilience, you'll find that playing the game becomes easier and more fun. The 3Rs are the fuel that enables you to persist with the first two challenges.
Where do you start?
You start by admitting where you are now and then committing to a purpose (your WHY for being in business in the first place), a goal (a specific thing you want to achieve), and to taking action (the actual steps you'll implement to get there).
Yes, marketing is challenging. But meeting those challenges is absolutely worth it.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10110078
After all, I've been at it for 34 years, read hundreds of marketing books, thousands of articles and studied with the very best marketing gurus.
But marketing is still challenging for me and the majority of independent professionals. If it weren't, we'd all have more clients than we could serve, they'd be paying us high fees, and we'd never having to worry where our next clients would come from.
And we wouldn't need the thousands of marketing coaches and consultants like me offering services of all kinds to help you attract more clients.
So, why is marketing so challenging?
There are many marketing challenges, however, if you look at marketing closely, there are actually only three big challenges that give us the most trouble.
Learn how to meet those challenges and your marketing will become more successful, easier, and fun.
Here are those three marketing challenges:
Challenge #1. Clearly communicating the value of what you are offering. Someone will not buy your services if they don't see the real value to them. Your message can't be vague or confusing; it must be clear and beneficial.
One way to zero in on the value of your service is to define the top three attributes your service possesses. One or two is not enough; five or six tends to dilute your message.
So, for instance, a sales training company might want to emphasize that their training is guaranteed to increase sales, improve sales confidence quickly, and can be delivered virtually in 45-minute online modules.
That's easy to understand and obviously beneficial. That kind of clear and valuable message is likely to generate attention, interest, and response.
Seems simple, but not so easy to do. In my experience with thousands of independent professionals, their messages tend to be vague, not specific, and weak in terms of value.
And if that value is not clear, prospects won't respond.
Taking the time to work on your message, fine-tune it, and test it until it gets a favorable response is one of the most important things you can possibly do in your business.
To succeed at this task you must get inside the heads of your ideal clients and ask what they want the most, what problems they struggle with frequently, what isn't working for them, and what could make their jobs easier and more productive.
Jaynie L. Smith of Smart Advantage consulting says that 90% of companies don't really know what their clients value the most. No wonder marketing messages are so bad.
You can improve your marketing messages by reading and research (ask Google), sending questionnaires to your clients (Survey Monkey), or conducting a virtual focus group (via Zoom Video). Ultimately, you want to find out their biggest challenges and what they value the most.
When you have that marketing intelligence, it will be a lot easier to come up with powerful marketing messages.
This is challenging because it takes time and deep thinking. But if you realize its importance, you'll invest your energies to come up with a powerful message that makes your service attractive, interesting, and compelling to your ideal clients.
Challenge # 2. Making your business visible with repeated impressions of your message over time. It can take several impressions before someone responds to your marketing message.
Just today, I noticed a message that one of my first level connections had sent to me on LinkedIn. When I checked the message, I noticed that he had sent me a total of 13 messages over a one-year period.
The messages were actually very good. They had the right tone and great calls-to-action. It's just that I don't pay a lot of attention to my LinkedIn messages and had completely missed the first 12!
He understood the value of repeat impressions over time and had developed a system within LinkedIn that had enabled him to send a unique, personalized message every month for a year. Pretty impressive.
If he had only sent one or two messages, the chances are good that I wouldn't have seen them.
Again, my experience with the majority of self-employed professionals is that their marketing visibility is, at best, random and inconsistent, and at worst, non-existent.
As you may know, I've sent out an email newsletter to my list pretty much every week for 21 years. That's visibility. It's really quite simple, but not so easy.
If you want to be effective at your marketing, you must identify marketing strategies that enable you to get your message in front of your prospective clients consistently.
And again, this is challenging. What is the best marketing activity for you, your personality and talents? How can you fit something into your schedule and do it consistently, not for a few weeks but for years?
The question is not just what marketing strategies to use. Networking, speaking, blogging, email newsletters, webinars, social media, and direct outreach can all work.
The more important question is what strategies will work the best for you and how exactly you can implement those strategies without spinning your wheels.
You're looking for proven, step-by-step instructions so you can evaluate if a strategy is right for you and something you can fit into your schedule on a regular basis. Remember, sporadic implementation is a waste of time.
Implementing visibility strategies takes commitment and persistence. Is growing and succeeding in your business important enough for you to make that kind of effort? If it is, you'll succeed at finding the best strategy for you.
The final challenge may be the most important of all to overcome.
Challenge #3. Maintaining the right marketing attitude and mindset over time, despite setbacks. If you can't maintain The 3 R's of success - responsibility, resourcefulness, and resilience, your marketing will never achieve the results you want.
These 3Rs are absolutely essential.
Responsibility is the stance that the buck stops with you. You are the only one who will find a way to attract clients and you won't give up until you find that way. You won't make excuses or blame circumstances, but instead will be accountable for making results happen.
Resourcefulness is the skill to utilize your talents, and abilities to quickly find smart ways to overcome difficulties and find solutions. And to be resourceful, you can't be full of doubts and fears of failure or rejection. A responsible person commits to finding a way; a resourceful person tries every way possible until they discover the best way.
Resilience may be the most powerful trait of all. It's what enables you to bounce back from adversity, setbacks, and even failures. And if you're working to attract great clients, you'll inevitably experience all of those many times. People who are not resilient don't even try, let alone succeed.
All of these essential qualities are in short supply. But if you work to grow those qualities persistently, over time, they will help you succeed with the first two challenging things in marketing - messaging and visibility.
Despite these three marketing challenges - messaging, visibility, and mindset - there is good news.
Improving your skills or abilities - even a little - in any of these three challenge areas will increase your marketing effectiveness.
There is no perfect way of tackling all three challenges and you can't do it in big leaps that get you there overnight. But you can work on all three slowly, with persistence, making small gains every week.
When you improve your messages, you'll start to see a better response in communicating to your prospects. Marketing then becomes like a game that starts with the question, "How can I communicate my value more clearly and powerfully?"
When you increase your visibility, you'll also notice a better response because to some degree, marketing is a numbers game. Your question might be, "How can I get my message in front of more of the right people this month?"
And when you enhance your responsibility, resourcefulness, and resilience, you'll find that playing the game becomes easier and more fun. The 3Rs are the fuel that enables you to persist with the first two challenges.
Where do you start?
You start by admitting where you are now and then committing to a purpose (your WHY for being in business in the first place), a goal (a specific thing you want to achieve), and to taking action (the actual steps you'll implement to get there).
Yes, marketing is challenging. But meeting those challenges is absolutely worth it.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10110078
Tuesday, 12 November 2019
Different Types of Direct Marketing Lists
Direct marketing delivers your marketing message directly to a group consumers or businesses on a personalized level (such as a telephone call or via a personal email message). It's a form of marketing that provides the recipient with a direct call to action. The following are the three main types of direct marketing.
Mailing Lists
Direct mail is one of the most common forms of direct marketing and an essential part of an integrated marketing campaign. Companies promote their products and services with a provocative mailer. Direct mail campaigns provide your prospects with a tangible piece of mail to read at their leisure. Direct mail campaigns are extremely effective and when they are personalized and customized to a specific target audience can have great response rates.
Telemarketing Lists
Telemarketing is the process of calling prospects on the phone to promote your products or services. This can be done using your own sales staff or by subcontracting out to a call center. Telemarketing is vital in creating brand recognition, building customer relationships, nurturing leads and of course, closing sales.
Even with its bad reputation, telemarketing still plays an important part of any direct marketing campaign. Telemarketing is personal and interactive, and capable of providing an immediate response. As effective as telemarketing is, you need to be sensitive to your prospects' willingness to receiving unsolicited phone calls.
Telemarketing campaigns work best when the telemarketing lists are highly targeted, with accurate data that matches your current customer's profiles.
Email Lists
Email marketing is an effective way of reaching out to new prospects or following up with existing customers. Email marketing is extremely versatile, and you can easily customize your marketing messages to various market segments, or for prospects in different stages of the sales funnel.
Email marketing can be used to nurture customer relationships, provide company and product information, drive website traffic and to promote direct sales. The emails can be as elaborate or as simple as needed.
Most people check their emails on a daily basis, making email a very effective marketing method for your business. However, email marketing should be used responsibly, and it is extremely important to have your customers' consent before sending emails.
The most successful direct marketing campaign will use a mix of marketing methods. Repetition is very important in any type of marketing efforts. The more you can get yourself out in front of prospects, the greater the chance of being remembered. Try a direct mail campaign with a telemarketing follow-up or an email blast in conjunction with a direct mail campaign. A Multi-Channel campaign also allows your prospects multiple ways to communicate back to you.
Regardless of the method, the key aspect in any direct marketing campaign is the ability to target the marketing message to a specific audience. With properly defined target market, you can deliver your message directly to those who have a greater probability of purchasing from your business. This allows businesses of all sizes focus their marketing budget and resources where they're most likely to get results.
It's very important, before starting any direct marketing campaign, that you understand the different regulations governing each method of communication. The responsibility is yours to make sure you are compliant. Legitimate list brokers and managers should be able to confirm that the lists they are providing comply to the various rules and regulations. If you are uncertain, do not hesitate to ask.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10142808
Mailing Lists
Direct mail is one of the most common forms of direct marketing and an essential part of an integrated marketing campaign. Companies promote their products and services with a provocative mailer. Direct mail campaigns provide your prospects with a tangible piece of mail to read at their leisure. Direct mail campaigns are extremely effective and when they are personalized and customized to a specific target audience can have great response rates.
Telemarketing Lists
Telemarketing is the process of calling prospects on the phone to promote your products or services. This can be done using your own sales staff or by subcontracting out to a call center. Telemarketing is vital in creating brand recognition, building customer relationships, nurturing leads and of course, closing sales.
Even with its bad reputation, telemarketing still plays an important part of any direct marketing campaign. Telemarketing is personal and interactive, and capable of providing an immediate response. As effective as telemarketing is, you need to be sensitive to your prospects' willingness to receiving unsolicited phone calls.
Telemarketing campaigns work best when the telemarketing lists are highly targeted, with accurate data that matches your current customer's profiles.
Email Lists
Email marketing is an effective way of reaching out to new prospects or following up with existing customers. Email marketing is extremely versatile, and you can easily customize your marketing messages to various market segments, or for prospects in different stages of the sales funnel.
Email marketing can be used to nurture customer relationships, provide company and product information, drive website traffic and to promote direct sales. The emails can be as elaborate or as simple as needed.
Most people check their emails on a daily basis, making email a very effective marketing method for your business. However, email marketing should be used responsibly, and it is extremely important to have your customers' consent before sending emails.
The most successful direct marketing campaign will use a mix of marketing methods. Repetition is very important in any type of marketing efforts. The more you can get yourself out in front of prospects, the greater the chance of being remembered. Try a direct mail campaign with a telemarketing follow-up or an email blast in conjunction with a direct mail campaign. A Multi-Channel campaign also allows your prospects multiple ways to communicate back to you.
Regardless of the method, the key aspect in any direct marketing campaign is the ability to target the marketing message to a specific audience. With properly defined target market, you can deliver your message directly to those who have a greater probability of purchasing from your business. This allows businesses of all sizes focus their marketing budget and resources where they're most likely to get results.
It's very important, before starting any direct marketing campaign, that you understand the different regulations governing each method of communication. The responsibility is yours to make sure you are compliant. Legitimate list brokers and managers should be able to confirm that the lists they are providing comply to the various rules and regulations. If you are uncertain, do not hesitate to ask.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10142808
Monday, 11 November 2019
How To Start Marketing Your Business
To new business owners, starting a business is often its own reward. They are thrilled to be able to be their own bosses, and to successfully get a business up and running. Often they are happy just to keep the dream alive.
But every business needs to grow. That doesn't mean you have to reach out to a larger market - it means working toward increasing your share of the one you are targeting. This will keep your business healthy enough to survive obstacles such as tough economic times.
In order to keep moving forward, we need to market our businesses constantly. We need to dedicate a certain percentage of our resources to building our brand and reaching our target market. Here are some simple things you can do to help your business grow.
Have a clear picture of your target market.
Find out what types of people use the products and services you provide and respond to your business philosophies. If you're not marketing to the right people, all will be lost.
Research, research, research.
Determine how to best reach your target market and what they expect out of your offerings. Study your competition carefully, and make note of what they're doing right and wrong.
Choose your marketing channels wisely.
If your target market rarely reads, there's no point in advertising in a magazine. Use what you've learned about them to find the best possible outlets for your message, and focus your marketing efforts there.
Give your advertising a chance.
Studies show that consumers require repeated exposure to a product before they will even consider buying. So don't be surprised if one ad run doesn't bring spectacular results. If you've done your homework and found a viable way to reach your market, run the ad at least two more times before you evaluate the results.
Take advantage of free publicity.
Sending out press releases and finding other ways to attract the media will give you high-quality exposure, and it won't eat into your budget.
Keep track of the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.
If what you're doing is working, you should be generating more revenue. Use some of that revenue to do more marketing. If it isn't working, make adjustments and try again.
Sometimes you'll have to take a step back with your marketing plans. But that's not a sign you've failed. It's a sign that you're a smart marketer. Sometimes the market changes, and it's up to us to monitor those changes and adjust our marketing plans accordingly. No successful company markets the same way forever. By evolving with our target market, we can make our marketing work better.
Every successful business owner and entrepreneur has made mistakes with their marketing at some time or another. It's all part of the learning process. Although mistakes are going to happen, you can avoid a number of common marketing mistakes. Download my free checklist, The 10 Most Common Marketing Mistakes at https://jonallo.com/mistakes
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10175389
But every business needs to grow. That doesn't mean you have to reach out to a larger market - it means working toward increasing your share of the one you are targeting. This will keep your business healthy enough to survive obstacles such as tough economic times.
In order to keep moving forward, we need to market our businesses constantly. We need to dedicate a certain percentage of our resources to building our brand and reaching our target market. Here are some simple things you can do to help your business grow.
Have a clear picture of your target market.
Find out what types of people use the products and services you provide and respond to your business philosophies. If you're not marketing to the right people, all will be lost.
Research, research, research.
Determine how to best reach your target market and what they expect out of your offerings. Study your competition carefully, and make note of what they're doing right and wrong.
Choose your marketing channels wisely.
If your target market rarely reads, there's no point in advertising in a magazine. Use what you've learned about them to find the best possible outlets for your message, and focus your marketing efforts there.
Give your advertising a chance.
Studies show that consumers require repeated exposure to a product before they will even consider buying. So don't be surprised if one ad run doesn't bring spectacular results. If you've done your homework and found a viable way to reach your market, run the ad at least two more times before you evaluate the results.
Take advantage of free publicity.
Sending out press releases and finding other ways to attract the media will give you high-quality exposure, and it won't eat into your budget.
Keep track of the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.
If what you're doing is working, you should be generating more revenue. Use some of that revenue to do more marketing. If it isn't working, make adjustments and try again.
Sometimes you'll have to take a step back with your marketing plans. But that's not a sign you've failed. It's a sign that you're a smart marketer. Sometimes the market changes, and it's up to us to monitor those changes and adjust our marketing plans accordingly. No successful company markets the same way forever. By evolving with our target market, we can make our marketing work better.
Every successful business owner and entrepreneur has made mistakes with their marketing at some time or another. It's all part of the learning process. Although mistakes are going to happen, you can avoid a number of common marketing mistakes. Download my free checklist, The 10 Most Common Marketing Mistakes at https://jonallo.com/mistakes
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10175389
Monday, 21 October 2019
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Friday, 13 September 2019
Chatbots- A Blend of Increased Personalization Minus Robotic
Did you notice?
Some websites you land on greeting you with "Hello"? Most probably this has caught your eyes. This greet popping out through a little box in the corner is known as a chatbot.
Technically if I have to define chatbots then-
They bear the capacity to caricature human behavior of writing or speaking to go through the motions of a conversation or communication carried with a real person. Therefore they are also known as 'Conversational Agents.'
Do I need a chatbot?
Well, I will try to perk up your ears a bit by answering it as 'yes.'
Consider this scenario:
A consumer pays heed to your product. But before buying a particular product, a lot of questions are raised by the consumer to be sure about the decision of buying. By using a chatbot, these raised queries are answered immediately thus clearing their doubts and aiding them in jumping to the decision of making a purchase.
So what can you conclude with this?
Chatbots not only pop-out and greet your customers but also keep them engaged and satisfied which in turn escalates your conversions.
Customer Satisfaction? Sounds weird? Obviously No.
As Michael LeBoeuf quoted, "A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all," your business escalation completely depends on what your customer gets out of it.
Customers are impatient. They search for immediate solutions to their queries. With the advancement of technology, customers desire to be served 24/7 irrespective of their location.
Don't you believe me?
As per research, customers have the intention to pay more for a lighting speed customer service. Further, it is mentioned that customers who get solutions within five minutes or less were interested in paying almost $20 more for the same service.
This is the reason why brands have opted for a tailored chatbot for their business websites, blogs, applications, and software for speedy and quality-based customer support. Since it saves a lot of time, it becomes an advantage for any customer-centric organization. It is a bot and therefore, it will be faster than humans and will select, organize, and present the content faster with precision.
But how it would be creating a bond with the customers?
David Weinberger quoted, "Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel somewhere there is a piece of software that love us for who we are."
I will simplify the cause of this quote.
Imagine you have an online store. If you were the customer who is searching for a product what would be handy for you? Browsing through various products and pages or simply they are brought to you straight?
Here the role of the bot comes into the picture with the touch of personalization.
The bots can interact with the customers to figure out about their requirements and provide them various options meeting their essentials. In other words, the customer experiences a personal touch as if he/she has owned a personal shopper.
Thus to conclude this, personalization creates a bond between the customer and the brand. And chatbot contributes to the bond between the consumer and the technology where Artificial Intelligence plays a key role. With such a personalization service, chatbots have a different persona which appears to be real.
If I need to state the benefits, in short, I would pen down the following points:
Aids in finding solutions
24/7 Availability
The talent of personification
It is fast and is ahead in terms of accuracy
Therefore companies providing quality chatbot development services always focus on personalization as it is the direct key to the customer satisfaction.
Have you worked on your to-dos as you are thinking to opt for a chatbot development?.
Communicative
Ability to solve the problems
Realistic
Precision
In good spirits, while answering the customers
Curious in learning about the needs of the customers
The solutions are relevant to the queries
Clear Cut and Crisp
Here are a few more points on how you can make your chatbot less robotic and more personalized:
Strategizing the UX to make it user-friendly
As mentioned earlier, we belong to an era where we desire the solutions on the go. For instance, you are in search of a restaurant nearby. Just command your device and restaurants matching your criteria is displayed.
Lost? Command verbally and your exact location is located.
Need a reminder? Your bot will do the work for you.
Want to remind others? Just write @(Person/team to be reminded) for the meeting at 2 pm.
A managed and well-organized bot life isn't it?
A Semblance for your Bot
Since the world of imagination is boundless, each of us has a different perspective towards the digital language. Each brand ties its goal around two important factors: User-satisfaction and Reputation. If you have visited any website of high-technology, they artistically use the exact character to serve as a typical example of their brand. Their chatbots initiate the communication with a tone of pertaining. For instance: "How may I help you?" and so on.
Thus I have shortlisted a few important check-list while creating a user-friendly interface:
Learn about Your User
The first thing that you need to research is what kind of conversation would attract your users. Whether a formal greet would do or an informal one would keep the user more engaged. Keep in mind the users' requirements and the queries they may raise regarding the same. You need to work upon the possible FAQs.
In short, create the bot's personality relevant to the users' needs.
One such example is Google. We all are aware that Google is a search engine. It provides a wide range of information. Therefore the interface of the bots resembles the same persona.
The Bot's Persona Should be a Clone of the Personality of your Brand
While building a bot, you have to wear the cap of the consumer and thus need to thoroughly study the psychology of the user. The aim of building a chatbot is only for the users. The usage of chatbots is by the users and then it is benefitted to the users. With the technical revolution, the connection between the humans and the automated program hasn't made a lot of lines but if we could break through this ṭedious situation of creating a fantastic program then we might be in a position to build more connections.
24/7 Availability is all that is needed!
Your customer satisfaction is decided upon the availability of your chatbot for addressing the queries of your customers instantly with accuracy and relevancy.
The Blend of Tone and Content is your Game Changer
If you ask me, I would love to talk with someone who has a calm, friendly, and helpful tone to address my speech. Therefore it is mandatory from the users' point of view that his problems or queries are resolved in a courteous manner with high priority.
For instance you may think to have the following set of confab conversation:
Power Tips:
Greet your customer. This is an ideal start to the conversation.
Avoid asking close-ended questions as the user might find reasons to skip them.
A desirable opening:
Hello!
How have you been doing?
Reply By the customer: Hey!
Change the Tone as if you are concerned about their visit
Do you need any help?
Reply By the customer: I am looking for a bell sleeve t-shirt within the range of $400. Can u help me find it?
Change the tone as you are happy to help the customer
Happy to help you!
Reply By the customer:Thanks!
Change the tone as if you are happy to resolve the query
Here are the best deals on bell sleeve t-shirts within the range of $400.
Reply By the customer:Oh, thank you so much!
I Think I can go with it.
By the Bot
I think you have got the right deals.
Wrapping Up!
The chatbot is a revolutionary technology and blending it with AI makes it deadly. Therefore, the companies offering Chatbot Development Services are trying hands on it with innovations. It has a wide scope in the field of customer service thus optimizing the customer experience worldwide. Chatbots are making interaction convenient for the users.
Article Source: https://www.articlecube.com/chatbots-blend-increased-personalization-minus-robotic
Some websites you land on greeting you with "Hello"? Most probably this has caught your eyes. This greet popping out through a little box in the corner is known as a chatbot.
Technically if I have to define chatbots then-
They bear the capacity to caricature human behavior of writing or speaking to go through the motions of a conversation or communication carried with a real person. Therefore they are also known as 'Conversational Agents.'
Do I need a chatbot?
Well, I will try to perk up your ears a bit by answering it as 'yes.'
Consider this scenario:
A consumer pays heed to your product. But before buying a particular product, a lot of questions are raised by the consumer to be sure about the decision of buying. By using a chatbot, these raised queries are answered immediately thus clearing their doubts and aiding them in jumping to the decision of making a purchase.
So what can you conclude with this?
Chatbots not only pop-out and greet your customers but also keep them engaged and satisfied which in turn escalates your conversions.
Customer Satisfaction? Sounds weird? Obviously No.
As Michael LeBoeuf quoted, "A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all," your business escalation completely depends on what your customer gets out of it.
Customers are impatient. They search for immediate solutions to their queries. With the advancement of technology, customers desire to be served 24/7 irrespective of their location.
Don't you believe me?
As per research, customers have the intention to pay more for a lighting speed customer service. Further, it is mentioned that customers who get solutions within five minutes or less were interested in paying almost $20 more for the same service.
This is the reason why brands have opted for a tailored chatbot for their business websites, blogs, applications, and software for speedy and quality-based customer support. Since it saves a lot of time, it becomes an advantage for any customer-centric organization. It is a bot and therefore, it will be faster than humans and will select, organize, and present the content faster with precision.
But how it would be creating a bond with the customers?
David Weinberger quoted, "Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel somewhere there is a piece of software that love us for who we are."
I will simplify the cause of this quote.
Imagine you have an online store. If you were the customer who is searching for a product what would be handy for you? Browsing through various products and pages or simply they are brought to you straight?
Here the role of the bot comes into the picture with the touch of personalization.
The bots can interact with the customers to figure out about their requirements and provide them various options meeting their essentials. In other words, the customer experiences a personal touch as if he/she has owned a personal shopper.
Thus to conclude this, personalization creates a bond between the customer and the brand. And chatbot contributes to the bond between the consumer and the technology where Artificial Intelligence plays a key role. With such a personalization service, chatbots have a different persona which appears to be real.
If I need to state the benefits, in short, I would pen down the following points:
Aids in finding solutions
24/7 Availability
The talent of personification
It is fast and is ahead in terms of accuracy
Therefore companies providing quality chatbot development services always focus on personalization as it is the direct key to the customer satisfaction.
Have you worked on your to-dos as you are thinking to opt for a chatbot development?.
Communicative
Ability to solve the problems
Realistic
Precision
In good spirits, while answering the customers
Curious in learning about the needs of the customers
The solutions are relevant to the queries
Clear Cut and Crisp
Here are a few more points on how you can make your chatbot less robotic and more personalized:
Strategizing the UX to make it user-friendly
As mentioned earlier, we belong to an era where we desire the solutions on the go. For instance, you are in search of a restaurant nearby. Just command your device and restaurants matching your criteria is displayed.
Lost? Command verbally and your exact location is located.
Need a reminder? Your bot will do the work for you.
Want to remind others? Just write @(Person/team to be reminded) for the meeting at 2 pm.
A managed and well-organized bot life isn't it?
A Semblance for your Bot
Since the world of imagination is boundless, each of us has a different perspective towards the digital language. Each brand ties its goal around two important factors: User-satisfaction and Reputation. If you have visited any website of high-technology, they artistically use the exact character to serve as a typical example of their brand. Their chatbots initiate the communication with a tone of pertaining. For instance: "How may I help you?" and so on.
Thus I have shortlisted a few important check-list while creating a user-friendly interface:
Learn about Your User
The first thing that you need to research is what kind of conversation would attract your users. Whether a formal greet would do or an informal one would keep the user more engaged. Keep in mind the users' requirements and the queries they may raise regarding the same. You need to work upon the possible FAQs.
In short, create the bot's personality relevant to the users' needs.
One such example is Google. We all are aware that Google is a search engine. It provides a wide range of information. Therefore the interface of the bots resembles the same persona.
The Bot's Persona Should be a Clone of the Personality of your Brand
While building a bot, you have to wear the cap of the consumer and thus need to thoroughly study the psychology of the user. The aim of building a chatbot is only for the users. The usage of chatbots is by the users and then it is benefitted to the users. With the technical revolution, the connection between the humans and the automated program hasn't made a lot of lines but if we could break through this ṭedious situation of creating a fantastic program then we might be in a position to build more connections.
24/7 Availability is all that is needed!
Your customer satisfaction is decided upon the availability of your chatbot for addressing the queries of your customers instantly with accuracy and relevancy.
The Blend of Tone and Content is your Game Changer
If you ask me, I would love to talk with someone who has a calm, friendly, and helpful tone to address my speech. Therefore it is mandatory from the users' point of view that his problems or queries are resolved in a courteous manner with high priority.
For instance you may think to have the following set of confab conversation:
Power Tips:
Greet your customer. This is an ideal start to the conversation.
Avoid asking close-ended questions as the user might find reasons to skip them.
A desirable opening:
Hello!
How have you been doing?
Reply By the customer: Hey!
Change the Tone as if you are concerned about their visit
Do you need any help?
Reply By the customer: I am looking for a bell sleeve t-shirt within the range of $400. Can u help me find it?
Change the tone as you are happy to help the customer
Happy to help you!
Reply By the customer:Thanks!
Change the tone as if you are happy to resolve the query
Here are the best deals on bell sleeve t-shirts within the range of $400.
Reply By the customer:Oh, thank you so much!
I Think I can go with it.
By the Bot
I think you have got the right deals.
Wrapping Up!
The chatbot is a revolutionary technology and blending it with AI makes it deadly. Therefore, the companies offering Chatbot Development Services are trying hands on it with innovations. It has a wide scope in the field of customer service thus optimizing the customer experience worldwide. Chatbots are making interaction convenient for the users.
Article Source: https://www.articlecube.com/chatbots-blend-increased-personalization-minus-robotic
Saturday, 7 September 2019
ChatBot Marketing With Aritificial Intelligence
ChatBot Digital Marketing which makes use of Artificial Intelligence technologies can be used a key component in any company's marketing strategy in terms of guiding customers through a marketing sales funnel. The marketing funnel that would be programmed into the AI ChatBot would be defined in relation to the products and services being offered into the market place from the company in question. Implementation of the particular social media digital marketing strategy may well be devised by a full service digital marketing agency.
When it comes to effective digital marketing strategy development and subsequent execution that requires marketing research, strategy formulation, content planning, linking strategy and the publication of the content in question. In addition to the above, careful posting on relevant content portals and blogs in necessary in order to expand the digital marketing footprint of the company as well as developing the equity of the brand.
The point being made is that publishing content on its own is not enough; there has to be a key focus on that of promoting the company and that of building the business's brand. If the company chooses to take care of the content marketing in house as opposed to making use of a digital marketing agency then all of the necessary software and keyword analysis tools will need to be purchased and subscribed to in order to be able to determine the correct direction that needs to be taken for maximum social media marketing effectiveness.
So bearing in mind that the content itself is not the main issue per se, we can turn our attention to the strategic use of how companies are using chatbots for marketing - the content will be created and published strategically on portals, blogs, websites and via social media channels then in turn users make their way to the company website where they interact with the artificial intelligence chatbots in order to implement the business' digital marketing strategies.
From the various social media marketing channels that may be used to publish related company content; along with the [say] the company blog and other authority blogs. Remembering that there will be associated links within each piece of content - in turn users are directed to the company website which will lead to the strategic AI chatbot with all of the associated calls to action coming into play.
The activation of the AI ChatBot and interaction with the customer and associated data that will be collected will in turn provide valuable marketing intelligence for the company in question. This could be in the form of questions asked by the ChatBot which carefully guides prospects through a defined marketing or customer support process.
Stephen C Campbell is a digital marketing consultant and trainer and has worked on developing marketing strategies with corporates, SMEs and entrepreneur startups. He heads Capid Houser which provides ChatBot Marketing Agency services to business operating in different market sectors.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10111386
When it comes to effective digital marketing strategy development and subsequent execution that requires marketing research, strategy formulation, content planning, linking strategy and the publication of the content in question. In addition to the above, careful posting on relevant content portals and blogs in necessary in order to expand the digital marketing footprint of the company as well as developing the equity of the brand.
The point being made is that publishing content on its own is not enough; there has to be a key focus on that of promoting the company and that of building the business's brand. If the company chooses to take care of the content marketing in house as opposed to making use of a digital marketing agency then all of the necessary software and keyword analysis tools will need to be purchased and subscribed to in order to be able to determine the correct direction that needs to be taken for maximum social media marketing effectiveness.
So bearing in mind that the content itself is not the main issue per se, we can turn our attention to the strategic use of how companies are using chatbots for marketing - the content will be created and published strategically on portals, blogs, websites and via social media channels then in turn users make their way to the company website where they interact with the artificial intelligence chatbots in order to implement the business' digital marketing strategies.
From the various social media marketing channels that may be used to publish related company content; along with the [say] the company blog and other authority blogs. Remembering that there will be associated links within each piece of content - in turn users are directed to the company website which will lead to the strategic AI chatbot with all of the associated calls to action coming into play.
The activation of the AI ChatBot and interaction with the customer and associated data that will be collected will in turn provide valuable marketing intelligence for the company in question. This could be in the form of questions asked by the ChatBot which carefully guides prospects through a defined marketing or customer support process.
Stephen C Campbell is a digital marketing consultant and trainer and has worked on developing marketing strategies with corporates, SMEs and entrepreneur startups. He heads Capid Houser which provides ChatBot Marketing Agency services to business operating in different market sectors.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10111386
Friday, 6 September 2019
Artificial Intelligence Chatbot: Your Virtual Help Desk That Can Satisfy Customer Queries Instantly
The word Artificial intelligence chatbot has been around for some time but is gaining recognition and popularity very recently. It is actually an advanced automated chat system that has a knowledge of almost thousands words or even more and integrates memories as well as emotions. It even has in built sentence structure capacity. Now, how does it help consumers or businesses? Most online customers are very impatient and always seem to be in a hurry while putting forward their queries or demands to organizations and online businesses. It has been observed that most of the time they need immediate answers from the online support system and in fact prefer getting it within a day or sometimes even within a few hours.
The artificial intelligence chatbot has a virtual help desk that helps the concerned company to provide answers immediately; that too 24X7. Customers can chat with this system anytime and from any location of the world and get instant replies. No need to wait for a live support person to answer because at times human beings do need a break; might be very busy and customers have to stay on hold or might not have immediate answers to a particular question. However, there is no such thing with the computer generated automated chat system. No matter what type of business you have and whether your company is providing services or product; an automated chat will help turn almost all your visitors into future customers very quickly because of the prompt response. These are actually virtual help desks that smart and intelligent enough to find out the likings of consumers and help them navigate and find the right product or services, answer their queries is the best possible way and meet their urgent requirements.
An artificial intelligence chatbot has helped numerous organizations to get more business, increase sales and also make necessary improvements. If you are running a business then resorting to such a system can immensely help you to upgrade your services and make your present as well as future customers really satisfied. This live chat system or virtual help desk is very flexible and can fit in any of the existing system properly. Later on, an executive who takes care of the automated chat system will easily understand the changes that are needed for a specific customer.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/5811326
The artificial intelligence chatbot has a virtual help desk that helps the concerned company to provide answers immediately; that too 24X7. Customers can chat with this system anytime and from any location of the world and get instant replies. No need to wait for a live support person to answer because at times human beings do need a break; might be very busy and customers have to stay on hold or might not have immediate answers to a particular question. However, there is no such thing with the computer generated automated chat system. No matter what type of business you have and whether your company is providing services or product; an automated chat will help turn almost all your visitors into future customers very quickly because of the prompt response. These are actually virtual help desks that smart and intelligent enough to find out the likings of consumers and help them navigate and find the right product or services, answer their queries is the best possible way and meet their urgent requirements.
An artificial intelligence chatbot has helped numerous organizations to get more business, increase sales and also make necessary improvements. If you are running a business then resorting to such a system can immensely help you to upgrade your services and make your present as well as future customers really satisfied. This live chat system or virtual help desk is very flexible and can fit in any of the existing system properly. Later on, an executive who takes care of the automated chat system will easily understand the changes that are needed for a specific customer.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/5811326
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Should Your Small Business Use ECommerce Chatbots?
Conversation is a core part of the buying process, whether you're asking the wine clerk what red she recommends or messaging a store owner on Facebook to see if they sell gift cards.
I'm sure you've visited a website and had a chat box pop up, asking if you needed help or offering to start a conversation. Chances are, the "person" with whom you're speaking isn't human.
A chatbot allows business owners to provide responses and solutions - and even generate leads and sales - 24/7 through automated customer service live chat. According to IBM, up to 80% of routine customer service questions could be answered by a chatbot.
There are two types of chatbots:
1. Those that rely on rules and can only accept/respond in limited ways.
2. Those that use artificial intelligence to employ sophisticated algorithms to accept/respond.
One of the areas we'll see this tech more and more in is healthcare. While nothing will replace a professional - especially in an emergency - it's convenient and fast to ask a bot a simple question about a cold or what medications interact with breastfeeding.
Here's an example: Florence is a popular online personal health assistant. "She" has become focused on two main features: health tracking and medication reminders. All users have to do is start a chat with her in Facebook Messenger, Kik or Skype and she'll jump in.
Now, let's take a look at three pros of conversational commerce:
1. Fast responses, multiple options. You're able to answer queries ultra-fast and this type of interaction is possible on a wide range of platforms including Facebook Messenger, SMS, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple Business Chat and WeChat.
2. Money, money, money. You don't need to work late responding to questions and you don't need to pay employees to respond to every interaction. If you want to sell through your bot people can purchase your product or service anytime, anywhere.
3. You automatically gather data. eCommerce chatbots collect data so you can offer a more personalized experience each time someone communicates with your brand. And, you gain lots of valuable insight on your users' needs, pain points and buying habits.
Caption: Domino's uses a wide variety of tools to allow pizza lovers to rapidly order, pay and track their food.
Let's balance that out with three cons:
1. They can't replace humans. Especially in the medical and legal fields, there's a concern that patients may use these technologies instead of seeking professional help. Also, you shouldn't use conversational commerce as your only form of customer service. Your clients should be able to connect with a live person, at least during your regular business hours.
2. Misunderstandings can happen. The problem is with natural language understanding, which is the ability to determine intent. Bots aren't as skilled at understanding us as our fellow humans are - at least not yet. Customers will get frustrated with eCommerce chatbots that don't work well and will take their business to a competitor.
3. They're not right for every situation. It's true that many companies can benefit from this ever-changing technology, but don't try and force it. If your services are too complex to map out in AI chat or require thorough consultations, a chatbot probably won't help lead-qualifying efforts or sales.
Chatbots are far from perfect, and while they'll certainly advance going forward, you don't want to alienate customers now. By understanding the pros and cons, you can ensure you're making the best chat-choice for your business.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10075504
I'm sure you've visited a website and had a chat box pop up, asking if you needed help or offering to start a conversation. Chances are, the "person" with whom you're speaking isn't human.
A chatbot allows business owners to provide responses and solutions - and even generate leads and sales - 24/7 through automated customer service live chat. According to IBM, up to 80% of routine customer service questions could be answered by a chatbot.
There are two types of chatbots:
1. Those that rely on rules and can only accept/respond in limited ways.
2. Those that use artificial intelligence to employ sophisticated algorithms to accept/respond.
One of the areas we'll see this tech more and more in is healthcare. While nothing will replace a professional - especially in an emergency - it's convenient and fast to ask a bot a simple question about a cold or what medications interact with breastfeeding.
Here's an example: Florence is a popular online personal health assistant. "She" has become focused on two main features: health tracking and medication reminders. All users have to do is start a chat with her in Facebook Messenger, Kik or Skype and she'll jump in.
Now, let's take a look at three pros of conversational commerce:
1. Fast responses, multiple options. You're able to answer queries ultra-fast and this type of interaction is possible on a wide range of platforms including Facebook Messenger, SMS, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple Business Chat and WeChat.
2. Money, money, money. You don't need to work late responding to questions and you don't need to pay employees to respond to every interaction. If you want to sell through your bot people can purchase your product or service anytime, anywhere.
3. You automatically gather data. eCommerce chatbots collect data so you can offer a more personalized experience each time someone communicates with your brand. And, you gain lots of valuable insight on your users' needs, pain points and buying habits.
Caption: Domino's uses a wide variety of tools to allow pizza lovers to rapidly order, pay and track their food.
Let's balance that out with three cons:
1. They can't replace humans. Especially in the medical and legal fields, there's a concern that patients may use these technologies instead of seeking professional help. Also, you shouldn't use conversational commerce as your only form of customer service. Your clients should be able to connect with a live person, at least during your regular business hours.
2. Misunderstandings can happen. The problem is with natural language understanding, which is the ability to determine intent. Bots aren't as skilled at understanding us as our fellow humans are - at least not yet. Customers will get frustrated with eCommerce chatbots that don't work well and will take their business to a competitor.
3. They're not right for every situation. It's true that many companies can benefit from this ever-changing technology, but don't try and force it. If your services are too complex to map out in AI chat or require thorough consultations, a chatbot probably won't help lead-qualifying efforts or sales.
Chatbots are far from perfect, and while they'll certainly advance going forward, you don't want to alienate customers now. By understanding the pros and cons, you can ensure you're making the best chat-choice for your business.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10075504
End Customer Frustration With Chatbots
Businesses that put chatbots instead of human customer service representatives in front of their customers have a good reason for doing so.
Although nothing beats the human touch, so to speak, a chatbot is more than capable of giving every customer what they want-a direct answer to their question.
If you've been running an online store for quite some time, you would know for a fact that you can never teach a customer to be patient.
They get frustrated every time their call is placed on hold for too long or their question is not answered immediately.
Still, the fact remains that they keep you in business, so you have to make sure that their issues are resolved fast.
Your customer support team don't work round the clock, but even then your customers expect immediate answers to their queries or concerns.
What do customers think of a bot?
More than 50% of online shoppers in the UK are considering using a chatbot.
They have no qualms about relying on this artificial intelligence (A.I) powered application to understand a brand better, especially if a bot can answer their questions accurately.
Close to 40% of them even said they will gladly use A.I., if it were available on a website, to buy clothes; think eBay ShopBot.
From their standpoint, there is not much difference between talking to a chatbot and a real person-if anything, it's going to improve their online experience.
However, buyers of high-value products like jewellery and cars see a big difference between a human customer service rep and a bot that simulates human conversation.
This group of cautious shoppers prefer to have someone walk them through their journey and answer their questions in detail.
Three reasons why you need a chatbot
Because they recognise and react to human speech, chatbots come in very handy in the day-to-day operations of a business.
They are programmed to analyse customer data, hence an excellent tool for addressing frequently asked questions on your site, which in turn could increase your sales.
Hiring and training new employees to be in your company's frontliner will cost you more than it does making a chatbot.
This is not to say you shouldn't hire people anymore; nothing can replace the human empathy.
We're all for skilled individuals, but combining their talents with A.I. is a smart way to advance your business.
Whether you're an online start-up company or a seasoned eCommerce entrepreneur, the list below explains how using a chatbot can benefit your business.
#1 Chatbots work 24/7.
#2 They can respond quickly to simple questions.
#3 You can program a chatbot to forward a difficult question from a customer to yourself, or to your members of staff, in a timely manner.
Chatbots are, no doubt, among the latest communication tools that you should take advantage of for your eCommerce business.
Fusing their efficiency with your customer support's interpersonal skills is surely going to make your customers happy, which is tantamount to higher sales.
Are you considering a chatbot support system for your website?
Online sellers don't be left behind. Multichannel marketing is the quickest route to reach your customers. UnderstandingE offers tutorials on Magento, M2E Pro, Magmi and other eCommerce tools that allow you to sell and earn more on Amazon, eBay and your own website.
See you there!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9713334
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Tiny Agents of Success: Chatbots
Chatbots are gaining popularity in all the sectors of Service Industry. A chatbot is a computer program that simulates human conversations, they are powered by Artificial Intelligence.
Organizations are adopting chatbots to provide customer support and work as knowledge assistants and business advisors. The insurance industry and chatbots go hand in hand. Insurance chatbots are helping the organizations to simplify communication processes and sell products and services. Millennials want everything instant and simple, and that's exactly what a bot for insurance does.
Insurance chatbots provide a simple platform to access information related to insurance and reach the millennial through the medium they are most accustomed to. Nowadays, insurance products are complex and have many variations. Insurance policies are often customized according to an individual's requirements, chatbots eliminate human involvement and fasten the process. Chatbots reduce the manpower in call centers, which helps the organization to cut down on overhead expenses.
Insurance organizations can deploy chatbots for several functions, some of them are:
• Marketing: Chatbots can be used to launch new campaigns to support new products, and services. Chatbots basically help insurers to market their brand.
• Information Assistance: Chatbots can be used pre-sales agents as they can educate customers on insurance products and services.
• Simple Claim Process: Insurance chatbots can help a customer to register the first notice of loss, schedule the survey appointment for the field adjuster, offer loss prevention recommendations, arrange emergency assistance during accidents, and offer pre and post disaster help.
• Customer Support: Insurance chatbots are an ideal customer support, as they offer 24X7 availability and an easy to use user interface. They can engage in natural conversations as they are more like humans.
They offer solutions to customer queries and help customers to choose the products and tailor them to their specific needs. They also remind customers about premium payments that are due and renewals. With the advent of Chatbots, an increase in human-machine interactions can be seen. Since these interactions are in a simple conversational language, Chatbots have made a drastic change in the customer service domain.
Insurance chatbots improve employee productivity as chatbots let them focus on more complex and important activities. Chatbots are helping organisations to achieve maximised customer experience and make the interactions more personalised. Chatbots offer quick and relevant access to information.
The way chatbots are transforming Insurance Industry, it is certain that chatbots are here to stay. To scale your insurance business, deploy an Insurance chatbot today. Article Source:
http://EzineArticles.com/9705357
Organizations are adopting chatbots to provide customer support and work as knowledge assistants and business advisors. The insurance industry and chatbots go hand in hand. Insurance chatbots are helping the organizations to simplify communication processes and sell products and services. Millennials want everything instant and simple, and that's exactly what a bot for insurance does.
Insurance chatbots provide a simple platform to access information related to insurance and reach the millennial through the medium they are most accustomed to. Nowadays, insurance products are complex and have many variations. Insurance policies are often customized according to an individual's requirements, chatbots eliminate human involvement and fasten the process. Chatbots reduce the manpower in call centers, which helps the organization to cut down on overhead expenses.
Insurance organizations can deploy chatbots for several functions, some of them are:
• Marketing: Chatbots can be used to launch new campaigns to support new products, and services. Chatbots basically help insurers to market their brand.
• Information Assistance: Chatbots can be used pre-sales agents as they can educate customers on insurance products and services.
• Simple Claim Process: Insurance chatbots can help a customer to register the first notice of loss, schedule the survey appointment for the field adjuster, offer loss prevention recommendations, arrange emergency assistance during accidents, and offer pre and post disaster help.
• Customer Support: Insurance chatbots are an ideal customer support, as they offer 24X7 availability and an easy to use user interface. They can engage in natural conversations as they are more like humans.
They offer solutions to customer queries and help customers to choose the products and tailor them to their specific needs. They also remind customers about premium payments that are due and renewals. With the advent of Chatbots, an increase in human-machine interactions can be seen. Since these interactions are in a simple conversational language, Chatbots have made a drastic change in the customer service domain.
Insurance chatbots improve employee productivity as chatbots let them focus on more complex and important activities. Chatbots are helping organisations to achieve maximised customer experience and make the interactions more personalised. Chatbots offer quick and relevant access to information.
The way chatbots are transforming Insurance Industry, it is certain that chatbots are here to stay. To scale your insurance business, deploy an Insurance chatbot today. Article Source:
http://EzineArticles.com/9705357
Tuesday, 3 September 2019
7 Reasons Why You Must Install A ChatBot On Your Website Today
n 2016, the value of the chatbot market touched $703 million. According to Ubisend, around 57% of the UK customers are familiar with the chatbot. In this article, we are going to take a look at some reasons why you need to install a chatbot on your website today. Read on to find out more.
1. Zero-Waiting Time
If the video on your website takes more than 10 seconds to play, you may lose half of the viewers to your competitor. The same applies to your website visitors as well. Just imagine losing half of your prospective customers because you failed to respond to their queries in time. With a chatbot, you can answer most of the questions your customers may ask without any delay.
2. Personalized Experience
Personalization can help you convert your prospects into customers. With conversational chatbots, you can make your customers feel like they are interacting with a real person, not a machine. Moreover, they offer the desired information or services right away. For your retail online store, the chatbot will function like a salesperson that can help customers find the required info about what you offer.
3. Better Customer Service Level
Personalized chatbots powered by NLP can process the natural language at various levels, such as discourse, semantics, and syntax. So, the chatbot gets a deeper insight into human psychology in order to respond to the visitors with the right service and information. The info is provided instantly regardless of the number of questioners.
4. Improved User Engagement
As far as developing the right UX is concerned, designers and developers have to bear extreme pressure. Since there is no limit to the customer expectation, improving the UX is a journey that can end nowhere. And chatbot is just an important milestone in the journey. If designed well, chatbots can help a business makes its customers happy.
5. Targeting a Wider Audience
Social media platforms like Facebook messenger, Slack, Telegram and Skype work with a chatbot. So, it has become a lot easier to target a much wider audience.
6. Business Intelligence
The in-built AI and machine learning make this virtual assistant more powerful. So, it can collect and process a good deal of conversational data for researchers so that they can get a deeper insight into the minds of buyers. For any business, it is of paramount importance.
With the help of chatbots, businesses can improve and innovate their products and services.
7. Performing Surveys
A chatbot can get a better idea of the customer experience when they buy a product or service. The problem is that the survey system via emails and websites is not very successful as most visitors are apathetic due to lack of time and many other reasons.
On the other hand, chatbots engage customers in a real-time conversation making the survey brief and customers.
So, these are 7 reasons why you should install a chatbot on your business website today. After all, you don't want to end up losing a lot of customers. Your business growth depends on it.
TrafficStorm is a great choice if you are looking for leading chatbot companies. Their sales bot can help you answer the queries of your customers and satisfy them.
Article Source:https://ezinearticles.com/?7-Reasons-Why-You-Must-Install-A-ChatBot-On-Your-Website-Today&id=10108830
1. Zero-Waiting Time
If the video on your website takes more than 10 seconds to play, you may lose half of the viewers to your competitor. The same applies to your website visitors as well. Just imagine losing half of your prospective customers because you failed to respond to their queries in time. With a chatbot, you can answer most of the questions your customers may ask without any delay.
2. Personalized Experience
Personalization can help you convert your prospects into customers. With conversational chatbots, you can make your customers feel like they are interacting with a real person, not a machine. Moreover, they offer the desired information or services right away. For your retail online store, the chatbot will function like a salesperson that can help customers find the required info about what you offer.
3. Better Customer Service Level
Personalized chatbots powered by NLP can process the natural language at various levels, such as discourse, semantics, and syntax. So, the chatbot gets a deeper insight into human psychology in order to respond to the visitors with the right service and information. The info is provided instantly regardless of the number of questioners.
4. Improved User Engagement
As far as developing the right UX is concerned, designers and developers have to bear extreme pressure. Since there is no limit to the customer expectation, improving the UX is a journey that can end nowhere. And chatbot is just an important milestone in the journey. If designed well, chatbots can help a business makes its customers happy.
5. Targeting a Wider Audience
Social media platforms like Facebook messenger, Slack, Telegram and Skype work with a chatbot. So, it has become a lot easier to target a much wider audience.
6. Business Intelligence
The in-built AI and machine learning make this virtual assistant more powerful. So, it can collect and process a good deal of conversational data for researchers so that they can get a deeper insight into the minds of buyers. For any business, it is of paramount importance.
With the help of chatbots, businesses can improve and innovate their products and services.
7. Performing Surveys
A chatbot can get a better idea of the customer experience when they buy a product or service. The problem is that the survey system via emails and websites is not very successful as most visitors are apathetic due to lack of time and many other reasons.
On the other hand, chatbots engage customers in a real-time conversation making the survey brief and customers.
So, these are 7 reasons why you should install a chatbot on your business website today. After all, you don't want to end up losing a lot of customers. Your business growth depends on it.
TrafficStorm is a great choice if you are looking for leading chatbot companies. Their sales bot can help you answer the queries of your customers and satisfy them.
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