Many people are not yet convinced that chatbots have the power to transform customer experience. The big question is whether chatbots (or, as we refer to them, "leadbots") are just another fad technology that will soon pass, or a true disruption with the potential to drive qualified leads for your business.
Here are five reasons "Leadbots" are disruptors that will help your business thrive:
Imagine having one employee in charge of interacting with every single person who ever visits your website regardless of the time, language and the number of people using your site simultaneously. Now think about what that person’s paycheck would look like… Luckily Leadbots and Chatbots like Drift can replace that person so they can have regular hours instead of being a superhuman who doesn’t need sleep.
The company’s main focus with leadbots will be to provide playbooks for common questions and important pages on their websites so their chatbot can help potential customers get their questions answered and complete tasks quickly. This means that on-demand information will be available 24/7 and the company’s ’ services will be 1-click away at all times.
You don't have to be a website wizard to use a leadbot. They have been designed so that anyone, regardless of age or familiarity with technology, can get immediate value by having a chatbot solve problems or answer questions for you quickly and easily through a conversation. This saves your customers from the dreaded hold music and creates a positive interaction with your brand. This can lead to a positive review of your company or even new business.
Chatbots’ ability to understand users’ intent and its ability to use context means we can now create much more meaningful and personalized experiences. For a chatbot, it’s really easy to segment their audience and give different users different experiences based on their questions and who they are.
Every time someone interacts with a bot and starts chatting, the business knows the user identity and can ask them to opt into a certain call to action. For example, newsletter signups, scheduling a meeting, or a demo request. This also allows the chatbot to collect user data to qualify this person as a lead and have a more tailored conversation with your customer since it is able to personalize each new interaction.
As you collect more information in your leadbot about your customers, it’s possible to use that information to re-engage with users and build a stronger relationship that will lead to in-chat orders. Brands are able to send relevant messages, in a personalized way, at the right time, by continuing conversations with customers and providing them with relevant information on products or services in which they are interested.
Leadbots alone will not solve each and every problem a customer may have. Your playbook for the chatbot can only cover so many topics, and when a question or need arises that is not in the bot’s current playbook, you need to have a button in the conversation connecting the customer to a real person to continue the positive user experience. For example, imagine someone asking if they left something at the hotel they just stayed at, the chatbot would have no way of being able to answer that question, so it would connect this customer to a real person who can go and check the lost and found at the hotel. Thus continuing the positive customer experience.
Imagine having one employee in charge of interacting with every single person who ever visits your website regardless of the time, language and the number of people using your site simultaneously. Now think about what that person’s paycheck would look like… Luckily Leadbots and Chatbots like Drift can replace that person so they can have regular hours instead of being a superhuman who doesn’t need sleep.
The company’s main focus with leadbots will be to provide playbooks for common questions and important pages on their websites so their chatbot can help potential customers get their questions answered and complete tasks quickly. This means that on-demand information will be available 24/7 and the company’s ’ services will be 1-click away at all times.
You don't have to be a website wizard to use a leadbot. They have been designed so that anyone, regardless of age or familiarity with technology, can get immediate value by having a chatbot solve problems or answer questions for you quickly and easily through a conversation. This saves your customers from the dreaded hold music and creates a positive interaction with your brand. This can lead to a positive review of your company or even new business.
Chatbots’ ability to understand users’ intent and its ability to use context means we can now create much more meaningful and personalized experiences. For a chatbot, it’s really easy to segment their audience and give different users different experiences based on their questions and who they are.
Every time someone interacts with a bot and starts chatting, the business knows the user identity and can ask them to opt into a certain call to action. For example, newsletter signups, scheduling a meeting, or a demo request. This also allows the chatbot to collect user data to qualify this person as a lead and have a more tailored conversation with your customer since it is able to personalize each new interaction.
As you collect more information in your leadbot about your customers, it’s possible to use that information to re-engage with users and build a stronger relationship that will lead to in-chat orders. Brands are able to send relevant messages, in a personalized way, at the right time, by continuing conversations with customers and providing them with relevant information on products or services in which they are interested.
Leadbots alone will not solve each and every problem a customer may have. Your playbook for the chatbot can only cover so many topics, and when a question or need arises that is not in the bot’s current playbook, you need to have a button in the conversation connecting the customer to a real person to continue the positive user experience. For example, imagine someone asking if they left something at the hotel they just stayed at, the chatbot would have no way of being able to answer that question, so it would connect this customer to a real person who can go and check the lost and found at the hotel. Thus continuing the positive customer experience.
This is a common misconception. What really sets Drift apart is its ability to use AI to deliver playbooks which interact with the visitor and deliver a customized response -- otherwise known as a conversation -- which relieves employees from being the front line for the 90% of questions and requests that are simple to handle via automation.
Yes, you certainly can. Although Drift is relatively simple to get started and learn, getting up to speed with the number of playbooks, conversations and use cases you need to capitalize on the technology throughout your website can be a big challenge.
That's where agencies like Connection Model come in. We were recognized by Drift in 2019/2020 as a Top 12 Drift partner, which simply means that we are equipped to help businesses deploy and succeed using Drift.
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