Six Shocking Statistics About Chat Marketing

1. Consumers are warming up to chatbots Comparing 2018 and 2019, consumers’ willingness to engage with chatbots has doubled. (Forbes)
2. Consumers love the rapid response Chatbots are great for delivering quick answers to simple questions, so it is no surprise that 69% of consumers prefer to use chatbots for simple questions. (Salesforce)
3. Consumers don’t miss people You might think people crave that “human touch” but 65% feel comfortable resolving their problems with a chatbot instead of a human agent. (Adweek)
4. Consumers love how chatbots are always there Of consumers polled, 64% said that round-the-clock service was the most useful aspect of chatbots. (The Chatbot )
5. Chatbot response rates are great Manychat’s clients get an average open rate of 80% and a click-through rate of 25%.
6. Chatbots are increasingly able to get the whole job done Back in 2017, chatbots only managed to handle conversations from start to finish without a live agent 20% of the time. But in 2019, chatbots were over 250% more effective, handling conversations from start to finish in 68.9% of conversations without an agent’s help. So you can deliver answers faster most of the time. Any good chatbot service will support transfers to a live agent when it is necessary. 

What is a Chat Marketing Strategy?

Top Ten Tips for Chatbot Marketing 

• Determine the FAQs One of the most important facts to know when setting up a chatbot is: what are the FAQs? Survey the people who have direct customer contact and find out what people usually ask about. Teach your bot the answers and give your customers instant interactive responses.
• Offer a human option Most people love chatbots. That leaves some people who don’t. Don’t disappoint those customers. Do your best to have a human available as many hours as possible, and let people know how to reach a person in your initial chatbot greeting.
• Think about your tone and your welcome message If a person was answering chat messages, you would want them to write in a way that reflects your brand and will feel comfortable to your customers. Whether it is formal or informal or serious or flippant, your brand has a voice and your chatbot should use it. Develop a warm welcome message that offers options users want in your brand voice.
• Measure effectiveness If you don’t look at the data, you won’t know how well your chatbot is working. Some things, like reductions in human-answered requests, are easy to measure. But you should do follow-up surveys to make sure people are loving the service they get from your bot or find out what you can improve. It takes a bit more effort, but you can use discount codes and UTMs on your links to measure sales.
• Chatbots are great for straightforward repetitive processes like processing returns Chatbots are very effective for answering common questions about products, inventory checks, booking reservations, processing returns, recommending cross-sell and up-sell items after a purchase, confirming orders, and tracking shipping, or simply act like an operator and direct questions to the correct live agent.
• Use chatbots as a content delivery system People think of chatbots as an inbound system, but you can use them for outbound marketing too. You can ask your customers to opt-in for outbound marketing and then send them news through chat. Open rates can be pretty spectacular with this approach.
• Chatbots are good for surveys too People like to feel heard. Somehow when you send them an email asking them their opinion though, they often will not respond. Response rates with chatbots can be higher. Shorter surveys are best. And of course, for any outbound communication, you need to get people to opt-in first.
• Use Chatbots to create and execute drip marketing campaigns You’ve probably heard of email drip campaigns that send customers a series of emails over time to nudge them along the customer journey. A chatbot with integrations can be used to trigger email campaigns. Some chatbots, like Manychat, even support SMS message drip campaigns. And you can use your chatbot to collect information about the customer’s interest to deliver personalized drip campaigns that bring them back into chat for further interaction. The possibilities are endless.
• Use live data to enrich your chatbot’s communication A good chatbot service will allow you to access live data that is relevant to your customers and present it dynamically. For example, if you have an E-commerce business, connecting your chatbot so that it can give answers about stock levels can be very helpful.
• Let people know you have a chatbot They are very effective, as long as people know they are there. Don’t keep your chatbot a secret. Announce it prominently everywhere you can, and then watch customer satisfaction soar while sales skyrocket.