Building Chatbots: Everything you need to know
Chatbots continue to receive a lot of hype in 2017, with companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and many others investing heavily in the technology. This brief guide explores some of key things to consider when building and launching your first chatbot.
Chatbots and Social Media: New Research
Are you considering including chatbots in your marketing and customer support? Wondering how consumers are responding to chatbots?
In this article, you’ll discover new research that shares consumer reactions to chatbots and the issues businesses should address before integrating chatbots.
‘It Has To Have A Soul’: How Chatbots Get Their Personalities
But would millions of people spend hours chatting with a bot that’s perpetually “happy to get something on the calendar?” That’s not really the goal for the x.ai team, but you have to wonder whether the humans will ever really connect with the growing army of uber-polite and relentlessly nonconfrontational bots.
“In order for your bot to be popular, it has to have a personality, and in order for it to have a personality, it has to have a soul,” Hoffer argues. “It has to be able to distinguish between right and wrong, and good and bad, and make moral judgments. “
11 Tricks to Increase Retention for Your Messenger Bot
A reengaging bot is only possible with the reengaging product. But is it enough?
19 Best Practices for Building Chatbots
Chatbots are the new, hip interface. But how do we make them usable?
3 ways to make people love your chatbot
Beyond the fundamental layers of data and software, marketers need to plan how chatbots will fit into their broader customer engagement strategy. When creating a bot, there are some key principles to create a memorable, easy-to-use bot that will help ensure success.
5 tips for writing chatbot scripts
After all the time Rick Ramos spent writing and rewriting scripts, here are his best suggestions about writing for a chatbot
Forrester: Messaging works but chatbots can frustrate
The State of Chatbots report, a copy of which was provided to Marketing Dive by Forrester, made it very clear that AI-driven chatbots are currently not overly effective, with messaging as a marketing channel driving app engagement through conversations fueled by people and not bots.
How Human Should Your Chatbot Be?
Your Chatbot can range from uncanny valley robotic to a totally annoying blabbermouth. How do you choose its voice?
How to make sure your first bot doesn’t make a belly flop
Succeeding with bots is not rocket science. A little common sense, a walk-before-you-run approach and some basic communication can get you from theory to production in less time, at dramatically lower costs, with tangible results to show for it that you can continue to build on and expand into more AI-driven experiences over time.
Integrate A Facebook Bot With Your Shopify Store In Less Than 10 Minutes
To enhance their internet presence, Shopify customers are looking for more ways to automate their business online.
Bots are heading into a similar direction as websites, and it is possible to develop a Facebook Messenger bot and integrate it with a Shopify website in less than 10 minutes.
Never Run Out of Chatbot Ideas
You’d love to do something in the chatbot world. You’d love to build something for your company or have a team of experts build something for you.
This article is for those who need inspiration, for those who need to build a process to never run out of chatbot ideas.
On ‘User-Friendly’ Bots and a Need to Focus on Advanced Usefulness
Bots have quickly become the darlings of the tech world, and with good reason. There have been more advances in voice technology in the last 18 months than in the last 30 years. Bots are driving the future of search-based commerce, customer service, and task-based utility. However, they’re still a novelty to a majority of the world.
The Hidden Potential of Chatbots: Content
Victor Rotariu identified 5 steps in building a successful content chatbot. Yet these are not the same as steps in a recipe: add 5 grams flour, stir for twenty minutes and voila, pancake. They are more like questions you need to answer to build your outstanding content bot.
So what separates the wheat from the chaff, in order to make a chatbot really worth using? Let’s start by thinking about what features a chatbot must offer (and what often lets them down).
Why your next chatbot should be human-augmented, not AI-augmented
If you’re trying to create a chatbot, take time to think about whether it’s the best approach for specific types of interactions. Don’t be afraid to add real people into the mix; use them for what they are best at, communicating with other people. Start your automating with low-end tasks, and move your way up the value chain.