3 ways Facebook is missing the boat on chatbots
While the user number and developer community is growing, there are still several critical areas that need much improvement.
5 Ways to Use Facebook Messenger Bots for Your Business
Customers expect lightning-fast responses from businesses on Facebook. Chatbots can help you deliver the right answer the moment a customer asks.
In this article, you’ll discover five types of Facebook Messenger bots your business can integrate for better customer service
9 tips for building your first Facebook Messenger chatbot
Chatbots are the new black in UX design. Facebook already has over 11,000 chatbots since the official announcement of chatbot support made earlier this year. The question is: Should you build a chatbot for your business?
Yes, if your goal is to create a more personalized experience with your customers without hiring additional staff.
Cheat Sheet: All Facebook Messenger Bots Interactions
In this post, Anna Iurchenko summarizes all conversational elements that are available to you if you want to design a chatbot for Facebook Messenger.
At the end of this article, you will find a cheat sheet with a visual summary of all the interaction elements that are now available for the Facebook Messenger bot
Facebook Bots 101: What They Are, Who’s Using Them & What You Should Do About It
As Zuckerberg put it in his keynote, “No one wants to have to install a new app for every business or service they want to interact with.” And bots are much different than disjointed apps. In other words, building into the already popular Facebook Messenger app could enable businesses to get in front of customers without that added friction.
At least, that’s the potential.
Facebook launches Messenger platform with chatbots
Facebook sure isn’t the only chatbot game in town, but because of Messenger’s 900 million user reach, its vast connections with advertisers and a healthy developer ecosystem built over years, it might provide the most attractive platform on which to run them. Businesses focus where the biggest number of customers are, and it doesn’t get any bigger than Facebook.
Facebook Messenger adds option for chatbots to avoid chatting
Messenger bots can prevent people from typing in text to reply and make them use non-native menu buttons instead.
Facebook Messenger Bots for Business: A Guide for Marketers
Hootsuite takes a look at what bots are, what you can use them for, and how you can create a successful bot. They also check out some of the most popular and notable Facebook Messenger bots.
Facebook Messenger has been recommending fake porn clickbait bots
Facebook Messenger has been recommending bots that send you sexually suggestive photos and videos. The bots, however, may not send you porn; instead, they fire off links about the advantages of starting an online business or the importance of marketing strategy.
Facebook Messenger hits 100,000 bots
Facebook Messenger developers have created 100,000 bots for Messenger in the first year of the Messenger Platform.
VP David Marcus made the announcement onstage during a keynote presentation at F8, an annual conference for developers making products for Facebook platforms.
Facebook Says: 3 Steps to Build a Winning Messenger Bot
Anyone can set up and configure a bot for Messenger. But in the year since the Bots for Messenger platform was launched, many companies and people have learned that just having a bot is like just having an app: If you build it, they might come. And they’ll probably leave.
Messenger product manager Kemal El Moujahid has spent the past year in the catbird seat to learn what does and does not work, what to do and what not to do. In a long phone call with Chatbots Magazine, he led them on sketching out three basic rules for success.
Facebook scales back on chatbots: What does it mean for brands?
According to recent reports, 70% of Facebook Messenger chatbots are failing to fulfil user requests. Consequently, the social network is set to scale back its AI efforts, instead focusing on a more simplistic system to ensure success.
The pros, the cons and the future of Facebook chatbots
Thinking of swapping out your customer service agents with chatbots? Before you do, columnist Jordan Kasteler discusses the pros and cons of the technology and what the future holds for brands.
How Facebook’s Messenger Bots Work (and Why it Matters to You)
While some have lamented the arrival of Messenger bots, and even questioned whether they’ll be used, the overall trend and message adoption rates all point to the fact that more people want to conduct more interactions via message. If brands can deliver immersive, intuitive experiences, like the ones highlighted here, there may come a time where Messenger bots become the way forward for brands.
How this one Facebook experiment could foreshadow its plans for Messenger
How this one Facebook experiment could foreshadow its plans for Messenger
How to Get 88% Open Rates and 56% CTRs Using Facebook Messenger
Right now, we’re in the phase of Facebook Messenger marketing where customers are not yet experiencing things like “banner blindness” (web ads) or “email fatigue” (email marketing). Here’s what you need to know about Facebook Messenger bots and how to get started raking in those leads for yourself.
How to get your bot featured in the Facebook Messenger Discover tab
To address a lack of discovery — what developers told Facebook and VB was their biggest issue — Messenger Platform 2.0 brought with it a series of new features, including a dedicated Discover tab for featured or popular bots and businesses.
How to Integrate Facebook Messenger Bots With Facebook Live
Integrating Messenger bots with your Facebook Live broadcasts makes it easy for viewers to sign up for and receive your offers.
In this article, you’ll discover how to create a Facebook Messenger bot that generates qualified leads from your live videos.
Life Beyond Email: Chatbot Marketing
Don’t for a minute think that chatbots are some gimmick that is going to be available only to bring brands with huge audiences. Whilst there are a number of new chatbots appearing each week, the space is still in its infancy. This is the time to become an early adopter.
This 14-year-old made the best Facebook Messenger chatbot
But Christopher Bot shows the potential for producing a service that is completely at home within chat – removing the need for students to access some extra tool to keep track of what needs doing, and interacting in a way that (slightly) lessens the unavoidable chore of homework.
What Happens When Facebook Features Your Bot?
Your chatbot getting featured on Facebook Messenger is most likely to be the best thing to ever happen to a bot. But you must be prepared!
What we’ve learned from building one of the biggest chat bots for FB Messenger
“Today our chat bot 🐳Swelly reached 1.8 Million users and grows 10–20k new users per day, 38% organically.
🐳Swelly is a chat bot that let’s you compare anything and gives you feedback from friends & community members. You simply send 2 photos to the bot, add a question and wait for feedback. Currently the most popular categories are Fashion (#whattowear), Food (#whattoeat) and Social (#whattopost on Instagram; #whichprofilepic for Facebook).”
Creating A Bot
How to Build Your Own Facebook Chatbot in About 10 Minutes
Building a chatbot is a fairly simple process — in fact, it can be done in about 10 minutes by anyone with some basic tech chops. Ben Beck walks you through it in this DIY guide.
How to Create a Facebook Messenger Chatbot
Facebook Messenger chatbots can help your followers get answers to frequently asked questions and more.
In this article, you’ll discover how to set up a Facebook Messenger chatbot for your business.
Testing Welcome Messages in Facebook Messenger
The Welcome Message is the single most important interaction for any messaging campaign. The Welcome Message arrives at a critical time. The user has already clicked the ad, which is paid for, but the user doesn’t reach the developer’s servers until they engage with the Welcome Message. It’s the absolute top of the funnel.
This post will focus on best practice and testing the Welcome Message.
How to Write a Compelling Facebook Messenger Sequence
You might think using a Facebook Messenger sequence is risky. Who knows if people will respond well to them? After all, these are just bots, right?
Neil Patel shows you how to create a sequence that feels human and converts like crazy
Facebook Messenger Chatbot: Brands
30 Of The Best Facebook Bots To Chat With
Businesses are finding ways to monetize their bots, automate their customer support efforts, and boost their marketing results. Strategies that include a bot have proven to be very successful for many of the businesses listed here.
5 Brands Using Facebook Messenger Bots to Level Up Their Social Media Strategies
While it’s certainly admirable to thoroughly vet a process before investing in it, failing to innovate could leave your company struggling against your competition in the future – as in the case of Facebook’s Messenger Bots.
Here are five “unlikely” brands that prove using Facebook chatbots for social media is an option for everybody.
How 5 brands have approached their Messenger chatbots
Facebook Messenger has been luring brands and developers to its platform to create bots for just about everything from acting as a concierge to doling out advice. But there is a lot of variation in something as straightforward as a question-and-answer format. Brands have taken different approaches when it comes to chatbots.
Here are a few.
Spotify, Apple Music and Other Branded Bots Are Coming to Facebook Messenger 2.0
As a part of Messenger 2.0, music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are building chatbot services to let users listen to songs straight from the messaging app. Facebook, which announced the news today at its annual developers conference, said Spotify will come first, with Apple joining in the near future.
The updates are part of a series of additional features Facebook is adding to Messenger, which is now used by 1.2 billion people every month. One key difference with Messenger 2.0 is the introduction of a discover tool that will help users find and use chatbots that are relevant to them based on their interests and location.
Pizza Express, Channel 4 and TFL: Three examples of brand chatbots
With Facebook recently announcing that it has enabled payments via bots in Messenger, we can expect to see even more companies getting involved in the new year. In this post, Econsultancy takes a look at some of the latest examples to pop up, from three very different UK brands.
Personal Brands
Pope Francis has a Facebook Messenger bot, and it’s kind of funny
Some fairly prominent people (or imitations of fairly prominent people) have made Facebook Messenger chatbots since the platform was created last year.
50 Cent and Justin Bieber have bots, so do President Obama and Elon Musk. Now, so too does Pope Francis, the Bishop of Rome, a.k.a Il Papa.
It’s Not Their Pop Idol, but a Bot. Fans Cheer Anyway.
For celebrities who already use Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat to lend a personal touch to their interactions with fans, the next frontier of social media is a deliberately impersonal one: chatbots, a low-level form of artificial intelligence that can be harnessed to send news updates, push promotional content and even test new material.
Kim Kardashian launches Facebook Messenger bot to promote her mobile game
Kim Kardashian West launched chatbots for Facebook Messenger and Kik today to promote her game, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, which is available for iOS and Android smartphones.
The virtual Kardashian will ask you what it should wear (latex dress or lamé jumpsuit?) and will ask you to help solve a set of riddles from Kim’s mom, Kris Jenner.
Publications
Bing rolls out ‘Sportscaster’ Messenger bot for March Madness
Bing’s bot lets fans follow their favorite NCAA men’s basketball team and will send a message if a team advances in the tournament.
British Vogue launches Messenger chatbot for Fashion Week: Is it any good?
British Vogue is the latest brand to create its own bot for Facebook Messenger.
Launched just in time for London Fashion Week, it is designed to send curated and personalised news direct to the reader’s inbox.
Who needs ESPN? The Golden State Warriors bot sends you video highlights in Facebook Messenger
The NBA playoffs started last Saturday, and the Golden State Warriors, the team that again ended the season with the best record in the league, has created a Facebook Messenger bot to act as a personal playoff assistant to Dub Nation fans. The bot helps fans cheer on the Warriors, talk trash to friends and coworkers, and follow the team as it tries to reach the NBA Finals for the third year in a row.
Why BuzzFeed, Time Inc. are bringing the holiday gift guide to Facebook Messenger
Publishers’ first messenger bots primarily served to send out the day’s news, but some are branching out. The perennial publisher holiday gift guide is now a shopping bot.
VentureBeat’s personalized news bot is now available on Messenger
VentureBeat today announced that its personalized news bot is now available on Facebook Messenger. What sets the VB Messenger bot apart from other news bots is its built-in learning and intelligence.
MOBILE Spanish publisher El País drove nearly 1,000 bot subscribers over French election
El País promoted its French-election coverage in the print edition, printing a specific Facebook Messenger bot code to subscribe users to its bot’s election updates. As a result, 1,000 different people received the seven alerts El País sent via the bot about the French election. Eighty percent of them were new bot users. On average, 600 people ask the bot for breaking-news updates every day.
Other:
8 months in, what Expedia has learned from its Facebook bot
Expedia was among the first to use Facebook Messenger chatbots last spring. It makes sense: The transactional nature of booking a holiday is a good fit for a chatbot. However, creating a seamless experience in a nascent area isn’t easy.
Scott Crawford, Expedia’s vp of product management, said the experience has had its snags along the way — many early chatbots have been clunky — but chatbots overall are, in his words, “potentially the next evolution in discovery.”
Ask Wiz launches tech support bot powered by humans on Facebook Messenger
Tech support provider Ask Wiz launched a Facebook Messenger bot and Android app that connects you with thousands of human tech experts. Ask Wiz wants its free, crowdsourced solution to compete with Geek Squad and other tech support services.
Burberry uses Facebook Messenger to kick off ‘live show experience’
Pieces from Burberry’s February 2017 fashion show are available for pre-order — that is, for those willing to interact with the brand on Facebook Messenger.
The brand woke up its Messenger bot for the first time since the holidays to send a push notification to Facebook users who have interacted with it in the past.
For Kia, There’s More to Facebook Messenger than Customer Service
Providing customer service is an obvious route for brands wanting to experiment with Facebook Messenger, and while it’s an important use case, it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Nathalie Choy, senior marketing innovation, web and digital performance manager at auto brand Kia Motors America, spoke with eMarketer’s Maria Minsker about how NiroBot, the brand’s Messenger persona, performs a number of key marketing tasks.
How the Kia Niro chatbot matches up to driving the real car
The bot is not exactly an online brochure that feeds links to the Kia site, although in the end it is definitely a marketing tool. But you can ask more detailed questions.
Get Caught Up on Game of Thrones With This Shrewd, Surprising Chatbot
With the newest season of Game of Thrones just around the corner, British agency Catch Digital released GoTBot, a delightful little fan-pandering chatbot that’s loaded with series details and Easter eggs.
GoTBot can be used for basic catchup, like remembering who a character is or figuring out whether someone is still alive. It’s packed with the show and books’ myriad secondary characters, plus titles and heirs you never knew existed.
“We don’t know where this could take us. The goal is to find what potential there is as as far as reaching our readers and possibly getting some stories out of it.”
How we built our Facebook chatbot: What does it do, and what’s the point?
Econsultancy shares the story behind the development of theiur own chatbot.
L’Oréal beauty bot learns your style to make gift giving easier
L’Oréal has launched a bot named Beauty Gifter that asks both the gift giver and the recipient questions in order to sell personalized makeup and skin care gifts via Facebook Messenger.
Spider-Man bots land on Twitter and Facebook to sell you a comic book
The bot shares action shots from the comic book and directs you to answer questions and decipher riddles. The bot also asks you to send it your location, and it can tell you where to go to “report for duty” to fight an evil army (a.k.a direct you to a local store where you can buy the comic book).
This Condom Brand’s Messenger Bot Analyzes Your Voice and Tells You How Sexy It Is
Has anyone ever told you that you have a sexy voice?
Now you can find out just how sexy it is with condom maker Skyn’s Facebook Messenger-based voice analyzer, a chat bot that rates voices by sensuality, mystery, intensity and sophistication.
Western Union’s bot sends money transfers through Facebook Messenger
Money transfer company Western Union launched a Facebook Messenger bot today that allows people within the United States to transfer money to more than 200 countries around the world.
What Marriott learned from its Facebook Messenger missteps
Marriott’s first foray into Facebook Messenger in March 2016 was a complete disaster. Retargeting customers with ads in Messenger rather than their news feeds immediately misfired, with these ads sliding into customers Facebook inboxes to make unsolicited suggestions. Customers who had recently browsed through rooms at Courtyard Marriott Chicago online, for example, were sent personal messages asking if they still wanted to book a room.
Marriott’s faithful balked and the attempt was euthanized within just two hours.