During the dark times of the embargo, we talked to Vaios Gkitsas about his company Flashchat, which is an “All-in-one Messenger Commerce Platform for retailers” and has been trusted by big brands such as Coca-Cola and Peugeot.

His mission is to "make Messenger Commerce mainstream --- and make it easy for any business".

Vaios has a lot of experience in automated marketing, and he's helped businesses for over a decade to automate communication with their customers.

He says a lot has changed since he specialized in SMS marketing, and that now is the first time mobile commerce can really "take-off in a big way", due to the 'industry-disrupting' effectiveness of Messenger Marketing and Chatbots.

Many valuable tidbits you can get from this episode from a guy who's been 'in the trenches' with automated marketing for 15 years.

He also explains really clearly the problems his Chatbot platform solves for retailers and the value of Conversational Commerce in general.

You can start your free trial with Flashchat by clicking here 

Lots to learn to here, give a listen below:

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We also have a quiz on Messenger Marketing, you might be interested in. 

 

Today's guest is Katie Krische, the Marketing & Partnerships Manager of Octane AI. Octane AI is one of the few chatbot tools that entirely focus on eCommerce brands and they are growing rapidly and recently have added SMS as a new channel as well.

You'll learn:

How to channel your FB ads into Messenger

Why Sponsored Messages are powerful

The difference between Messenger and SMS as a marketing tool

How to not to annoy people via SMS and increase brand loyalty

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Today's guest, Soma Toth, is the co-founder and CEO of Recart, an amazing Messenger automation tool for Shopify stores. They do a phenomenal job at recovering lost revenue for the stores and many more things as you'll learn today. His background as a marketing director in e-commerce and dedication for continuous improvements are just some of the things that make Recart a top-notch Shopify App.

You'll learn:

How to adjust and adapt to Facebook's ever-changing regulations

How to have a minimum of 5x ROAS on every flow of yours

How to create messages that sell

plus much more...

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"Utilizing something like a chatbot works a lot better than something like a web page where they can then opt-in to receive the coupon but then the great thing as soon as they have the coupon on their phone you're then going to be able to utilize the proximity-based marketing."

 

Ruper Samuel set up his first shop with only 18 and scaled to 20 shops within just a few years in South West England. He's a contest winner chatbot builder and a successful marketer.

He is the co-founder of Walletly, a tool perfectly suited for the marketing needs of local businesses. Walletly helps you create and manage coupons and loyalty cards and is working well together with the major chatbot platforms out there.

Today, he's sharing his knowledge when it comes to chatbots and advanced tools for local businesses. I'm sure you'll enjoy this episode, and be inspired by Rupert's story.

Mentioned in the episode:

Walletly

ManyChat

iBeacon

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Matt Plapp  an entrepreneur and an agency owner is dropping value bombs after value bombs, and not just for the restaurant industry. Thanks again for accepting my invitation for The Chatbot Podcast, it's been an amazing episode.

In this episode, you're going to learn about effective, data-based marketing for restaurants.

How to use Messenger for marketing, engage with the users, create segmentations, send offers.

Mentioned in the episode:

ManyChat

 

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When I had the first version of my bot building course Bot Mastery I promised my students that I will learn and teach new bot builder platforms when I see your need for that and the demand arises.

Honestly, I have hoped it would never happen, as it means more work, more updates, more recordings and so on for me. However, I could not ignore what ActiveChat has achieved in such a short amount of time.

After two years of this first statement I've added ActiveChat to the platforms, I work with and teach, and I am really happy about it. It's the beginning of April right now, and these guys have been rolling out with new and innovative features literally every single week for the last two months. You can read about this in our monthly Messenger marketing update articles on the blog.

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Since recording this episode I've met Andrii personally as well, and many others in the team. I have no doubts that this platform is going to be one of the biggest in the coming years if they keep on improving like that.

If you would like to experience it firsthand, I have good news for you: Andrii has secured a discount code for all listeners for an entire year. Just go to go.chatbottutorial.com/activechat to activate it.

Today we will be talking about an underutilized feature of Messenger. Referral system. People are social creatures, give them some help to invite their friends to your bot.

This is a student success story from Manuel Krapf, a successful digital marketer who had massive success last year promoting a local festival with the help of Facebook Messenger.

Manuel also shared his screen and taught us the whole set-up on how he managed to gather the data and use it to his advantage. That video will be available in my upcoming program, Botmastery 2.0 make sure to visit botmastery.com and join the early bird list to be notified when it is available.

Learn more about Manuel and his projects -> https://manuelkrapf.ch/ (German site)

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Hello, everyone, this is episode 13 and today our guest is Ryan Begley from cashbot.ai and he will tell us how Eyelevel.ai's this tool will help monetize your chatbot. I think this episode will be really interesting for many of you.Just a quick note, Bot Mastery 2.0 is launching soon, get on the early-bird list now.https://chatbottutorial.com/pro  Lots to learn to here, give a listen below:Here's an automatic transcript created by a few clicks in Botspeech our bot for transcription. It's not perfect but surprisingly accurate for the low effort.[thrive_toggles_group"]

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and again it is always it's a hundred percent up to the chat bot owner alrightit's like your BOTS so you get to decide kind of what you know what you want toput in front of people on the questions that we always get are how much moneywill I make how hard is it to implement and will it piss my users on timewelcome to the chatbot podcast the place where we talk about BOTSartificial intelligence smart automation and messenger marketing we value ourtime and enjoy when technology makes our lives easier and now your host BalintPataki. Hello everyone this is episode number 13 and it's time to make somecash today's guest is Ryan from cashbot.ai which is a tool helping you monetizeyour chat BOTS with the recent changes of pricing in chatfuel and the majoringof the industry I think this episode is really interesting for many of youwithout further ado please welcome to the show Ryan Begley hi Ryanthank you for accepting my invitation and making time for this interview canyou please quickly introduce yourself for the listeners who don't know you yetI know you have a background in product management in a bi IBM and you had somehistory with the sales management for Oracle just fascinating how you made itinto this bot space and what what what was the build-up for that yes absolutelyyeah great to meet you as well my my name's Ryan Begley I'm a co-founder ofcashbot.ai my background I let's see it's it's I'm getting so old I feel likeit's starting to fade away a little bit my memory about 14 years in enterprisesoftware I started my career as in sales at Oracle working both in San Franciscoand New York I transitioned from there to a couple of startups in theenterprise app space this is sort of right when SAS as a the consumptionmodel was beginning to take off and then spentapproximately six years at IBM doing product across a number of differentbusiness units most recently Watson IOT and IBM Watsonbusiness units and this is value getter your first part experience or how doesit yeah yeah so right around to I mean I think we the first thought experiencebots have been around for so long right but for me working with BOTS andcustomers and beginning to do that automated freeform text really startedin 2014 and this is when I think that you know like the notion of Internet ofThings began to take off and you I began to work with a number of consumerelectronics appliance manufacturers that were really interested in automatingcustomer support putting some of that support into mobile apps that wouldcontrol a connected device or connected machine in what I thought was was reallysort of fascinating was this this notion of a company that had meant manufacturedwashing machines or or refrigerators for for the last 60 years but never reallyhad a relationship with their customer their real customer the people thatowned purchase those machines and had them in their house and so forth this isthe first time that they ever had an opportunity to actually engage with themand form a relationship and the really really the only way to do that at scalewas with some sort of automated freeform text which is effectively at the...

Today we talk with Vasili Shynkarenka about creating Alexa Skills using Storyline. Our guest stands behind one of the best Alexa Skills builder companies "Storyline".

From now on the podcast is available via Amazon Alexa as well, just say 'listen to the Chatbot Podcast' and you can listen to the latest episode. A search function may be added in the future.

We not only talk about a future but also discuss how you can have your 1st Alexa skill up and running, within 10 minutes without any knowledge of programming languages.

Lots to learn to here, give a listen below:

Here's an automatic transcript created by a few clicks in Botspeech our bot for transcription. It's not perfect but surprisingly accurate for the low effort.

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Voice is going to be over primarily interface and how interact with technology in the next five to ten years welcome to the chat pod podcast the place where we talk about BOTS artificial intelligence smart automation and messenger marketing we value our time and enjoy when technology makes our lives easier and now your host but lint Fatah key welcome everyone this is episode number 12 and the very first one that airs on Alexa and there is a big reason for that our guest today is the guy behind one of the best Alexa skill builder companies Vasiliy from story line is giving us amazing insights of the word of voice applications and we not only talk about the future but also discuss how you can have your first Alexa skill up and running within 10 minutes without any knowledge of programming languages I guess you’re excited now so without further ado welcome to the show Vasili Shynkarenka thank you very for accepting my invitation and joining us on the podcast can you please introduce yourself really quickly for the listeners who don’t yell you yeah yeah yeah sure so first of all thanks so much for having me I really appreciate that so my name is no solution parent I’m one of the co-founders and CEO of Invocable (storyline) we make it easy to create apps or skills for Amazon Alexa without writing code and Invocable (storyline) is already the biggest tool on the market so we power more than half solve and elect skills in this floor wow I’m really excited about this because I’m a newbie when it comes to voice bots and kanuk call them voice box or they have I think we can call them apps like every big company calls them like they want so for Microsoft they’re apps for Amazon there are skills for Google there are actions but I think we can go with that yeah okay and if we come from the like the whole chat bot both cast background is it still a chatbot or where would you put it uh you can say like your boys water but I don’t think it’s it’s a good name there isn’t anyone to use apps is because so app is a much more flexible term and you can basically like the biggest use case for voices content it’s a Content is and especially like one-way delivery we are so for example of flashing when you when you activate your everything you hear some music from accent and you cannot say anything back so that is not Abad actually right it’s kind of like a one-way content that you can Prince you so that’s why I think that our apps is much better term okay thank you so is voice better or what did attract what was the main throwing force for you to get into this space is it more like the future or how is it different from a written communication and chatbots first I would say that I think that voice is voiced which really is the oldest method natural interface right so we’ve been using it like four million years or something like that and from that perspective I think it’s easier to people ...

This is episode 11 and today we discuss the best use cases of chatbots and go into specifics of Messenger bots for Shopify stores.

My guest is Stefan Kojouharov the founder of Chatbots Life and founder of Gobeyond.ai a software dedicated to helping with your Shopify store when it comes to Messenger marketing.

Gobeyond can be connected to Chatfuel, one of the most powerful bot builders out there.

Just a quick note, we pay a Chatfuel Pro account for our students and you can still join Chatbot Tutorial PRO for an early bird price. Just visit chatbottutorial.com/pro for details.

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Fortunately, Stefan agreed to come back at a later point for more discussion as the technology evolves. Feel free to send us questions in advance here.

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