How Chatbots Aid Conversational Marketing
Martech Outlook | Monday, May 11, 2020
The inherent capability of the chatbots to engage with the customers elevates their role as a full-fledged conversational marketing tool.
FREMONT, CA: Chatbots are gaining traction across the marketing industry verticals. Brands are leveraging chatbots for various marketing aspects such as customer service, effective team communication, sales and marketing, and others. However, conversational marketing is one such aspect that can significantly benefit from chatbots.
Initiating a dialogue with people helps the brands to understand more about the customers. Traditionally this had been achieved via face-to-face meeting, phone call, an email or short messages. However, in a rapidly changing world, the ways of communication are also changing. Currently, brands are equipping their websites with chatbots for various purposes. Chatbots equipped with AI capability can enable the brands to better engage with the customers while saving on human resources simultaneously. Chatbots are increasingly being leveraged to collect customer feedback and comments. Such an invaluable conversation between the customers and the chatbots can enable the brands to comprehend their customers’ mindset better.
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The two main applications of chatbots in conversational marketing lie in their roles as a conversational agent and virtual assistant. While conversational agents are used to imitating human conversations, a virtual assistant comprehends natural language commands and accomplishes tasks for the users. The chatbots use AI for the above purposes.
AI-driven chatbots can study human communication in a way that enables the bots to respond aptly according to the situation. Further, AI can leverage the query patterns to comprehend the intent of the user by analyzing the context of the conversation. The above capability can be visualized in a scenario where a user asks the bot a question, and the bot can actually respond in an appropriate way. Such interactions not only enhance customer experience but also enable the bots to collect insightful user feedback, thereby contributing to the cause of conversational marketing.
The proliferation of chatbots has led the marketers to use them as a conversational marketing tool. Advancements in chatbot technology will enhance their role as marketing tools in the future.
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