{"id":7986,"date":"2020-05-05T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atterbie.com\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2020-05-05T13:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:25:48","slug":"sms-marketing-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atterbie.com\/sms-marketing-can\/","title":{"rendered":"What SMS Marketing Can Do For You"},"content":{"rendered":"
Written by a Collaborator<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The mere thought of coding can overwhelm even the most motivated self-starter. It requires time, effort, tedium, and a whole lot of patience with yourself. No wonder it\u2019s such a high-paid gig; most people don\u2019t want to do the job. You might find yourself between a rock and a hard place if you\u2019re an entrepreneur, though, as many modern marketing strategies use some form of code to get their message out.<\/span><\/p>\n Fortunately, coders know this. That\u2019s why they\u2019ve simplified many of these new marketing strategies to make them user-friendly for the uninitiated. While these easy-to-use strategies range from email campaigns to multimedia user engagement, today we\u2019ll focus somewhere in the middle with SMS chatbots.<\/span><\/p>\n What is a chatbot? Well, it should be pretty obvious given the name if your guess is a robot that chats with you, congratulations! You\u2019re correct. Chatbots don\u2019t just chat with you, though; <\/span>businesses use them<\/span><\/a> to facilitate customer service, among other things. They alleviate waiting time bottlenecks by answering simple, commonly-asked questions and increasing the number of customers that can be helped at a time. Some predict that AI technology could power these chatbots quite impressively in the future, thereby making it an indispensable component of customer service.<\/span><\/p>\n That day is yet to come, but in the meantime, you can create your own <\/span>sms chatbots<\/span><\/a> with relative ease. The easiest route is going with an SMS messaging service. Businesses like TextSanity, Zapier, and SimpleTexting all provide user-friendly chatbot systems for commercial use.<\/span><\/p>\n Before you sign up for one of these services, though, make sure you\u2019re clear on <\/span>what you want your chatbot to do<\/span><\/a>. Do you want it to help confirm customers\u2019 orders? Do you want to use it as an extra pair of \u201chands\u201d to help with customer service questions? Whatever it is, make sure you know what you want to use it for before you dive in.<\/span><\/p>\n