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Benefits of Conversational Marketing
Conversational marketing is a type of marketing that focuses on engagement with customers so you can learn from them, encourage them, and help them in a way that doesn’t feel forced or like a sales program. The benefits of conversational marketing are vast, and far more than this one post can cover, but to get you started and encourage you to add conversational marketing to your strategy, these benefits are pretty substantial.
Learn More about Your Customers
Through conversations, you’ll learn so much more about your customers than you can by simply supplying content and waiting for them to read it and comment. Conversations are two-way, and due to that, both sides benefit from it. You’ll learn more about them, but they’ll also learn more about you, which will develop their trust.
Solve Issues Faster
When you know about your customers and talk to them and listen to them, you can look at the data generated (especially if the conversation happens with chatbots or within a customer service management system) and leverage it to help guide the customer toward making the decisions you want them to make or that they need to make.
Increase Customer Satisfaction
Your job as a business owner is to please your ideal customers. When you know more about them, you can improve their satisfaction. Studies show that customers who can get help 24/7 from a website using artificial intelligence are more satisfied than those who use a simple text-based FAQ to engage customers.
Find New Sources of Leads
When you converse with customers, often you can find answers to questions you have about them, such as where they like to get information. When you learn the answer to that, you can find out where your audience hangs out and find new leads.
Takes Your Leads to Prospects to Sales Faster
Your buyers are on a buying journey that you need to understand. What is the buyer’s intent? When you know their intent, you can lead them through the journey faster and close a lot faster due to the inside information you gather from the conversations you engage in.
They Are 24-Hour Solutions
Chatbots can converse with your customers 24/7, 365 days a year, in a way that feels natural and human to the customer. Customers like the bots (even though some people say they don’t like it their behavior), and the stats speak to the fact that customers are more likely to buy a product after engaging in a conversation with a chatbot about their questions at the time they have them.
It’s Inexpensive and Easy to Implement
Incorporating conversational marketing to your marketing strategy isn’t going to be expensive to implement. It’s just about being there for your customers in an engaging and immediate way using chatbots and other interactive tech.
Communicating with your customers is a privilege. Without customers, you would not be the business that you are. Finding more ways to engage is always a good thing. Whether you choose to use human resources or artificial intelligence to incorporate conversational marketing (or both) into your strategy depends on your goals and your budget. However, skipping it is not an option because today’s customers expect customer-centric solutions to be delivered any time they need them.
