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June 27, 2018

Make Your Message Stand Out With Bots

Many of us have created onboarding sequences for our subscribers. They're dead useful, they can be used to educate and delight your subscribers... in short, they're awesome. Today we're going to talk about a sequence of a di...

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June 25, 2018

How To Show Humanity In Your Bot

No one wants to talk to a robot. No one wakes up in the morning and thinks, "Today I'm going to call the cable company and shout at their "interactive voice response" system. Robots and autoresponses make us feel frustrated …

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June 19, 2018

How Messenger Bots Differ From Traditional Marketing

Page likes, website hits, and video views, oh my! If you're sick of measuring yourself by the usual numbers, then you might want to give Messenger bots a try. Today I'll tell you three reasons why chatbots are different. Be …

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June 18, 2018

Create a Welcome Mat For Your Bot

First impressions determine everything, and that's especially true for bots. Today I'll teach you six ways to make a fantastic first impression with your Messenger bot. You'll learn what to put in, what to leave out, and how ...

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June 12, 2018

Use Audio In Your Bot

Ahhh, the sweet dulcet tones of your own voice. Did you know that you can include audio clips in your bot? There are a lot of different ideas you can use to incorporate audio, which is a fast growing medium. …

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June 12, 2018

Simplify Your Bot

So many features, so little time. How do you know what to include? What do you need to have built before you launch your chatbot? What do you need to avoid? In this episode, we talk about what you really …

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June 12, 2018

Bad Bots (And What Happens To Them)

Messenger Bots have been around for over a year. We've got bots of all kinds out there, including bots of questionable quality. What makes a bad chatbot? how can we avoid them? What are the consequences of writing a bad …

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June 5, 2018

How To Create A Remarkable Experience with Chatbots

There is a way to make your message stand head and shoulders above the crowd. You only need to develop one skill to create a truly remarkable chatbot experience. In today's show, I tell you what that skill is, and …

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June 4, 2018

Use Bots To Impact Your Speaking Engagement

You've worked so hard to get here. Getting onstage in front of a room of people who eagerly await your every word - it's an entrepreneur's dream. What if... your impact could be bigger? What if you could have a …

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May 29, 2018

Humanize Your Bot!

Why would you put the option to talk to a human in your bot? You have no idea who is landing on the bot. How comfy are they with technology? How much do they already know about you, your products, …

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May 25, 2018

GDPR in plain english

Just when you thought you hadn't possibly heard enough about GDPR... Today we'll talk about what it is in plain english, and why it's important.

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May 25, 2018

GDPR Compliant Bots

What do you need to do to get your chatbot compliant with GDPR? In this episode, we talk about how to: *Get consent from your current subscribers *Add a Privacy Policy to your bot *Check for information capture else...

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May 9, 2018

How Often Should I Broadcast In My Bot?

Keeping people engaged. providing valuable content the people have actually expressed an interest in, and doing it all without being overwhelming is the real trick, isn't it? Let's talk about it on today's show, and I'll shar...

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May 7, 2018

How To Grow Your Tribe With Bots: The Bot Signal

I'm asked this question quite often. Most of the time, I'll tailor the answer to who I'm talking to. If you livestream or podcast, I'll usually say a reminder bot for your shows is a great place to start. If …

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May 3, 2018

How To Create Great Images For Your Chatbot

How many images should you put in your chatbot? What kind? How can you make it happen without breaking the budget? The answers are all right here! Great free resources for making images: Canva https://www.canva.com/ Gi...

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May 2, 2018

Facebook Announces New Things Coming to Messenger

Facebook's Developer Conference is going on right now - listen in today to hear about everything new coming to us in Messenger in the next year. Augmented reality, auto translation and natural language processing, oh my! Her...

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May 1, 2018

Five Simple Rules To Make Your Bot Successful: The Bot SIgnal

This episode contains the secret sauce that will make your bot successful. The best part? These are all very simple mindsets that will point you in the right direction, so that you can avoid a lot of the mistakes that …

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April 30, 2018

What's a bot? Interview with Annie Ruggles of Hustle Sisters

Bonus Episode: An interview with Annie Ruggles, who runs the Facebook Group Hustle Sisters. New to chatbots? This is the interview for you. I explain what they are and how they can help your business, and of course Annie and...

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April 28, 2018

#AConvoADay

Let's talk numbers for a minute, shall we? You know what I mean - likes, shares, views, comments - on and on. These numbers can be exhilarating, depressing, and downright maddening. And what do they really mean? More often ...

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April 25, 2018

What Kind Of Bot Should I Build: The Bot Signal

Clients ask me this question all the time. My main answer is: start small. Take the time to understand how ManyChat works, and how chatbots operate. I also give you plenty of "starter bot" examples.

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April 24, 2018

Get More Bot Subscribers With Challenges: The Bot Signal

We've all offered them, and we've all taken them. 5 day Challenge to be more visible online, 30 day livestream challenge, 7 day fitness challenge... You name it, we've all done it. The hardest part about offering these challe...

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