DOUBLE BOOKED – BOT MARKETING TO THE RESCUE What’s that saying – there are never enough hours in the day? As a small business owner, I am quite familiar with the phrase. Wearing a million different hats, I always find that there is so much work left over at the end of the day that even if I double book my time, I can never reach the end of my to-do list. That’s why I have turned to automation to offload some of my day-today tasks. While, until recently, artificial intelligence (AI), was only a central theme in a science fiction movie, today, it’s becoming a mainstay for marketers. In recent years, many Fortune 500 companies have turned to AI/bot marketing to collect data for more personalized marketing for fitness approaches.
Automation, as a whole, has completely redefined customer service across nearly all industries. With the ability to offload frequently asked questions and follow up sequence emails to a “bot”, my time can be redistributed to activities that will actually close deals and earn income for my businesses. Someday, though, and probably sooner than I would like to admit, the technology will allow us to take ourselves entirely out of the sales equation with bot marketing.
The greatest thing about digital marketing fitness is that all that data is available to you in one form or another if you use the right tools or have the right training. Many companies, such as online clothing retailers, are using it to introduce potential customers to a wider array of products. For instance, say a consumer is looking at a specific jacket. I, personally, rely heavily on automated nurture campaigns that run constantly, alerting prospects of upcoming events in my gym. By gathering information such as their name, location, email address, and cell phone numbers, we can set dates for email and text message campaigns to be sent out without much effort on our part. In fact, much of our business model relies on the ability to automate integrated campaigns between Facebook ads, Infusionsoft, ClickFunnels, Textedly, and Calendly.