Author: Ish Jindal
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[Tars Feature Update] Introducing Smart Notifications on Emails
When a person comes over and talks to your Tars Bot, you get a mail notification about this conversation but only if she completed the whole conversation. Completing the conversation means she reached to the gambit with End Conversation input type : This is what the email notification looks like currently — And these emails get…
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Tars Bot Makers Community!
If you are building bots, you are a pioneer. Are we just saying that so that you use our chatbot platform more? Maybe. Likely in fact. But does that diminish the truth behind the statement? No. Bot making is a nascent field that most people are just figuring out. The problems bot makers have to…
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How to use Email Campaigns to promote your bot?
Too often when people think of web based bots, they tend to imagine a widget sitting in the bottom right corner of their website that opens up into a bot upon clicking. While this is certainly a reasonable proposition, this line of thinking pigeon holes the possibilities of bots you can make and users you…
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Tars Labs Experiment #2 : Sending Tars bot data to Google Sheets via Zapier
A few weeks back, we wrote a piece on how you could integrate TARS with a Telegram bot, so that you could get informed in real time as people filled out your bots. Of course, not all of you use Telegram or know what Telegram is, so since then we have experimented with new ways…
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[Tars Feature Update] : Auto-Suggestion as the new Input UI
There are two broad types of data that you can collect from a bot : unstructured and structured. Structured data, which is most of the UI options that we provide, include buttons, star rating, file uploads, date scrollers, image cards. We call these structured forms of input because the user has very little flexibility in choosing…
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Chatbot Building Best Practices — Why Message Length Matters
When people ask me why they should use a bot instead of a form or website, my immediate response is that bots are more engaging than conventional means of communication. At the crux of this argument is an innocuous characteristic of chat that most people take for granted: message length. Why is message length important?…
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TARS is now a Fashion Company
You read that right. A fashion company. A company that does fashion things. This past week at the TARS team retreat, we were having an innocuous meeting looking at slides with meaningless acronyms and talking about synergy, when we struck proverbial gold. The idea… I remember it clear as day. Vinit, from the tech team,…
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Chatbot Building Best Practices #3 — Rich Media Content
How using images, GIFs, memes, videos and sound clips in your bots can make it more engaging. If you have used any of the bots that we have built in-house at TARS, you will know that we love using rich media content to enhance our messaging flows. While this certainly enhances the aesthetic appeal of…
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Chatbots Roundup #8 — Bots with good design, great hooks and amazing messaging copy
Another week and you guys have not ceased to amaze us with your bot building skills. Here is our weekly roundup of bots you should try this week: Northstories.io Direct link : https://northstoriesio.hellotars.com/conv/rJiEfw Northstories.io is a digital marketing company that helps you tell your company’s digital story so that you can get more traffic and higher…
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[Tars Feature Update] — Design Section
An itty bitty, tiny little game changer of a feature that will make your bots look cooler. You know how our chatbots generally look like this: Well… What if they didn’t look like that? What if they looked like this instead? We are rolling this new feature which will make your bots look even more…
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Chatbots Roundup #7 — How bots can be used by bloggers, travel sites and webinar hosts
Another week, another bot roundup. Check out some of our favourite bots from this week in no particular order: QAInsights Direct link : https://convbot.hellotars.com/conv/ByYw0I QAInsights is a website run by NaveenKumar Namachivayam, a product tester at Infosys and an avid blogger. His bot acts as a way for his readers to get in touch with him.…
