Tag: AI
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Chatbots Roundup #9 — Best Bots in this week
Bots for Customer Support Automation, eBook Opt-in and Product Explanation A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a startup named TARS used to make roundups of the coolest bots they tried every week. That roundup has returned. Here are the best bots we loved chatting with this week. BEN Direct link : https://dojmt.gov/bot-mvd-ben.html…
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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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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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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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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.…
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Tars Labs Experiment #1 : Creating a Telegram Bot to receive Tars chat submissions
DISCLAIMER: People who do not know how to code. Do not get intimidated, this tutorial might look technical but it is not. It’s just a bunch of copy-paste. Telegram is the best messaging app you can download today. Their apps on Android and Windows are better than those of Messenger and WhatsApp and most importantly…
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Chatbot Building Best Practices #1 — Message Delays
If you are reading this piece, I assume that you have already made a bot. If you have not, click here to make one right now. Creating a bot is not like creating an app or a website. The design choices you have to make deal more with how the user feels when they read your…
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Chatbots Roundup #6 — Learn the best practices to make a Bot
Wondering how to step your bot game to the next level? You’re in the right place. Welcome to yet another Tars Bot Roundup. Here are our selections for the week: Baer on Marketing Baer on Marketing helps companies figure out the puzzle that is marketing. Their bot, acts as a personal way to get to…
