Tag: Chatbots
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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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Chatbot Building Best Practices #2 — Why Message Length Matters
TL;DR : Message length is a significant contributor to the high user engagement of bots. When a user lands on a bot, the bot prompts the user to take action within a few seconds. On a website, users need to get their bearings, read all the text and figure out what is happening. A reason for…
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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…
