Interactivity
Is Key
by: Karen Fegarty
How to use the latest in Interactivity tools to increase
sales and provide exceptional customer service
Many companies are trying to differentiate themselves
from their competitors. Imagine the power of your
site or marketing message if you include ways for
your customers or potential customers to interact
with you on a personal level, immediately.
Studies have shown that if you can address customer
questions or concerns at the point of initial contact
or at a buying decision point on a site, conversion
to buyer is greatly increased. In addition, customer
satisfaction is truly enhanced
Take a look at the following great tools that will
allow you, to become Interactive.
Live Person – Live Person’s “Click-to-Chat”
functionality can be quickly added to your website.
All that is required is that you download a small
file and insert a couple of lines of code to your
HTML page. Your visitors will not require any plug-ins
or software to chat with you.
Features include:
Chat with your visitors – You can accept or
decline the request to chat you may also “call”
a visitor on your site and ask them whether they would
like to chat. If operators are unavailable or offline,
the customer is given the option to email your company.
Statistics – you will see complete info on all
your visitors. Where they came from, what pages they
are looking at and how much time they spend at your
site.
Sounds – You can hear notification of a visitor
to your site or a request to chat.
Multiple Operators – You can assign multiple
operators to handle incoming chats.
Simplicity – Easy to establish, you can be up
and running in minutes
Pricing at this time ranges from no charge for the
FREE version, Express $19.50/month and $89.50/month
for the Pro. All features listed above are included
in all versions. Additional features and functions
are available with Express and Pro services.
InfoSystems – Info Systems offers a number of
web-based interactive products.
Browse-N-Talk tm is a “Click to Call Me”
button that, strategically positioned on a web page,
allows visitors to click on it and immediately connect
via the regular telephone to a customer support or
sales person.
Call Mail tm allows subscribers to send e-mails with
a “Click to Talk to Me” button in the
signatures. The recipient of the e-mail clicks on
the button and is immediately connected via regular
telephone with the sender
Vox2eMail tm is an indispensable tool for business
travelers, managers, staff or customers. It allows
them to send an e-mail with a voice message attachment
from any touch-tone phone in the world.
Pricing ranges from Free for the Vox2eMail service
to various pricing structures for the other services.
Broadc@stHTML Broadc@stHTML from MailWorkZ is an email
marketing software product that has fully integrated
the Human Click technology. Customers using Broadc@st
to create, manage and send email marketing campaigns
can also include the “Click-to-Chat” button
right within their email campaign.
Pricing is $249 to create and send multiple campaigns,
each with up to 500 emails, $795 to manage multiple
campaigns of up to 5000 emails, and $2495 to manage
multiple unit limed size campaigns. Human Click costs
are extra.
About The Author
Karen Fegarty is a professional marketer working with
both MailWorkZ and ezTrackZ. Check out the ezTrackZ
ad tracker product at http://www.eztrackz.com. and
MailWorkZ’s flagship email marketing tool.,
Broadc@st at http://www.mailworkz.com