Bot Marketing Automation — Marwa Greaves // Hubspot

Marwa Greaves is the director of marketing and global messaging at Hubspot. For marketing automation week, she discusses how you can build a more efficient marketing fly trap. It’s critical for your visitors to quickly locate information on your website and bots come in very handy for this. Today, Marwa explains how you can get started with bot marketing automation.

Show Notes

  • 02:03
    Bot marketing automation VS Email marketing automation
    Email is outbound, while bots are inbound. As such, the approach or the tone should match each setting.
  • 03:13
    How to figure out tone
    Let users know theyre talking to bot and give them the option to speak to a human. Your tone throughout your brand should remain consistent regardless of the channel being used.
  • 04:42
    How to approach segmentation with bots
    You cant think about segmentation with bots the same way you would email. With bots, theres less user PII. So you dont really know where they are with your business upfront.
  • 06:23
    How to avoid user frustration with bots
    Always provide the user with a way to control the interaction with the bot. Most people will have more than one query, so allow them to direct the interaction by giving them an out.
  • 09:42
    When you should start automating
    When you start automating depends on where you are with the business. Look at what you already have set up and work from there.
  • 10:25
    Bot automation in a large versus small company
    Looking at your repetitive customer-centric tasks is a good place to start for smaller companies. Large companies tend to start with processes that both save time internally and improve user experience.
  • 12:57
    How to approach bot marketing automation
    Bot marketing automation is primarily navigational. It should connect your visitor to what theyre looking for on your website.

Quotes

  • "We think of our bot marketing or our chat automation as an inbound channel, where email feels more outbound." - Marwa Greaves, Director of Marketing & Global Messaging, Hubspot

  • "We 100% let them know that they are talking to a bot and that at any point, if they would like to be handed off to a human, they can." - Marwa Greaves, Director of Marketing & Global Messaging, Hubspot

  • "The voice and tone, whether it's a bot or an email, should feel similarly to what you want your overall brand tone to be." - Marwa Greaves, Director of Marketing & Global Messaging, Hubspot

  • “You have to think about segmentation differently because theres less information when somebody engages with a chat bot, versus email.” - Marwa Greaves, Director of Marketing & Global Messaging, Hubspot

  • “If you can't measure the experience you're creating for your prospects, you're going to have a really hard time knowing if you're successful.” - Marwa Greaves, Director of Marketing & Global Messaging, Hubspot

  • “1 of the things that we've actually noticed since the pandemic is people's interactions with chat, over the phone has started to increase.” - Marwa Greaves, Director of Marketing & Global Messaging, Hubspot

  • “Build a system through marketing automation that not only saves our internal teams time, but also creates that delightful moment.” - Marwa Greaves, Director of Marketing & Global Messaging, Hubspot

  • “If somebodys on your site, theyre actively looking to do something and you need to be in the right place at the right time. I think a bot is the best way to do that.” - Marwa Greaves, Director of Marketing & Global Messaging, Hubspot

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