Bots · 2017-03-03

‘Octane AI’ lets you quickly create a bot on Facebook Messenger – #bots

If you want to create a large audience for your brand or product 1 of your best options is to engage with it on Facebook Messenger, a platform with 1 billion+ users worldwide. ‘Octane AI’ helps you build your audience with an engaging Messenger Bot, ready to be launched in minutes.

A Facebook Messenger Bot is a great marketing & customer engagement tool. It will automatically interact with folks when they message your Facebook page by answering questions, selling products or services, massively sending push notifications, telling stories… & of course, it’s also a great customer & tech support tool.

To get started with Octane AI, just click the ‘Sign up’ button on the product page, then choose the Facebook page you want to add your bot to. Then you write out a description of your bot, which is what people will see when they 1st meet your bot. Then you provide a welcome message, which the bot will use to greet users.

The next step is to customize your bot’s follow section, where your audience will be asked if they’re cool with receiving future messages from your bot. So then your bot will be able to send followers mass push notifications that include text, videos, photos, links & “convos”, which are conversational stories. This finishes the creation of your bot.

To launch your bot, click on the “Launch Bot” button & your Facebook Page’s bot is ‘live’. Now when your audience messages you on Facebook your bot will answer back asking them to join your bot’s audience.

Among the most interesting pre-built features that allow you to add engagement capabilities to a bot are showcasing merchandise, messages, discussions, filling out forms. You can even train your bot & make it smarter by telling it how to respond to incoming messages, including the capability of automatically handing off complex queries to a human.

Once your bot is out there doing its thing you can gain new insights by taking advantage of Octane AI’s real-time analytics. You can track the growth of your bot & see what customers are talking about.

A number of well known artists & companies are employing Octane AI to grow their fan base, most notably 50 cent (37.5M fans), SPiN (31K), Aerosmith (16.6M) & Maroon 5 (39.3M).

Octane AI is a California, USA-based startup founded by well known entrepreneurs Matt Schlicht & Ben Parr. The platform has been in private beta since November 2016 & is now an invitation only service. 

- This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review - 
 Image Credit: Octane AI

 

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