It was in 2016 that it got loud about artificial intelligence, including bots. This is the time when we first saw a fully-fledged chatbot based on Messenger, a popular messenger that is part of Facebook.
However, it is worth getting interested in modern technologies now, which will be convenient for the client and you, and will also allow you to earn money.
However, it is worth getting interested in modern technologies now, which will be convenient for the client and you, and will also allow you to earn money.
What are chatbots?
Messenger is currently not only a chat messenger but an entire ecosystem of products. These include: games, services, and recently also advertising. One of the components of this ecosystem are chatbots mentioned at the beginning. Bots themselves are nothing new. Some of you may still recall a great communicator, MySpace. A bot is a system that imitates artificial intelligence and can conduct conversations and contact with fans. The word "conversation" is important here, because Messenger is a message exchange platform, so the system operating within it must work in the same way. The chatbot, therefore, allows a kind of conversation with an automated system.
The bot generally has to bring the recipient any benefit. In our case, it will be the presentation of an offer, assuming that the client will be interested in it because he has started the conversation with the chatbot himself. Chatbots offer a full range of possibilities - including the possibility of placing orders and making payments. However, we do not need them - we will use fairly basic functionalities that are not complicated, but turned out to be fully sufficient for us. It should be remembered that Messenger is a kind of virgin territory - the first ads and solutions appear in it, but it has been used for marketing and earning very recently and has great potential. Currently, this potential is mainly used by large brands. It's good to think about your own solution now, ahead of the competition.
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How does it even work?
The whole thing has very simple principles of operation. A client interested in particular bot contacts it. So they start a conversation themselves, usually with the “Start” button. The conversation itself most often resembles a normal conversation conducted on Messenger - it contains terms and texts previously written by the creator of the application, and the chatbot building platforms give you an additional tool for building the authenticity of this conversation, for example, the possibility of adding an animation for writing a message, followed by a real sending of this message.
The interlocutor talks to the bot by clicking on the appropriate buttons - the system has a programmed flow, during which the recipient selects further options by clicking on the buttons. They are the ones who push him in the conversation. It's hard to assess the goal - ending such a conversation because bots can be used for everything. In our case, it will always be a proposal to take advantage of the offer using an affiliate link.
The whole thing has very simple principles of operation. A client interested in particular bot contacts it. So they start a conversation themselves, usually with the “Start” button. The conversation itself most often resembles a normal conversation conducted on Messenger - it contains terms and texts previously written by the creator of the application, and the chatbot building platforms give you an additional tool for building the authenticity of this conversation, for example, the possibility of adding an animation for writing a message, followed by a real sending of this message.
The interlocutor talks to the bot by clicking on the appropriate buttons - the system has a programmed flow, during which the recipient selects further options by clicking on the buttons. They are the ones who push him in the conversation. It's hard to assess the goal - ending such a conversation because bots can be used for everything. In our case, it will always be a proposal to take advantage of the offer using an affiliate link.
Bots and stats
After reading the introductory description, you might get the feeling that this is a great solution for use. And rightly so, it is. Later in this post, we'll tell you more about the benefits of these systems, but first, we'll show you some statistics that back up all of the claims made in this article.
Messenger is number one among the most popular communicators, although most of its users don’t even acknowledge the chatbots’ existence. Even though most people don’t know about chatbots, they still declare that they would be happy to check how this solution works.
Mobile devices are growing
The huge potential of bots is due to the increasing dominance of mobile devices. These devices are eagerly used by users, and currently, most of the traffic that is generated on the largest websites like Google, or Facebook is generated by mobile devices.
Why is it worth it?
It works, just like that
Thanks to such systems, customer service 24 hours a day is possible and real. Additionally, bots offer several different solutions. The interlocutor is looking for the TV? The bot recommends him a TV using your affiliate link. Does the client want to learn more about the possibility of winning a voucher for a well-known store? He writes to the bot and immediately receives an instruction to go through the form with screenshots is the conversation that will help him through the form. Such a solution has already appeared on the market - the company WebGains together with IBM created a project of a big bot, which advises the customer taking into account his purchasing preferences, and the system learns - it’s like a machine - directly during conversations. However, it is worth adding that anyone can have their own chatbot - there are convenient platforms that allow you to build them
It's a great solution
Chatbots are therefore extremely convenient - both for customers and people involved in affiliation. The callers simply send a message to the bot - they don't need an additional application, because Messenger is used by all of us. The interlocutors are also not forced to provide extensive data. All communication is much faster than in the case of classic communication because it is more automated.
There’s no Facebook bot block
If you are already making money on social media, this is extremely important information for you. By using a bot for your work, you don't have to worry about blocking the links you promote. They are not in any way threatened with being blocked by the Facebook system, thus promoting is much simpler and less stressful.
Passive earnings
Once built, the system works continuously 24 hours a day. It doesn't need breaks, nor does it require your control. As time goes by, the system becomes increasingly automated. Of course, how you do it depends only on your idea and creativity - if, for example, you want to promote a bot using Facebook groups, your time spent promoting will probably not shorten, but your work may bring more profit as chatbots are an extremely effective solution.
Additional marketing base
Each person who contacts your bot becomes a subscriber. It means that one message is enough to get a contact to a person interested in a specific topic. What's more - platforms with bots have built-in messaging systems, so they can contain: text, photos, video and buttons with links. This base has one advantage that should be mentioned here - it is very effective. Not only do we have selected recipients who contacted us, but we also send them content that is hard not to notice.
Simplicity of creation
To build a chatbot, you don't need to have specialized knowledge in programming or any other. Additionally, the process itself is not very time-consuming. Of course, some elements may take you more time, such as creating a template for automatic recognition of the most common questions and sending previously written messages but in the vast majority of cases building a chatbot is a relatively quick task.
Universalism
Chatbots are universal, which makes them suitable for all industries. Regardless of what affiliate programs you want to promote, or on what topic your website is - bots will prove themselves every time.
Thanks to such systems, customer service 24 hours a day is possible and real. Additionally, bots offer several different solutions. The interlocutor is looking for the TV? The bot recommends him a TV using your affiliate link. Does the client want to learn more about the possibility of winning a voucher for a well-known store? He writes to the bot and immediately receives an instruction to go through the form with screenshots is the conversation that will help him through the form. Such a solution has already appeared on the market - the company WebGains together with IBM created a project of a big bot, which advises the customer taking into account his purchasing preferences, and the system learns - it’s like a machine - directly during conversations. However, it is worth adding that anyone can have their own chatbot - there are convenient platforms that allow you to build them
It's a great solution
Chatbots are therefore extremely convenient - both for customers and people involved in affiliation. The callers simply send a message to the bot - they don't need an additional application, because Messenger is used by all of us. The interlocutors are also not forced to provide extensive data. All communication is much faster than in the case of classic communication because it is more automated.
There’s no Facebook bot block
If you are already making money on social media, this is extremely important information for you. By using a bot for your work, you don't have to worry about blocking the links you promote. They are not in any way threatened with being blocked by the Facebook system, thus promoting is much simpler and less stressful.
Passive earnings
Once built, the system works continuously 24 hours a day. It doesn't need breaks, nor does it require your control. As time goes by, the system becomes increasingly automated. Of course, how you do it depends only on your idea and creativity - if, for example, you want to promote a bot using Facebook groups, your time spent promoting will probably not shorten, but your work may bring more profit as chatbots are an extremely effective solution.
Additional marketing base
Each person who contacts your bot becomes a subscriber. It means that one message is enough to get a contact to a person interested in a specific topic. What's more - platforms with bots have built-in messaging systems, so they can contain: text, photos, video and buttons with links. This base has one advantage that should be mentioned here - it is very effective. Not only do we have selected recipients who contacted us, but we also send them content that is hard not to notice.
Simplicity of creation
To build a chatbot, you don't need to have specialized knowledge in programming or any other. Additionally, the process itself is not very time-consuming. Of course, some elements may take you more time, such as creating a template for automatic recognition of the most common questions and sending previously written messages but in the vast majority of cases building a chatbot is a relatively quick task.
Universalism
Chatbots are universal, which makes them suitable for all industries. Regardless of what affiliate programs you want to promote, or on what topic your website is - bots will prove themselves every time.
What chatbot can we create?
What limits you when creating a chatbot is only your imagination, in fact, in the process of creating a bot, you can do virtually anything.
Here are just a few of our ideas:
- "We'll find you a girlfriend" - a bot that, after preferences, comes up with offers of dating sites where we can find the love of life (or a person for meetings without obligations);
- "Answer and win" - easy quiz; the user has rewarded for correct answers the possibility of taking part in a competition with valuable prizes;
- "What to play?" - a bot that will advise him on the game after the user's answers browser can play;
- "Investment advisor" - a system that will check the amount of money the interlocutor has up to invest and on this basis will offer him a lottery if he has a small amount of money or a cryptocurrency investment platform if he has more funds financial;
- "How to leave?" - a bot that, after checking the expectations and preferences of the interlocutor, will adjust the appropriate dietary supplement to him;
- “Where to watch the movie?" - a bot that is the only one of all examples that can allow the client to enter a unique answer - this answer may contain the name of the movie he wants to watch and the bot can imitate a search Internet network in search of a place where the production is available, then the client can be redirected to an affiliate program based on VOD;
- "How to please a woman?" - a system that combines various affiliate programs from many categories based on dietary supplements for adults and the offer of sex shops;
- "What computer to buy?" - a bot that examines the technological expectations of the interlocutor and will advise you what equipment to choose, of course, he does it using a link to an affiliate to the selected electronics store.
Creating one of our own to find a girlfriend
The choice is huge. It's up to you to decide what to do. Here, we will find many different portals offering the possibility of preparing your own bot. The most popular ones are ManyChat and botpress.io but we will use chatfuel.com.
It is also worth mentioning that if you could use a bot for other markets, you can create such a system for other platforms. For example, the manybot.io portal allows you to implement chatbots on the popular Telegram messenger.
What affiliate programs will we use?
In this project, we used 4 dating programs from MyLead.
Let us remind you that if you have not yet created an account on MyLead, then you should do it at this point to be able to earn money on Messenger bots.
Erodate
Rate: $0.52 - 0.54 | Model: CPL, commission for creating an account |
Erodate is a program aimed at young people (18-24 years old) who are looking for sex
SexPrzygody
Rate: $0.75 | Model: CPL, commission for creating an account |
SexPrzygody is a program for people looking for sex aged 25-35.
Flirt
Rate: $0.89 – 6.97 | Model: CPL, commission for creating an account |
Flirt is a program for people aged 35 and looking for sex.
eDarling
Rate: $0.85 – 1.27 | Model: CPL, commission for creating an account |
eDarling is a program for people looking for true love, regardless of age.
Let’s begin!
How will we do it?
The bot will assist the interlocutor in searching for love or, depending on expectations, a woman for sex. The system will operate on the basis of a set of consecutive questions, and at the end, the user will be offered a program that meets their expectations. This project about Messenger has one more feature - anonymity. Conversation via a messaging account is private with everyone - no one else will see your interlocutor's choices.
Drawing an action plan
Before you start acting, think carefully about your strategy of action. This should make your work easier and make it happen. Let us show you how we’re going to use the chatbot.
A message that the user sees when they try to start a conversation that requires action on their part. This message memes promises and encourages you to start a conversation.
So let’s focus on the expectations of the interlocutor - does he want flirtation or true love? You have to determine it, because without it you will not be able to continue the conversation - depending on what he chooses, he will receive various offers based on separate affiliate programs.
So you’re presented with two options - the first is the willingness to see someone with no obligations, meaning simply… fun. Time to introduce additional questions to your interlocutor.
It is worth bearing in mind that in your case they do not have any impact on the result - these questions are only intended to confirm the interlocutor in the total uniqueness of the proposal he will receive soon. He just has to feel that the dating site that the bot will tell him in a moment is specially selected for him. At the same time, these questions may be of real importance in your case. There are, for example, portals for masochists who like hard sex, so if you have managed to determine that your user likes it, you do not need to ask him more questions. At each stage, the user can choose the option "I want sex without questions" and immediately go to the most important question, i.e. questions about the age of the future partner/lover.
The age of the future partner is important because, depending on the answer given, the interlocutor will be offered a different dating portal. This choice affects the final proposal - proposing one of the three sites.
Choosing 18-24 will result in a proposal in the form of Erodate, choosing 25-35 is SexPrzygody, and choosing 35+ will end up with a Flirt offer. The whole is presented in the form of a gallery with photos of three girls - the user can choose the one he likes, and clicking the "I pass " button results in redirection to the portal using an affiliate link. At the same time, the user's flow ends there. One more thing to keep in mind is that the client may not be looking for sex at all. He may want true love!
Additional questions. In your case, they have no influence on the result. The question of age is also not decisive for the result. At any stage, the user can choose the "Love without questions" option and go straight to the dating site.
It does not matter what choice the interlocutor made. They will always be offered registration on the eDarling dating platform. The user can take a photo of one of the three girls visible in the gallery. All you need to do is click on the button "I want to know her " and you will be redirected to a given portal using an affiliate link.
Let’s set up an account
Creating an account on Chatfuel is extremely simple. On the home page you will find a button that you just need to click to proceed to create an account.
Then you will be asked to log in to your FB account or to consent to access our account. This is only a type of verification, so you don't have to worry about anything. Chatfuel does not publish anything on your behalf. So go to login. Then you’ll see a dashboard. Still a bit empty, but that will change soon.
Building and creating a bot
Let's do it together. Together we will create our first bot project. So, click on the above tile, and then select the "Blank Bot" option.
Our new chatbot will appear in the dashboard. We now need to link it to our Facebook page, which is the page on which it will operate. For this purpose, we click on the "Connect" button.
From the list, we choose the page that we want to connect with our new bot.
We’re connected but our bot is empty.
Here are two important parts of any bot:
● blocks
● buttons
Blocks are one of the stages the interlocutor goes to. Conversation and all the flow you create.
After all, it does not take place on one board. It is divided into different stages and scenarios,
in short, blocks. In the case of our bot, we decided to use the following blocks:
Buttons, on the other hand, are your ability to enter a conversation with a potential interlocutor, direct him to further parts of the conversation and give him the feeling that using the bot guarantees individuality - it is he who decides about the course of the conversation. The bot should anticipate all possible scenarios, so each contingency should be worked out.
Buttons can be added to any element - text, movie, and also to audio material. We are about to add buttons.
Now we need to deal with the welcome message. It can be said that this is the most important element, because we want to convince the user that our bot is the new solution for their problem.
So let's edit the default welcome message. We can leave the parameter {{first name}} - it pastes the user's name in this place, which makes the user feel that the system is even more authentic and personalized.
On the occasion of the buttons, we mentioned that you can add them to any element. Then let's add it to our welcome message now.
Now we come up with and enter the text to be contained in the button. At the moment, we do not want to redirect the recipient to any link, so select the "Blocks" section, and then select the block to which it should be moved after clicking. In the example presented by us, it will be "Default Answer" - the welcome message encourages conversation, and the "Default Answer" block contains the first important question.
Default Answer is also a default message. Let's edit it again, this time asking the question where the choice of one of the options affects how the conversation will go further. At this stage, be sure to make sure you have created all the blocks you've seen a few graphics before. We will redirect the client to these blocks, so they are necessary for our further design. We still use the parameter responsible for the name adjustment.
So let’s edit the message: add two questions. Now take a look at the blocks we target the client at.
We need to analyze two possible scenarios - one client might want love and the other might want sex. Let's go through the first scenario for which we previously created a total of 6 blocks.
The order of blocks is not accidental - they will be three blocks through which our interlocutor will pass. The last three are the final result - the question about age will be the decisive question, hence the interlocutor will be able to go to only one of these blocks, depending on what answer he gives in the "Sex - age" block, but let's not anticipate the facts. The first tile - "Sex - the main". This is the first block to be completely empty. So we need to add content to it.
Thanks to this toolbox you will be able to add more items. It is based on blocks - you just add the three next elements, being able to freely change their order. Wee used the options shown below:
- Text - we need a message that we will send to the interlocutor,
- Typing - adding an animation for writing a message, i.e. three dots,
- Quick reply - in our case, an additional button used outside traditional answers to questions,
- Gallery - a series of photos; we will come back to this because we will use this option at the last stage.
Let's add a textbox and then a typing animation.
Cool! You have just added the first elements to your bot. You can also add another - e.g. a new text field, another typing animation, and finally a text field with buttons. If you want to give your client a little more detail, it's always a good idea to break it down into different messages. This will allow it to quickly and efficiently read the messages you send to it.
Last time, we created two different buttons. This time we will create three, but we will make one more change. it is about choosing a button and the fact that the choice will not have any impact on the further development of the conversation.
Both this block and the next two are simply to reassure the interlocutor that we treat him individually, although, of course, we could also use the information that the interlocutor likes to watch women (we did not ask such a question in our case, although adding it would be of course possible) and if the answer was "YES", then redirect him to an adult broadcasting site. So there is a huge amount of monetization possibilities.
We redirect the client to the next block. However, we now need to do something else - anticipate that the other person may not be tempted to answer your questions. The user may want to meet a girl quickly, no matter what. We foresaw this, so we will use a quick reply to add an extra button.
Such a button appears at the bottom of the conversation while going through the block and redirects you to the "Sex 18-24" block. It means that in this way it avoids all questions and immediately redirects the client to the offer to use the affiliate link. We use the same scheme in the next block - "Sex - the approach". Let's do it.
We are adding other buttons which, when pressed on, will move to thee next block.
We don't forget the important button "I want sex without questions" and move on. Block "Sex - Age". The tab is very important, because it contains three buttons, and each of them relates to a different partner program.
We must consider one more thing - the reaction to the choice of the interlocutor. For the last two blocks, his choices did not matter to us, yet he always received an answer regarding his opinion. This message must meet the universality criterion as above.
Let us ask the interlocutor what is the desired age of the woman he is looking for. This question is important because the offer of dating sites is wide - there are portals designed for younger audiences, as well as those that are directed very openly to the older ones, which is often associated with better remuneration.
At this point, each response is a redirection to a different block. The construction of the next three blocks is very pleasing. Such a block includes the same content, only the affiliate links differ, as well as photos of women, about which in a moment.
The client receives a message that his choices influenced the final proposal. Here it is worth adding the writing effect in the form of three dots, which we mentioned earlier. In order to build even greater credibility, you can slightly extend the waiting time for the message to appear, to create the impression that the system is thinking over something - calculating the best solution. Finally, there is a proposal.
This, however, has to be presented attractively - this is the last step. At this point, we cannot afford to lose the interlocutor.