E136: Chatbots for the win with Victor Vento

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Victor Vento works with high-growth coaches, experts, and consultants to scale through Facebook ads and chatbots. He has worked with clients to achieve results in the ballpark of 3,220% ROI on ad spends. Victor has been rocking chatbots!

Episode highlights:

• Who Victor works with and how he helps them generate leads.
• What a chatbot is and how it works for businesses.
• The stigma of talking to a bot, and how you can avoid it.
• How to avoid redundancy to improve user experience.
• Victor’s word of caution with using bots with text messages.
• Run time: 32:23
• Best advice received: You can’t ask people for more than what you’ve invested in yourself.
• Habit that contributes to success: Quick implementation
• Recommended tools: Manychat and Kartra 

• Recommended book: Give by Nicholas Kusmich, Exactly What to Say by Phil M.  Jones, Relentless by Tim S. Grover

Links:

• Manychat
• Victor’s podcast
• Victor’s book ventobot.com/book
• Give by Nicholas Kusmich
• Exactly What to Say by Phil M. Jones
• Relentless by Tim S. Grover

Quotes:

• “They just need us to flood it with leads.”
• “Just be where they’re at.”
• “I would still consider this the wild, wild west.”
• “It’s only there to bridge you not being there until you’re able to be there.”
• “If it’s one-way, you’re spamming.”

Takeaways:

• Be cautious when using text messages! It’s a very intimate form of communication that isn’t yet overrun by marketers.