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How AI-Enabled Chatbots Can Help You Grow Your Business

Present Slide — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:11:29 +0000

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had a transformative impact on the way we live our lives and conduct our businesses. Chatbots are an excellent example of how AI is being applied successfully by so many businesses to improve their customer experience.

It is estimated that by the end of 2020, up to 80% of companies will incorporate chatbots to improve their product experience. The chatbot market is estimated to reach a value of $1.25 billion by 2025.

What are Chatbots?

A chatbot is a software application that is used to conduct an online conversation with people who are using your product. This interaction with users can be used to leverage engagement, improve product experience, or encourage them to buy your products.

Chatbots have helped many businesses across the world in successfully streamlining customer care, marketing, HR, and many other core departments.

In this article, we will look at five important ways in which chatbots can benefit businesses and help in their significant growth.

1) 24/7 Seamless Support

Most businesses are ambitious and want to attract customers from across the globe. To make this possible, it is important to provide them with support around the clock. Over 50% of customers expect businesses to remain functional 24/7.

However, practically it is not feasible to allocate human resources in such a consistent manner. A chatbot is, thus, an excellent alternative that can help your business in providing consistent, around the clock support.

It is estimated that around 256 billion customer support requests are made each year which requires companies to shell around $1.3 trillion into service.

According to a survey conducted in 2017, chatbots can help businesses save almost up to 30% of this gigantic operating cost.

2) Higher Productivity in the Workplace

When using your product, most customers often face similar challenges or have the same questions. Allocating your employees to answer the same questions repeatedly can be highly unproductive and unenjoyable.

Chatbots can be programmed easily to answer these frequently asked questions. In this way, you can free your employees and allow them more productive work that involves creative and innovative thinking.

Meanwhile, a chatbot will solve most of the basic customer problems and only redirect challenging issues that require human attention. Thus, you need to hire a company with professional chatbot developers.

3) Personalized Experience

One of the biggest misconceptions about chatbots is that they can only be used as a support tool to answer frequently asked questions. It is important to understand as a business owner that chatbots are a product of artificial intelligence. Thus, chatbots can provide value-driven and personalized support for your customers.

Chatbots collect data from your customers, based on factors like what they click on, what interests them, how long they spend on your platform, and how long they take to make a purchase decision.

These factors enable the chatbots to understand each customer and create their separate digital profiles. Using this digital profile, chatbots can then provide a tailored experience, showing a customer only those products that they are interested in and hence, driving them towards a potential purchase.

4) Uninterrupted Real-Time Sales

When a customer visits your business platform, they typically spend a few minutes before making a purchase decision. In this small timeframe, the customer needs:

Quick answers to their purchase queries
A guided experience
Personalized attention
Encouragement towards making a purchase decision

If the above needs are not met, it is highly likely that your customer will switch to a competitor’s product.

That's where chatbots come to the rescue! They help engage every customer visiting your platform and drive them towards making a purchase with consistent support and guidance.

5) Driving the Nature of Marketing

Traditional routes of marketing your products and services are now taking a back seat in this age of data-driven decision making. Chatbots powered by AI are now becoming key marketing tools in exposing your business to a much wider audience.

We've already seen that chatbots possess the ability to build good customer relationships by understanding their interests. Due to digital profiling, chatbots can suggest preferred items and persuade customers towards making a purchase decision. This automation tool can boost your business greatly!

Statistics show that customers prefer buying from businesses that have a chatbot integration to guide them with their purchase. Almost 47% of customers are willing to buy products via chatbot support.

What makes a Successful Chatbot?

Now that we have seen how integrating chatbots can help your business grow, it is important to keep in mind some pointers while building a successful chatbot.

Your chatbot should:

Make good use of linguistics
Have specific well-defined tasks
Work seamlessly on a variety of devices
Identify variations in natural language used by customers
Interpret customer queries and drive them to take an action
Build a customer footprint and refer to it in the future Be aligned to the brand

According to a survey held in 2018, the top three uses of chatbots were:

Getting a quick response during an emergency (37%)
Providing resolution for complaints (35%)
Supplying detailed insight (35%)

The Road Ahead

Chatbots require time to gather data and find patterns. Over the last decade, our understanding of artificial intelligence has grown exponentially. With time, chatbots will become intelligent enough to adequately replicate a human response.

With chatbots becoming an indispensable part of businesses, the way we work and sell is going to change radically.

Keeping up to date with the latest technological developments and machine learning abilities will help you build a strong chatbot service for your business to stay ahead of the curve.

Top Java YouTube Channels for Beginners

Present Slide — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:32:18 +0000

We were searching for some YouTube channels which provide Java Tutorials. Most of the websites have mentioned channels that do not have enough content. And some do not have them in an organized manner.

So we thought to create a list of best YouTube channels that could actually be used by Beginners for learning Java programming. We skipped the channels that do not have enough content on them and the ones which could not be used to learn Java from the beginning.

The list may be updated later to add on some new ones and the outdated ones will get removed.

Java being one of the most popular programming languages has lots of scope. It has uses in Desktop applications, Mobile Applications, Web Servers, Scientific Applications and more.

And there are is no single resource that could be used to excel in all attributes of Java. You can start learning from the basic ones, practice on things by doing projects and then can move onto the advanced concepts side by side.

So below is the list of those YouTube channels for Java:

1. Derak Banas's Playlist

This is a multi-niche YouTube channel having videos in so many dimensions. You can find videos related to gaming, marketing, web designing and programming too. This Java Playlist is for beginners to start learning Java programming.

2. The New Boston

Similar to the above one, it is also a Multi-Niche YouTube channel having so many niches in total. For Java, they have created different playlists for different levels of expertise. You can find Java tutorials for beginners, intermediates and also some game development tutorials with the help of Java language.

3. Programming With Mosh

We have mentioned this channel so many times in our lists because of the content quality that they deliver. Mosh, the creator has published a complete video tutorial specially for beginners to teach Java programming. The video contains more than 2 hours of content starting from the basic introduction of Java and installation on your machine.

4. freeCodeCamp.org

This channel is known for providing free video courses on YouTube. You can get courses for all the major programming languages. And they just create a single video for covering all the topics. There Java tutorial video has got more than 9 hours of video content with all the fundamental concepts of Java covered. You can check the description for the video timeline and skip to the topic you want to learn.

5. Telusko

Telusko is here for years providing tutorials on programming languages. As single course videos are in trend so they updated their old playlist and created a new updated single video for Java. Beginners can start learning right away and can reach up to a level of creating some basic Java projects.

The video has around 7 hours of content and you can move to the channel playlist and videos for further advance topics.

So these were the channels that any beginner can use to start learning Java. We listed only a few so that students should not get confused about choosing one. And we listed five channels because no single can suit all the students.

Hope you find value in these channels and videos. Do share it with someone in need.

Best Telegram Channels for Developers

Present Slide — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 08:34:46 +0000

If you would ask us to choose between WhatsApp and Telegram then we would definitely choose Telegram. While WhatsApp is good for chatting with your friends and relatives but it is not that productive.

There is hardly any group that provides good knowledge and is free of spam. On the other hand, Telegram offers so many functionalities for people having Interest in coding, development and other tech skills.

Telegram has acquired more than 365 million lifetime downloads as of August 2019. Telegram bots and channels are the major factors in this growth. Anyone having programming knowledge can create their own bots and can allow their global use.

Apart from that Telegram allows the creation of channels that are similar to YouTube channels. The creator can share content regularly on the channel and people can subscribe to different channels.

Now as here we are the community of developers and coders so we are mentioning some best Telegram channels list that can help you in your programming journey. They are not focused on specific language or skill and you can join them as per your choice.

1 Data Science by ODS.ai:

As the name suggests it shares the latest trends, news, updates, and case studies related to Data Science. The username is @opendatascience

2 Data Flair

They regularly share updates about trending technologies including Big Data, Hadoop, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, etc. The username is @dataflair

3 Python Pundits

Great for those who are just starting with Python and want to learn it from scratch. They have currently shared 30 tutorials and they regularly share new tutorials. The username is @pythonpundits

4 Coding News

Regular updates with high-quality articles, videos, and tutorials about programming. Languages include HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, React, Angular, Electron, Node, Vue and more. The username is @codingnews

5 Web Dev

Great Telegram channel for web developers either beginners or working professionals. Regular updates on new web development trends, news, technologies. The username is @webdev_eng

6 Android ResId

Sharing the best content and resources related to Android Development. Join and get to know the best working tips for coding your next Android app. The username is @androidresid

7 Python Resources

Sharing amazing resources for Python Developers. The username is @pythonres

8 Amazing PHP

Some people might hate PHP but it is the language that helped in building so many famous websites including Facebook and WordPress.
The username is @phpme

9 Programming Challenges

The more challenges you will face the better programmer you will become. This channel lets you solve programming problems on a regular basis. The username is @prograchallenges

10 LinuxGram

Sharing latest news, technologies, best practices, and updates about Linux. They currently have more than 42k subscribers. The username is @linuxgram

11 GitHub Repos

Featuring some of the best GitHub Repositories which you can check and learn from. The username is @github_repos

12 Best UI/UX Ideas

They share the best UI and UX design across the world. Some are shared as pictures and some are shared as videos. The username is @best_UI_UX_designs

So these were some amazing Telegram channels that we thought to share with you all. Hope they would be of some help for you people out there.

Do like and share if it helps.

How to Learn Python as a Beginner?

Present Slide — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 12:49:49 +0000

Python is one of the most loved programming languages. Companies including Google, Uber, Instagram have based their applications on Python language.

Being an easy to learn language, beginners are often suggested to start their programming career with Python. And having uses in Machine Learning & Data Science has made Python an important language to start with.

Now if you will ask people about learning to code they would most probably suggest you go with an online course. When students start with something new they have so many queries in mind and sometimes they are not even sure if they can carry on with the thing they are starting.

So it would be better for them to go with some free Python courses and check if this is something they can base their career on. And if you find that basic overview suits your interest then you can go with any paid course of your choice.

Finding free resources in this digital world is no big deal. There are tons of online stuff that can give you everything you will ever need for your career. You only need to focus and concentrate on learning.

Some Websites That Can Give You Free Python Courses

Udemy: One of the most popular online learning platform.
SoloLearn: Having so many free resources for teaching coding to students.
Alison: Provides free courses in multiple dimensions.
Real Python: Interactive Python guides and resources for both beginners and intermediate programmers.
Python Tricks: Providing so many tutorials for learning Python from scratch.

These resources are enough for getting your basics clear and get a hold on the fundamentals of Python. After that, you can switch on to some paid training courses for further polishing your programming skills.

Programming is not a one day job and for being a better programmer you will have to keep yourself updated with all the latest updates and trends.

And one more interesting to share is that you don't need to go anywhere for getting paid courses. The websites that are mentioned above provide paid courses and training too so you can just switch from free to paid if you are finding them a good source to learn.

Where to Find Best interview Preparation Websites?

Present Slide — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:04:35 +0000

Interviews are always an important part of career. Either you have just completed your phase of education or are willing to switch your organization. You will have to face interviews and multiple rounds too.

Preparing for interviews is easy for some people and for some its their worst nightmare. The difference is just of the way they perceive the word Interview. There is nothing to be scared of interviews as they are two ways process.

The company wants to take the best candidate and same goes for the employees. So if you have got all the skills and a way to present them well then you will definitely rock it.

Interview Preparation Websites are one of the best ways to start preparing for one. Thee are many interview preparation websites where you can learn all the things to perform your best.

There are many aspects that the company looks for. Like the confidence of students, communication skills, personality, knowledge of field, strong aptitude and many others. These all things can be gained by practicing and learning from the right source.

There are video lectures for every one of these aspects. For aptitude you will be learning to solve aptitude questions,for personality development you can go through video lectures and so on.

Below are the websites which you can use to prepare for Interviews:

Glassdoor
GeeksforGeeks
CareerCup
Zety Blog

You can find the complete list of websites here: Interview Preparation

We hope you will find it useful for your future endeavors and career life. Practice all the things that are provided in the websites and you can rehearsal in front of mirror to get the best results for your interviews.