Create a Chatbot for your Website with Zero Effort

Aslam Abbas
Chatbots Life
Published in
4 min readDec 13, 2017

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“Anyone Can Cook”

This was the quote by Gusteau in Ratatouille. It’s a very powerful idea, isn’t it? I believe the same should happen in the case of chatbots. Ever since chatbots blew up in the Spring and Summer of 2016, we have seen several bot creation platforms come and go. All of them carry the same vision and that is

“Chatbots should be dead simple to create”.

Each one has achieved varying degrees of success. They have made the technical part quite easy. However, the conversation interface still looks complicated. It feels like you made the perfect cake but you messed up the decoration. That shouldn’t be the case. People associate products with their design. A poor design should not leave a bad impression on your customer.

Starting from Scratch

When you start to build a chatbot, the first hurdle is deciding the “how”. There are a ton of APIs and libraries to choose from. Even developers get overwhelmed and confused about this choice. Then imagine the plight of non-developers! For them, it’s a decision chaos. I have seen people try everything. Some try to learn a new platform on their own. Others play it safe by hiring external developers to build highly complex conversations. Let’s face it! It doesn’t end well.

Assume that it does work, but you still have to deal with scalability and constantly update them. Your business changes and so does your customers. Do you think the same conversation style will help you stay alive in this industry? Definitely not. Often, we see their initial enthusiasms turn into huge mistakes. They get lost down a rabbit hole of problems that eats up their business revenue and waste a lot of time.

Structuring the Conversation

Let’s say you got past the first hurdle. The second major hurdle is actually building the conversation. This is a tricky part. Your chatbot should be able to represent your brand and ask questions in a polite manner. It should carry your persona. You have to make the conversation interesting and productive to the user.

When constructing such a conversation, there is a lot involved. You have to do your homework, consider multiple possibilities and still keep things fun. And with most available chatbot making tools or platforms, there is too much consider already. So it can be difficult to get a good direction on this.

But there is a Solution

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Collect.chat. This is the part where this becomes a promotional article. But hey, over 1500 websites use Collect.chat at the moment. And not all of them can be wrong.

Collect.chat focus on structure and ease-of-use. We took an initiative to build a platform where anyone can build a chatbot for their website. There is no coding involved. You can create interactive and friendly conversations with drag-and-drop questions.

I would like to brag a bit more, but let’s get down to the facts. That should help you make a decision on whether or not, you should give Collect.chat a try!

Who uses Collect.chat

1. Those who do not have the time to sit 24x7 or the money to hire human agents to provide Live Support.

2. Those who want to know who their visitor is and what their requirements are.

3. Those who want to grow their email list, collect feedback from their customers and provide a conversational FAQ guide.

4. Those who want an insurance policy for their paid website traffic and collect more leads by engaging with this traffic.

5. Those who want to provide a better experience to their online visitors and delight them with a conversational interaction.

What Now

Explainer Video

We are committed to becoming the World’s Simplest Chatbot Builder. And we believe we can get there. It is definitely an end-to-end solution that takes away the pain of chatbot makers. It is affordable and saves a lot of time. You can literally build the bots in minutes and test the bot on your site. There are plenty of chatbot templates that you use in a single click.

These bots are multilingual and can integrate with any service you use using REST API or Zapier. There are lot more features to write about. But what’s important is for you is to try this platform and understand how a chatbot can boost your sales charts.

Help is always given at Collect.chat for those who ask for it. Just drop your questions as comments or send a mail to aslam@collect.chat and I will reply to you asap.

Disclaimer — We don’t make chatbots for messengers at the moment. We are totally focused on the Website space.

Peace Off

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