Why Live Chat software companies should provide user guides.

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Written by Martin wacey

Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:46

by Martinwacey

There is a large drop out rate of companies who sign up to Live Chat.Are they missing something?Not everybody visiting the site wants to chat.And you only need a few chats to extract valuable information.People dont know what the best way is to use this software.

People's expectations have been bloated upwards due to the manner in which this software has been sold.Due to a lack of education, expectations exist that you need a lot of chats to justify the software.As the software normally gets sold with no kind of user guides this is not surprising.

When a product gets sold cheaply and in an inappropriately automated fashion , then there is no incentive for the supplier to issue user guides as it will entail more work for him.People therefore dont know how to use it properly and stop using it at all.

This is changing however with the emergence of second generation chat software.These companies are beginning to realise its not just about random intervention, but more so a case of a skilled and well timed intervention matching the site visitors' motives as far as this new technology allows us to "read" them.The new technology makes more interactivity possible.A sign of the times is that people are chatting with each other more through the use of social networking sites.

What this new technology enables is the ability to know when the site visitor is scrolling, typing or using the mouse which means you can tell whether they are in a receptive space or not.Combined with knowledge of how they found your page in real time gives you the ability to build instant rapport.

If the new technology is taken up properly the real benefits of Live Chat will be fulfilled.

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