Using Multiple and Dynamic Campaigns in Comm100 Live Chat

Introduction

Once you have purchased your live chat software, the next step is to define how you want your visitors to view and experience your live chat. What colors and fonts will be used in the chat window and button? Will visitors be able to contact representatives through offline messages after hours? Will visitors be invited to chat proactively, and if so, under what conditions? We call setting these elements the creation of a live chat process, or campaign.

Depending on your business model, a single live chat process might not work for you. This may be the case if:

• Your company is a multi-national business, requiring versions of your website in different languages, each with a slightly different live chat process to accommodate this.
• Your company has a separate website for its sub-brand, which calls for a distinct live chat experience to properly reflect your sub-brand’s unique identity.
• Your company has one website, but wishes to use live chat in different ways across its website (such as through having multiple live chat buttons on the same page, each with a different routing rule).

In these scenarios, it is necessary to establish several chat processes so that your live chat functions as intended, and offers each website visitor the appropriate experience.

So, how might one go about implementing several chat processes, or campaigns, be it on a single web page or across many websites? We can solve this problem by configuring the Multiple Campaigns feature and the Dynamic Campaigns feature in Comm100 Live Chat.

This white paper will provide implementation scenarios and explore how you can use the Multiple and Dynamic Campaigns feature to achieve the following benefits:

• Provide dedicated style and chatting experience for each brand
• Design different chatting processes on different web pages
• Serve visitors speaking different languages with their mother tongue
• Compare the number of visits and chats among different websites
• Chat with visitors from different websites in one place
• Change the chat button shown on the same web page per visitor properties

What is a Campaign?

A campaign is a set of configurations that define the entire live chat experience, from how your chat button and chat window look to what kind of visitors should be invited to chat. There are nine settings that you can adjust when designing your campaign:

1. Chat button. This includes deciding where the chat button appears on your web page, enabling a static or floating chat button, selecting your chat button image, and choosing to keep or hide the offline chat button.
2. Chat window. You can customize this feature by selecting whether to use a banner image or an agent avatar and company logo, implementing the desired color, style, and images used on your live chat window, deciding whether to enable sound alerts, browser pop-up alerts, file sending, and more.
3. Pre-chat. This allows you to decide whether or not to enable or disable the pre-chat feature, and to choose field content and layout.
4. Post-chat. Like the pre-chat setting, the post-chat option allows you to enable or disable the post-chat feature, and to create field content and choose your layout.
5. Offline message. Here you can choose to either use Comm100 Live Chat’s offline message window, or redirect visitors to a different page when there are no customer service agents to chat. You can also set the field content for the offline message window, and decide where offline messages get emailed.
6. Invitation. This means that you get to decide whether or not to allow automatic proactive chat invitations to visitors, and to define the rules for said invitations (i.e. what kind of visitors get invited to chat and after how long).
7. Agent wrap-up. By adjusting this setting, you can choose how your live chat agents tag visitors for follow-up.
8. Language. This allows you to change the language of your live chat window and button to whatever language is most appropriate for your website.
9. Routing rules. With this feature, you can choose to route chats to a specific department or agent. You can also decide to employ rule-based chat routing, which automatically routes customers based on their location, pre-chat info, account information, behavior, and more.

When you create a campaign for your website, you can set any or all of these elements to decide how your visitors will view and interact with your live chat service.

What is the Multiple Campaigns Feature For?

With the Multiple Campaigns feature, you can create various campaigns, each of which has their own dedicated chatting style and rules. This allows you to provide unique chatting experiences for customers visiting different websites or web pages per your own business needs.

When you introduce a new campaign, you can make it slightly different or very different from your original campaign, depending on your reason for introducing it. For example, if you have one website that sells smartphones, and another that promotes a men’s luxury clothing line, each website may need a very distinct live chat aesthetic and process in order to create the best live chat experience for visitors. On the other hand, if you introduce a new campaign for the Spanish version of your website, the only thing that you may want to change is the language and greetings used in your live chat.

Since all campaigns are under the same account, the Multiple Campaigns feature also allows your agents to chat with visitors from all websites or web pages in the same chat console. This means less hassle for your agents and amplifies your company’s connection to its customers.

What is the Dynamic Campaign Feature For?

The Dynamic Campaign feature is an advanced option of the Multiple Campaigns feature. The difference is that the Dynamic Campaigns feature allows for different chat processes within a single website or web page, instead of across various websites. With the Dynamic Campaign feature, you can define rules to display different chat buttons, pre-chat surveys, chat windows, routing rules, etc. for different visitors, based on pre-set criteria. This enables you to deliver a more personalized service to your unique customers.

For example, with the Dynamic Campaign feature you can route customers to different agents, depending on the city that they are accessing your website from. Another example is that you can also use this feature to display a different pre-chat survey to collect different information from first-time website visitors and repeat visitors.

What is a Chat Group Tag and How Can You Benefit from It?

Sometimes a company has two independent brands with the same live chat team serving visitors, and they don’t want visitors to be aware of the fact that the two brands belong to the same company. This is where the Chat Group Tag feature comes into play.

Let’s take a quick look at this in action: LVMH is the world’s largest luxury group and has many brands under it, such as Christian Dior SE, Louis Vuitton, and Marc Jacobs. Let’s suppose the same live chat team is responsible for the Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior websites. A visitor who has previously chatted with Louis Vuitton agents now wants to chat with Christian Dior agents. With the chat group tag enabled, the chat history from the Louis Vuitton website will not be synced to the new chat on Dior’s website. Otherwise, the visitor would be confused since the two websites are different entities.

Examples of Multiple and Dynamic Campaigns

Using the Multiple and Dynamic Campaigns features can benefit the processes of your individual websites, as well as your company. In the following section, we are going to explore these benefits and provide example scenarios that illustrate how companies might benefit from them.

1. Provide Dedicated Style and Chatting Experience for Each Brand

Some companies run different brands that target totally different audiences. Each brand has a distinct website to go with it. If these companies want to engage visitors from different websites in different ways, they would need to create multiple campaigns, with a dedicated style and chatting experience for each brand.

So how might a company make use of this feature? Let’s explore this in the following example:

By utilizing the Multiple Campaigns feature, Alan’s live chat could represent two unique brand identities on two different websites.

2. Design Different Chatting Processes on Different Web Pages

Different web pages function differently. For example, FAQ pages are typically used for support purposes, whereas product pages generate sales. With Multiple Campaigns, our customers can design dedicated chatting processes for their FAQ and product pages respectively.

Let’s see how one company leader benefited from this in the next example:

By using Multiple Campaigns, Jennifer’s company manages to create two different support strategies to actively attend to leads while also promoting customer self-sufficiency.

3. Serve Visitors Speaking Different Languages with Their Mother Tongue

Global companies always have versions of their website in different languages, so that visitors from other countries have no language barriers to overcome. With the Multiple Campaigns feature, companies can design chat buttons and chat windows in different languages, and route visitors on different sites to designated agents/departments.

Check out how this works in the next example:

Whether your website is available in two languages or seven, using the Multiple Campaigns feature like Andrew to cater your live chat to international customers means increased leads and a wider network of customers.

4. Compare the Number of Visits and Chats Among Different Websites

In Comm100 Live Chat, customers can view their chat volume report by campaign. This allows businesses that use our live chat software to compare the number of visits and chats among different websites.

Let’s see how this can be useful:

With the Multiple Campaigns feature, Cameron can analyze the performance of each of his brands, making it easy for him to make positive adjustments to each of them separately based on his findings.

5. Chat with Visitors from Different Websites in One Place

Since multiple campaigns are accessible under the same live chat account, all live chat agents can connect with visitors from different websites in the same chat console. In the chat console, you can monitor visitors from different campaigns in real time with the custom filter feature.

Here is an example of this benefit in action:

By using the Multiple Campaigns feature and the custom filter feature to contact designated groups of visitors from all sites in one place, Jonathan increased his conversions and sales.

6. Change the Chat Button Shown on the Same Web Page Per Visitor Properties

Creating separate chat buttons on the same page in order to cater to different visitors is a benefit that is exclusively available with the Dynamic Campaigns feature, enabled through having Multiple Campaigns. With a Dynamic Campaign, you can define rules in advance to decide which chat button to display when a certain group of visitors arrives. This means that visitors don’t have to select which button to click, and can ultimately save them time.

Check out the following example of this at work:

Conclusion

Knowing when and how to get the most out of the Multiple Campaigns feature and the Dynamic Campaigns feature is vital to a growing business. Whether you run a global company looking to run live chat in multiple languages or are a home-grown business looking to develop a separate live chat presence for your new sub-brand, using the Multiple Campaigns feature and Dynamic Campaigns feature in Comm100 Live Chat can help you cultivate data, leads, and sales from your visitor pool.