Yang notes his son's company Manychat serves 500,000 paying businesses
“My son older son, he is 35 now, he runs his own company and his company is quite high valuation. They serve 500,000 paying businesses. Manychat, many customer, many of that our readers will recognize this company, Manychat, they automate small businesses commu…”
Fricks: Comment Automations Are Highly Effective for B2B Products
“Yeah, I think that's a huge thing, especially for business to business. Things are like tools and guides. You could definitely use like tools like Manychai. Like automations are probably a huge addition. If you can get the initial virality, like if you're just…”
Warner: I actually invested in chatbot platform ManyChat
“I use ManyChat. I love them. I actually invested in the company.”
Gamito: Email marketing tactics fail when applied to Messenger
“I think a lot of people are jumping into messenger from email marketing and they think that the things that are going to work in email are going to work in messenger. And that's just not the case. Messenger is a conversational tool. Email is something that you…”
Gamito: A ManyChat subscriber is worth 5x to 10x an email subscriber
“So far the numbers are that a ManyChat subscriber is worth maybe five times to 10 times more than an email subscriber.”
Gamito: ManyChat CEO grew a Telegram bot product to 100,000 bots
“He built something similar on telegram and he very quickly grew it to like a 100,000 bots.”
Gamito: ManyChat is sustaining 70% month-over-month growth
“We've doubled, we've almost doubled that. We last quarter and then we've been sustaining about 70% growth every month.”
Gamito: Equity at ManyChat is still under negotiation
“No, that's still in negotiation.”
Yang: Marketer Sean Patrick Simpson amassed over 40k Messenger subscribers
“So, we have this just messenger alchemist Sean Patrick Simpson, who gets, he got over 40,000 messenger subscribers on his messenger list”
Yang: ManyChat user generated $11k in sales from $2k ad spend
“So one of the campaigns that he did, he spent, like, 2000 on ads and made 11,000 in sales in just, like, a few months. Days.”
Yang: Messenger bot multi-step micro-interactions achieve 95% to 98% CTR
“It's 95 to 98%, and it doesn't get lower.”
Yang: Facebook Messenger bans promotional messages outside 24-hour window
“After 24 hours you can only send content that people subscribe to, And that cannot be, like, promotional or ads”
Yang: 10K-user health bot achieved 80% opens sending 14 messages weekly
“So we had one bot that had over 10,000 subscribers, and they messaged, like in the span of a week, they messaged their audience 14 times. And? And they got 80% open rates and 10%, 10% CTR on each one of those messages.”
Yang: EDM record label bot gets 56% CTR on weekly audio previews
“We have one client, it's a music label, a record label. They sent out one broadcast every week, so a weekly broadcast with a 32nd preview of an upcoming single from their record label, and it's an electronic dance music label, so they put out a lot of singles …”
Yang: Intercom has 17,000 customers while ManyChat has 20,000 connected bots
“Inter, Intercom has, like, 17,000 customers, and we already have over 20,000 bots connected to the platform.”