Lead Liaison Press Release

Visitor Tracking Solution Integrates with Live Chat from JivoChat

Dallas, TX – This week, sales and marketing solutions provider Lead Liaison announces an integration with third-party live chat software, JivoChat. The integration is said to help businesses build a more comprehensive digital DNA of prospective customers, leading to more prosperous engagements. 

JivoChat’s solution enables businesses to engage visitors in real-time using embedded chat widgets. “Our goal is to streamline customer communication and assist companies in further strengthening their relationships with prospective customers,” says Pavel Sikachev, US Country Manager at JivoChat.

Sikachev continues, “Our integration with Lead Liaison empowers businesses to create more comprehensive buyer personas and tailor their communication accordingly.”

Lead Liaison’s integration with JivoChat enriches anonymous Prospect Profiles with key information from chat interactions. Initially, all visitors to a company’s website are anonymous. Preliminary tracking can only provide company, location, and website activity like page visits, for example.

With Lead Liaison’s JivoChat integration, visitors are converted from anonymous to known Prospects. When a chat begins, the chat system collects contact information such as name, email, and more. The contact information is added to the anonymous record to identify the individual.

In addition to enriching the Prospect record, Lead Liaison logs chat activity, such as when the chat begins and ends, along with the chat content. When a chat occurs Prospects are automatically scored, as well.

“Our software is created as a result of client needs,” says Will King, Technical Account Manager at Lead Liaison.”The integration with JivoChat’s live chat software was no different. One of our clients in Europe is a supplier for soundproofing and acoustic insulation. They’ve been using JivoChat and Lead Liaison’s visitor tracking solution for a while and needed the two systems to talk together. We built a Universal Chat Connector that supports JivoChat and any live chat software in the market. We couldn’t be more thrilled to release this enhancement to our ever-growing customer base.”

Lead Liaison also offers integration with other 3rd party chat systems, such as Drift, Intercom, Olark, LivePerson, LiveChat, and more.

About Lead Liaison
Lead Liaison provides cloud-based sales and marketing automation solutions that help businesses accelerate revenue by attracting, converting, closing and retaining more prospects. Filling a void in the small pool of automation providers that focus on marketing-centric functionality, Lead Liaison gives equal focus to sales providing sophisticated visitor tracking and sales automation to boost sales effectiveness. Additionally, Lead Liaison is the global leader in event lead management, enabling companies to capture and manage leads from trade shows and events. Lead Liaison blends ease-of-use, a flexible architecture, deep external integration, marketing across social, web, mobile, email and offline channels and powerful functionality into a single platform, called Revenue Generation Software®. Lead Liaison is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit http://www.leadliaison.com or call 1-800-89-LEADS (895-3237). To access our Press Kit, visit www.leadliaison.com/press-kit.

Why Live Chat is a Must Tool For Ecommerce Business

The ecommerce industry has been continuously growing with a rapid speed over the past few years. The trend towards ecommerce is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, shopping has become one of the most popular activities over the internet. More than 1.66 trillion customers are buying goods and services online. As per prediction completed by Statista, global retail ecommerce revenue will amount to $4.88 trillion by 2021.

While the numbers make online business owners happy, this is still a competitive industry. In order to stay ahead of the competition, companies need to offer exceptional customer service to their customers. Customer service is key to ecommerce growth. Companies need to have the right tools in place in order to deliver the best customer experience. One of these customer support tools is live chat.

As per research report of an Aberdeen group, live chat is the most preferred method of communication for online shoppers compared to other communication channels. A study by the AMA states that customers are more likely to make a purchase from a website offering live chat service compared to those who don’t.

What is E-Commerce Live Chat?

Live chat is a communication platform that facilitates you to give support to the customers’ queries or to assist visitors to your website in real-time. With the help of live chat software, customers’ queries are solved within a few minutes.

This blog post will examine the top reasons why live chat is a must tool for your ecommerce business and how it converts visitors to customers and boosts conversion rate and sales.

Response Time

In this digital era, speed is king. Customers are looking for quick and helpful responses. They do not like to be put on hold or wait too long to get a solution to their queries. With every late reply, you are creating a chance to lose a lead. Live chat is the best option to have real-time conversations with your customers, reducing response time and boosting conversion rates.

An agent can proactively start the communication with the visitors and can suggest to them products based on their purchasing behavior.

Most of the companies are implementing live chat software on their website do so in order to give quick, convenient support to the customers and to improve customer service and response times.  

Source: https://www.bilderbeste.com

Boost Conversions & Sales Volume

According to Econsultancy, more than 70% of customers were satisfied with their live chat experience compared to all other channels including phone or email. This data proves that live chat is the best tool to boost conversion rate and sales. With the help of live chat, your customer service representatives will be able to handle multiple customers and can instantly respond to customers.

If the customer’s concerns are solved quickly, this will leave a good impression leading to a more sustainable relationship and an improvement in retention rates.

Source: https://econsultancy.com

Cost Efficient

Businesses are always looking for a cost-effective customer service solution. Studies show that live chat is the best and most low-cost communication channel. More and more companies are switching to live chat from phone or email support as they are too costly to maintain and setup. Implementing a live chat feature on your website will generate more revenue compared to revenue generated by emails or phones.

Live chat reduces costs in several ways:

  • Cost per interaction – It considerably decreases the cost of recruiting more service agents as one live chat agent can provide assistance to multiple customers simultaneously. Live chat offers real-time support to the customers and thus, it saves a great amount of time and money.
  • Retention – Reports states that live chat increases customer retention rates between 48-63%. And as we all know, selling to loyal customers is much easier and cost effective than converting new customers.

Live Chat Provides a Competitive Advantage

There are businesses which do not offer live chat. This calls for a great opportunity. Why not step ahead and gain a competitive advantage by offering a live chat solution on your website?

By providing live chat support and quality customer service, you can win the hearts of your customers.

Post Affiliate Pro reported that they observed 23% of the increase in conversion rate after implementing live chat on their website. With the help of live chat, you can offer 24/7 support during the checkout process which will increase conversion rates and reduce the chance of losing sales.  

Live Chat Gives Higher Satisfaction = Loyal Customers

Live chat is the best way to build a strong relationship with customers. When customers feel that their concerns are solved, they will share positive experiences with those around them. This also builds trust, fostering a stronger relationship between the customer and the company.

When your existing customers see that they get top-notch customer support, they will be more inclined to spend more and stick to your brand. If you manage to offer good support to the customers through live chat on their first visit, they will become loyal customers.

The Bottom Line…

If you are looking to quickly increase your ecommerce business revenues and build a long term relationship through great customer service, live chat is the solution you’ve been looking for.

Using this tool, you will be able to provide a “WOW!” experience to your valuable clients and customers. Live chat helps considerably in decreasing costs, and increasing average order value and sales. It is a perfect combination of efficient technology and human contact.

Guest Author Bio

Sam Makad is an experienced writer and marketing consultant at Acquire Chat. His expertise lies in marketing and advertising. He helps small & medium enterprises to grow their business and overall ROI.

Lead Liaison Press Release

GoExhibit! Enhancements Released As Peak of Trade Show Season Nears

Dallas, TX – Lead Liaison’s event lead management solution, GoExhibit!™, is growing in popularity among event marketers across the globe. With the increase in users comes an uptick in user requests. At Lead Liaison, an uptick in requests means more innovation at a faster rate. The sales and marketing platform that is “built by its users” released a list this week of Q1‘19 enhancements to GoExhibit!™.

Enhanced customization was a key focus in this update. Users are now able to change the app’s color, insert their logo, and custom content sections for embedded content like maps, videos, and more. When event managers give their reps access to the mobile lead capture app, they can now customize the invitation. Users can send those invitations by email and/or text message.

GoExhibit!™ also released lead capture support for NFC badges as well as automatic post-show reconciliation, a method that can be used when Lead Retrieval providers do not offer a Developer’s Kit for integration. With these enhancements, GoExhibit!™ now supports nearly every method of lead capture. If exhibitors are able to obtain a list of attendees, they can now import and merge that information with the data captured by their team.

Voice memos and voice-to-text capabilities up the ante, enabling booth reps to spend more time having conversations and less time typing notes. “Remembering all of those important little details after a conversation is an issue that booth representatives often face,” says Ryan Schefke, Customer Success Manager at Lead Liaison. “They don’t want to spend precious time writing on a notepad or typing into their mobile device. We wanted to create something that allowed them to move onto the next opportunity as quickly as possible, while still collecting enough information to form meaningful relationships post-show. That’s why we developed voice capabilities inside of our mobile app.”

Users with a GoExhibit!™ – Run Your Own Event license now have the option to print multiple badges at one time with Avery labels, or one-at-a-time with a Dymo printer. The new Self-Service Badge Printing feature allows event attendees to register or check-in at the front desk and print their own badges at the same time.

To read a full recap of Lead Liaison’s updates, read their Enhancement Round-Up Q1’19.

About Lead Liaison
Lead Liaison provides cloud-based sales and marketing automation solutions that help businesses accelerate revenue by attracting, converting, closing and retaining more prospects. Filling a void in the small pool of automation providers that focus on marketing-centric functionality, Lead Liaison gives equal focus to sales providing sophisticated visitor tracking and sales automation to boost sales effectiveness. Additionally, Lead Liaison is the global leader in event lead management, enabling companies to capture and manage leads from trade shows and events. Lead Liaison blends ease-of-use, a flexible architecture, deep external integration, marketing across social, web, mobile, email and offline channels and powerful functionality into a single platform, called Revenue Generation Software®. Lead Liaison is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit http://www.leadliaison.com or call 1-800-89-LEADS (895-3237). To access our Press Kit, visit www.leadliaison.com/press-kit.

Akkroo and Integrate for $34M

Akkroo Acquired By Integrate for $34M

I’ve been thinking about the news I heard last Thursday, April 4th 2019, that a company called Integrate acquired Akkroo for $34M. Consolidation in the martech space is nothing new. In our six years in business, we’ve seen it happen over and over again, Oracle acquiring Eloqua, Upland Software acquiring LeadLander, Adobe acquires Marketo…the number of acquisitions goes on and on. Just look at the list of recent acquisitions on MarTech Today.  As you scroll through, I bet you’ll recognize a few companies that were acquired. Then, you’ll murmur “I was wondering what happened to them”. Give it some time, and I’m betting you’ll say the same thing with this acquisition. I’ve never been one to be shy about comments. I’m not letting my thoughts marinate any further, and wanted to share a pragmatic view, as well as a dogmatic and slightly cynical one, and say congrats to Integrate and Akkroo. You’re going in the right direction.

Pragmatic View

Brand dilution wasn’t my first thought after hearing the news. Instinctively, I thought – “how does this change our company?” The answer – it doesn’t change it, it helps it. The news about Integrate acquiring Akkroo only validates what Lead Liaison has been doing since the infancy stages of our business. We’ve been developing a sales and marketing solution that unifies top-of-funnel lead capture, converts leads, closes deals, and helps retain customers. Don’t believe, check our home page. We’ve had the “Attract, Convert, Close, Retain” message on our home page forever. So long that we even branded that on the back of our company t-shirts – no joke.

As I further dwell on the acquisition, I read that in January 2019 Integrate announced it acquired ListenLoop to grow its set of tools and solutions for account-based marketing (ABM) advertising. We unveiled Lead Liaison’s ABM solution in late 2017 with resounding cheers from our client base.

The news also reinforces the investment Lead Liaison has been making to simplify event lead management for the entire event tech space. B2B companies are spending more money on events as they recognize the impact that trade shows and other corporate events have on their top line. In fact, spend is on the rise as experts estimate 22% of a B2B company’s marketing budget is spent on events. Check out these 40 other shocking event marketing statistics. There’s no denying the event industry is becoming more high tech than ever and niche technologies will continue to be absorbed as event marketers demand more control and ownership over their event leads.

Rest assured, we’ve long understood the value of in-person events as a viable lead generation channel. We began our company as a tracking solution and evolved into a robust sales and marketing automation company that helps businesses grow at scale. Over the years, customers pushed us to add more capabilities and introduce marketing features and sales solutions, peppered with a high dose of automation. Establishing our roots in automation has given us a leg up over our competition for quite some time now. When we rolled out GoExhibit!, our solution for capturing and managing leads at events, it was a natural progression for our platform as trade shows and marketing events were yet another top-of-funnel channel too irresistible not to support.

Dogmatic and Slightly Cynical View

Akkroo pulled off a major heist of $34 million dollars with a promise to eventually modernize the Event Market. At Lead Liaison, we have been at the forefront of bringing better solutions to market since the infancy stages. We welcome the competition, but fear that the true losers of this endeavor will be the investors.

Let’s face it, we’ve seen this scenario play out a million times in technology. Big Brother (company A) buys company B and assumes they can force feed the new “solution” to their market at a greatly marked up cost.  They throttle support in ways that only big companies know how to do and what was once a friendly relationship becomes very vendor-customer oriented. Customers will expect price increases at their next renewal. 

What happens next? Investors start to think: we aren’t making as much money as we hoped when we overpaid for this company. What do they do next? They cut product development, and make another slash to support. Next thing you know, you are paying a premium for a product that looks just like it did three years ago…and nobody will answer your calls anymore unless it’s to tell you that a bill is due.

Congratulatory View

I feel honored to see other companies following suit as it further reinforces the direction of our company and justifies our continued growth. We’re incredibly proud of the fact that we’ve enhanced our solutions on our own, without needing to buy anything. Everything we’ve built is homegrown, from the ground up. Our customers benefit from this as they experience a fully integrated solution, with better support. Integrating companies is not easy.

So, while we congratulate those that got a nice cash in; we invite the existing customer base of Akkroo to learn more about Lead Liaison. Congrats to Integrate as well. Fully integrated solutions are the way to go.

Enhancement Round-Up Q1 2019

We kicked 2019 off with a bang! An enhanced CRM/Marketing automation connector allows for deeper integrations. Our new Sales Dashboard is full of rich analytics. Plus, we’ve added over 10 new capabilities to our event lead management solution, GoExhibit!™. Read more below to learn about all of the enhancements we released in Q1 of 2019.

As always, please feel free to contact your Lead Liaison Representative with any questions about the enhancements below. Not yet a client? Schedule a demo here!

All Licenses

  • Enhanced CRM/Marketing Automation Connector – We’ve created a flexible CRM/MA framework to make it easier to integrate 3rd party CRM and marketing automation systems. Previously, only limited fields could be mapped from Lead Liaison to external systems. Now, all standard and custom fields can flow from Lead Liaison into your CRM resulting in a deeper integration. The developed framework complements other CRMs, whereas existing enterprise integrations with Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce.com remain available to customers.

License: Lead Management Automation (LMA)™ – Marketing Automation

Javascript for Webforms

Javascript for Webforms

  • JavaScript for Web Forms – Previously, users could only embed forms via an iFrame. Now users can embed forms via javascript. This optimizes form rendering and is easier to manage.
  • Automation Actions (For customers integrating with Pipedrive) – We’ve added the following two automation actions:
    • Create Person
    • Create Deal

License: Sales Enablement + Marketing Automation

“Add to Rhythm” Actions

“Add to Rhythm” Actions

  • “Add to Rhythm” Actions – Users can now automate adding people to a Rhythm in bulk! Previously, users could only import contacts into a Rhythm. Now, users can utilize the “Add to Rhythm” bulk action or automation action to add contacts to a Rhythm.

License: SiteEngage™ + Marketing Automation

Use Your Own Content Dynamically

Use Your Own Content Dynamically

  • Use Your Own Content Dynamically – We now offer the ability to display custom website content using prospect criteria. Instead of being restricted to Lead Liaison’s “Dialogs”, you can use any type of custom web content. To display custom content, set rules for displaying the content and our software will generate code to add to your web page. The code will allow you to “hook in” and invoke your custom content.

License: ProspectVision™ – Website Visitor Tracking

  • Visitor Tracking API – Lead Liaison’s Visitor Tracking API allows businesses to pull in business and Prospect data tracked by Lead Liaison’s visitor tracking into their own database or software. This allows businesses to benefit from Lead Liaison’s tracking without ever having to log into Lead Liaison.

License: OneFocus™ CRM

Sales Dashboard

Sales Dashboard

 

  • Sales Dashboard – A dashboard for sales teams covers important metrics like:
    • Forecasted Revenue
    • Productivity (calls, emails, meetings, etc.)
    • Quota performance
    • Deal volume (deal volume with close date in a specified period)
    • Deal amount (deal size with close date in a specified period)
    • Pipeline by Deal Stage (funnel image)
    • Sales Performance (general performance of your sales team)
    • Leaderboard (closed business, by sales rep, over a specified period)
    • And so much more!
    • The dashboard also provides multiple ways to view data, including a mode for displaying the dashboard on a TV. Display sales productivity in your office, conference room, or sales team “bullpen” to create a shared and more competitive environment.
Organization Roles

Organization Roles

  • Organization Roles – OneFocus now supports Organization Roles (ex: Business User, Decision Maker, etc,) to further enable businesses to track critical Organization data and take action as needed.

License: OneFocus™ CRM + Marketing Automation

Segmenting Organizations

Segmenting Organizations

  • Segmenting Organizations – Users now have the ability to use Organization fields to segment their database.
  • Triggers for Contract Objects – Now, users can create a trigger when the following Contract Objects are updated:
    • Contract Created
    • Contract Updated
    • Contract Deleted
    • Contract Expired
    • Contract Renewed

License: GoExhibit!™ – Event Lead Management

Invitation Customization

Invitation Customization

  • Invitation Customization – When event managers invite new users to an event in GoExhibit!™, they can now customize the invitation in addition to, or in lieu of, the existing message. Users now can also send invitations by email and text message simultaneously.
Capture Portal

Capture Portal

  • Capture Portal – GoExhibit!™ now features a Capture Portal, which holds lead capture submissions that are incomplete or erroneous. Users can go back into the Capture Portal during/after an event to edit invalid submissions.
Import Event Leads

Import Event Leads

  • Import Event Leads – Previously, the only way to associate Prospects with an Event (in the web application) was to capture them using our mobile application, GoCapture!™. Now, users have the ability to upload Prospects directly into an Event (in the mobile application) using a .csv or .xls file. Imported data will also be merged with existing records within the same event.
  • NFC Badge Support & Automatic Post Show Reconciliation – We now support Near Field Communication (NFC) and automatic post-show reconciliation, further establishing GoExhibit!™ as the most flexible lead capture method on the market. GoExhibit!™ supports these methods of lead capture:
    • Scan QR Codes and 2D/3D barcodes on badges
    • Scan NFC badges
    • Scan and transcribe business cards
    • Search and fill form using the registered attendee lists
    • Manual entry (kiosk mode)
    • Automatic post-show Reconciliation (for use with badges)
  • Voice Recording – Our app, GoCapture!™, now has the ability to record voice memos. You can add this as an option when building your form in the web application. It will appear as a button on your mobile device lead capture form, which you tap and record an audio clip. Lead Liaison will generate a custom URL of the audio file, which will be saved in the notes section of your form. *Voice-to-text available soon!
  • Enhanced Bulk Export – We now offer the ability to bulk export to DOMO. Bulk export will allow users to export these three categories of data:
    • Prospect data
    • Data that is captured on an event form
    • Marketing metadata (when the event starts, how much the event costs)
  • Dymo Printing Support – We already supported printing badges with Avery. However, if you just want a single badge printed at a time (rather than a sheet of badges), you will now be able to use Dymo Printers with GoExhibit!™. This feature is ideal for managing badges at the front desk of your event.
  • Additional Integration Support – GoExhibit!™ now supports several new integrations:
    • Salesforce.com Marketing Cloud – create a new lead inside of Salesforce.com Marketing Cloud.
    • Amazon S3 – export records to Amazon S3
Self-Service Badge Printing

Self-Service Badge Printing

  • Self-Service Badge Printing – GoExhibit!™ Self Service Badge Printing allows event attendees to register or check-in at the front desk and print their own badges at the same time. This works when the registration/check-in front-end system is running on any computer (laptop or tablet) with Windows or Mac, and connected to a Dymo printer (wired or wireless).
  • Edit Submissions – GoExhibit!™ now allows users to edit lead capture form submissions after they have been submitted.

Interested in the solutions you see here?

If you are already a Lead Liaison customer, contact your Account Manager with any questions and we’ll be happy to assist.