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The festive season is knocking at our doorsteps and the It is done fully via cloud messaging.
So how is cloud messaging helping in the e-commerce boom? Let’s hear it from Ravi Sundararajan, COO of
1. Acquire: One of the main challenge of e-commerce is to form the customer base. Attracting millions of consumers out there is sure not an easy task. And with India, the main target would be rural India as that consists of a major part of India. By being interactive through API, cloud messaging platforms help e-commerce industry achieve their target reach. They offer various services under SMS, voice and email like Transactional Messaging, Promotional Messaging, 2-way Messaging, 10 Digit Missed Call Number, Toll Free Number, and Call Forwarding etc. The company’s platform enables users to integrate messaging into the business flow; manage customer communications through a single dashboard; and deliver messages on a massive scale.
“We give APIs to our customers. If the message is going to rural India where they don’t know how to answer in web form, it would be a missed call, where they can click on the missed call and IVR comes and they can answer the question. Also via APIs e-commerce players communicate with their consumers in vernacular languages by features like voice embedded instructions,” said Ravi.
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2. Engage: Through innovation and by being programmable, cloud messaging platforms help to engage customers by instantly updating them about all the services, discounts and new deals, not just by simply sending a text message but by sending links, embedded interactive sessions etc.
“Suppose we want to buy a handbag online, we can just send one message and all the information about the sites, their products, price range is available at our fingertips in just one click,” he said.
Through cloud messaging e-commerce sites have also been able to engage better by conducting hassle-free fun contests and also to get valuable feedbacks from the consumers.
GupShup helped Quikr use Missed call and USSD to enable consumers to post and browse classified Ads by various categories instantaneously using their mobile phones. This resulted in increased customer engagement for Quikr through cost-effective mobile engagement using SMS, Data and Voice channels.
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3. Retain: It is extremely important for an e-commerce site to retain customers. Time lag associated with regular messaging is one of the biggest enemies of the sector. Cloud messaging not only decreases this, also enables secured transactions through OTP generators via APIs.
Ravi predicted that as mobile market becomes huge, cloud messaging is going to be the number one app wherein we can get all our work done through messages, thus giving us a one-step solution from the headache of managing dozens of apps each with a different purpose.
(Image credits: carsonmarain.deviantart)
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