What is a Facebook Chatbot and How to Create It? By Joren Wouters • Updated on Apr 12, 2024 Are you struggling to turn your Facebook followers into leads? Or is your Facebook inbox flooded with messages? Then, you should create a Facebook Chatbot. So in this tutorial, I will explain: What Facebook chatbots are How you can create your first Facebook automations And how to automatically reply to comments and messages on Facebook And I will even give you two free templates so you don’t have to build it out yourself. Let’s dive in! Table of Contents What is a Facebook Bot ..read more

In this tutorial, I will show you how to automatically reply to messages on WhatsApp. I will show you how we can reply to keywords and how you can set up AI for automatic WhatsApp replies. The AI is trained on your own data, such as your website and documents of your business. For this tutorial, I will use a software business as an example. I will guide you step-by-step, so I will show you: What chat automation tool you should use How you can connect it to any phone number on WhatsApp And how you can create your own WhatsApp automations I will even give you the template for free, so you can ..read more

If you want to start conversations as a business on WhatsApp, you need to have a verified Facebook Business. So in this tutorial, I will show you how you can verify your Facebook Business in just 5 simple steps. Let’s dive in! Step 1: Have a registered business Before we can get started with verifying our Facebook business, you must have an actual registered business. If you don’t have that, you cannot verify your Facebook business account. Step 2: Start Business Verification in Facebook Business To start verifying your business, you need to go to business.facebook.com and log in with your F ..read more

Want to save time by automatically replying to messages in Slack? Then, you should create a Slack chatbot, which will take care of that! In this tutorial, I will explain: What Slack bots are How Slack chatbots work And how you can create a Slack chatbot yourself, without writing a single line of code Let’s dive in!   What are Slack bots? A Slack chatbot is an automated conversation system embedded into Slack. It can send welcome messages to Slack users who visit the bot and automatically reply to specific words in a Slack conversation or channels. Slack chatbots work 24/7 and can h ..read more

In this tutorial, I will explain how you can automatically reply when somebody messages you on your Instagram DM. I will explain how you can: Set up a greeting message when somebody starts a conversation on Instagram How we can set up auto-replies for specific words in your Instagram DM And how we can manually reply to messages if no auto-reply is triggered Let’s dive in! Why should you auto reply to Instagram DM? Let’s face it. Manually replying to messages in your Instagram DM takes a lot of time, and often feels like it never ends. Followers are replying to stories, messaging you with que ..read more

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can send recurring notifications in Facebook Messenger, by using ManyChat. I will explain: What recurring notifications are Why you need to use them And how you can set them up by using ManyChat (I will also give you a free template at the end of this tutorial) Let’s dive in!   A quick recap of the Facebook Messenger rules Before I tell you what Recurring Notifications are and how you can use them, I will first give a quick recap of the Facebook Messenger rules. Every time a user interacts with your chatbot in Facebook Messenger, a 24-hour windo ..read more

Have you ever thought about automatically replying to potential customers on Google? Now that’s possible! Google has opened up their platform for chatbots and now we can automatically reply when somebody starts a conversation on Google. In this tutorial, I will explain: What a Google Business chatbot is Why you should create a chatbot for Google Business And how you can create a Google Business chatbot without writing any code Let’s dive in!   What is a Google Business Chatbot? A chatbot is an automated conversation partner. Normally, when you talk to on a messenger platform (such as Wh ..read more

In this tutorial, I will explain how you can connect a Facebook Ad to ManyChat. I will show you how: To set the right campaign objective for your Facebook Ad You can connect that Facebook Ad to ManyChat And how to do this if you are living in Europe Let’s dive in!   A quick note on Europe regulations Because there are some regulations inside Europe, the way on how you can connect a Facebook ad to ManyChat differs whether you are living inside Europe or outside Europe. So, that’s why I am first going to show you how you can connect a Facebook ad to ManyChat if you are living outside Euro ..read more

Over the last two years, Microsoft Teams has become one of the most used applications. And with 145 million daily active users, it might become interesting to automatically reply to users on Microsoft Teams. In this tutorial, I will explain: What a Microsoft Teams chatbot is Why you should create a chatbot for Microsoft Teams And how you can create a Microsoft Teams chatbot, without writing any code Let’s dive in!   What is a Microsoft Teams Chatbot? A chatbot is an automated conversation partner. Usually, when you have a conversation, you are talking to another human. But with chatbots ..read more

Unlike other channels, like Facebook and Instagram, WhatsApp has fewer ways to bring customers to your WhatsApp chatbot. For example, with Instagram, we can automatically reply with our chatbot when somebody leaves a comment on one of our posts. But with Whatsapp, this is not possible. So in this tutorial, I will show you 5 ways how you can bring customers to your WhatsApp Chatbot! (By the way, you can use those 5 ways with any chatbot platform as long as they have WhatsApp as a channel) Create a link The first and most easy way to bring customers to your WhatsApp chatbot is by creating a link ..read more