@nico_lrx Hi Nicolas, I would like to know what happens, when facebook stops allowing people to send direct messages as a newsletter. How does your product address that?

@mygreg Indeed, Facebook does not allow such a feature yet but who knows in the future. The good thing with people having to subscribe themselves is that they really want to receive messages so your list is really qualitative.

@nico_lrx well it's a debate we could have. I can't use my personal story as a main way to act but you can subscribe to a NL just to "support" a cause or a product, without opening a single one NL.

@mygreg You're right! I guess if you share good content / information, people will read your NL, that's the only way to make succeed a NL for me.

@oelmekki Hi Olivier! Yes, when you send a botletter, subscribers will receive a Messenger notification just like when a friend sends you a message. I agree for transactional emails, my goal is that in the future botletter becomes a hub for all businesses' communications with their users / audience. I think it could for exemple be really effective for marketing automation :)

@nico_lrx I went to try to use the chatbot and was going through the process on the first screen to decide which pages I wanted to give access to and the first couple of criteria were fine but then moving on the radio buttons disappeared to the right of the popup window so I could not select pages to give permission to and had to stop the registration for the bot I am on Windows 10 and operating on Firefox Thoughts?

@krishnade great questions. I'm curious about these too. I think a nice tool to compliment this one would be one that helped people map out their bot/ email sequences first.

@anferneec Thanks - looking forward to hearing the answers and yes being able to map out your flow in advance of developing a bot is essential - there are some chatbot tools that have that as a feature built in but a stand alone tool with prompts for entrepreneurs who want to create their own chat bot is a great idea.

@krishnade ! How are you doing? I have a few questions for these guys!

Hello @krishnade, thanks for your questions. - Wondering if there is a growth tool such as with Chatfuel and Manychat where people can post a message in a post on Facebook and then it will automatically direct them to the newsletter in Messenger? For now no, but are definitely willing to build growth features soon. We already provide the code to add a special messenger button on your website in order to allow your visitors to subscribe to your botletter. - Also have you implemented a way that you entice people onto your email database should anything happen re Facebook Messenger in the future - I am interested in what you have done to encourage people to do that We are thinking in building an integration with mailchimp. For example, we could prompt the user to also subscribe to your email newsletter after subscribing to your botletter. - I also went over to your page on Facebook to subscribe to your news letter - it asked if I wanted to subscribe - I was anticipating a yes/no button - there was not one so I typed in yes but there was no response in terms of saying I had been added to a list and when I could expect to get the news letter? This is weird, maybe you are using an old version of Messenger? I would suggest to delete the conversation and start again. If it still does not work, send me a message using Crisp live chat on the website and I will be happy to help ;) - and one of the challenges re Messenger is the circular loop people get into when they don;t want to talk to a bot but to the people from the org - how do you manage that process with your app? Yes, at Botletter we don't want to prevent you to talk to your users. That's why our bot just handles the case for newsletters but people can still send you messages whenever you want. These messages will appear in your Facebook page chat admin and you can answer them just as usual. - and is the procing per page or can you have multiple pages against those different plans cumulatively? For now you can only have one page but many agencies contacted us to have more pages. We will add this possibility soon but it will be a premium feature. - I am also wondering what people are doing re their current news letters such as using ConvertKit - are they copying over the content and replicating it in Messenger using your tool? What it the benefit of your tool versus setting up a chat bot without it being a newsletter but delivering the content - I can not see your news letter so can not see how it is formatted. The format on Messenger is a bit different than email so I would suggest to adapt your content to this format (shorter). The benefit of Botletter against a full chat bot developed by Chatfuel for example is that it's a turnkey solution tailored for this particular use case. Thus, we provide detailed analytics about the behavior of your subscribers and you will be able to create and send your newsletter in a easier way.

Hello Robin, I updated the pricing. It should be easier to understand as it's now 100% based on the number of messages you send per month. I would love your feedback: https://www.botletter.com/pricing

@denisvlr Hello Denis, we provide the full names, language used on Facebook, timezone and a full set of analytics (open rate, click through rate, number of clicks for each botletter etc.). Right now you can only send your message to all your subscribers but we will release soon a feature allowing you to segment and even create fully personalized campaigns.

@ravsydney Hi Ravi, I use this Ruby client for bots on Messenger: https://github.com/jgorset/faceb...

@liewzy It's a great way to engage with people and start discussion about their interests and how they want to use Botletter.

@nico_lrx You pretend as a maker from our country to increase your engagement, is this what you should do as a growth marketer?

@picsoung Thanks for the hunt Nicolas ;)

@tombenattar Thank you Tom for your kind words!

@tlesenechal Cool, let me know what you think when you start using it ;)

@flowsion Hello, this is a feature we will add in a release by the end of the month. We will also allow premium users to send the botletter at a specific hour in every subscriber's timezone.

@flowsion I will, you can also subscribe to our botletter here (we announce there all our updates): http://m.me/1481228375284718

@firstname_mrkus Hi Markus, you caught me on this one! I'm a digital nomad so I just decided to display the visitor's location :D It's great to start conversations with my visitors and to know a bit more about what brought them to Botletter... Just like you know ;)

@nico_lrx I Knew it! 😄 Too sleek to be a finn made product 😂 Damn you to get my hopes up 😉 Never the less good luck with the launch 👍🏻

@firstname_mrkus Sorry for the fake hopes haha but I might go to live in Finland one day ;)

@firstname_mrkus @srebalaji Actually I am staying in Bangalore right now ;)

@jnoleau Hi Julien, they changed their policy now and are more open to this kind of usage (see their partnership with the nuzzle newsletters). But if a user spams their subscribers, Facebook can always stop their usage of the bot.

@brushoej Thanks, we want to furnish the best product at the best price!

@bettinadraws Thank you very much Bettina :D I hope Botletter will quickly move the needle for your business.