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Why Wait for Immediate Gratification?
By Robyn Greenspan

What do you do when it's 2:30 am and you have a very interested, credit card-wielding shopper on your site with questions about some items? If your visitor craves immediate gratification, it's likely that they will buy elsewhere if there is no one available at your e-business to answer questions. Unless you have 24-hour customer support, you might lose this sale if the consumer doesn't get an immediate response.

Even though you've created a thorough FAQ (see related article: Just the FAQs), there will inevitably be a visitor that still needs clarification about something on your site before they make purchases. You can convert the inquiring visitor into a paying customer with Banter Self Help-- a real-time solution that satisfies a customer's need for instant gratification by providing instant answers.

When a visitor submits a natural language inquiry into the online form, a server interprets the query and provides a list of answers based on relevance. The system relies on Banter's Relationship Modeling Engine - technology that actually continues to learn from customer submissions and applies the knowledge to future inquiries.

This automatic response system provides a highly accurate method for empowering customers by giving them information immediately. Additionally, this technology can lower the costs of operating an e-business while increasing sales. There isn't a need for a 24-hour customer service center and impending sales are not lost during the time a customer waits for a response.
September 5, 2000

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