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An insight into customer engagement
April 2014

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Table of contents
01 Introduction
02 Regarding the Data
03 Main Findings
04 Greeting Rules
Time on site
Current URL
Returning visitor
Time on page
Geolocation
Page views number
Referrer
Visited URLs
Custom variable

05 Effects on Happiness and Goals
06 Greetings Engagement Points
07 Greetings Groups
08 Good Practices and Examples
09 Detailed Conclusions
10 Improve Your Greetings

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01 Introduction
This report was created to provide a comprehensive insight into chatgreetings and factors that affect the greeting-to-chat conversion rate.
Business owners, live chat administrators and managers can use thisreport to get the idea about trends in greetings conversion, the effectiveness of particular greeting rules and good practices that increase
the conversion from greetings to chats.
If you’d like to share this report, please do so in its entirety to ensurethat a proper background is available. When sharing, please mention
our site, www.livechatinc.com, as the source.

Why you should use greetings?
Greetings are one of the most effective ways of engaging and converting your website visitors. A well-timed greeting, along with a chat, canaccomplish a number of customer service goals. Whether it is saving a
cart that is about to be abandoned or guiding a lost customer to checkout, properly customized greetings are great assets to your customer
service efforts.
A correctly set up greeting reaches a visitor at the right moment witha contextual message. They have a much greater rate of success thannon-contextual, quantity-oriented invitations to chat. Customized
greetings engage visitors on a personal level, as they are much moreorganic and targeted.

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02 Regarding the Data
To provide a thorough insight into greetings conversion rates, we gathered data from 810 businesses of all kinds and sizes over a 6-month
period.

810 BUSINESSES,
In our estimations, we included business- 6-MONTH PERIes with an established live chat and online
OD, 32 MILLION
presence. To make the cut, a business had
GREETINGS
to issue at least 500 greetings over the
6-month period. To avoid skewing the results, we also excluded a couple of extreme cases that, despite making the 500 greetings mark, had
no chats. Businesses that met those requirements produced over 32
million greetings.
All greetings were divided into two main groups: default and custom.
Default greetings are pre-made and come with every new LiveChat account. Custom greetings require a setup. If an account had any custom
greetings set up, we added it to the custom group, even if they werealso using the default greeting. All in all, the default group included
226 businesses, while the custom group included 465 businesses. This
leaves a group of 119 businesses that deactivated or removed theirgreetings before the end of the testing phase but still contribute whenit comes to the total number of issued greetings, accepted chats etc.

68%
465

BUSINESSES USE
CUSTOM GREETINGS

32%
226

BUSINESSES USE
DEFAULT GREETINGSNUMBER OF CUSTOM
GREETINGS ISSUED

75%

23.8M

25%

NUMBER OF DEFAULTGREETINGS ISSUED

8.2M

Even though the default group makes 32.71% of the businesses using
greetings, it is responsible only for a little over 8.2 million greetings(25.67% of all issued greetings).
As much as 67.29% of businesses used custom greetings and issued
well over 23.8 million greetings (74.33% of all greetings).

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When showing conversion rates for various greetings, we wanted togive you a detailed look into their effectiveness. This is why we provide
two values: the average conversion rate and the median. The average
gives you data about all the companies participating in the study, eventhose that may skew the estimates. The median is not as susceptible tothe skew and gives a bit more refined look at various statistics. A difference between those two figures suggests that there may be a few
businesses that are either more or less successful than the rest of the
field and they can either boost or lower the overall score.

03 Main Findings
32 MILLION GREETINGS,OVER 2.4 MILLION CHATS,
7.28% CONVERSION RATE

During the testing period,
more than 32 million greetings were issued to visitors,
which resulted in over 2.4
million chats. This sets the average conversion rate at the 7.28% mark.
When we check the median, i.e. remove the the extreme cases thatskew the estimates, the conversion rate goes up to 8.07%, meaningthat every 12th greeting leads to a chat.
G R E E T I N G TO C H AT C O N V E R S I O N
AV E R AG E

MEDIANTOTA L

7.28%

8.07%

D E FAU LT

8.17%

9.12%

C U S TO M

6.96%

7.43%

Out of the 8.2 million default greetings displayed, 8.17% converted
and led to over 670 thousand chats. The extreme cases have muchsmaller impact on the conversion of default greetings. After excluding them from the equation, their efficiency goes down to 8.12%. This
places the default greetings just above the average conversion rate.

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Custom greetings, a group including over 23.8 million greetings, weresuccessful in 6.96% of all situations and resulted in 1.6 million chats.
After removing the extreme cases, the conversion rate rises considerably to the 7.43% mark. Even though there is a major skew present,
custom greetings still perform worse when compared to the average
conversion rate for all greetings.
As you can see, the default, pre-made greetings seem to be more successful at converting visitors to chat than the under-performing custom greetings. The results may seem counter-intuitive as more personalized and customized greetings should be more effective than thegeneral default greetings.
The sheer number of customized greetings may suggest that companies using them aim for high volume of displayed greetings. Alternatively, the management of all those greetings may be a difficult task,
resulting in poorer conversion rates.
To find out the reason for this kind of conversion rates, we took a closer look at a wide range of greetings that scored both lower and higher
conversion rates.

04 Greeting Rules
There are several greeting rules to IN 94% OF THE
choose from when selecting one for your
CASES, A GREETING
website. Each of them can accomplish different tasks when placed on a particular USES 1 OR 2 RULES
site. These rules are essentially triggers that can be combined to create more precise and targeted greetings.
There is no limit to the number of rules that can be used in a greeting.
However, 19 out of 20 greetings use 1 or 2 rules.

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Here’s a full list of rules you can use when creating a greeting:

TIME ON SITE

POPULARITY

58.37%A greeting is sent after a visitor spends a certain amount of time on asite. Businesses rely heavily on this rule as it appears in 58,37% of all
greetings. It is also the most general greeting as it targets everyone,provided that the visit on a website is long enough. As a consequence,
this is the worst converting greeting.

EFFECTIVENESS

6.89%
AV E R AG E

CURRENT URL

7.09%
MEDIAN

POPULARITY

16.09%

This rule triggers a greeting when a certain page is accessed by a visitor. For example, when a visitor enters a landing page dedicated to asale, a greeting connected with the sale can be issued. This is the second most popular rule that is used in 16.09% of all greetings. The popularity of this greeting is also affecting its conversion rates negatively.

EFFECTIVENESS

7.92%
AV E R AG E

7.84%
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RETURNING VISITOR

POPULARITY

13.85%

This rule issues a greeting only to those visitors who have already seen
your website in the past. Business owners might want to issue a different welcome message to these visitors, encouraging different actions.
As much as 13.85% of all greetings include this rule.
According to the data, this is the worst performing greeting rule. However, when the extreme cases are taken out of the equation, the scoregoes considerably up. A lot of companies seem to be using this rule
incorrectly. The disproportion shows how a badly configured greetingcan affect the conversion rates.
The chance to offer a more personalized greeting to a returning visitor is often wasted by an over-generalized message. The message
should welcome the visitor and refer to the last time he or she was onsite. You might also want to offer a different promotional information
for this type of users. For example, by combining this and the Visited
URLs rule, you can directly refer to the product the visitor was looking
at the last time.

EFFECTIVENESS

6.54%
AV E R AG E

7.27%
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TIME ON PAGE

POPULARITY

7.69%

This trigger rule works in a similar way to the already discussed Timeon Site one. The only difference being that the time on a particular
page is counted instead of time spent on the whole site. When the
two are compared, Time on Page scores surprisingly good average
conversion score. Even after the extreme cases are removed, it still
outperforms its site counterpart. It is also fairly popular, being a partof 7,69% of all greetings.
When a visitor spends a lot of time on a particular page, there’s a goodchance that he or she got stuck and requires your assistance. Using
this greeting rule, you can provide help and move the visitor further.

EFFECTIVENESS

10.21% 7.97%
AV E R AG EGEOLOCATIONMEDIAN

POPULARITY

2.27%

If you want to send targeted greetings to visitors from a particular location, this is the rule you want to use. Geolocation-based greetings
are of great help for companies with branches in several states or
those shipping internationally. Instead of serving a plain greeting, you
can immediately point out that shipping to a particular state is free,making your chat offer more appealing. Geolocation rule is used in
2.27% of all greetings. They are significantly more effective than mostof the other greetings.

EFFECTIVENESS

11.36% 10.33%
AV E R AG E

MEDIAN

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PAGE VIEWS NUMBER

POPULARITY

0.71%

Rule that issues greetings to visitors who have seen a particular pagefor a set number of times. It is a great way of engaging uncertain shoppers who seem to be stuck in one place on your site. This rule appears
in 0.71% of all greetings.
The difference in the conversion rates suggests that many of thesegreetings may be used incorrectly. Instead of reaching visitors whoreally got stuck, they target those who have seen one of the more popular pages, e.g. the main page, only a couple of times. That makes them
way too general to be effective.

EFFECTIVENESS

8.87%
AV E R AG E

REFERRER

7.62%
MEDIAN

POPULARITY

0.54%

Rule that sends a greeting when a visitor enters your site from a specified referrer link, for example, when a visitor reaches your site froma partner service. Surprisingly, the referrer rule is one of the less popular greeting rules, making only 0.54% of all greetings. Although notvery popular, they seem to be fairly successful at generating chatswith people coming from valuable sources.

EFFECTIVENESS

8.23%
AV E R AG E

9.45%
MEDIAN

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VISITED URLs

POPULARITY

0.27%

This rule triggers once a visitor has seen a set number of specified pages. It can be used to offer advice for customers going back and forth
between similar products, struggling to pick one of them. Additionally,
bigger businesses with self-service resources can choose to limit theirgreetings only to those visitors who couldn’t find help on the self-service pages. Unfortunately, greetings of this type are fairly rare as they
make only 0.27% of all greetings.
The average score suggests that these greetings can be very successful. However, it seems that most of that score comes from a few successful users.

EFFECTIVENESS

10.05% 6.81%
AV E R AG E

CUSTOM VARIABLE

MEDIAN

POPULARITY

0.19%

The rarest greeting rule, it makes only 0.19% of all greetings. It offers
the highest degree of freedom. You can use it to issue a greeting after
a certain action has been made by a visitor on your website. For example, when the visitor fills out a form incorrectly, you can send a help offer. Greetings containing this rule are great cart savers since you canissue them immediately after a payment doesn’t go through.
Due to the additional development required to make them work, onlya small portion of businesses managed to set them up properly. If you
manage to do it, they will be your best performing greetings covering
the most difficult cases.

EFFECTIVENESS

11.19% 5.95%
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05 Effects on Happinessand Goals
When looking at other valuable metrics like customer satisfaction or
the number of achieved goals, we found out that businesses using custom greeting were more successful on both fields.
We noted a 1.98% better satisfaction ratings for business using custom greetings, with an average of 80.03%. Although the greetingsand customer satisfaction are not directly related, i.e. you can still
get bad rating with well-converting greetings and vice versa, it is safe
to assume that visitors approached with a targeted BUSINESSES USING CUSTOM
greeting are more likely to GREETINGS NOTE 1.98% BEThave a positive experience. TER SATISFACTION RATINGS
Customized greetings allow both visitors and agents to reach an understanding faster as lessneeds to be explained and the chat starts from an already establishedposition.

:)C U S TO M E R S AT I S FAC T I O N R AT I N G
80%80.03%
75%

78.05%

70%
DEFAULT GREETINGSCUSTOM GREETINGS

Customized greetings seem also more helpful when trying to reachparticular business goals, e.g. a successfully finalized purchase or registration of a new user account. In 9 out of 10 cases, companies who
were using custom greetings were also tracking business goals, giving
them valuable information about the entire conversion funnel (greetings -> chats -> goals). Additionally, businesses using custom greetings
are also more effective, gaining 2.4% more goals on average.

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06 Greetings Engagement Points
You can engage your website visitors at various times and on various pages using greetings. Depending on the already seen content,
different greeting rules may be used. The following graph shows
when you can use different greeting rules and gives you an idea
about their effectiveness.
V I S I TO R S E N T E R I N G W E B S I T E

RETURNING VISITOR

1 . M A I N PAG E

TIME ON SITE

6.54%

6.89%

CONVERSIONCONVERSIONREFERRER

8.23%
CONVERSIONCURRENT URL

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7.92%

PAGE VIEWS #11.36%
CONVERSIONCONVERSIONVISITED URLs

10.05%
CONVERSION

3. DISCOUNTSTIME ON PAGE

10.21%
CONVERSIONGEOLOCATION

11.36%

4. SHIPPINGCONVERSIONCUSTOM VARIABLES

5 . C H E C KO U T

11.19%
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07 Greetings Groups
As previously mentioned, businesses use two types of greetings: default greetings and custom greetings.
When looking at the number of chats both these groups managed
to handle, it seems thatbusinesses using default BUSINESSES USING DEFAULT
greetings are smaller, GREETINGS GET OVER 47% OF
up-and-coming compaTHEIR CHATS THROUGH THEM
nies that rely heavily on
greetings to acquire a lot of their chats. Default greetings bring themalmost a half of their chats.

COMPANIES USING Businesses using custom greetingsseem to be bigger, more established
CUSTOM GREETINGS companies that utilize them for a specifGET 24% OF THEIR
ic purpose. Only a quarter of their chatsCHATS FROM THEM come from greetings.
Bigger, already established companies will get most of their chats reactively through the chat window. Smaller, developing companies will
have to focus more attention at reaching out to their visitors.
This division seems much more apparent when looking at the number of issued greetings. Companies with a fairly low number of issued
greetings are far more successful at starting chats with customers.
Bigger companies seem to be struggling and their chat greetings are
more often ignored.
We divided all the businesses into 5 traffic levels. The levels signify
how many chat greetings were served by a company. Although they
may be related to company size, they don’t necessarily have to. For
example, low traffic companies can be both smaller, local enterprisesthat don’t have a huge client base and businesses that don’t encouragea huge number of greetings, e.g. real estate agencies.

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AV E R AG E C O N V E R S I O N

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ONE-MAN ARMYU P TO 4 0 0 G R E E T I N G S / M O N T H

13.13%

9.66%

SMALL BUSINESSES
400 - 2000 GREETINGS/MONTH

12.34%

12.29%M I D - S I Z E C O M PA N I E S
2000 - 10400 GREETINGS/MONTH

9.17%

7.73%

L A RG E B U S I N E S S E S
10400 - 53500 GREETINGS/MONTH

7.47%

6.17%

ENTERPRISES
MORE THAN 53500 GREETINGS/MONTH

4.22%

4.50%

With the exception of the small fluctuation in the first group, it seems
apparent that companies issuing more greetings can expect worse
results. This is why the greetings they issue need to be much more
personalized. For a small, developing company, it is easier to handle
all chats that come from greetings. However, bigger, more establishedbusinesses need to limit
COMPANIES ISSUING MORE
the amount of chats they
are getting with more pre- GREETINGS CAN EXPECT
cise, targeted greetings.
DIMINISHING RETURNS

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The Simply Group, an online outdoor & leisure shop, uses customized greetings to save sales. When customers experience problems with the checkout, e.g. their payment fails to authorize, the greeting is there
to save the sale. These greetings are fairly successful at grabbing the attention of the potential customers, as every 7th greeting leads to a chat (14% conversion rate).
Cart-saving greetings can be one of the most useful ways to approach visitors. You get to chat with aperson who already made a decision to buy something on your site. All that is left to do is to clear any obstacles related to payments or shipping. This is the last moment you can lose a customer and you should
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Custom variable

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RCHANGE, an e-wallet platform uses greetings to approach visitors who don’t have an account yet.
Using custom variables, they check if a visitor has an account before sending the greeting. This way oftargeting allows them to focus their efforts on approaching potential customers. It seems to be a fairly
successful way of gaining new leads as it starts a chat with every 6th approached visitor (17% conversionrate), which is more than double the average greeting score.
Greetings can help you achieve various business goals. In this case, the company used greetings to focus
their customer service efforts on gaining new users by using custom variables to determine if the visitor
has already seen the page. In the same vein, you could opt to nurture only the existing users by offering
greetings visitors who have registered and logged in with their accounts.

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RU L ETA S K

EFFECTIVENESS

Geolocation

Reaching out to visitors
based on their country

28% - 33%

FilesFetcher, a file storage and download service uses a number of location-based greetings to approach
visitors from several countries. Each greeting is offered in a different language and leads to a dedicatedagent assigned to that country. International clients seem to be very appreciative of greetings in theirnative tongue as nearly a third of them leads to a chat (28 to 33% conversion rate).
Location-based greetings are a terrific way to start a conversation with international or out-of-stateclients. You can prepare several such greetings in different languages, depending on the location of thevisitor. Your domestic clients will appreciate the fact that they don’t have to tell where are they from whenasking about shipping.

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EFFECTIVENESS

V i s i t e d Pa g e N u m b e r, V i s ited URLs

Offering help to customers
w h o c o u l d n’ t f i n d a n s w e r s
in the self-service section

27%

Roku, a TV streaming service, prepared a complex and effective greeting to tackle the huge number ofenquiries they are getting. Due to a large number of requests, they can’t chat with every visitor and handle
most of the cases via self-service. This is why the greeting they prepared is issued only to those visitors
who couldn’t find the self-service section on the site. The visitor has to reach at least 5 pages before getting a greeting. Additionally, the current page of the visitor mustn’t be a self-service page. This way, help isoffered only to visitors in dire need of help, leading to a chat with every 4th such visitor (27% conversionrate).
When dealing with a really big customer base, adjusting your approach to support may be necessary. Models that don’t involve some form of self-service may prove to be impossible to scale. With greetings, you
can decrease the strain on your customer service team by offering help only to visitors who couldn’t findthe solution themselves.

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RU L ETA S K

EFFECTIVENESS

Geolocation

Offering courses to US
residents

24%

Education Affiliates, a network of post-secondary schools offering various courses uses greetings topresent special offers on courses to US residents. This way, the personalized greetings regarding specificcourses go only to visitors who may be interested in them. This way of targeting produces great results, as
1 out of 4 (24% conversion rate) visitors accepts the greeting.
When offering services available only in certain locations, you might want to limit the audience you target
with your greetings to the said locations only. This way you will avoid loads of chats where you need to
explain that the service is not available in a particular location, leaving you available for chats with potential customers.

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RU L ETA S K

EFFECTIVENESS

Current URL

C a r t s ave r

29%

CampusBookRentals, an online textbook renting service, saves possible transactions using greetings. Everytime the cart is about to be abandoned, i.e. a considerable amount of time has been spent on the checkout
page without any activity, a greeting is issued to save the sale. It seems very effective, as nearly every third
greeting is successful, with 29% greeting conversion rate. This means that agents get 29% chances at converting qualified leads to customers. Without the greeting, it would be left to chance.
When customers spend a lot of time on the checkout page, it might be a good idea to set up a greeting withhelp offer that will trigger after a set amount of time. If there are any problems with checkout or visitors can’t
find the information they need, agents can offer immediate help and assist the visitors with their purchases.

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SEA GAMER MALL

RU L ETA S K

EFFECTIVENESS

Geolocation, Current URL,
R e f e r ra l a n d m o r e . . .

Pay m e n t p r o c e s s i n g , g r e e t ings for various locationsand visitors coming from
specific sites

11% - 82%

SEA Gamer Mall, an online game and game-currency shop, offers multiple, well-converting greetings. A
true greeting power-house, SEA Gamer Mall utilizes them to reach a number of customer groups. Theyuse a number of location and product-based greetings to give a more personalized and targeted feel for
their customer service.
One of the most interesting ways to utilize greetings exhibited by SEA Gamer Mall is their way of handling
payments. After a purchase, a greeting offering processing of the order is issued to the customer. Thiskind of greetings is the most successful we’ve ever seen, scoring a tremendous 82% conversion rate.
Creating a vast network of greetings will allow you to offer personalized support for a wide range ofcustomer groups. Instead of sending the same greeting for every customer, you can target smaller groups
that are more likely to convert.

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09 Detailed Conclusions
According to the data, the biggest problem when setting up greetings is addressing them at a very wide audience. Business owners and
LiveChat administrators often create greetings for every visitor, e.g. a
greeting that triggers after a couple of seconds on a site.
Reaching out to a wide audience results in very poor overall conversion rates. On average, only 8.07% of greetings convert to chat. Although this kind of practices will result in some chats, the quality ofthese leads will be subpar and you will miss the more valuable leads
present on the website.
Another reason for the poor performance is the incorrect way of setting up greetings. As a result, an average custom greeting (7.43% conversion) leads to less chats than a default, pre-made greeting (8.12%
conversion).
Wrong greeting rules are often used to reach a particular group ofvisitors. Instead of targeting the greeting at a specific group, it ends
up being sent to most of the visitors on the website. There is a lot ofroom for improvement, as the best scoring greetings reach conversion scores of 30% and above.
Learning how to properly set up custom greetings is very beneficial.
Online businesses using them noted 1.98% higher satisfaction ratings
as well as managed to achieve 2.4% more business goals than companies using default greetings.
To get more out of your chat invitations, you need to target them atspecific groups of visitors. For example, you can try reaching people
looking at a specific product type instead of going for everyone who’s
looking at your shop page. There’s no need to stop at one greeting too.
You should aim to create a large number of personalized and targeted
greetings to cover various aspects of your service.

T H E M O S T E F F E C T I V E G R E E T I N G S G O B E YO N D 3 0 % E F F E C T I V E N E S S

100%

30%

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CONVERSION

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portion of their chats. About half (47.24%) of their chats comes fromdefault greetings. This can be related to their overall size and proficiency in using LiveChat. They are usually smaller, up-and-coming
companies that don’t have an established online presence.
Many companies using greetings received several times more chatsfrom greetings than from the chat window. In extreme cases, we noted
10 times more chats from greetings than from simply having the chatwindow on the website. This shows how huge of an effect greetings
can have on the number of contacts you have with your customers.
C H AT W I N D O W O N A W E B S I T E
C H AT S O U RC E

WELL CRAFTED GREETING

Businesses relying on custom greetings get most of their chats reactively, i.e. not from a greeting. Only an average of 24.37% chats handled by those companies comes from a custom greeting. These arebigger implementations that have some kind of online presence andexisting customers. They use greetings to reach specific client groups
with personalized messages.
With growth, the conversion rates of greetings will go down. The
bigger the traffic on a
THE BIGGER THE TRAFFIC ON A
website, the harder it is
WEBSITE, THE HARDER IT IS TO
to target the right people. Greetings sent by TARGET THE RIGHT PEOPLE
smaller companies were efficient in 13.13% of the cases, while enterprise-grade companies were successful only in 4.22% cases.
Just the same as the efficiency will change with growth, you need tochange your greetings. They have to become even more targeted or
LIMITING THE NUMBER OF you will get far too many chats
to handle reliably. Limiting the
ACCIDENTAL CHATS CAN number of accidental chats can
HELP YOU HANDLE CUSbecome one of the tools that help
TOMER SERVICE SCALING you handle customer service scaling. Instead of a few greetings sent to a large number of visitors, companies should create a vast network of contextual greetings coveringvarious situations.

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10 Improving Your
Greetings
When customizing your greetings, there’s a couple of things you
should remember. Here’s a checklist you should go through when creating a greeting:

1.

MEASURE CUSTOMER ACTIVITY
Proper analysis of customer activity on your site is crucial when creating a greeting. You should define goals you want to accomplish on
various pages. Look for places where your potential customers may
experience problems that lead to leaving those pages.
Greetings allow you to help your visitors in those crucial moments
leading to conversion, e.g. product sites, online forms and checkout.
You can use services like Google Analytics, KISSmetrics and Mixpanel
to identify those bottlenecks.

2.

CREATE A PROPER GREETING
After identifying potential pain points, you need to create greetings
that will address them.
First off, you need to select a proper triggering rule for the greeting.
Depending on the goals you have, a greeting may use several greeting
rules that decide who will see it on your site. Make sure to select rulesthat will target a smaller, but specific group of visitors since over-generalized greetings won’t yield good conversion results.
Next, you need to select a good greeting message. It should be contextual, i.e. relate to the situation visitor is experiencing. More contextual,targeted greetings are more likely to be clicked by visitors.
Finally, the look of the greeting should be customized. It should be
similar to your website’s look, making the greeting feel more authentic and genuine.

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BE AWARE OF THE SITUATION

4.

FINE-TUNE YOUR GREETINGS

When receiving a chat from a customized greeting, you can start at
various points in the customer’s path on your site. You should adapt
your approach to such chats using the available information. If a greeting was sent because of some kind of payment problems, you shouldn’t
try to convince the visitor to buy your product. The decision to buy
was already made and you simply need to help finalize the payment
process.

There’s always something to improve when it comes to greetings.
Measuring the results and fine-tuning the greeting will allow you to
get better conversion rates. Sometimes a small change in the firingrules or a small alteration of the greeting message can do wonders
for the conversion. Try running several versions of the same greetings
over the a few weeks to select the best converting properties.

About LiveChat
LiveChat, Inc. is the owner and developer of LiveChat - a realtime, live chat softwaretool for ecommerce sales and support that is helping commerce companies create a
new sales channel.
The company serves more than 7,000 businesses large and small, including Adobe, ING, Samsung, Tele2, Orange Telecom, Better Business Bureau and Air Asia.
LiveChat products are simple to use, integrate and customize so companies canquickly start increasing sales, offering support, and monitoring the web. Founded in
2002, it has customers in over 80 countries.
For more information, visit www.livechatinc.com.
Author: Jacob Firuta
j.firuta@livechatinc.com@JFiruta23