I Made $4700 This Month, Zero Customer Contact!
End-to-End Automation for E-Commerce
This month was a good one. My advertisements and blog-posting are finally starting drawing in bigger results.
My first three months for my new test pilot shop Motherfunker had a few sales here and there, but didn’t even cross $800 (gross).
Then all of a sudden this month, boom.
March decided to smile.
My ads started converting, and the store is seeing traffic from multiple sources.
This month, I have been able to stretch my legs and give my store it’s first real test.
What is the test?
This store is just as much about the means as it is the ends.
What are the ends?
A successful store that profits well.
What are the means?
Total automation, no human at the helm.
The only reason this online shop exists is to be automated end-to-end so the owner can pay as little attention as possible, and still maintain a profitable store.
A store that is successful is nice to have, but I am not willing to do anything to make a successful store here.
It must be automated, or it has no reason to exist.
Sounds impossible right?
Time will tell…
AI is giving me the edge to create the store concept that I’ve always wanted.
Right now, it’s still pretty small volume, but growing it’s way to medium volume.
So far so good!
This month has been my best month so far, but the key part that makes this so special — I didn’t even login to my store at all this month.
WondrAI automated my new product creation and publishing. It created about 30 new products for me. I have it scheduled to create a new shirt/hoodie combo every day.
I only had to monitor Google advertisements, which I did very little of.
Those are already out of my hands, not quite automated, but good enough for now.
Eventually I’d like to automate the creation of ad media and publishing ads. A more difficult task.
I didn’t receive any notifications from my chatbot FunkerBot, so I eventually logged into the chatbot to make sure it was working and it was handling customer interaction perfectly fine.
I have received more orders than questions, but that is perhaps due to my advertisements.
Most ad traffic is being sent directly to product listings, as I have found more success with conversions that way than sending people to my homepage.
Enter Orimon AI, The Total Me Replacement handling all my customer service and pre sales questions.
FunkerBot is the name of my bot for Motherfunker.shop.
As you can see, it is answering questions in a pretty detailed manner.
This is deliberate. If you want a bot to prevent customers who want to speak to a human, they need to be comprehensive and detailed. Not vague.
Luckily, this puppy is loaded and pre-trained on all the content of my website, blog, FAQ, as well as a history of every customer interaction, if I need to audit a response and improve my bots responses.
Once particular conversation I find very amusing — a customer asked why my bot was putting hashtags at the end of everything….
And the bot took at jab at me!
The chatbot becomes a product of it’s trainer.
And…. the bot can apparently have fun with my customers.
What had happened — FunkerBot is trained using my website, social media posts, blog posts, and EVERY product listing and post includes hashtags at the end.
So this is just the way FunkerBot assumed that it needed to speak to my customers.
The customer laughed, and the bot totally blamed me, which is technically correct, and then it asked if the person would like it to retry the answer.
The person never responded….
And…… this reminded me to turn on Lead Collection.
Now I have lead collection set up, so the bot will gather info early in the convo.
I’ll be trying to fine tune this one and keep it going.
Most of my Print on Demand stores have been pretty seasonal or limited lifespan.
I would like this one to be my first evergreen print on demand store.
Cheers to an Automated Future!
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-C.W.Morton
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