013 – Making Money with Cashbot.ai – with Ryan Begley from Eyelevel.ai

The Chatbot Podcast

Hello, everyone, this is episode 13 and today our guest is Ryan Begley from cashbot.ai and he will tell us how Eyelevel.ai's this tool will help monetize your chatbot. I think this episode will be really interesting for many of you.Just a quick note, Bot Mastery 2.0 is launching soon, get on the early-bird list now.https://chatbottutorial.com/pro Lots to learn to here, give a listen below:Here's an automatic transcript created by a few clicks in Botspeech our bot for transcription. It's not perfect but surprisingly accurate for the low effort.[thrive_toggles_group"] Transcript and again it is always it's a hundred percent up to the chat bot owner alrightit's like your BOTS so you get to decide kind of what you know what you want toput in front of people on the questions that we always get are how much moneywill I make how hard is it to implement and will it piss my users on timewelcome to the chatbot podcast the place where we talk about BOTSartificial intelligence smart automation and messenger marketing we value ourtime and enjoy when technology makes our lives easier and now your host BalintPataki. Hello everyone this is episode number 13 and it's time to make somecash today's guest is Ryan from cashbot.ai which is a tool helping you monetizeyour chat BOTS with the recent changes of pricing in chatfuel and the majoringof the industry I think this episode is really interesting for many of youwithout further ado please welcome to the show Ryan Begley hi Ryanthank you for accepting my invitation and making time for this interview canyou please quickly introduce yourself for the listeners who don't know you yetI know you have a background in product management in a bi IBM and you had somehistory with the sales management for Oracle just fascinating how you made itinto this bot space and what what what was the build-up for that yes absolutelyyeah great to meet you as well my my name's Ryan Begley I'm a co-founder ofcashbot.ai my background I let's see it's it's I'm getting so old I feel likeit's starting to fade away a little bit my memory about 14 years in enterprisesoftware I started my career as in sales at Oracle working both in San Franciscoand New York I transitioned from there to a couple of startups in theenterprise app space this is sort of right when SAS as a the consumptionmodel was beginning to take off and then spentapproximately six years at IBM doing product across a number of differentbusiness units most recently Watson IOT and IBM Watsonbusiness units and this is value getter your first part experience or how doesit yeah yeah so right around to I mean I think we the first thought experiencebots have been around for so long right but for me working with BOTS andcustomers and beginning to do that automated freeform text really startedin 2014 and this is when I think that you know like the notion of Internet ofThings began to take off and you I began to work with a number of consumerelectronics appliance manufacturers that were really interested in automatingcustomer support putting some of that support into mobile apps that wouldcontrol a connected device or connected machine in what I thought was was reallysort of fascinating was this this notion of a company that had meant manufacturedwashing machines or or refrigerators for for the last 60 years but never reallyhad a relationship with their customer their real customer the people thatowned purchase those machines and had them in their house and so forth this isthe first time that they ever had an opportunity to actually engage with themand form a relationship and the really really the only way to do that at scalewas with some sort of automated freeform text which is effectively at thebeginnings of much more complex chatbots and tha...