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CDE Internship Day 10: TechStak & ShopWindow - Content Creation

Like King Henry said, "Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more..." The King was trying to rally his troops and again attempt to break through the tiniest weakness in a wall or if they fail, clog that hole with their dead bodies. Why do I bring this up? Just when I thought I was hitting my groove, getting all my tasks managed, it turns out that I was on the wrong track.

If you've read my blog before now, you know I've been working with TechStak to develop Chatbots to help conversion of website visitors and I made one. I made the wrong style Bot! All my logic flows and choose your own adventure design was made to be a landing page. A landing page is a specially crafted webpage with the sole purpose of capturing a visitors e-mail, name, contact info, ect. I was suppose to be designing a "Pop-Up" Chatbot, something that lives in the corner of a webpage and pops-up when you need help. Basically, I have to create a brand new Chatbot, in the pop-up style, and integrate that into the newly redesigned website. One positive note, I can use the existing Landing Page Chatbot as a blueprint for the new Bot-Bot. A big thanks to my teammates for helping me finish mapping out this new Bot. Teamwork makes the Dreamwork!

The ShopWindow Webinar has been split into (4) separate webinars. My job now is to re-organize our examples into the best webinars for them to generate the greatest response. It gets tricky because when it was one, huge presentation, I could just keep giving examples on the implementation of QR in 2019. Now, I still have to creatively do that AND subdivide them into relevant and cohesive categories that present well together.

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