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#82 Jan 8, 2019 A New Chatbot for Content Creators🤖📷 – Here's the thing about the Tars content team. If you ask them to write a blogpost, they practically d
#81 Jan 1, 2019 Happy New Year!🔮🎊🎉 – Well, another year has come and gone, and it’s time to pull out the old Tars crystal ball again and l
#80 Dec 20, 2018 [Case Study] 155% is Coming ⚔️ – Running digital ads is a super nerdy, super dull gig where people talk about CPC, CVR, CPA and all of
#79 Dec 18, 2018 Book More Meetings using a Chatbot – In case you didn’t already know, I am an extremely busy man. In addition to doing all of my regular w
#78 Dec 13, 2018 [Product Update] Icon Picker – TLDR; Vinit crushed my vespa with a monster truck and you can now add icons to the button UI. Check i
#77 Dec 11, 2018 An Existential Crisis – If you are a regular reader of this newsletter, you'll know that we have a singular (unhealthy?) obse
#76 Dec 7, 2018 [Product Update] The Floating Menu – At Tars we believe in being on the cutting edge of UX Design.
#75 Dec 4, 2018 The Secret to Effective Chatbot Marketing – The Tars Slack room is a box of wonder. In it you can find all manner of weird conversations that dea
#74 Nov 27, 2018 Tars is a Restaurant Chain – Last week was a confusing time at Tars. I came into the office last week to find Vinit and Emmanual f
#73 Nov 20, 2018 Trust and Pineapples on Pizza – This past week we hosted the biannual Tars pizza party, and as with all Tars events, it didn’t take l
#72 Nov 13, 2018 Let's talk about your DMV – Believe it or not, but today's newsletter has nothing to do with conversion rates.
#71 Nov 6, 2018 Educate yourselves – At Tars we are all in on this whole “education” concept. Some people might think it's just another fa
#70 Oct 30, 2018 Looking to the Future... – This past weekend, I was walking through the streets of Brooklyn when I came across this awesome litt
#69 Oct 24, 2018 I am in New York – Over the last three weeks, we have conducted 4 company-wide conference calls where we have discussed
#68 Oct 16, 2018 I hate BuzzFeed. – They write some real news articles which are not bad, but the rest of their content is pure drivel. J
#67 Oct 9, 2018 Demons and lead-capture forms – If you’ve read any of our past content, you will know that we have a longstanding hatred for forms. B
#66 Oct 3, 2018 Squirrel Barbeque and the Secret to High Conversion Rates 🐿🐿 – Real quick, before we begin with the regularly scheduled program.I bet Vinit (from the TARS tech team
#65 Sep 27, 2018 My new Tinder pickup line – Listen to me carefully.If you match with someone on Tinder, do NOT ask them what their Cost Per Lead
#64 Sep 20, 2018 The Future of PPC is Conversational 😎 – This past week we went on a mind-altering, philosophical journey. Someone in our co-working space lef
#63 Sep 12, 2018 We need your help! – We are officially launching our new initiative to revolutionize PPC landing pages on Producthunt. We
#62 Sep 7, 2018 The future is here! – You know when you're looking for insurance and you click on the first search result and the experienc
#61 Aug 30, 2018 do not hesitate, do you even meditate? – Recently, we have been dabbling in meditation at Tars. Our hope is that if we clear our minds, we'll
#60 Aug 23, 2018 A couple of questions for you – I have been having trouble sleeping at night. Is it because the stray dogs in the alley outside my ap
#59 Aug 16, 2018 lead quality is the King – Have you ever stopped to consider how much poor quality leads cost you? First you spend time, money a
#58 Aug 7, 2018 Heaven is a SaaS conference... And the God is... – When I think of what Heaven looks like, I imagine a never-ending SaaS conference dedicated to perfect
#57 Jul 27, 2018 My car broke down... – I'm not going to mince words with you. Your website has to be a chatbot.Am I saying this as a person
#56 Jul 19, 2018 Storytime: How we got increased our conversion rate – Once upon a time in a land far, far away (Bangalore, India), there was a company called Tars. The emp
#55 Jul 12, 2018 Your bots need more conversations – As chatbots become more and more prevalent, we as a community need to become cognizant about the prob
#53 Jun 27, 2018 We need your help :) – I want to ask you for a personal favour today.We put our chatbot builder up on G2Crowd, a site where
#52 Jun 14, 2018 Tars Analyze Section = More conversions :) – We have a singular belief that drives us.Chatbots = Higher Conversion RatesOur reasoning behind this
#51 Jun 7, 2018 How chatbots can improve local governance – A couple of years ago, I needed to get my car registration renewed. I had no idea what documents I ne
#50 May 31, 2018 Google Analytics in your Chatbot : Like Duplex but better :) – Have you heard of Google Duplex?If not, here is the basic idea. At Google’s annual developer conferen
#49 May 25, 2018 GDPR and Privacy Policy Update – Spring is in the air, the leaves are sprouting once again, and the sweet smell of daffodils, tulips a
#48 May 7, 2018 Tars Affiliate Program - Spread the chatbot love! – Today we launched an intern out of a cannon.
#47 May 3, 2018 FB Pixel : Helping out our friend Mark – The other day I was chilling on a random rooftop in the middle of San Francisco, when I ran into my g
#46 Apr 25, 2018 WordPress + TARS = 😁 – The new season of Westworld released last Sunday and as with every other HBO show, it sent the TARS t
#45 Apr 16, 2018 A new feature and a weird story... – I walked into the office yesterday and something was off. The windows had been painted black, there w
#44 Apr 5, 2018 Another UI Change 🤖 – We made a significant UI change!Wait... I feel a sense of Deja Vu. Didn't we do a UI change last week
#43 Mar 28, 2018 Drake likes the new Data View! – So you guys know the Tars Data Section is right?The place where you can see all the conversations peo
#42 Mar 21, 2018 The Cursed Form Rack... – I was in the Airtel (telecom company) store the other day, trying to get a sim for my new phone, when
#40 Feb 21, 2018 Quiz Bots - make your bots more interactive – Welcome to the TARS Quiz Show!!Here are the rules:- we ask questions,- you answer them in your mind,-
#39 Feb 9, 2018 Ask the expert: How we make our content – Hmmm...Generally these newsletters are statically written masterpieces, which you guys love and adore
#38 Jan 26, 2018 How Leo DiCaprio runs his business over Tars Chatbot – Before we begin with the actual newsletter, we have been nominated for ProductHunt Golden Kitty Award
#37 Jan 10, 2018 324 months to singularity... – A new year has begun but our company goal persists.To bring about the end of humanity as we know it,
#36 Jan 3, 2018 Look what we found!! – Last year we made some predictions about the trends we thought would make waves in 2017.We didn't rem
#35 Dec 31, 2017 What day is it? 🤖 – Wow...What a year.What a ride.We saw bots. We saw more bots. We created an inter-dimensional portal g
#34 Dec 22, 2017 Embed, embed, CONVERT!! – So a few weeks back, we made a fairly uncontroversial claim: Adding images, videos and gifs, make yo
#33 Dec 12, 2017 Read this if you hate waiting in line... – You too huh?Well, I don't know about you but in my experience the worst perpetrator of long, slow lin
#32 Dec 4, 2017 A new way to design your bots! – You will never believe the crazy stuff that Vinit from the TARS tech team does... check out this conv
#31 Nov 22, 2017 No clicks, No conversions, No bots... – Just as humans need air and water to live, bots need clicks to exist. So what does a bot do when it
#30 Nov 14, 2017 Automate your customer support with bots...almost! – 70%The number is music to my ears!Gosh, I am getting jitters just typing it into this email.
#29 Nov 1, 2017 Smarter bots...better cows – The other week Vinit from the tech team and I were discussing all the things that matter in life (yes
#28 Oct 25, 2017 Speaking Chatbots 🤖 – I know what you are thinking...Don't all chatbots speak? Isn't that the point of the whole technology
#26 Oct 3, 2017 chatbot + shoes = 💵 leads 💵 – Do you remember how a couple of weeks back we sent you an email describing chat as FaaS? #tbt #jargon
#25 Sep 22, 2017 Don't you love window shopping? – We sure do at TARS.Clothes, computers, smartphones, cryptocurrency mining rigs. You name it and I wil
#23 Sep 12, 2017 I made a mistake... – In the last newsletter that I sent over earlier today, there is a link to community page which doesn'
#22 Sep 12, 2017 Yet another acronym... – As any self-respecting startup should be, TARS is a proud advocate for the use of technical sounding
#21 Sep 8, 2017 Leads, Leads, Leads... – So it turns out that if you run a business or a start-up, you need to generate leads of potential cus
#20 Sep 4, 2017 Who doesn't love new things? – Certainly not me.I like anything new. Clothes, food, electronics, bots. You know what tops the list t
#19 Aug 25, 2017 Chatbots... what are they good for? – Good question subject line. Good question.We think about bots 24x7 at TARS and even we don't know the
#18 Aug 18, 2017 Product Update: Smarter Email Notifications – If you are using a TARS bot, you might have noticed that the number of emails you receive from your b
#17 Aug 15, 2017 Today we celebrate... – It's Indian Independence Day.Tars happens to work in India, so it is a holiday for us.Is it sad that
#16 Aug 11, 2017 You are a pioneer. – If you are building bots, you are a pioneer.Are we just saying that so that you use our platform more
#15 Aug 8, 2017 To the distribute section... – In this newsletter we have spoken about feature updates, bots we have made, experiments we have condu
#14 Aug 2, 2017 A party trick... – So last night, while we were hard at work, one of our bots did something crazy!It taught itself a tri
#13 Jul 29, 2017 Zap Zap Zapier... – Don't you just hate it when aliens invade your office and kidnap the intern?
#12 Jul 25, 2017 Don't you hate it when... – people complete your sentences.I personally hate it.Which is why I found it extremely disconcerting w
#11 Jul 19, 2017 TARS is now a fashion company – You read that right. A fashion company. A company that does fashion things.This past week at the TARS
#10 Jul 12, 2017 We went too far... – In case you did not know it yet, we at Tars have a tiny little thing for bots. Weird, I know, but we
#7 Jun 29, 2017 Do you like to experiment? – If you use Slack, you will know that team communication tools often devolve into hotbeds of memes and
#6 Jun 23, 2017 Feckin' hate kids... – Recently, I discovered a potential new market. I was baby sitting for the first time and I thought to
#5 Jun 16, 2017 We want YOU! – Welcome to yet another episode of the TARS newsletter. This week brings drama to the chatbot world.
#4 Jun 9, 2017 I have a dream... – I have a recurring dream where I wake up naked in my 9th grade Math classroom, in the middle of a tes
#3 Jun 1, 2017 Updates, Covfefe and Shakespeare – Friends, Romans, Bot makers!Lend me your ears.I come to update TARS, not to praise him.Seriously, tho
#2 May 25, 2017 Long time..Too much updates :) – Hey!Long time since we last spoke huh?Well, the silence has not been wasted. We have been cooking u
#1 May 13, 2017 A New Superpower for your Bots 😱😮💥 – Remember how we made a tool that lets you build bots without programming? (If not check it out here)W
