5 Reasons Why Every Business Needs to Create a Slack Chat for Their Customers

This needs to be a major part of your social media strategy.

Matt Schlicht
Hamster Pad Magazine

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There’s a new way businesses should be talking to their customers, and it might be more effective than anything else they could be doing.

Every business should create a Slack chat community for their customers.

This is a real-time chat room where customers and representatives from the business can hang out together. Not so different than having a physical retail store or a coffee shop, but online.

Want to create your Slack chat community? You need to read this “How To Create, Setup, & Grow a Highly Engaged Community With Slack

This is why you should create a Slack chat right now:

  1. Be able to access your most passionate customers 24/7 with near immediate response time.
  2. Hear about problems and bugs before they are public on social media.
  3. Enable customers to build relationships with one another.
  4. Learn the needs of the customer.
  5. Test new ideas and products with customers in the Slack chat.

Slack was started as a way for companies to ditch email and chat in real time internally, but it is becoming a platform for so much more. There are thousands of micro communities built using Slack, and more and more of them are being created by businesses as a way to build betting relationships with customers.

If you have questions feel free to hit me up on Twitter or email (matt@hamsterpad.com).

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Matt Schlicht
Hamster Pad Magazine

Building and writing about AI as CEO/engineer at Octane AI . Scout for Boost VC's $90mil sci-fi fund. Alum: Ustream, YC, Forbes 30 Under 30 x 2.