Chris Messina Discusses Conversational Commerce, Voice and the Erosion of Brands

Today's guest on The Chat Bubble is Chris Messina. He's pretty internet famous. Most notably, he popularized the hashtag-- like the original hashtag for Tech and for Twitter, that hashtag-- and more recently he coined the phrase Conversational Commerce, which has been a label for different strategies as messaging apps and automated messaging campaigns become more common. Here’s the original post on conversational commerce.

Listening to him, it's clear that Chris spends a lot of time thinking about technology and the strategies behind a lot of the companies in the emerging sectors in the space. This is another one of those episodes that I've listened to twice in order to understand everything. We've actually also published a few show notes and links below.

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And the last piece of housekeeping we've published a playbook for Facebook Messenger. This outlines the top four marketing use cases for Facebook messenger and shows any digital marketer how to launch Messaging campaigns that focus on their existing KPIs. The only way to get the Playbook is to message into our Facebook page > click here to message in and get access to the Playbook.

Chris used a term that google doesn't seem to show results for - Ultimate Reality Plasticity. It's best defined in the show, but the general meaning is > We are talking to services that aren't human, like Alexa, and then some human relationship are becoming more digital. An example is a kid that talks to grandparents over Facetime. So the delta between human relationships and technology relationships is getting smaller. It might get confusing whether a person is talking to another service or another human.

Chris mentions Scott Galloway and some of his ideas in his book The Four.

Scott's also really good on the James Altucher Podcast.

Hope you guys enjoy the show.