{"id":3688,"date":"2015-12-16T16:10:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T21:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boatchat.com\/blog\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2022-08-10T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:27:24","slug":"5-ways-chat-sells-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boatchat.com\/blog\/lead-generation\/5-ways-chat-sells-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways Live Chat Helps Sell Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3691\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3691\" class=\"wp-image-3691 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatchat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boatchat-popup-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Generate leads with live chat\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boatchat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boatchat-popup-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.boatchat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boatchat-popup-460x479.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.boatchat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boatchat-popup.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>This is what a great lead generator looks like.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:150%;\">Here are five reasons a managed live chat solution from BoatChat.com can help your marine dealership acquire more qualified leads and sell more boats.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>People Don&#8217;t Like &#8220;Scary&#8221; Forms<\/h2>\n<p>There are a lot of people who are just not comfortable filling out an online form. For some, this is because of security concerns, or maybe they just don&#8217;t want to risk giving their email address to a stranger who may fill their inbox with unwanted email spam. Requests for phone numbers can be even more intimidating to the growing number of people who seem to be unaware that their iPhone or Droid can actually be used as a telephone.<br \/>\nLive chat gives you the opportunity to put these people at ease and answer questions without asking for &#8220;sensitive&#8221; info up front. Our operators are smooth and will get the info you need without scaring off potential customers.<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Chat Can Get More Detailed Information<\/h2>\n<p>Website contact forms do work, but there is a limit to how much you can reasonably expect a person to tell you on a form. A lead generation form with too\u00a0many fields will bring out the laziness in just about anyone.<br \/>\nLive chat allows you to ask for more information\u00a0than you would get from a form, and maybe even some follow up questions for greater detail.<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Not Just More, but Better Leads<\/h2>\n<p>Qualify leads in real time, right at the beginning. Live\u00a0chat can help determine\u00a0the interest level of a website visitor, and qualify whether\u00a0it is a lead worth pursuing. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatchat.com\/managed-chat\/\">managed chat operators<\/a> are trained to get the leads you need.<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Online Chat Is Useful to Your Visitors<\/h2>\n<p>A well-managed chat system like BoatChat can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatchat.com\/blog\/lead-generation\/losing-leads-while-you-sleep\/\">answer your visitor&#8217;s questions in real-time<\/a>.\u00a0Being first and being available 24\/7 in an on demand world can be the difference between a lead and a disappearing website user.<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Chat Converts More Visitors to Leads<\/h2>\n<p>The whole point of having live chat on your website is to get more leads, right? Online chat is known to bring more conversions. BoatChat converts as many as 60% of those chatters into real, qualified sales leads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>BoatChat is committed to\u00a0providing\u00a0the best managed chat program and chat software serving\u00a0the marine sales industry. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatchat.com\/\">Contact us<\/a><\/strong> today to learn how we can\u00a0help your marine\u00a0dealership generate more leads and sell more boats. If you don&#8217;t want to use that form, try out that chat widget down there at the bottom of your screen!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are five reasons a managed live chat solution from BoatChat.com can help your marine dealership acquire more qualified leads and sell more boats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lead-generation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>5 Ways Live Chat Helps Sell Boats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here are five reasons a managed live chat solution from BoatChat.com can help your marine dealership acquire 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