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81% of SMBs use email campaigns to nurture their audiences.
Email is the most important tool for any business communication. The key to great e-mail communication is crafting content that people actually want in their inboxes and that speaks to each customer separately, instead of a single e-mail sent to one and all. A badly written email, rather than speeding up communication, proposal or instruction slows down business processes. However generating a proper email content for any business discussion is a difficult task. It needs lots of experience and practice with multiple iteration. The future of e-mail is real-time, behavior-based personalization.
With advancement of AI related tools and methodologies, there are efforts to assist in email content generation. Can AI help or fully automate content generation? I would be covering couple of my experience on this subject.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are fascinating in that they benefit every facet of content marketing. Specifically, through advanced machine learning technology, the process of creating content marketing strategies becomes easier.
Developing such systems have two types, one is static type of check typos, grammar and syntax and second type of a complete AI solution, an adaptive system to generate content based on a set of questionnaire.
There are tools, like browser plugin Grammarly to highlight any grammatical mistakes, tone of your email as you compose your emails. There is a javascript based SDK https://www.inboxsdk.com/ to be used for developing such mail plugins. You can use gmail plugin development framework for developing such mail plugins too.
Its AI everywhere and its time to use the power of AI and machine learning to assist in content generation for business. The very first step of a successful AI system depends upon the quality of training data set and methodology used.
Content of an email would be different based on the context – domain. Likewise, training data is also context dependent. Email training data set for finance domain is different than retail domain. There need to have a general training set and then domain specific training sets. User will be prompted with set of questionnaire to aid in text generation. Or user can enter a set of keywords – domain specific. Based on the user feedback, appropriate training set would be used, or a hybrid of multiple training set would be used to generate email content.
Recently google has introduced text suggestions in their gmail platform, when user types any sentence, the AI engine would prompt auto suggestion. It helps commonly used to words to complete the sentence.
There are some neural network based libraries to help in character level prediction like char-rnn – https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn the model takes one text file as input and trains a Recurrent Neural Network that learns to predict the next character in a sequence. The RNN can then be used to generate text character by character that will look like the original training data.
https://github.com/jcjohnson/torch-rnn torch-rnn provides high-performance, reusable RNN and LSTM modules for torch7, and uses these modules for character-level language modeling similar to char-rnn.
There are some RNN – Recurrent neural network based text generation libarries like textgenrnn – https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn – a library developed on top of Keras/TensorFlow , easy to train and can be integrated quickly. Then we come across OpenAI’s text generation framework https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release/ , Gpt-2 from OpenAI is the most powerful text generation framework. OpenAI unveiled its new AI language system, GPT-2, and TalkToTransformer is a slimmed-down, accessible version of that same technology, which has been made accessible only to select scientists and journalists in the pastIn the beginning, it was not released completely with fear that it might be used for anti-social activities.
In a nutshell, AI based email text generation is a long way to go and there are some good libraries to help you. GPT-2 language modeling system from OpenAI would be the most innovative text generation system.
GPT-2 is a large transformer-based language model with 1.5 billion parameters, trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages. GPT-2 is trained with a simple objective: predict the next word, given all of the previous words within some text
Generating title of any email, especially business email is a tricky task. The very first thing User sees is the subject of email. There is a Neural Network based library NLU Email Title to help in email subject generation.
Recently there is a growing trend to use whatsapp collaboration as a task management app. I was talking to one startup that deals in delivery services, they have around 40 employees and they have 20 whatsapp groups to manage coordination among employees and delivery persons for successful delivery of products to consumers. I asked them how do you manage such big number of groups? They said, though they have problems in managing all groups but they don’t have any alternative. Hence, the problem is can WhatsApp be used for managing tasks? This is not the problem with this company but others too.
A task management needs to have a todo with time, a task and then a supervisor and owner who needs to see if task is completed. A task also need to remind the owner just before task started. For a group task, it needs to remind all participants and help them communicate with each other like whatsapp does. Whatsapp is a communication platform and it used to communicate between people. And one part of task management process is to have an effective communication and thats where whatsapp comes into but the core of an effective task management process is not only communication but also timely reminder, monitoring too. The good part with whatsapp is that number of people using whatsapp quite quite large, that makes it a de facto way of communication and collaboration. You can communicate with people immediately who is on whatsapp and has net connection. It does not give you reminder or snoozing the task. It also does not give you freedom to repeat the task. With growing trend of using for a task collaboration among people is self detrimental, it makes more complex. Objective of any task manager app is to save time, collaboration effectively and timely reminder. It needs a specialized application that would help on these activities. Whatsapp would be solving on portion i.e. communication, but other factors those are more important in execution are completely missing. In fact by using WhatsApp for team collaboration is not going to help in long run. Instead of optimizing time, it would lead to spending more time managing tasks. If any communication has some important information then user need to search and there is a high chance that you miss it giving the volume of data exchanged in whatsapp.
The other important factor that I feel which is missing from whatsapp’s feature list is real time status update and push notification whether a task is completed or not. If a task has multiple subtasks and you have shared the task with your peer and need to get real time status update on sub tasks then you need to better use a task manager that would help you on this. And planning is completely missing.
In summary, for a better planning, collaboration, communication and execution you need to use a task manager that gives you these features, instead of using a communication tool like whatsapp.
This post will tell you how the environment and your immediate surroundings have great impact on your growth and well being. Many times, we think that we are independent and we are not bothered about happenings in our surroundings. But this is not true, we are nurtured by our environment, friends, neighbors and surroundings. My office at Diamond district, Bangalore is almost 500 mts from the place where I park my car. I have to walk through a busy surrounding of offices, footpath vendors to my office.
Cassia tree opposite to a Wine shop
Cassia plant opposite to a tea stall
Recently BBMP or some local people, not sure has planted some saplings in the footpath. This is indeed a noble work. The green cover of Bangalore is depleting in a alarming rate and such initiatives in large scale would definitely help in bringing back lost glory of beautiful weather of Bangalore. I everyday cross two cassia sapling on my way. One of the cassia sapling was planted opposite to a wine shop- top left side plant and another cassia sapling was planted opposite to a tea stall where people from nearby offices come, spent time smoking, gossiping. In the beginning two plants were growing properly, and we quite healthy – for first 2 weeks. The plant opposite to tea stall is always poured with water, no litigation, grows properly. As you can see the plant opposite to wine shop, neither there are water and people also took out the remaining leafs. Some other day, some one has broken its branch. So the point is our growth and wellness is heavily influenced by our surroundings. Most people come to wine shop – an open bar are mostly daily workers, rickshaw pullers and I can see some time there are altercations, some people even out of sense lying in the footpath. They might have broke the plant, plucked leafs. Where as, the other tea stall has people from nearby offices, blue collar/ white collar executives. They understand the importance of a tree at current situation, that helps to pour some water and the plat grows. Similarly, One need to be with good people. That not only increases the effectiveness of your collaboration with your surroundings but your growth too. Collaboration is always two sided and equally participated by both. If you cannot take care of a poor plant why should you expect anything in return be it oxygen or shed from sun.
I come across this post from linkedin. As an entrepreneur, we keep on doing things like to please others, keep following people, though they never care – These are just waste of time. We need to have our own way of doing things and we should not be a story of someone else’s pen. Let it be our pen to write our story.
I could not stop myself than adding all points in my blog.
7 things to STOP right now if you want to be SUCCESSFUL. Get that JOB and KEEP it ! 1. Stop being loyal to people who are not loyal to you.
2. Stop worrying what people think and say about you – hardest lesson to learn.
3. Stop trying to please everyone because you can’t.
4. Stop reacting and start responding” – Buddha – another hard lesson to learn !
5. Stop wasting time on people who do not care, there are so many who do – lost money can be found, lost time is lost forever !
6. Stop letting others dictate how you should live your life – “When writing the story of your life don’t let anyone else hold the pen” unknown
7. Stop doubting yourself. Don’t think you deserve the job ? Apply anyway. Don’t think you will do well on the interview – go to it anyway ! Don’t think the recruiter will respond to your email ? Send it anyway – do not self-reject. Failures do not kill dreams – doubts do.
I just came across thinksters survey of developers preferences and usage. Its quite interesting to the survey result. Some of the result that will change your perception that, almost nobody is using BlockChain, its all hype. I’m going to take a moment here and break down what I think are some of the most interesting and surprising results.
1. jQuery and JavaScript still rule the world
For all the talk we make about Angular being around forever, and React is all that anyone uses anymore, the reality is that jQuery is the most used web framework (I know it’s a stretch to call it a framework, but go with me on this) Languages:
Web Frameworks:
2. For the first time, React is more used than Angular (see the chart above)
Most people will be surprised by this, since it seems like everyone already thinks that React is the only web framework used, but the reality is much different. Another example of thought bubbles. 3. Rust is the most loved language by its usersRust has a CLEAR lead on all other languages as the one most loved by those who use it. I guess I should spend a bit more time learning Rust? Good thing Thinkster has a Rust course coming out soon!!
3. Rust is the most loved language by its users
Rust has a CLEAR lead on all other languages as the one most loved by those who use it. I guess I should spend a bit more time learning Rust? Good thing Thinkster has a Rust course coming out soon!!
4. Devs fear VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)
I totally get this. I’ve done VBA.
5. VS Code is the most dominant winner in any category
This is the “most loved IDE” category. VS Code has such a strong lead over the next item. No other list has a single winner that has such a huge lead over the pack. Microsoft has created a fantastic tool with VS Code and really solved problems that developers truly have. Not surprising that they created #1 and #2 in this category.
6. Almost nobody is using Blockchain
Even though nobody can stop talking about it. I’m glad the crypto currency hype seems to be wearing down a bit.
7. Devs like their jobs (not much of a surprise here IMHO)
8. Devs change jobs quickly
Most programmers have changed jobs in the last 2 years. I had 20 different jobs the first 20 years of my career as a professional developer. At some point I will write about the benefits of managing your career like this.
9. The tech & the language is the most important job factor
I get this. For all the lip service we give to things like culture and flexible schedule, many of us are simply driven by shiny new toys.
10. Most devs want to work in the office
This one surprised me quite a bit. “where do you want to work”:
11. If you’re all about the Benjamins, learn Clojure
Clojure is the best paying language. By a very reasonable margin. more than 10% higher than the #2 language.
12 Most devs enjoy development
This is not so much surprising as just interesting to ruminate about. I love the idea of a world where people work in jobs that they would do as a hobby. 4 out of 5 developers spend time coding as a hobby. That speaks really well to not only the passion of most developers for their job, but also the state of the world today.
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A Carleton University study surveyed 1,500 people across six organizations and found some interesting data points regarding emails:
Employees are spending 33% of their time on email in the workplace.
When they work from home, they spend 50% reading and answering emails.
Moore says the most surprising thing the team learned is that responses drop-off significantly for emails that use language above about a sixth grade reading level, but emails that are too simple tend to be ignored as well. A 3rd grade reading level is optimal. He was also surprised that neutral emails tend to receive fewer responses than positive or negative emails. In short, being too negative is bad, but being slightly negative is better than being boring.
The probability of closing a sale increases dramatically when a salesperson is able to (a) reach the decision maker and (b) be able to set up a meeting.
The study says, salespeople today spend anywhere from 30% to 50% on activities that have nothing to do with the actual act of selling (i.e., answering emails, meeting with clients, calling them up, doing demos, etc.).
If AI can knock that number down by 20 or 30%, total sales and the company’s revenue will be significantly impacted. I have come across apps like Respondable or Phrasee to help in snoozing mail, subject checker, sentiment analysis and reading level checkers.
The mundane, time-consuming, but still necessary task of managing email communications will largely be relegated to the machine. The upshot is that the derived benefit of just this AI tool alone is huge!
Email marketing, not just sales, will go through an AI transformation. These applications can also be used to construct newsletters, press releases, annual reports, and so on. The future of Language Processing, Predictive Analysis, and Sentiment Analysis are already converging.
