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The top 5 shopping bots and how theyll change e-commerce

March 7, 2025

6 AI Shopping Assistant Tools To Help You Shop Wisely This is a missed opportunity to create brand loyalty and land a sale. Retail chatbots are AI-powered live chat agents who can answer customer questions, provide quick customer support, and upsell products online—24/7. WhatsApp chatbots can help online shopping bot businesses streamline communication on the messaging app, driving better engagement on their broadcast campaigns. You can use these chatbots to offer better customer support, recover abandoned carts, request customer feedback, and much more. Personalization improves the shopping experience, builds customer loyalty, and boosts sales. AI…

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10 Best Real Estate Chatbots & How To Use Them

December 4, 2024

Guide to Real Estate Chatbots: Use Cases and Tips- Freshworks For instance, if a user wants a two-bedroom flat with a sea view in a specific neighborhood, customers…

WINSTON BOOKS – where you can get them!

October 20, 2023

About this time every year I remind people to grab a copy of my favourite Christmas book: How Winston Delivered Christmas by Alex T Smith. I know what…

“Dear Bec, My daughter has been dumped by her friendship group …”

October 6, 2023

EMAIL FROM A READER: My daughter was dumped by her friendship group … Hi Bec, I was given your website from a lovely lady at work. I am…

Reader Email: My 14yo daughter sent shirtless photos to a boy

July 7, 2023

Hi Rebecca, My daughter has had her phone since the beginning of High School 18 months ago. She has no social media, her phone is only allowed downstairs…

Reader Email: My 13yo son loves Roblox. I became suspicious when I could hear him talking softly into his computer …

June 30, 2023

Rebecca, I just wanted to reach out and thank you for the work you do for our tweens and teens. I read your post on FB at the…

Teens, parties and alcohol

June 25, 2023

The question about whether it’s okay for parents to supply  alcohol to 15 year olds blew up on my Facebook page last week. (One parent wrote in the…

Learning to Handle Failure

March 1, 2023

I’m not on the team. I wasn’t chosen for the squad. They didn’t pick me for the play. I missed out on a leadership position. I didn’t get…

Kitchen Table Time Capsule

March 1, 2023

I heard this brilliant idea from author and podcast host Gretchen Rubin during her Happier podcast: take a yearly photo of your kitchen bench, but not when it’s…

What To Do When Your Tween or Teen Comes Home Cranky

March 1, 2023

See that girl? That’s me. I’m sixteen in that photo. I look at that photo and I go straight back. I can remember my teen years like they…

Simple Ways to get Happier

February 23, 2023

If you’ve been reading my blogs for a while, you’ll know how much I appreciate Gretchen Rubin and her work. I’ve listened to many interviews with Gretchen over…

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Over the past 25 years Rebecca Sparrow has earned a living as a travel writer, a television publicist, a marketing executive, a magazine editor, a TV scriptwriter, a radio producer, a newspaper columnist and as an author.

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