Why Dave Decided to talk to Mikael: Mikael Yang is the CEO and Co-Founder of ManyChat. With over 300,000 customers they are a leader in the "bot" universe especially with Facebook. Mikael reveals how to get subscribers to your bot. What to do to build engagement, how to use Stripe and get payments through ManyChat. Tips and Tricks for You and Your Business: How to get subscribers to their bots (4:50) Stripe Integration Release (12:15) Augmented Reality Inside Messenger (15:08) TIp and Tricks for building Bots (16:00) Quotable Moments: "The overall impact of messenger marketing is bringing more meaning and value into the conversations between businesses and customers." "Stripe integration allows people to sale products directly on messenger." "Simple. Easy. Visual." Other Tidbits: Messenger marketing is here to stay, there are over 2 billion people using messengers. A bot platform and facebook messenger is nothing more than a facebook page on messenger, allowing businesses and customers to do business with one another. Links: FunnelHackerRadio.com FunnelHackerRadio.com/freetrial FunnelHackerRadio.com/dreamcar ---Transcript--- Speaker 1:     00:00         Welcome to funnel hacker radio podcast, where we go behind the scenes and uncover the tactics and strategies top entrepreneurs are using to make more sales, dominate their markets, and how you can get those same results. Here's your host, Dave Woodward. Speaker 2:     00:17         Hey everybody. Welcome back. This is going to be a fun, fun ride. I am so excited. I have the opportunity to have been just an amazing guy on this podcast. Dan would introduce you guys to Mikaila Yang Macau. Welcome. Speaker 3:     00:29         Hey Dave. Great to be here. Speaker 2:     00:31         So for those of you guys may not know who Mikael is, Mikael is the co founder, CEO of many chat. It's a platform that we've used, we continue to use and it's been blowing up. Uh, I think anytime anyone thinks about facebook messenger, they, it's almost synonymous right now with many chats. So, Macau, you guys done an amazing job in pulling this off. Speaker 3:     00:51         Thank you. Thank you very much. Speaker 2:     00:53         Well, I'm excited to kind of find out a little more about, uh, what are some of the main things you've been involved in this industry here? What did you, when did you guys start this? Like 2015, 2016. Speaker 3:     01:04         Yeah. We actually started in July 2015 and we started with a messenger platform that not a lot of people heard about at that point. Not, not in the US at least. So it's actually telegram messenger. And now telegram has become a much more popular. Um, but at that point it was a, it had a quote unquote only $65 million users, but they've, but they've just opened up their API. I'm seeing only because like other, other messenger platforms had a 10 x more users. So at that point, but uh, the point is that they were one of the first platforms, uh, in the western world to open up their Apis as a, a messenger platform. And uh, they actually, uh, gave developers access to those $65 million users and not in a way that they've, uh, they gave the access like, just to message to them, but in a way that they were actually able to build bots. Speaker 3:     02:13         And uh, it, it, it, it was in new, it was a very new experience because before opening up of the API, the only thing that people did on the messengers is just message each other and now it's, it's has transformed because now businesses could actually connect with their customers and message them. Now one of the first thing that I tried to do is just to build a bot for the platform and it didn't work out because it was just too hard technically, like I have a technical background, but like just to send out a few messages to set up a Hiroko Danno and to like launch plus grass. And like all of those things, it was, it took me hours just to do something simple. So I've called up my co