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The 13 Pitfalls of using Whatsapp Groupchats

If you are like many people in Singapore and Malaysia, you feel that Whatsapp is better and easier to use than WeChat.  Many of my customers told me that WeChat has too many features (in fact, WeChat has 1 million features) and way too powerful for the average Singaporean.  They say that why complicates things when all we want are just messaging and groupchats communication?  I too felt the same way as most people.    However, once I started to use WeChat actively in 2017, I realised that even if I were to just use groupchat and nothing else in WeChat, WeChat is 13 times better than WhatsApp.   Using WeChat groupchats (and not Whatsapp groupchats) has made my life safer, more productive and secure.   The 13 ways that WeChat Groupchats are superior to Whatsapp groupchats are: 1.  Your Phone Number is Not Revealed in WeChat When you join a WhatsApp groupchat, your phone number is known to everyone in the groupchat.  You may start receiving spam messages or even calls from people t

Groupchats: Boom or Bane?

Some people read my previous article about how groupchats can increase sales easily for a watch shop and asked me this question: Since groupchats are so powerful, why are people not using them for business? The reason is very simple: it is very easy to form groupchats, but maintaining groupchats is one of the hardest things in the world.  You need many months of patience and perseverance if you want to make groupchats your profit centre. Before that, let's look at a more basic topic: how people use groupchats wrongly and passively.  There are 12 things that people do wrongly on groupchats, see if you make any of them (or all of them): Send good morning photos and greetings EVERY DAY Send too much information, making scrolling difficult Group names not unique, making retrieval difficult As the group admin, you did not set the groupchat rules.  Even if rules are set, do you enforce the rules and dare to delete people that break the rules? Allow members to send birt

How Groupchats Bring Sales for My Friend's Watch Shop

Many people see groupchats as a waste of time.  There are far too many irrelevant messages, videos and photos and yet we cannot delete them for we depend on groupchats in our life.  In another article, I talked about what to do to make groupchats useful.  Today let's focus on how groupchats can help a retailer: my friend's Watch Shop. As we know, retail rent is high so most retailers at best make 2% to 5% of net profit on sales.  If we factor in the long hours, the net profit is simply not there.  How can we use groupchats to improve the net profit of retailers? First, we form Groupchats under WeChat and Whatsapp and print out the groupchat's QR codes. If you don't know how to do this, please message me here. 1.  Scan to Join For everyone that passes by our shop, we ask them to scan our groupchat QR code to immediately enjoy a free drink worth $9.90 and immediate 20% discount on our watches.   We use both Whatsapp and Wechat QR codes, simply because