How to use Whatsapp to reach new customers

MARKET SHARE OF WHATSAPP IN AFRICA

WhatsApp is “absolutely dominant” in the African continent as per the Quartz Africa report in 2018. And this hasn’t seemed to change either.

Kenya topped the list with a massive WhatsApp penetration (97%), with South Africa (96%) and Nigeria (95%) ranking second and third respectively (GlobalWebIndex, 2020).

There are around 22.86 million internet users in Kenya with about 8.80 million social media users, as of January 2020 (Simon Kemp, Digital 2020: Kenya).

In South Africa, WhatsApp was the top popular mobile apps used – beating Uber, YouTube and Facebook. (Statista, Feb 2020). Same in Nigeria where WhatsApp beat Facebook and YouTube to be the most popular mobile apps used. (Statista, November 2020).

WHO USES WHATSAPP? WHY USE THE WHATSAPP BUSINESS APP?

Even with Facebook’s data harvest fears, it seems unlikely that African users would dump WhatsApp (Quartz Africa, January 2021)

As per Quartz Africa in 2018, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa were the first one in the continent where WhatsApp Business was rolled out. For Africa, this can translate into an efficient marketing tool for small businesses and enterprises in Africa.

Why?

Because the highest global levels of WhatsApp penetration is found to be among internet users aged16-64 years in Sub-Saharan African markets (GlobalWebIndex, 2020).

WhatsApp Business app and WhatsApp Business API have been around for a couple of years helping businesses of different sizes manage their chats.

It has also been found that over 175 million people message on WhatsApp Business account every day (WhatsApp, October 2020). The Mark Zuckerberg-led company has said that there research concluded that people preferred to “message a business to get help and they’re more likely to make a purchase when they can do so.”

This has allowed many businesses to make WhatsApp their store counter “to discuss products and coordinate sales.” This means that now users are potential customers as they can see “catalogs” of what’s available from the business directly on WhatsApp without clicking an external link.

This also means that more and more businesses can have one-on-one contact with their customer with the help of WhatsApp which is now increasingly becoming the most engaging marketing channel on the planet.

And this is not an experiment!

Indonesia-based sustainable herbs and spices business – Agradaya – was given early access to WhatsApp Carts. WhatsApp Carts enabled its customer to order with no “back and forth communication” (WhatsApp, December 2020).

Moreover, WhatsApp says that 80% of small businesses in India and Brazil reach their customers using WhatsApp Messenger – both India and Brazil are WhatsApp’s biggest markets. These two markets are quite similar, considering the Motorcycle-hailing startups model being copied in Africa from the former.

HOW TO ESTABLISH AN ONLINE PRESENCE AND REACH NEW AUDIENCES IN AFRICA?

The above stats present quite a clear picture – WhatsApp is the top social media app across the continent and it has the right demographic too. And using India and Brazil as case studies, it can help grow businesses and reach new audiences using WhatsApp.

So what does it mean for business in Africa and WhatsApp marketing in the continent?

Even without the WhatsApp business account, the free multimedia platform tied to the user’s phone number gives access to features like group chats, voice notes, messages, videos, images, voice/video calls, images, status, documents  and whatnot. These enable just some of the popular WhatsApp marketing ideas. In fact, the broadcast lists features is one of the most popular WhatsApp marketing hacks for bulk messaging. Another is advertising on WhatsApp status through various media.

So, what are the other ways to leverage these tools?

HOW CAN WHATSAPP BE USED FOR BUSINESS PROMOTION?
                     

Source: Globalwebindex, 2020

  1. Run promotions through visuals, QR codes, animated stickers, Catalog, Carts, voice notes, and videos directly or using WhatsApp broadcasts feature
  2. Do branding using the Profile picture, ‘About me’ or WhatsApp Status for offers, sales, discounts and coupon codes and what’s new in the product inventory
  3. Create group chats for similar interests and start discussions to target large segments
  4. Customer support and feedback
  5. Run an ad campaign through WhatsApp

While these WhatsApp marketing strategies may be interesting but they have to be implement as per business needs. For instance, not every customer may like speaking one-on-one on WhatsApp. Not every customer would answer your surveys or give feedback.

But there are creative ways to get your customer’s attention and time.

The following are some of the Whatsapp Marketing Case Studies you can use for your small and medium businesses:

  1. Saffola’s ‘Beat the Crave’ WhatsApp Campaign by WATConsult won the ‘Best Use Of WhatsApp’ Award in 2019 and received huge media attention in India. The Beat The Crave campaign increased the sales of its Nutri-Shake by 483% within the first month.
  2. For Cardex Autoteile OHG, WhatsApp Business app helped in about 90% of in sales and over 15,000 customer requests were received and in less than a year through integration of the app. They received 10 orders via WhatsApp Business daily.
  3. Cupcakes by Isa in 2018 increased its sales by 37 %. The businesswoman closed 60 % of her sales through WhatsApp Business app.
  4. Banco Santander Bank’s WhatsApp customer service number allowed customers to chat with the bank, ask queries and make peer to peer (P2P ) payments with WhatsApp. In the pilot done with 17000 users, 99% of consumers said that the service useful with 98% saying they would continue with it.
  5. BBC Africa’s an WhatsApp series named ‘Young, Angry and Connected’, gave the marginalized young Africans a platform to use social media and messaging apps to get their stories heard.
WHATSAPP MARKETING STRATEGIES AND BUSINESS – THE FUTURE 
                      

Source: Globalwebindex, 2020

 

It is to be noted that WhatsApp Pay has yet to roll out in the continent. But chances are that day is not too far.

WhatsApp Pay enables P2P (Peer to Peer) Transfer and Merchants Payments.

In Kenya and Zimbabwe, USSD-based mobile money services such as EcoCash (Zimbabwe) and M-Pesa (Kenya) are big players. On the other hand, mobile-banking apps and “agent-modelled” Fintech businesses like PAGA are big in Nigeria.

If WhatsApp Pay does roll out in Nigeria, it is likely to work with existing payment processing companies such as Flutterwave, Interswitch, and Paystack.

Shopping is in the pipeline for the Facebook-owned company as it plans to expand paths for users to see available products and buy right from a chat. WhatsApp has said that it wants to find ways for businesses to integrate its features into their existing commerce and customer solutions.

As the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Messenger is now integrated, it will be easier for the company to funnel user data, although it has postponed the update citing privacy concerns and “misinformation”.

Remote work is another area where WhatsApp can prove to be quite the game changer. Facebook Hosting Services is where the company plans to help small and medium-sized businesses in getting started, hosting and managing customer communications, sell products and keep inventory.

Wrapping up

We at ShopShipShake have been working with businesses like yours with fulfilling experiences. We offer one-stop services, including an efficient supply chain, over 10 thousand of China’s suppliers, and more.
With a successful track record of over 20,000 clients, we are sure to deliver your orders requirements. Let’s get in touch to build, sustain, and grow your businesses.

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How to use Whatsapp to reach new customers

MARKET SHARE OF WHATSAPP IN AFRICA

WhatsApp is “absolutely dominant” in the African continent as per the Quartz Africa report in 2018. And this hasn’t seemed to change either.

Kenya topped the list with a massive WhatsApp penetration (97%), with South Africa (96%) and Nigeria (95%) ranking second and third respectively (GlobalWebIndex, 2020).

There are around 22.86 million internet users in Kenya with about 8.80 million social media users, as of January 2020 (Simon Kemp, Digital 2020: Kenya).

In South Africa, WhatsApp was the top popular mobile apps used – beating Uber, YouTube and Facebook. (Statista, Feb 2020). Same in Nigeria where WhatsApp beat Facebook and YouTube to be the most popular mobile apps used. (Statista, November 2020).

 

WHO USES WHATSAPP? WHY USE THE WHATSAPP BUSINESS APP?

Even with Facebook’s data harvest fears, it seems unlikely that African users would dump WhatsApp (Quartz Africa, January 2021)

As per Quartz Africa in 2018, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa were the first one in the continent where WhatsApp Business was rolled out. For Africa, this can translate into an efficient marketing tool for small businesses and enterprises in Africa.

Why?

Because the highest global levels of WhatsApp penetration is found to be among internet users aged16-64 years in Sub-Saharan African markets (GlobalWebIndex, 2020).

WhatsApp Business app and WhatsApp Business API have been around for a couple of years helping businesses of different sizes manage their chats.

It has also been found that over 175 million people message on WhatsApp Business account every day (WhatsApp, October 2020). The Mark Zuckerberg-led company has said that there research concluded that people preferred to “message a business to get help and they’re more likely to make a purchase when they can do so.”

This has allowed many businesses to make WhatsApp their store counter “to discuss products and coordinate sales.” This means that now users are potential customers as they can see “catalogs” of what’s available from the business directly on WhatsApp without clicking an external link.

This also means that more and more businesses can have one-on-one contact with their customer with the help of WhatsApp which is now increasingly becoming the most engaging marketing channel on the planet.

And this is not an experiment!

Indonesia-based sustainable herbs and spices business – Agradaya – was given early access to WhatsApp Carts. WhatsApp Carts enabled its customer to order with no “back and forth communication” (WhatsApp, December 2020).

Moreover, WhatsApp says that 80% of small businesses in India and Brazil reach their customers using WhatsApp Messenger – both India and Brazil are WhatsApp’s biggest markets. These two markets are quite similar, considering the Motorcycle-hailing startups model being copied in Africa from the former.

 

HOW TO ESTABLISH AN ONLINE PRESENCE AND REACH NEW AUDIENCES IN AFRICA?

The above stats present quite a clear picture – WhatsApp is the top social media app across the continent and it has the right demographic too. And using India and Brazil as case studies, it can help grow businesses and reach new audiences using WhatsApp.

So what does it mean for business in Africa and WhatsApp marketing in the continent?

Even without the WhatsApp business account, the free multimedia platform tied to the user’s phone number gives access to features like group chats, voice notes, messages, videos, images, voice/video calls, images, status, documents  and whatnot. These enable just some of the popular WhatsApp marketing ideas. In fact, the broadcast lists features is one of the most popular WhatsApp marketing hacks for bulk messaging. Another is advertising on WhatsApp status through various media.

So, what are the other ways to leverage these tools?

HOW CAN WHATSAPP BE USED FOR BUSINESS PROMOTION?
                     

Source: Globalwebindex, 2020

  1. Run promotions through visuals, QR codes, animated stickers, Catalog, Carts, voice notes, and videos directly or using WhatsApp broadcasts feature
  2. Do branding using the Profile picture, ‘About me’ or WhatsApp Status for offers, sales, discounts and coupon codes and what’s new in the product inventory
  3. Create group chats for similar interests and start discussions to target large segments
  4. Customer support and feedback
  5. Run an ad campaign through WhatsApp

While these WhatsApp marketing strategies may be interesting but they have to be implement as per business needs. For instance, not every customer may like speaking one-on-one on WhatsApp. Not every customer would answer your surveys or give feedback.

But there are creative ways to get your customer’s attention and time.

The following are some of the Whatsapp Marketing Case Studies you can use for your small and medium businesses:

  1. Saffola’s ‘Beat the Crave’ WhatsApp Campaign by WATConsult won the ‘Best Use Of WhatsApp’ Award in 2019 and received huge media attention in India. The Beat The Crave campaign increased the sales of its Nutri-Shake by 483% within the first month.
  2. For Cardex Autoteile OHG, WhatsApp Business app helped in about 90% of in sales and over 15,000 customer requests were received and in less than a year through integration of the app. They received 10 orders via WhatsApp Business daily.
  3. Cupcakes by Isa in 2018 increased its sales by 37 %. The businesswoman closed 60 % of her sales through WhatsApp Business app.
  4. Banco Santander Bank’s WhatsApp customer service number allowed customers to chat with the bank, ask queries and make peer to peer (P2P ) payments with WhatsApp. In the pilot done with 17000 users, 99% of consumers said that the service useful with 98% saying they would continue with it.
  5. BBC Africa’s an WhatsApp series named ‘Young, Angry and Connected’, gave the marginalized young Africans a platform to use social media and messaging apps to get their stories heard.
WHATSAPP MARKETING STRATEGIES AND BUSINESS – THE FUTURE 
                      

Source: Globalwebindex, 2020

 

It is to be noted that WhatsApp Pay has yet to roll out in the continent. But chances are that day is not too far.

WhatsApp Pay enables P2P (Peer to Peer) Transfer and Merchants Payments.

In Kenya and Zimbabwe, USSD-based mobile money services such as EcoCash (Zimbabwe) and M-Pesa (Kenya) are big players. On the other hand, mobile-banking apps and “agent-modelled” Fintech businesses like PAGA are big in Nigeria.

If WhatsApp Pay does roll out in Nigeria, it is likely to work with existing payment processing companies such as Flutterwave, Interswitch, and Paystack.

Shopping is in the pipeline for the Facebook-owned company as it plans to expand paths for users to see available products and buy right from a chat. WhatsApp has said that it wants to find ways for businesses to integrate its features into their existing commerce and customer solutions.

As the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Messenger is now integrated, it will be easier for the company to funnel user data, although it has postponed the update citing privacy concerns and “misinformation”.

Remote work is another area where WhatsApp can prove to be quite the game changer. Facebook Hosting Services is where the company plans to help small and medium-sized businesses in getting started, hosting and managing customer communications, sell products and keep inventory.

Wrapping up

We at ShopShipShake have been working with businesses like yours with fulfilling experiences. We offer one-stop services, including an efficient supply chain, over 10 thousand of China’s suppliers, and more.
With a successful track record of over 20,000 clients, we are sure to deliver your orders requirements. Let’s get in touch to build, sustain, and grow your businesses.

If you would like to know more details about us, please contact with us: 

www.shopshipshake.co.za

If you are interested in cooperating with us. Please register on:

https://bit.ly/3ks0m1M

4 tips for playing WhatsApp group marketing

There are two types of Whatsapp group marketing:

  1. Relying on someone else’s Whatsapp groups for marketing.
  2. Creating your own Whatsapp groups for marketing.

1. How to use someone else ‘s Whatsapp groups for marketing?

The Whatsapp group is a public place. An active WhatsApp group is for people to communicate with each other, and to obtain useful resources. If everyone in the group sends advertisements, the group is not of much value.

Remember, the most powerful advertising is that others simply do not feel that you are advertising.

So, how should I market without advertising? You may ask.

Step 1: Make group participants your Whatsapp friends

If you target your customers with ads, you may need to spend tens to hundreds of rands. However, in a Whatsapp group, all the participants are your potential customers. You can save a lot of advertising costs if you are able to make all of them your customers. In the future, your customers in the Whatsapp can at least create hundreds of thousands of rands.

Therefore, it would a huge waste, If you don’t turn the group members into your potential customers.

This is also one of the traditional marketing tricks.

Step 2: Share useful information in the groups

The best advertisement is not to advertise. If you advertise explicitly in the groups, people will think you are hard selling products and avoid you.

If you purely share useful information and contribute knowledge to the group, then they will feel that you are an authentic person and would like to interact with you. As a result, you can maximize your gains in Whatsapp groups.

A good Whatsapp group operator will create a lot of Whatsapp groups themselves, and even pay to join many other Whatsapp groups. Some Whatsapp groups are not very active and do not have many chats going on there, but you can spare an hour every week to share a lesson worth a few thousand dollars that you have learned outside, without any advertising.

If what you share is very helpful, customers will take the initiative to reach out to you. Eventually, WhatsApp will bring you far more than the membership fee.

Step 3:  Interact with people in the groups

Regarding groups that have the most potential customers, you can mark them as important and spend more time there.

Usually, most people of a group remain silent, so you can be active to let people become familiar with you. Even people do not talk to you in person, they can also remember and trust you, because of your frequent presence.

During the process of interaction, if your performance is perceived as generous and interesting, other members of the group will gradually become your customers. As long as it is a win-win situation, people would love to propose cooperation.

Step 4: Write articles to compliment people

For example, you find one of the members to know, understand, and provide him/ her with useful information and resources you can provide.

At the same time, you can also write an interview article to promote this person, and at the bottom of the article, leave the person’s WhatsApp number for other people to reach out to him/her.

In this way, you contribute something to the group by promoting the members for free. The members you promote will naturally thank you, and you will also be very respected in the group.

In a nutshell, make yourself a needed person in Whatsapp groups.

The above are the four steps of marketing in other people’s Whatsapp groups. Please do follow the steps, it will be 100 times better than conventional advertising.

2. How to build your own Whatsapp groups for marketing?

At the start of your business, using someone else’s Whatsapp groups is the fastest way to get costumers. When you have a certain number of customers, the most durable marketing method is to create your own groups and maintain the customers there.

So, how do you create your own Whatsapp groups?

Step 1: Positioning

It’s not the best who does it, but who does it is the best. The key reason that a Whatsapp group can be popular is to have good positioning. The more accurate your positioning is, the easier you will succeed.

Step 2: Set rules for your groups

A good Whatsapp group must have its own rules. Without rules, your groups can quickly become a mess.

Therefore, you must set rules to reject those who are not qualified, and filter them out, meanwhile, keep people who have same values, so that you can run the groups for a longer time.

Step 3: Operation

Operation and management of a Whatsapp group are no less than those of a company. It’s better to have a mechanism for members to continue experiencing the value of the group, thus members are willing to continue to participate in the groups.

Step 4: Fission marketing

For the steady development of your Whatsapp groups, you have to rely on group members to fission group members. This aspect is different from the traditional fission of adding members in. There are many different modes and ways to accomplish the fission. If you are in the right mode, the speed of development is faster than you think.

Whatsapp groups can not only do member fission but also Whatsapp group fission. To make the fission possible, you need to create various WhatsApp groups for different dimensions such as product types, consumption levels and regions, then operate the groups based on their characteristics to achieve the goal of precision marketing and efficiently converting orders.

WhatsApp Operation: How to solve the user stratification of community operation

In fact, WhatsApp group operation has been in existence for a long time. In the early days, it was the moderators’ operation of community operation, and users’ hierarchical operation are all part of the operation of WhatsApp group today. Another good WhatsApp group operation will definitely involve content operation, activity operation, users and data operation. WhatsApp groups are just a tool. It’s a pond of people. In the era of mobile Internet, only users can win the world, which is one of the reasons why the trend of social e-commerce is so vigorous.

A good WhatsApp group that is active and stable generally looks like this:

“The coquet-coquet-group manager + opinion leaders who love to pretend to be forced + more than ten industry small white who love to ask questions + handsome men and beautiful women of high appearance level in twos and threes + idle people who like to blow water in five five six six + grabbed the red envelopes will say thank you to eat gua masses”

Even the most advanced communication and sharing needs someone to ask questions and support, right? While the active and stable structure is only the framework of WhatsApp group, how to further stimulate the active WhatsApp group is the core ability of WhatsApp group operation.

By formulating a series of rules and rules, we can simultaneously activate WhatsApp groups, deepen users’ trust and transform core users with the idea of hierarchical operation.

Let me share with you a key part of the WhatsApp group operation: the hierarchical management of WhatsApp group users

(1) Importance of WhatsApp group management System:

WhatsApp group assistant: help group manager post relevant messages; Group activity officer: planning and organizing activities; Group record officer: responsible for recording the dry goods information of the group and sorting out relevant information to provide to the group members; Group designer: responsible for the design of WhatsApp group posters and holiday posters; Group diplomats: help WhatsApp group to link external big names and improve the quality of the group; Group executive: responsible for the implementation of group regulation and the interaction of group members.

Make sure you know what WhatsApp group managers want and pursue, and then use the power of the paid WhatsApp group platform to help them achieve that goal. As WhatsApp groups continue to grow.

(2) Classification according to motivation

1. Dedicated: Willing to help others grow and share themselves. This kind of person was important in the early days of WhatsApp group.

2. Grateful type: Strong execution and loyalty. It’s the heart of the WhatsApp group.

3. Self-driven: Have a strong thirst for knowledge, and have great interest and desire in the operation mode and method of WhatsApp group. Can lead WhatsApp groups to more classes.

4. Resource devotion: I hope to get more replacement of resources and play the role of publicity.

(3) Reasons for the loss of WhatsApp group management members:

1. Too much work to balance;

2. No recognition without reward;

3. Poor team cohesion;

4 growth is not satisfied hope to get a better fulcrum of life.

(4) Pay more attention to the following aspects in the WhatsApp group management mechanism:

1. Continuously improve the operation process of WhatsApp group;

2. Use the screening mechanism to select more suitable people;

3. Establish a spiritual bond between each other;

4. Set up effective replacement mechanism;

5. Establish a reasonable reward, punishment and return mechanism;

When WhatsApp groups get on track, they have a certain source of revenue.

(5) Operation of WhatsApp group KOL

In the early stage, the WhatsApp group of middle-level users needs to do a lot of sticky work, such as chatting, interacting and establishing mutual relations. Moreover, the users’ friends should be good at observing the people in the group, which are active, which are general and which are suitable for KOL in the group, and delegate power appropriately.

In the process of WhatsApp group fission, users’ roles will constantly change, “seed users” will become ordinary users, and “defense molecules” will change into KOL… All of these changes are designed to bring WhatsApp groups to a tipping point.

1. Value critical point: Value critical point includes the recognition degree of WhatsApp group and the pursuit of interests, etc. The emergence of critical point means that the corresponding users have accumulated the power of fission. For example, in a WhatsApp group for creative sharing, some users have acquired the value of producing high-quality knowledge after certain training and education. At this time, only one active communication, one group sharing, one sharing set and one interview are needed… Any one of these developments could explode the fission of this value.

2. Critical point of number: A WhatsApp group still needs a certain number of people to play, so that when the number of affected people reaches the critical point, effective fission can be triggered. This is why many ordinary ideas are successful because they are spread over a large number of users, while some very good ideas are lost in a small number of user interactions.

When we run WhatsApp groups, we sometimes envy those short-lived WhatsApp group fission events, and then ignore the reasons and values behind the WhatsApp group fission.

An explosion, a digital explosion, does not necessarily determine the value of the WhatsApp group and its subsequent growth. Without a stable user role structure within WhatsApp groups, even if the “lucky” ones split, what can WhatsApp groups do? It’s worth thinking about!

Hierarchical operation, layer by layer screening core WhatsApp groups

By formulating a series of rules and rules, we can simultaneously activate WhatsApp groups, deepen users’ trust and transform core users with the idea of hierarchical operation.

Now let’s talk about one of the ways WhatsApp groups operate hierarchically — upgrade and repeat.

Group positioning: User growth fission communication learning

Group target users: all kinds of people who want to make user fission growth, including Daniel and Xiaobai of different levels.

– Specific layering method:

Multiple groups can be prepared, one group (core group), two groups (in order to have a weak cognition of the circle), repeat group, (it is not recommended to use senior and primary groups, class sense is too obvious.)

As the seed group of the paying group, there are a lot of growing and splitting head players. As the core WhatsApp group of the head, it produces more high-quality content.

The group members of the two groups are composed of a small group of active “head players”, mainly for users who are constantly entering for later promotion. According to the principle of 80, in the case of non-personnel screening, 80% of the users are mainly consumers of high-quality content, and there will be more small white users.

– Upgrade system:

The promotion goal of two groups is to reach the head users of one group. The activity of WhatsApp group was measured by tools, and 1-3 users with the highest activity were selected from the two groups to upgrade to the group with the majority of active head users (Da). The retention group is upgraded to two groups

Ps: Use the group management tool of WhatsApp to count the activity of group members, invite friends and other data.

– Retention system: the users who do not speak continuously and are not active in the group will be inspected once every half a month through the WhatsApp group tool, and the 10 people with the lowest activity will be admitted into the retention group.

– Enjoy multi-group rewards: Each group is valuable and can be accessed by users with exceptional quality content output. This can be used as a special reward

This system effectively stratifies users with different levels of activity and perception of “growth” according to certain framework standards.

– For the two groups, this is a promotion mechanism to encourage ordinary users to continuously output high-quality content and realize UGC

– For a group, on the one hand, because everyone has an aversion, it can exert certain pressure on the users within the group, maintain their activity in the WhatsApp group and output content. On the other hand, active users who are constantly promoted from two groups can bring fresh blood to one group and keep the freshness of the original group.

In fact, the core of the system is to stimulate UGC, output content. This is also for the rapid expansion of WhatsApp groups in the later stage. The high-quality content of several groups in the early stage can make the group users experience the value. The deeper users’ trust in WhatsApp groups, the more they are willing to be “salesmen” in the later stage, and the faster WhatsApp groups split.

Of course, in addition to this user layered approach, WhatsApp group can also overlay other approaches. The most important thing is to build the rules system of WhatsApp group and cultivate user habits.

It can be as simple as saying good morning every morning, welcoming new people into the group every time, or as complex as a weekly topic of discussion. Through these, we can deepen users’ sense of participation and their perception of the value of WhatsApp group.