The majority of smartphone owners in Nigeria have WhatsApp installed on their devices. By all standards, WhatsApp ranks as the most used instant messaging app in the country. As a business owner who understands the popularity of WhatsApp, you would agree that this instant messaging app can make your marketing efforts better. It will make it possible for your potential customers to reach you with a click. Your leads would rather click to reach you directly than save your number to add you on WhatsApp before reaching you. Read on to learn how to create a WhatsApp link for your business in Nigeria.
How to create a WhatsApp link in Nigeria would be discussed below:
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Three Ways to Create a WhatsApp Link in Nigeria
We would discuss three ways to create a WhatsApp link in Nigeria. The first way is to do it manually, the second involves using a WhatsApp link generator website. The third option involves manually creating a WhatsApp link that contains a customized message. We would discuss each of these methods briefly. Read on.
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Steps to Create a WhatsApp Link Manually
This method of creating a WhatsApp link is easy as long as you follow the format we’d be providing here. There is a general formula for creating a WhatsApp link, which is: https://wa.me/your WhatsApp number. Your WhatsApp number would have to be used in the international format but without the “+” sign, the brackets, or the dashes. That means if your number is, for instance, 08143009111, you would have to use 2348143009111 when creating a WhatsApp link manually.
To illustrate what we just wrote up there, let’s create a WhatsApp link for the conjectural number, 08143009111. Below is the manual WhatsApp link for 08143009111:
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How to Create a WhatsApp Link Using a WhatsApp Link Generator Website
This is another method to create a WhatsApp link in Nigeria. This method involves you going on the internet in search of websites that allow you to create a WhatsApp link by just providing the WhatsApp link for your business. What’s more, you can also add a customized message if you choose to do so.
There are several websites on the internet that you can use to generate a WhatsApp link for your business. We would pick two of such websites we trust and discuss how you can use these WhatsApp link generator websites. The first website we recommend is the WA.link domain, and it’s free to use. It takes you only a minute or less to create a WhatsApp using this website. You may also customize your WhatsApp link with a message if you like.
Follow these steps to create a WhatsApp link on the WA.link domain:
- Visit the WA.link domain or click on https://create.wa.link/
- Input your business’ WhatsApp number in the required field
- If you want to add a customized message to your WhatsApp link, provide the message that your potential customers can send to you
- Click on “Generate my WA.link” to complete the process.
- Immediately a link would appear on the screen for you to copy it. This link that appears is the one you would use for your marketing campaign to drive your customers to send you a direct message on WhatsApp.
If you want to monitor the statistics of each link you created on the Wa.link domain, you would need the premium version. In other words, you’ll need to pay to use this feature.
The second WhatsApp link generator website we recommend is the Veepar domain (https://vepaar.com/whatsapp-link-generator/).
But before you can use the Veepar domain to create a WhatsApp link you would have to create an account with the website first. After successfully registering on the website which would take two minutes at most, log into your newly created Veepar account.
Follow these steps to generate your WhatsApp link:
- Visit the Veepar domain at https://vepaar.com/whatsapp-link-generator
- Input your number in the appropriate field on the website. But you must provide your number in the international format. That is to say, use the 234 code when supplying your WhatsApp number
- Provide a customized message you want your customers to send to you (Optional)
- Click “Get Link” to complete the process.
- Copy the generated link and share it where you want your potential customers to see
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How to Manually Create a WhatsApp Link that Contains a Customized Message
This method of creating a WhatsApp link allows you to add a customized message manually. Adding a customized message to your WhatsApp link will make it easy for you to track where the conversation started. If your business offers a range of products and/or services, creating a WhatsApp link for each of your business offerings will allow you to track the origin of the conversation.
There is a structure to follow to manually create a WhatsApp link that contains a customized message. This is the structure to guide you:
https://wa.me/whatsappphonenumber?text=urlencodedtext
The text you’d want to appear on your WhatsApp link must be encoded in ASCII characters, using “%20” instead of spaces.
To illustrate this method, let’s manually create a Whatsapp link that contains a customized message for the hypothetical number, 08143009111. The customized message we want the potential customers to send 08143009111 is: I want to buy sneakers from you.
Here’s how to do it: https://wa.me/2348143009128?text=I %20want%20to%20buy%sneakers%20from%20you
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What are the Advantages of Creating a WhatsApp Link?
As a business owner who’s to trying better the digital marketing strategy of your business, creating a WhatsApp link for business would prove useful. This is because your potential customers would find it easier to communicate with you by just clicking on the WhatsApp link of your business. If they (your potential customers) had to copy your WhatsApp number, save it, and search for you on WhatsApp before sending a message, it’s certain many won’t follow through.
The other major importance of creating a WhatsApp link for your business has to do with the customized message feature. Adding a customized message for your business’ WhatsApp link allows you to keep tabs on where each conversation is being generated from. Using customized WhatsApp links for each of your business offerings makes it easier to monitor the marketing efforts dedicated to your business.