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Emojis mean business: The characters transforming business messaging

Intercom, Inc.

And when typing a message, there is a lot more room for ambiguity and misunderstanding, even when the interlocutors know each other well. In the 1990s, Shigetaka Kurita, a designer at Japan’s main mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo, created a simple heart-shaped pictogram for the company’s pager. Enter the emoji.

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The three strands of brand authenticity

Intercom, Inc.

One of the biggest determining factors of a company’s success is the clarity of its message, and how that clarity comes across in every interaction across the product and brand. Consumers want to have relationships with companies much like they have relationships with people. Great companies are built on relationships.

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Intercom turns 10: Highlights from our first decade

Intercom, Inc.

We have achieved a great deal in the past decade – we have built a lot of great product , hired hundreds of wonderful people , and helped thousands of amazing companies form lasting relationships with their own customers. Paul Adams , SVP of Product, summarizes the power of messaging. Writing our story. Celebrating our teams.

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The top marketing statistics for 2018 and why they matter

Intercom, Inc.

For instance, the fundamentals of good marketing haven’t changed: crisp writing, a compelling story, strong brand, and of course, a great product to market. Messaging: Ignore at your peril. You could say we’re biased, but the evidence became clearer than ever when messaging apps surpassed social networks in popularity in 2016: Reach.

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Builder beware: marketing tension in product-first companies

Intercom, Inc.

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. It’s a badge of honor – a badge of legitimacy – a badge of a new, better way of building a company. This was the basis for my talk on the 2017 Inside Intercom world tour. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies.

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Media Apps: 2020 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

So, what can these brands do to capture, analyze, and act on these changing customer behaviors? The report is meant to serve as a yardstick for companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback and engagement metrics stack up against the market. Average inbound and outbound message volume. Average app review volume.

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Top 7 Explainer Video Production Companies For 2020

The Product Coalition

Today, an animated explainer video has become one of the most creative ways to establish warmer relationships between customers and their beloved brands. It helps a company transfer complicated concepts and ideas in an entertaining and easy to digest form. Would you like to produce an engaging explainer video for your company too?