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What we shipped: 5 new features to help build a differentiated customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom we think a lot about what it means to deliver a differentiated customer experience. Another key piece in delivering a differentiated customer experience is the Inbox. The heatmap for new conversations will now be a sum of all new inbound conversations, rather than average.

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Getting conversational: HubSpot’s CEO on a new species of disruptor

Intercom, Inc.

Brian also shares HubSpot’s strategy for creating an industry-defining category that helped more than 86,000 customers in over 120 countries move from unwelcome outbound marketing to permission-based inbound marketing. It’s going to be really hard to create an inbound marketing category. That marketer was saying, ‘You know what?

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What is proactive support?

Intercom, Inc.

But now that customer experience has become a critical differentiator for modern consumers, this reactive approach to customer support is no longer good enough. It reduces inbound conversation volume without sacrificing customer happiness. Here are three major benefits of proactive support.

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8 steps to craft a winning sales strategy, according to industry leaders

Intercom, Inc.

When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. Establish clear, differentiated roles on your sales team. Establish clear, differentiated roles on your sales team. Let’s take inbound sales and outbound sales, for example.

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Your next wave of growth will come from conversational relationships

Intercom, Inc.

Oftentimes when customers reach out for information or help, they don’t care if the answer comes from a human or from a virtual assistant like a bot. In a crowded market, great experiences play an increasingly pivotal role in catching customers’ attention and differentiating you from competitors. Conversational isn’t just for support.

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Intercom’s product principles: Creating personal products by design

Intercom, Inc.

Supporting the exchange of PDF documents on WhatsApp to save customers from having to switch channels to share necessary information. For example, in one of our recent product changes, we shipped a feature that allows customers to map their reply address to the inbound email address that their end users contact them on.

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Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

Userpilot

There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive. Then we added inbound marketing which added the number of leads which, in turn, meant more conversions. Differentiating from the competition.