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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

Transforming communication with instant messaging. Its journey from a modest messaging app to a global giant in instant messaging has been nothing short of remarkable. They wanted to create an app that would allow users to send text messages, images, videos, and other media, without the need for expensive SMS plans.

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Slack’s Lane Collins on their ‘radical convenience’ approach to customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Today, we’re dissecting the customer experience at one of the hottest companies around: Slack. As someone who’s immersed in customer-experience questions and concerns day-in and day-out here at Intercom, I was fascinated to hear how Slack’s entire team dedicated itself to thinking about the end-to-end customer experience.

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Customer retention is the new conversion

Intercom, Inc.

Convincing potential users to sign up for your product isn’t easy. The latest batch of billion-dollar companies are built on high customer retention. They help their users be successful, and that means providing great onboarding. We’ve spent a lot of time searching for one of these. We’ll get there.”.

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Tips for Rewriting a Digital Product

Roman Pichler

See the Rewriting Effort as an Opportunity to Innovate. Consequently, rewriting efforts are often focused on replacing like-for-like: The users get the same product dressed up in new technologies. While this approach works, I wastes the opportunity to innovate and create more value for the users and business.

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4 CS Leaders’ Predictions for the Future of Customer Success

Gainsight

In the dynamic landscape of Customer Success (CS), where relationships and outcomes intersect, the voices of female leaders are increasingly shaping the trajectory of the industry. When I started out in 2019, not many knew what a Customer Success Manager (CSM) was. What’s changed: What hasn’t changed?

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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Some think customers will see the advent of AI as a welcome way to get self-help quickly and get back to their task. Others worry that AI will worsen the customer experience as more and more companies use it to save costs. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience.

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Product Managers Find A Way To Turn A Profit

The Accidental Product Manager

So way back in 2014, the folks over at Facebook shelled out US$22B to buy the startup app maker WhatsApp. The answer is that WhatsApp Messenger, or simply WhatsApp, is a freeware, cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP service that is now owned by Facebook, Inc. How A Free Application Can Make Money. In the U.S.