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The biggest challenges facing support teams right now (and how to solve them)

Intercom, Inc.

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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Building Resolution Bot: How to apply machine learning in product development

Intercom, Inc.

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. So, modern machine learning opens up vast possibilities – but how do you harness this technology to make an actual customer-facing product? The cupcake approach to building bots.

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Customer Support is being turned upside down. Here’s what you need to do about it.

Intercom, Inc.

The internet is moving more businesses and people online, and driving a huge increase in inbound support volume. Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. Self-serve Support and bots to automatically answer all common customer questions, reducing inbound volume to support agents.

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Sparking conversations: How every team can benefit from conversational support

Intercom, Inc.

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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Built for you: Custom Reports, Conversation Topics, Macros, and more to personalize customer communication

Intercom, Inc.

Without this knowledge, it’s inevitable that your customer communication will remain impersonal and inefficient, neither of which will empower your team to meet ever-rising customer expectations. Armed with the right data, your team will be able to move the needle on providing personal customer communication at scale.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.