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What is proactive support?

Intercom, Inc.

Using clever features like outbound messages , banners , product tours , and more, you can provide customers with the help they need before they have to contact your team. It reduces inbound conversation volume without sacrificing customer happiness. Win back more time for your team with these 4 proactive messages.

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Built for you: Two-way SMS, a next-generation Inbox, smarter bots, and more

Intercom, Inc.

Discover what you can do with 2-way SMS, including sending promotional messages, re-engaging your customers, and much more over at our help center. This means they can manage conversation balances across teammates in the course of their day-to-day supervision – providing flexibility for support managers while maintaining control.

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Customer care in a crisis: How support teams are navigating shifts in volume, wait times, and CSAT

Intercom, Inc.

Below, we share how the outbreak has impacted three key support metrics – inbound volume, wait times, and CSAT scores – and advice from respected leaders on how to continue caring for your customers in a crisis. Inbound volume is spiking for half of support teams. The increased volume is affecting businesses of all types.

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The experiment that revealed how proactive support directly affects your bottom line

Intercom, Inc.

By allowing support teams to get ahead of known problems and provide help to customers before they need to reach out, proactive support has enabled major companies to scale their support without increasing headcount, drive down inbound conversation volumes ( in some cases by up to 80% ), and maintain incredible customer satisfaction ratings.

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Sharpen your support strategy with the new Conversational Support Funnel report

Intercom, Inc.

Many support teams implemented the funnel and saw game-changing results, including reduced inbound conversation volume, faster resolution rates, and enhanced CSAT. How many proactive support messages are you sending versus how many people are seeking support? A reduction in your median response time and median time to close.

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Catch up with New at Intercom, our fall product launch event

Intercom, Inc.

For the past year, our product and engineering teams have been building game-changing features that will help you manage inbound support volume, make your work faster and easier, provide a high-quality customer experience, and help your customers get the most out of your product. There are no additional charges.

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CX expert Bill Price on creating frictionless customer experiences

Intercom, Inc.

Of course, this doesn’t mean shutting down all your channels, crossing your fingers, and hoping for the best. “Instead of trying to optimize the contact center experience with all sorts of things, they said, ‘Let’s get rid of an inbound phone number.’ ” No inbound chat, no inbound email.