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Address things like “rage clicking” directly with real-time, outbound messages to your customers to help them preemptively resolve issues. Features like outbound messages or banners are not just great for support, but marketing and sales teams can also reap the rewards of a proactive approach. Sense their frustration?
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We spin up outbound marketing/support efforts too early. These (of course) don’t exist yet, since we’re still concept-testing problem statements and feature/function and technical requirements. No BS, no positioning, no obfuscation. Engineering and Product are written off as intellectual time-wasters.
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