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Four beliefs shaping our vision for customer support

Intercom, Inc.

Because of the limited scale any business could operate in – a scale which was literally dictated by their location – it was relatively easy for them to build personal relationships with customers. And with that explosion in addressable market came an explosion in customer service requests. The challenges of customer support today.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Strong customer relationships are more important than ever for business success, but the old ways of communicating and building relationships with customers are broken. Old communication tools, like email and forms, simply don’t match the ways modern customers want to talk, connect, and receive help.

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Intercom’s product principles: Building product that’s opinionated by default, but flexible under the hood

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we balance strong opinions about the future of customer support with our goal of meeting a huge variety of customer needs. Some customers want a simple, out-of-the-box solution, but others need customizability – that’s where flexibility comes in. . The option to build a custom report . Tickets report ) .

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Strategic Product Management: The Role of a Strategic Product Manager

Userpilot

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Minimum Viable Experience is crucial for product adoption, especially among the less adventurous adopter categories.

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How support leaders measure (and improve) the quality of their customer support

Intercom, Inc.

The wider global business scene is finally realizing what many successful companies have known for quite some time now: customer support is the face of your company. How are other customer-centric support teams measuring the impact of conversational support? The result is the Customer Support Quality Benchmark Report 2021.

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The Activities of a Strategic Product Manager

ProductPlan

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”.

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An Organic Farm Startup Onboarding Strategy

The Product Coalition

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. Problem: We clearly defined the problem that co-founders were facing in order to set up the online and digital experience. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results.

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