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The support leader’s guide to proactive support: Provide help before it’s needed

Intercom, Inc.

This is costly not just for your team’s bandwidth and budget – but also for your customerssatisfaction and overall perception of your brand. Proactive support can drastically reduce the number of conversations that reach your support team, all while increasing customer satisfaction and retention.

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Moving from reactive to proactive customer support

Intercom, Inc.

Proactive customer support is the antidote to long wait times and ticket deflection. With the right approach and proactive support tools – think Outbound Messages , Product Tours , and Mobile Carousels – you can provide every customer with the fast, personal help they need at the exact moment they need it.

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Intercom’s product principles: Creating personal products by design

Intercom, Inc.

Whether we’re creating tools that improve personalization or strengthening our privacy and security, Intercom has always been committed to bringing a personal touch to every change we make to our product. Supporting the exchange of PDF documents on WhatsApp to save customers from having to switch channels to share necessary information.

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What is a call center?

Intercom, Inc.

Call centers have historically been a popular way to offer that support by employing customer service representatives to assist both inbound and outbound queries from existing and potential customers over the phone. Call recording tools. Customer relationship management dashboards that provide reporting functions.

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Built for you: Deeper insights, stronger customer engagement, integrations, and more

Intercom, Inc.

Over the last few months, we’ve released updates that help you improve and measure your conversational support efforts, engage customers with multichannel transactional messaging and other customer engagement enhancements, and integrate the tools you use every day – including WhatsApp! ??. Integromat. New permissions.

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The ultimate customer support tech stack for 2022

Intercom, Inc.

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. So before you begin searching for specific tools, define your goals upfront.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Future facing businesses are investing in much better customer experiences, moving beyond traditional support tools that are built around deflection as the solution to scale. Instead they are using Automation, Bots, and Proactive Messaging to deliver great experiences to all their customers at increasing scale.