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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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What is customer service?

Intercom, Inc.

Customer service is the ongoing support provided to a customer throughout the entire customer journey. . You could argue that what constitutes a good customer service experience can vary by customer and industry, but there’s no denying that people’s expectations are higher than ever. . What is a customer service process?

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How I treat creative copy like a product—using data

Mixpanel

It’s absolutely rooted in the empirical data that gives an objective understanding of your customers’ paint points and desires. And just like a product process, you need data to create something great. From customer research to monitoring and iteration, good copywriting is rooted in data. It’s a product unto itself.

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10 Tools and Techniques to Test Your IT Infrastructure Resilience

eG Innovations

This means that they spend (as do we) a lot of time proactively investigating and stress-testing systems, indeed we and many other vendors also provide tools within our products to assist in “kicking the tyres”. In this blog, I have listed ten tools and related techniques you can use to test your IT infrastructure resilience.

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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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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Inception: Direct Database Access for the Data Team Our immediate need was getting the data science team programatic access to a read replica of our production database, an Amazon RDS Postgres cluster. Our data team could’ve handled it, but the CLI interface would be an ongoing source friction and pain.

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Rugs.com increased their support efficiency 10x with Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

With the onset of COVID-19 and the accelerated move towards online shopping, Grayson Bagwell, Director of Business Development at Rugs.com, notes the sharp increase in shopping volume the business has experienced in the last 12 months as a result of people spending more time at home. “As We were using Olark chat, but it wasn’t very flexible”.