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Why customer engagement is the key to business growth in 2022 and beyond

Intercom, Inc.

When a prospect is intrigued by your outbound marketing and reaches out to your support team to ask a question, is that a marketing, sales, or support issue? As a result, digital technologies are being seen as the critical differentiators they are. The answer is yes – it’s both. Yes, yes, and yes – it’s everyone’s business.

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A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan: Documenting Your Product/Market Fit Hypotheses

Sachin Rekhi

This is what will help differentiate your solution from just a "vitamin" to being a "pain killer" if you are addressing problems so painful that any improvement to the problem space would be a welcome addition to your target audience. Strategic Differentiation. Or to sell it through an outbound sales team? Competition.

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How to use in-app messaging to retain your best customers

Intercom, Inc.

Chats and Posts: In Intercom, you can send outbound chats and posts in both mobile and desktop apps. Differentiate between the ongoing “always-on” messages needed for common user goals and the one-offs for product updates and general announcements.

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Conversational support isn’t just a nice-to-have – it’s make or break

Intercom, Inc.

In a crowded marketplace, 32% of respondents say that being able to scale their support has given them increased differentiation or advantage relative to competitors. Outbound messaging (70%). The research shows that conversational support has significant knock-on effects for the rest of your business, too. Personalization (66%).

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What is proactive support?

Intercom, Inc.

But now that customer experience has become a critical differentiator for modern consumers, this reactive approach to customer support is no longer good enough. 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.

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A playbook for the impatient SDR: 4 key tips to grow your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

Buyers now have more information than ever before, inbound and outbound SDRs have to change their approach to capture buyer interest and add value, and the skill set needed to be successful has changed. This is accomplished through inbound qualification, or from outbound outreach to prospective customers. Here’s why.

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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

Outbound used to be painstaking and manual. Today, there are many sales tools that make outbound more accessible (Mixmax, Outreach, insidesales.com etc), which automates part of the process but also generates more noise and competition. Products trying to deepen differentiation by solving hard(er) problems/tech.