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Moving from reactive to proactive customer support

Intercom, Inc.

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. At Intercom, our Support Ops and Product Education teams work hand-in-hand to deliver proactive support to our customers.

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

Intercom, Inc.

With the right strategy and proactive support tools – think Outbound Messages , Product Tours , Mobile Carousels , and Banners – you can alert customers to known issues, like delivery delays, bugs in your product, and website downtime. Educate customers on new features. Product engagement metrics.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Brian also shares HubSpot’s strategy for creating an industry-defining category that helped more than 86,000 customers in over 120 countries move from unwelcome outbound marketing to permission-based inbound marketing. For HubSpot, that enemy was outbound marketing. Driving connection and growth with conversational relationships.

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

Intercom, Inc.

It’s usually easier to apply this principle to individual feature levels and interaction design, where we express our opinions through defaults, templates, and education, rather than restrictions. Examples include: Offering defaults and templates when creating outbound messages . Enabling different filters on reports (e.g.

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Marketing-Led Growth: How It Differs From Other Growth Strategies?

Userpilot

Content marketing is an effective way to increase brand awareness and educate customers on how to use the product for their use cases. Webinars play an important educational role. Such an outbound approach distinguishes it from the MLG strategy, which focuses more on inbound initiatives like content creation and distribution.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

I ended up getting a job at Udemy, an online education marketplace that had just raised a seed round of funding. As an online education platform, your users (course instructors) are making a big bet, where it may take a while to see results. We were building an online education marketplace and wanted to build the Amazon for courses.

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Creating An Enterprise SaaS Marketing Strategy

Userpilot

Enterprise SaaS marketing is the process of acquiring enterprise-level customers through various methods often centering around outbound marketing, account-based marketing (ABM), and paid advertising among other channels. When your marketing strategy focuses on outbound, it’s not so clear. What is enterprise SaaS marketing?