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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. Meanwhile customer expectations are rising – they expect better experiences and immediate support resolutions. Customer support is undergoing massive, irreversible change. The Conversational Support Funnel.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Four years later, and as the company moves decidedly upmarket with their customer base, it’s adapting its sales cycles to cater for bigger clients.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Speak the customer’s language.

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BrowserStack’s Mark Rudden on hypergrowth in a global pandemic

Intercom, Inc.

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Rather, everything is an iterative process of building the service, rolling it out to users and keep improving it as you get new data and feedback.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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Chili Piper’s Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe on bootstrapping your way to success

Intercom, Inc.

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. It teaches you some bad habits as well. I worked in healthcare, finance, media, in education.

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Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scaleable sales team from the ground up

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. Now, Maggie is the Director of Sales at Webflow , a web design tool that helps users design and build responsive, custom websites with no code whatsoever. Look for the team players.