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The biggest challenges facing support teams right now (and how to solve them)

Intercom, Inc.

As a result, we’ve seen some major, long-lasting changes to how businesses and consumers communicate and build relationships with one another: The popularity of messaging channels is on the rise – messenger-based support is now the second most used support channel. Download your copy of the thought leadership paper now. Sound familiar?

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License to sell: 5 strategies to hit your sales quota

Intercom, Inc.

As an Inbound Sales Development Rep, I face the challenge of not having any control over the leads that get passed to me. Here at Intercom, we use live chat to qualify our inbound leads. I use the snooze button to remind myself to follow up with leads who haven’t responded to my last message. Don’t be afraid to roll the dice.

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The future of customer acquisition with HubSpot’s Meghan Keaney Anderson

Intercom, Inc.

Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018. With the advent of word of mouth marketing, she along with the HubSpot leadership team is steering the company to do things differently. Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018. And yet, bafflingly, 66% of companies aren’t asking their willing(!)

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Dialpad’s Dan O’Connell on how an all-in-one support approach can drive revenue

Intercom, Inc.

Messaging, voice, video – companies should leverage all these different ways of interacting with Only then can they seamlessly escalate conversations from chat messages to phone calls or video calls, depending on what the person or the situation requires. At Intercom, we use the term conversation to describe our messaging tickets.

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2022 customer support trends: How support leaders are adapting

Intercom, Inc.

The report highlighted how support teams were adopting conversational support tools to meet rising customer expectations and a flood of inbound queries. To keep up with these changes, last year we released our first Intercom Customer Support Trends Report. Last month, we published the second edition.

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Strategies to take your customer support global

Intercom, Inc.

” These team leads are critical for ensuring on-the-ground support for team members and keeping leadership apprised of issues that need to be addressed globally. Luckily, real-time translation tools such as Unbabel and Lokalise can help you quickly translate customer messages and conversations in nearly every language imaginable.

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The Three True-North Metrics that Your Product and Business Need

The Product Coalition

Here are a few examples of NSMs (some taken from Sean’s book Hacking Growth) : WhatsApp users come for free, rich, secure messaging. Each message sent is therefore an increment of value. If the total number of messages is growing, this is most likely a positive sign that the company is accomplishing its mission.

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