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From first touch to qualified lead: How to use live chat for sales

Intercom, Inc.

For many years, B2B companies have executed their inbound sales funnel in a traditional manner that looked a little something like this: Visitor prospects. This can involve calls, emails, targeted messages, and other highly personalized one-to-one outreach. A quick chat with six messages made them 250% more likely to convert.

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Tips for using Intercom to help with your Covid-19 response

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve written about how you can manage your customer communications in a crisis detailing how you can proactively make it easier for your customers to get the answers they’re looking for, as well as on dealing with the inbound queries that you might be facing. Do send messages to engaged recipients only.

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Announcing ‘The Intercom Customer Support Trends Report for 2022’

Intercom, Inc.

It shone a spotlight on how forward-thinking support teams were adopting conversational support tools – like proactive messaging capabilities and chatbots – to meet rising customer expectations and mounting inbound queries. Discover the 5 customer support trends to watch in 2022.

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Customer care in a crisis: How support teams are navigating shifts in volume, wait times, and CSAT

Intercom, Inc.

Below, we share how the outbreak has impacted three key support metrics – inbound volume, wait times, and CSAT scores – and advice from respected leaders on how to continue caring for your customers in a crisis. Inbound volume is spiking for half of support teams. The increased volume is affecting businesses of all types.

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Found in translation: How multilingual support helps you scale customer experiences

Intercom, Inc.

Three tips to providing excellent multilingual support. Inbound conversations are automatically translated in your preferred language by leveraging artificial and human intelligence. Customers then see a message in their native language. So where should you begin? Use chatbots to improve resolution times.

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Capture your invisible pipeline of sales leads

Intercom, Inc.

The most common way to think about leads is to put them in two buckets: inbound and outbound. And unlike your visible pipeline of inbound and outbound leads, your invisible leads can’t be called or emailed. Here are a few tips: Before you do anything, define your criteria for a high value lead.

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Built for you: Resolution Bot, API 2.0, permissions, and more to help you scale

Intercom, Inc.

Integration with Custom Bots : If you use Custom Bots to triage inbound conversations, you can now set up Resolution Bot to jump into those conversations and answer common questions. Easier to use outbound messaging. You can now get WhatsApp messages from your customers in Intercom and easily reply to them from the Inbox!