Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2021

or “Phone and email support are inefficient and causing my team to get swamped with inbound conversation volume, how can I fix this?” With self-serve support, your team can be empowered to provide support to more customers than ever before – and still reduce your inbound conversation volume. Building a self-serve support tech stack.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

I have traditionally been a believer that any form of marketing other than what is classified as, “Inbound” is typically a waste of money and time. As I think about it however, I actually think that this idea of, “Inbound marketing” is actually a bit ridiculous. Inbound marketing is a tool mostly purposed in driving new acquisitions.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2020

For all other times, use bots and other self-service tools to quickly get customers the answers they’re looking for” Messengers create that seamless experience because they provide a single place on your website and inside your app or product for people to connect with your team. Conversational support.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 4, 2018

For many years, B2B companies have executed their inbound sales funnel in a similar manner: Much like the word “funnel” suggests, it’s based on the idea to filter out the visitors and leads that aren’t ready to buy or aren’t qualified. Let’s look at how this came about. Invest in sales conversations, not touches.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2022

Consolidate your marketing stack and send multiple marketing communications (newsletter, onboarding, product announcements, promotions) from a single tool. Map your sender address to the inbound address your customers contact you from with Intercom’s updated sender address settings.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2020

In the face of the massive change the support landscape is currently experiencing, the one constant is that many companies are receiving rising numbers of inbound customer requests. Specify who can start a conversation from the Messenger to prioritize and manage your inbound support volume during busy times.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2021

Not only does this create a better customer experience, it also helps to reduce inbound conversation volumes for your support team so they can focus on answering more complex, high-impact questions. “59% It reduces inbound conversation volume without sacrificing customer happiness. Here are three major benefits of proactive support.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Support teams get a lot of repeated inbound questions, which get tedious to answer. We took an off-the-shelf Python search engine and built another test bot that could answer our own inbound support queries. Case study: Resolution Bot. The solution we reached for was to train the bot by mining historical questions.

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

This topic was inspired by a question that came up in the CDH community, where a member was looking for specific tools people had used to run in-app surveys. While Orion had started with a B2C focus, they got a lot of inbound interest in the B2B space. This survey would ask people whether they were using Orion for work or personal use.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 23, 2019

If you’re familiar with HubSpot, then the word that probably comes to mind is “inbound.”. In 2018, based on a new set of observations, we decided to update one of the core concepts of inbound marketing. Today, we’re going to adapt the inbound methodology to encompass tenets of customer success. From Funnel To Flywheel.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 18, 2022

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. Almost half (47%) of support teams are slowed down every week because their tools aren’t integrated.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 6, 2022

Custom Actions and Custom Objects enable your bots to access and store live data from tools like your internal databases, Shopify, or Salesforce, and resolve more queries than ever – no code required. Now you can map your sender address to the inbound address your customers contact you from.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 30, 2018

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. Find and pick the right sales tool. The first is owned by marketing and the second by sales.

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eG Innovations

MAY 3, 2021

This means that they spend (as do we) a lot of time proactively investigating and stress-testing systems, indeed we and many other vendors also provide tools within our products to assist in “kicking the tyres”. In this blog, I have listed ten tools and related techniques you can use to test your IT infrastructure resilience.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

A predictive lead scoring tool for B2B SaaS companies, MadKudu’s strategy is all about integrating with other platforms – including Intercom – to link customer intelligence and customer engagement. If a customer asks for a tool they haven’t integrated before, they consider whether it’s repeatable.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Empower your support team with translation tools. ??Rather Inbound conversations are automatically translated in your preferred language by leveraging artificial and human intelligence. At Intercom, we believe the right multilingual strategy pairs the best of human support with the best of automation. For example w?ith

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 30, 2018

With lots of inbound leads, you’ll need to prioritize which ones need a response first, and it’s not always as easy as you might expect to make this judgment call. We’ve outlined our top tips for getting context on your live chat conversations quickly: Use tools to establish who you’re talking to.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Challenge #2: Agents are wasting time jumping between tools. In addition to bandwidth challenges, Forrester’s research also showed that half of all support teams are wasting time inefficiently switching between various tools and platforms to solve customer issues. And when you do need to use other tools?

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2023

In this article, we’re going to unpack what a customer data platform (CDP) is, explore the best tools out there, and share a few attractive alternatives. TL;DR A customer data platform is a tool enabling you to collect, manage, store, and analyze data, which ultimately helps you better understand customer behavior. Sales teams.

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Userpilot

JULY 12, 2021

Data is the engine for SaaS, but without data analytics tools , your SaaS team will not be able to make sense of the data. The right set of SaaS analytics tools can help you generate actionable insights that fuel strategic decisions. But how do you ensure you’re picking the right tools?

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

When it comes to boosting your product growth, user tracking tools can make your life a lot easier. But how do you know you’re picking the right tools? In this article, we share key insights on user tracking tools based on their use cases, which will hopefully help you make up your mind. What is user tracking?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 30, 2018

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. Here at Intercom, we leverage multiple tools to stay on top of our leads. Don’t be afraid to roll the dice.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. So before you begin searching for specific tools, define your goals upfront.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Today I’m going to present you with 10 excellent open-source bug tracking tools that help you to get started with the bug tracking game. Most open source tools are the easiest way to learn something new or to set up a new workflow within your team. The Big List of Benefits of Having Bug Reporting Tools. Bugs aren’t different.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

At this level, your customer acquisition strategy needs to primarily be an organic one, based on inbound marketing, such as creating quality content that educates the market and attracts prospects to your site. If your application is a self-service one, focus on content and inbound marketing as your primary source of leads.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2020

So over the years, we’ve been able to build internal tools to cater to our team needs. “We’ve drastically reduced the amount of time and tools people needed to gather customer insights” Managers can now create flexible and persistent views in the Inbox for the conversations that matter on a day to day basis.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 24, 2020

Below, we share tips on how to proactively message customers and respond to inbound conversations in a way that’s helpful, respectful, and mindful. If your business is in a position to help, you may want to consider offering a discount, free tool, resource (like an ebook) or something else. Proactively communicating with customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 31, 2021

With a modern conversational support tool, like Intercom , you can apply multiple automated rules within each workflow. Seamlessly manage all of your tools from one inbox. What’s more, the majority of support teams have between six and 10 tools in their support tech stack alone. Be personal. Median first response rate.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Many support teams implemented the funnel and saw game-changing results, including reduced inbound conversation volume, faster resolution rates, and enhanced CSAT. When done right, these modern conversational support tools can supercharge your team’s capabilities and help you deliver personal, efficient support at any scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

But as with all technology, the right tools are only half the battle: you also need to ensure you’re using them in service of the right goals. How can you ensure you’re meeting the need for digital transformation and providing engaging customer experiences at scale – without wasting time and money on endless tools? Read more ?.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2023

The undeniable advances in artificial intelligence have led to a plethora of new AI productivity tools across the globe. From content creation, localization, image and video generation, or analytics, today we’ll be looking at the best tools that can help streamline various processes in just a few clicks!

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But, too often sales and marketing tech stacks are cobbled together from existing tools and workflows that have organically developed over time. It’s time for marketing and sales leaders to redefine tech stacks as growth stacks — the suite of tools that unlocks new ways of selling and better customer relationships.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 6, 2021

Support leaders say robust tools, KPIs, and handoff practices are key. At Intercom, we use tools like Guru to document all internal processes and make it easy for team members to access that information globally. Leverage multilingual support tools. Invest in workforce management resources.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The report highlighted how support teams were adopting conversational support tools to meet rising customer expectations and a flood of inbound queries. Almost half of support teams are slowed down because their tools aren’t integrated. Last month, we published the second edition.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 27, 2018

Whether you’re dealing with an inbound or outbound lead, this is a softball question that helps uncover your prospect’s motivations for checking out your product. For inbound leads I tailor the question to ask, “What drove you to request a demo?” What initially piqued your interest? How are you addressing this problem today?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 10, 2019

As a business grows, so does the number of inbound conversations they receive, often exceeding their real-time capacity to support. As your business scales, automatically triaging inbound conversations is a key piece of the puzzle. To get started weaving these support tools into your growing business, head this way.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2022

Call centers have historically been a popular way to offer that support by employing customer service representatives to assist both inbound and outbound queries from existing and potential customers over the phone. Call recording tools. How do call centers work? What is the difference between a call center and a contact center?

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