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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. Help customers navigate known issues with Outbound Messages. What is proactive customer support?

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The ultimate customer support tech stack for 2022

Intercom, Inc.

To achieve this seemingly elusive balance, it connects these three support layers and core capabilities: Proactive support that helps you get ahead of known problems before they reach your team using outbound messages , product tours , and mobile carousels. Integrated knowledge base. It includes: Live chat. Proactive messaging.

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Marketing doesn’t stop when you’ve acquired a customer

Intercom, Inc.

I wrote our docs , hosted our webinars , created our help videos and managed our outbound messaging to customers. It really is our “knowledge base” Look beyond FAQs. Bootstrapping “Product Education” When I first joined Intercom, my role didn’t really have a name. I wore many hats.

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Helping from afar: Running customer support remotely

Intercom, Inc.

Guru: If your support inbox integrates with other apps, build an app that lets your team easily search your knowledge base as they support customers. We send automated outbound messages based on actions that the user has taken (or not). Bring in support automation and self-service. Help Center.

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Built for you: Workflow updates, Articles API, and more to help you engage customers efficiently

Intercom, Inc.

Many of you use multiple help centers or third-party knowledge bases to support different groups of users. Improve your outbound messages with new message versioning. Keep tabs on key metrics by downloading or subscribing to the reports that matter to you.

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What is conversational AI?

Intercom, Inc.

These bots can communicate in outbound efforts, or they can reply to inbound conversations. In some cases, conversational AI solutions can be trained on FAQs or knowledge base articles to resolve customer issues, and can even be programmed to give instant responses using the brand’s preferred voice and tone.

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Top 7 Help Center Software in 2025

Userpilot

Knowledge bases : are online libraries of FAQs, articles, and how-to guides. Self-service features like knowledge bases or in-app resource centers help users solve simple questions on their own. 5 Checklists, product updates, knowledge base, in-app AI assistant. Document360 Quote based pricing 4.7/5