Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You wouldn’t expect to find a Brand Studio at every tech startup, but then again, we’ve always enjoyed doing things a little bit differently. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: When it comes to creative projects, there’s always a risk of overkill. Branding is always evolving. Remember who your audience is.

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Start-ups B2B Customer Service 222

Intercom

JANUARY 11, 2024

A profound transformation is underway in customer service. Beyond the buzz of AI and having to manage teams through organizational restructuring and the evolving notion of support, CX leaders are also facing increasing customer expectations, dealing with the complexities of layoffs, and the ubiquitous task of doing more with less.

Customer Service 86

Customer Service CX AI Start-ups 86

Customer Service Life

OCTOBER 28, 2023

One such thing was requiring my team to end every call by asking customers, “Is there anything else I can help you with.” In an article, that is still one of my most commented-on blog posts , I spoke of the true intent of this question. actually means, “Customer, you’ve been talking for a long time.

Contact Center 104

Contact Center Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Customer Experience 104

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

Customer Experience 211

Customer Experience CX Start-ups Close the Loop 211

Inside Customer Service

AUGUST 12, 2021

Advertising disclosure: This blog participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. "We A Customer Service Tip of the Week subscriber sent me that message. We have totally lost control." Remain silent.

Customer Service 183

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Chatbots are supposed to be the fix – providing basic help to customers while taking pressure off the team behind the scenes. We need these chatbot interactions to be frequent enough to make a real impact on team capacity but thoughtful enough that they protect our hard-won customer relationships. But there’s some tension at play.

Start-ups 222

Start-ups Customer Relationship 222

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For one, Eoghan McCabe , our Co-founder and Chairman, returned to the role of CEO , the position he had held from our founding in 2011 until 2020 – and he is bringing a renewed focus on the customer service space, so you can expect to see even more innovation from us in that area. Zara Burke , Principal Editor.

Innovation 118

Innovation Customer Retention Machine Learning Customer Service 118

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 7, 2021

I recently received a letter from a listener on our podcast asking us to cover how a small business with limited resources can improve their Customer Experience using the behavioral sciences in their business. Understand what your customers want from your experience: Customers have goals, too. Another example is Netflix.

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Customer Experience Start-ups Customer Relationship Management Customer Relationship 177

Customer Service Life

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay It’s been 10 years since I wrote an article on this blog about the importance of never saying “No” to customers. Company leadership felt like there was almost always an opportunity to solve a problem for a customer and it just required the right amount of creativity.

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Contact Center Engineering Customer Service Sales 83

TeamSupport

JANUARY 22, 2024

Businesses are continually seeking innovative ways to enhance efficiency and improve the overall customer experience. In this blog, we will delve into the intricacies of automation, exploring its benefits, applications, and the core components that drive effective customer service automation. What is Automation? Why Automate?

Customer Service 59

Customer Service B2B AI Innovation 59

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Small changes are easier to build and faster to review, enabling us to deliver value to customers more quickly. No one gets it right all the time. Which customers experience the change: We rely on feature flags to validate changes in production and incrementally release them to customers. Managing complexity.

Engineering 138

Engineering Start-ups Gaming Sales 138

Execs In The Know

APRIL 26, 2023

After all, it’s no secret that doing things the same way as everyone else doesn’t always benefit an organization’s success. Successful business leaders understand that the world is always changing, and to stay ahead, they need to be able to adapt and evolve.

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CX Innovation Artificial Intelligence Gaming 98

Zendesk

MAY 25, 2022

Susana de Sousa spent four years working on Airbnb’s Customer Experience. Putting the “customer” in customer experience, Annette Franz might be LinkedIn’s most-read CX writer. You’ll follow her for the short, simple intros to complicated concepts—but you’ll stay for the great podcasts, blogs, and books.

CX 98

CX Social Media Start-ups Sports 98

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Your customers should know your employees by name. It’s more like a spiral staircase, and I would say mine is the same: you’re always heading in the same direction, it’s just the view looks a little bit different every couple of steps. Having that entrepreneurial mindset has always been there, I think. Specialize.

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Start-ups Sales Customer Experience Customer Retention 143

Totango

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Merging sales and customer success (CS) is a delicate art that is often challenging but necessary for driving business results and creating a frictionless customer journey. Teaming leaders from each of these functions to focus on a respective industry, these “pods” work together to build deep knowledge and vertical expertise.

Sales 90

Sales Scorecard NPS Customer Acquisition 90

CSAT.AI

MARCH 8, 2023

No one is perfect, and that includes your customers. Even with the best intentions, they might not always phrase their questions in the clearest (or nicest) way possible. In this blog post, we will discuss how you can ensure your customers get the right answer. Teach customers the right language to use.

Sentiment Analysis 91

Sentiment Analysis AI Sales Customer Service 91

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2022

Intercom felt like a good choice because it was at just the right stage”. Intercom felt like a good choice because it was at just the right stage. As part of onboarding I was assigned a buddy who I could ask questions about my work, or the company in general, and my teammates were always there to help.

Engineering 118

Engineering Start-ups Technology Technology 118

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 3, 2023

As a customer success team, it’s essential to stay agile and in tune with your customers’ evolving needs. To truly understand what your customers value and appreciate about your products, services, or offerings – as well as their experience with you – requires engaging directly with them. Value Vectors by Vecteezy.

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Net Promoter Score NPS Customer Loyalty Innovation 81

Comm100

MARCH 20, 2024

When done right, digital communication offers governments and agencies the opportunity to build, maintain, and restore trust. This blog explores the decline of public trust in government, backed by data from the U.S., Learn how WCB Manitoba adopted Comm100 Live Chat to improve customer satisfaction in the video below: 1.

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Government Social Media Artificial Intelligence Legal 78

Steven Van Belleghem

JUNE 6, 2023

Lead Companies with a successful customer centric culture – from Apple and Amazon to Starbucks and Glossier – stand out with these 2 things: they have a strong customer vision and leaders who show with their decisions and actions that they will always and forever put the customer first.

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Construction Engineering Retail CX 62

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Note: This blog post was originally published in January 12th, 2017. By making the most of live chat features while working on the human side of live chat interactions, it’s possible to see improved outcomes and deliver superior customer service. 83% of customers expect immediate engage when contacting a company.

Customer Service 98

Customer Service Start-ups Government Customer Expectations 98

Totango

JULY 22, 2022

When facing a struggling economy, it’s more important than ever to keep your customers engaged and reminded of why your products and services are critical to their success. At Totango, our goal is always to provide the best possible tools to help you meet and exceed your customer success goals in both good and challenging economic times.

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Scorecard NPS Customer Retention Start-ups 101

Execs In The Know

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Execs In The Know recently held its Fall 2021 Customer Response Summit (CRS) event (October 18–22, 2021) featuring nearly two dozen online, virtual sessions including engaging panels, a featured case study, highly informative Shop Talks, and five powerful keynote presentations from these top brands: Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Randy Bassett.

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Construction Innovation Customer Service Customer Experience 98

Totango

JANUARY 6, 2022

If you’ve been following along in our series about burnout and mental health in customer success, then you already know how to spot signs of burnout on your CS team and ways to help fight burnout as a CS leader. Wondering why something as simple as taking a few deep breaths is almost always on any list of stress management techniques?

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Start-ups 87

Lumoa

AUGUST 18, 2022

” – a never-ending question asked to a customer in multiple ways and various forms. Somehow, it feels like it’s a DeJa’Vu moment happening daily because as what every company tells its customers, “Your opinion matters” or “You are important to us”. Are you asking the right questions? I mean, we get it.

Customer Journey Map 83

Customer Journey Map Close the Loop Customer Feedback Start-ups 83

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

When it comes to making something people want, Hubert Palan always does his homework. With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. The best way to know your customers is through feedback. That was the business part.

Engineering 225

Engineering Start-ups E-commerce Sales 225

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 31, 2019

You might think chatbots are only for customer support, but using them to answer your customers’ questions is just one way to leverage chatbots. With the right setup, a chatbot can power your marketing as well so you never miss a lead. How Volvo Cars uses bots to provide custom quotes. By using chatbots.

Sales 177

Sales Start-ups Engineering Technology 177

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

How would she provide the right technical direction for the company? When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Today’s guest has been through just that.

Engineering 204

Engineering Start-ups Machine Learning Education 204

SurveySensum

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In today’s highly competitive business landscape, companies that prioritize customer feedback are more likely to stay ahead of the curve and meet the evolving expectations of their customers As a business owner, I was so focused on what I thought was suitable for my product that I forgot to notice customer feedback.

Customer Feedback 52

Customer Feedback Construction Start-ups CX 52

Totango

APRIL 8, 2022

Mapping out your customer journey is not an easy task. Meet the Customer Experience Canvas. This new tool from Totango is the first and only solution that enables you to visually design, build, run, measure and iterate on any customer journey in real time. It can be complicated and messy and difficult to see the path forward.

Customer Journey Map 97

Customer Journey Map Start-ups Customer Experience 97

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 21, 2019

Online marketing content has long been dominated by brands creating product descriptions, how-to guides, branded articles, and blog posts to promote their business. The customer essentially does all the hard work, but the problem with consumer review sites is that brands have little control over the type of content that’s published.

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Start-ups Customer Acquisition B2B Business Operations 172

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. Geoffrey: Rich, thanks for joining us.

Engineering 192

Engineering Technology Technology Start-ups 192

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 16, 2023

Providing exceptional customer success begins with listening to your customers. It’s essential to create an environment of trust and open communication, where customers feel heard, valued, and appreciated. As a customer service leader, it’s up to you to ensure that their valuable feedback is not only collected but acted upon.

Social Media 64

Social Media Customer Feedback Customer Experience Customer Service 64

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2021

Blog articles, podcasts, ebooks, and videos have been the bread and butter for content marketers for a long time now. “Content marketers are in a very tricky spot because there is this more traditional path of content, of being very focused on blogging, SEO, and growth through publishing a lot of blog posts.

Innovation 118

Innovation B2B Start-ups Education 118

Customer Bliss

JUNE 9, 2021

Both customer and company are better off because they are in each other’s lives. By sharing information about their products and pricing, and by openly transferring knowledge to customers they prove they want to do what’s best for them. As a result, they are earning customer raves and growth. Ernest Hemingway.

Hospitality 115

Hospitality Hospitality Customer Relationship Business Growth 115

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This feature, if it solves a customer problem, results in measurable changes in how customers behave in your product, and ultimately this behavior change delivers an impact to your business. It wasn’t enough to efficiently solve customer problems; we needed to be thinking about how we were helping our business to be more successful.

Start-ups 281

Start-ups Gambling Engineering Customer Retention 281

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 28, 2020

We’ve had discussions about their role in developing a customer experience strategy within their organization or for other organizations, and about how they’ve had to recently pivot in their jobs. Don’t Assume; Check-in with Customers to Understand How They Feel and Where They Stand. Here’s our plan for H2.

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Customer Journey Map Start-ups Customer Retention Innovation 129