Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 18, 2023

It can be quite a challenge to find and address the points of friction that are chasing your customers away. But while acquiring new customers is obviously a critical part of having a business, it’s hardly sustainable if they only ever stick around for a few months. “Are you attracting and engaging the right customers?

Customer Acquisition 118

Customer Acquisition Customer Retention Actionable Insights Customer Feedback 118

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our chat.

Engineering 214

Engineering Start-ups Innovation Outlook 214

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2018

What you’re experiencing is the result of almost a year’s work, designed not just to showcase the breadth of content we publish, but to make it easy for you to discover and consume it. We still love that audience, but we now offer products for sales , marketing and support teams and have been going deep on those topics as well.

Engineering 162

Engineering Social Media Customer Acquisition Start-ups 162

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

At Intercom, we believe the best products are built with the market in mind. That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . In fact, only 4% of PMMs think other teams in their company fully understand what they do. .

Start-ups 138

Start-ups Sales Gaming 138

Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

You read blog posts and research articles if you want to learn more about a specific topic. Although it makes sense to search for information online where you can find up-to-date answers to specific questions, what about getting a more comprehensive understanding by reading a book about the topic. I hold nothing back.

Customer Experience 94

Customer Experience Customer Experience Management CX Start-ups 94

CX Accelerator

JUNE 27, 2019

Originally posted on the Rustici Software Blog Last month, I presented to the Nashville Network of Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) and shared how we’ve built a remarkable place to work at Rustici Software and how that leads to providing exceptional service to our customers.

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CX Customer Experience 243

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

Fonolo

JULY 5, 2023

Customer perception has never mattered more. In the age of social media backlash and call-out culture, how your customers feel about your brand is key to your success. Here’s your complete guide to improving customer perception of your business. What is Customer Perception?

Social Media 104

Social Media Sports Customer Satisfaction Net Promoter Score 104

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2020

It’s a challenging time right now, and you might be seeing more customer conversations as a result. We’re also republishing this Help Center article to further help you reduce your Support team’s load so they can provide your customers with the personal support they need. Custom Bots. Resolution Bot.

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Start-ups 160

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Small changes are easier to build and faster to review, enabling us to deliver value to customers more quickly. This is the seventh post in a series exploring our product principles. Which customers experience the change: We rely on feature flags to validate changes in production and incrementally release them to customers.

Engineering 138

Engineering Start-ups Gaming Sales 138

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Product management is about solving problems. How can we help our users complete their job-to-be-done cheaper, faster or easier? Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. Short on time?

Invoicing 195

Invoicing Engineering Start-ups Customer Feedback 195

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs. And working at G2, she has access to a lot of data about what people are looking for.

B2B 118

B2B Education Start-ups Agriculture 118

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. If you find this valuable, check out more episodes of our podcast.

Engineering 192

Engineering Technology Technology Start-ups 192

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Val has experience in a number of different sectors, having started out as a stage manager for operas before moving onto life as a virtual assistant and eventually setting up her own consultancy firm, Fix My Churn. Your customers should know your employees by name. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

Start-ups 143

Start-ups Sales Customer Experience Customer Retention 143

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

? ?. If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. Here are five quick takeaways: You must establish deep empathy for the customer. Short on time?

Start-ups 179

Start-ups Innovation Engineering Retail 179

Inside Customer Service

APRIL 29, 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 and affiliated sites. Dining out quickly loses its luster when you travel for work. I needed to find a solution.

Start-ups 147

Start-ups Customer Service Customer Experience 147

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Most of us have been working remotely, isolated from friends, family, and coworkers, uncertain of what the future might bring, and it has all taken a toll on our mental health. We’re stressed, exhausted, overworked, and burned out. Today’s guest, Marilyn Suttle , has a few ideas on how to do just that. Short on time?

Start-ups 118

Start-ups Social Media Education Customer Service 118

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. What do we mean by the term “review sites”? These sites have dedicated expert editors who rate and review the products.

Start-ups 172

Start-ups Customer Acquisition B2B Business Operations 172

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. We discuss how we’ve approached it historically at Intercom and how this process has evolved with us to make room for a wider audience. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap.

Engineering 165

Engineering Start-ups Finance Sales 165

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. We discuss how we’ve approached it historically at Intercom and how this process has evolved with us to make room for a wider audience. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap.

Engineering 165

Engineering Start-ups Finance Sales 165

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 11, 2021

On the surface, B2B customer support issues might look quite different from those of B2C. But despite these differences, Farhan Virji , VP of Customer Happiness at Later , believes that there is actually quite a lot that B2B support teams can learn from their B2C colleagues. Great support is key for retention.

B2C 118

B2C B2B Social Media Start-ups 118

ProProfs

JULY 3, 2020

However, browsing through innumerable quiz categories to find the right quiz can be a little tiring. So, dive-in, explore, and take as many quizzes you want. Watch: How to Create a Quiz Online (with ProProfs). Want to play a fun quiz to entertain yourself and share it with your friends on social media? Blogging Quizzes.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Sports Social Media Finance 99

Callminer

APRIL 21, 2020

The role of a call center manager is complex and challenging. Call center managers may be involved with hiring and training call center agents , monitoring call center metrics tied to agent performance , using speech analytics tools for ongoing quality monitoring , providing ongoing feedback and coaching, and more. Hassan Alnassir.

Gaming 182

Gaming Non-Profits Contact Center Sales 182

Doing CX Right

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Who owns customer service? You finally find that perfect product, a new laptop, home fitness equipment, or maybe a gift for your partner on a big anniversary. It isn’t what you expected. Clearly you are unhappy—or, really, irate—so, what do you do? Know what you want. So disappointing.

Customer Service 126

Customer Service Social Media CX Customer Satisfaction 126

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. What can we do different and better in the year ahead? The best of the blog.

Engineering 150

Engineering Start-ups Gaming Sales 150

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Managers and leaders are different.

Engineering 141

Engineering Gaming Start-ups Machine Learning 141

Aquire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

If you want your customers to stick around, it’s important you understand how to reduce customer churn rate. Of course, some level of churn is inevitable — no matter how much effort you put into satisfying your customers. What is customer churn rate? How to calculate churn rate.

Customer Retention 98

Customer Retention Education Start-ups Social Media 98

Execs In The Know

APRIL 29, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way customers think – and what they want. Most consumers report that they are expecting the global health crisis to kickstart business improvements and innovation and accelerate digitization, while overall they are looking for a cohesive, safe, and customized experience.

CX 98

CX Actionable Insights Touchpoint Technology 98

SurveySensum

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Have you ever wondered how the most successful SaaS products continue to thrive and meet the ever-evolving customer needs? To answer this, we explore three key questions that product developers commonly face: How do they know what users really want? By leveraging the product feedback platform.

Close the Loop 52

Close the Loop Social Media Customer Retention Text Analytics 52

SixteenVentures

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Generative Artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT – and now Bing Chat – is transforming the way we communicate and work, especially in Customer Success. These AI-powered tools offer unique benefits to Customer Success Managers (CSMs) and Enablement pros like: enhancing search, language generation, and productivity.

AI 60

AI Engineering Artificial Intelligence Innovation 60

Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . When we look back at the customer support industry in 2010, we see a very different beast to the one we work in today. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020. Shep Hyken.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Contact Center Social Media CX 136

Lumoa

APRIL 21, 2022

Wayne Dyer Act 1 The Customer Support Blues “Does Customer Support have enough of a mandate to drive improvements in customer satisfaction?” When I started thinking about writing a piece on transforming customer support, this question immediately came to mind. What will your answer be? Believe me, I’ve been there.

Non-Profits 83

Non-Profits Customer Satisfaction Outlook Technology 83

Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. Your culture is the set of beliefs held by your employees about your company: who and what it is for, what it values, and how they act in response to those beliefs.

Customer Service 139

Customer Service Sales Start-ups Voice of the Customer 139

Aquire

AUGUST 30, 2021

What does a small business like that do better than other businesses? If we had to pick one thing (apart from freshly baked goods), it’d be personalized customer service. Thanks to their lower sales volumes, small businesses can easily get to know who their customers are and what they want. Screenshot from Amazon.

Customer Service 98

Customer Service Omnichannel Social Media B2B 98

Execs In The Know

APRIL 25, 2024

Conversational AI, often referred to as chatbots or virtual assistants, has promised many industries that the exorbitant costs of human-led support would decrease significantly through the automation of customer interactions. LLMs have effectively changed how this market will function for the foreseeable future.

AI 52

AI CXM Engineering Business Operations 52

Comm100

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Google’s autocomplete suggestions can be pretty telling in what people around the world are thinking about their customers – and as well as Google itself, there’s some great tools out there to help curious customer service professionals see all of the questions people are asking about customers all around the internet.

Start-ups 128

Start-ups Customer Service Social Media Contact Center 128

Lumoa

JANUARY 9, 2018

Customer experience has been already a hot topic in business during 2017 and is promising to be even of higher importance in 2018. “CX It’s predicted, that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator when making consumer choices. How to overcome those challenges?

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CX Customer Experience Artificial Intelligence Omnichannel 141