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Intercom turns 10: Highlights from our first decade

Intercom, Inc.

Sensing an opportunity, they switched their focus and Intercom was born – the app was released in private beta in July and the company was founded in August, 2011. It’s hard to recall now, but before Intercom released the world’s first in-app messenger in 2011, the chat bubble was not a ubiquitous feature of apps or websites.

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2022 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

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.

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16 Best Product Marketing Campaigns To Inspire Your Own

Userpilot

To create a successful product marketing strategy, you need to set tangible goals, create user personas to understand your target audience better, and develop messaging that showcases your unique value proposition. Userpilot markets new features to existing users with in-app messages. Run product experiments and analyze results.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

The state of tooling in 2010 or 2011 was that there was no Stripe, there was no subscription management and the idea of a SaaS economy was just nonsense. We incorporated in San Francisco on August 15th, 2011, I think. At the time, we were all based in Dublin. Once we got the money, we immediately started hiring.

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The Ultimate Guide to SaaS Customer Success in 2022

Userpilot

Oracle’s 2011 CEI report found that 86% of buyers are willing to pay more for a product if they have a better customer experience. Having interactive product guides at the start of the onboarding process is another practice that can reduce inbound support tickets while improving the customer experience.

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New at Intercom uncut: Watch our entire virtual launch event

Intercom, Inc.

And we have over 180,000 teammates logging into Intercom every month, using our platform to send over 500 million messages and reply to over 20 million conversations. We’re used to being left on hold, being swamped with irrelevant messages in spam, trying new products or features that are just hard to navigate and use.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

For those of you that don’t know, DataSift launched efficiently in end of 2011 with a proposition that was pretty hearty. We also drove a huge amount of inbound. Of course we all start with bigger ambitions – to nail it, to crush it, to knock it out of the park and all those other colloquialisms we’ve come to love.