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Media Apps: 2020 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmarks

Alchemer Mobile

Data from our 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , and 2019 reports is included to show shifts in brand focus and engagement over time. Average inbound and outbound message volume. The report is meant to serve as a yardstick for companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback and engagement metrics stack up against the market.

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Building Resolution Bot: How to apply machine learning in product development

Intercom, Inc.

Support teams get a lot of repeated inbound questions, which get tedious to answer. Resolution Bot took us just under a year to build, from first prototype in November 2017 to launch. We took an off-the-shelf Python search engine and built another test bot that could answer our own inbound support queries.

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Intercom turns 10: Highlights from our first decade

Intercom, Inc.

In 2016 and 2017, we took these talks on the road with the incredibly ambitious Inside Intercom World Tours , filling venues in more than a dozen cities with a stunning audiovisual experience. The 2017 tour ran for six months, visited 10 cities with 12 speakers, and had around 6,000 attendees in total.

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The future of customer acquisition with HubSpot’s Meghan Keaney Anderson

Intercom, Inc.

Amazon collected 42% of all purchases made online in 2017. Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018. Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018. The numbers behind this u-turn are staggering. Facebook and Google commanded 60% of the world’s advertising dollars.

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Catch up with New at Intercom, our fall product launch event

Intercom, Inc.

For the past year, our product and engineering teams have been building game-changing features that will help you manage inbound support volume, make your work faster and easier, provide a high-quality customer experience, and help your customers get the most out of your product. Three, they are slow.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. In fact, they often have little insight into whether or not reps have actually advanced inbound leads or not.

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Andrew Chen on finding the “fresh powder” in growth

Intercom, Inc.

Adam: You wrote a great piece in 2017 outlining an economy where startups are getting cheaper to build but more expensive to grow. Andrew: Brian Balfour was previously the VP of growth at HubSpot, which invented inbound marketing and a bunch of other important concepts. Fighting channel fatigue.