Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2019

In 2018, we doubled the size of our R&D teams to continue building best in class products with non-stop innovation. In 2018, we set out on our own path to make our mark where we felt others had fallen short. In doing so, they have been able to unlock new efficiencies for their teams and their customers.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 14, 2020

So, what can these brands do to capture, analyze, and act on these changing customer behaviors? We’re thankful that our annual Mobile App Engagement Report was published right around the time that everything started to really shift in the U.S. Customer sentiment distribution. Mobile app customer retention data.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2018

2018 is shaping up to be a massive year for the Intercom platform. Historically, we’ve spent proportionately way more on research and development than other software companies we track, and that won’t stop any time soon. Yet some things have changed in that time that give it the potential to be more than a marketing gimmick.

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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. Here is our collection of the Inside Intercom highlights from 2018. The best of the blog.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 30, 2020

No matter your business, change and investment in new Voice of the Customer (VoC) technology can be scary. But regardless of response, the hard truth is that Voice of the Customer expectations have accelerated leaps and bounds over the last decade, and have only continued picking up speed. Source: NICE Satmetrix, 2018.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 30, 2020

Picture this: Your customer is about to hit “checkout” when the whole app crashes. As a product manager, you’re probably on the other end, watching the app user analytics roll in, wondering why shopping cart abandonment has suddenly spiked. Customers are dropping like flies and you have no idea why.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

By now, marketers and product owners in every space understand the importance of listening to their customers. Being available to gather and respond to customer feedback is becoming more the norm for most companies, but it doesn’t mean it’s getting any easier to take on alone. Your Customers Expect to be Heard.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

According to AppAnnie’s 2019 State of Mobile Report , consumers sourced food and drinks through apps 130% more often in 2018 than in 2016. Clearly, people enjoy the convenience of having their meals delivered without having to talk to someone on the phone, or repeating their address and credit card information every time.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 11, 2019

Although all apps are published to the same app stores, customer expectations and use cases vary tremendously between app categories. It’s important to remember that all apps aren’t expected to be created equal, and app publishers shouldn’t all take the same approach to engagement and user experience. Be proactive.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

If users don’t stick around, they won’t learn and inevitably won’t share Duolingo with their friends. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million.

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Userzoom

APRIL 17, 2018

From invisible UI to emotional personalisation to biometric authentication, which UI trends will be rocking our experts’ socks off in 2018? So over the last couple of weeks we asked some of the most respected UX professionals the following question… What do you think will be the biggest UI trend in 2018? Look, we get it.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 25, 2019

What if you could get a daily pulse on how your customers feel and how that changes over. What if you could watch how customer sentiment changes in real-time following. It could be the driving force in making data-driven product roadmap decisions and having a comprehensive view of customer sentiment.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 2, 2019

Equally important, it requires confidence that the vision is aligned with the needs of the customers the company exists to serve. Organizations must develop a deep understanding of their customers to gain this level of confidence. Organizations must develop a deep understanding of their customers to gain this level of confidence.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 20, 2019

Even big brands have had their fair share of angry outpour from disgruntled customers and survived. While larger companies’ reputations can sustain a few blows without actually collapsing, small businesses can’t rely on the benefit of the doubt to amortize customers’ wrath as effectively. Show Your Customers You Care.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2021

We have achieved a great deal in the past decade – we have built a lot of great product , hired hundreds of wonderful people , and helped thousands of amazing companies form lasting relationships with their own customers. It’s in our nature to look forward, to focus on shipping , to keep innovating and providing value.

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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. In 2018, our co-founder Des adopted a new internal mantra: “It’s all about market impact.”. As we scaled, that had to change.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 30, 2020

In times like these, we could all use friends, supporters, collaborators. And as businesses, we could all use partners to forge stronger relationships with our customers. Since unveiling the Intercom App Store in 2018, we’ve worked with many of you to launch over 240 apps on the Intercom platform. Here’s how they work.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 6, 2018

On December 5, 2018, we hosted a webinar on how product managers can better understand their customers. Product leaders constantly strive to improve their products to drive greater engagement, grow revenue, and delight customers. In order to move the needle, you need to listen—and we mean really listen—to customer feedback.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 11, 2019

I’m really proud to have been part of the team who launched Echo’s new website – our digital pharmacy users can now manage their medication from whichever device they like, without downloading our app. Enter real users, and their real concerns. To test our hypotheses, we conducted user research. Straightforward, right?

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 22, 2019

They provide social proof and are responsible for making the first impression on a customer when they encounter your app in the app store. Additionally, fifty-five percent of respondents said a one-star or two-star app store rating of a well-known brand’s app negatively impacts their view of the brand as a whole.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2019

Short on time? Here are five quick takeaways: As our pace of shipping increases, it’s important to take the time to understand the difference between output and outcome. You’ll know they’re effective if over time you have the absence of things slowing you down. Are people using the things you shipped?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 21, 2020

This information is critical for most product managers and mobile marketers to optimize the mobile customer experience. We published six new research reports today – each industry-specific guide reveals exclusive benchmark data gathered from more than 800 mobile apps with 5,000+ active users. Retail & Shopping.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 16, 2019

Consider these scenarios for a moment: Scenario 1 : Supermarket giant, Tesco launches a mobile app for customers. It serves the purpose of a virtual grocery store for customers who are time-pressed to go and shop physically. percent same-store sales growth by early 2018. The results? Let the numbers do all the talking.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

At the close of 2020, when we’re on the brink of entering a new decade, we thought it’d be a good time for a little history lesson. With more people entering the Product landscape than ever, now is a good time to help the newbies understand where Product Management came from, and how far the industry has come. Sound familiar?

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 21, 2020

As we look ahead to our “new normal,” Finance app product managers and marketers must plan for usage swings both positive and negative depending on their offerings, and even within different pieces of their mobile experiences. Data from our 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 reports is included to show shifts in brand focus and engagement over time.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

I joined Setapp as a product manager in January last year, at the same time as the company was launching its main product. Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. Back then, it was almost every Mac user in the world).

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

So while these shifts in consumer behaviors may be expedited by current circumstances, many unexpected industries were already exploring how to adopt B2B strategies for B2C – without losing the personal customer relationships that are at the core of their businesses. We sell social experiences.” Learning from B2B. It’s a ritual.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So we’re going to revisit the hottest topics of late 2018 and predict the UI design trends of 2019. We intend these UI trends to not only satisfy users’ aesthetic requirements but also provide them with a high level of usability. A wise combination of these trends will lead to happier users, and ergo your product’s success.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 15, 2019

Collecting and making sense of mobile customer feedback isn’t a walk in the park for product managers and marketers. It can take months to set up a first version and years to get it right as sorting through feedback from different customer segments is difficult, especially as the size of your customer base grows.

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Product Management University

MAY 7, 2020

It has been a lot of fun and a great learning experience. Quick background…our online product management training and certification program was released in late 2018. Customers register, pay, go through the training lessons, complete the exercises and take the certification exam without any interaction from Proficientz.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 10, 2020

In addition to content, timing of surveys is critical. A survey that interrupts a customer’s in-app experience will rarely be well-received. The data in this post shows us how winning brands design in-app surveys for great customer feedback flows. Over 150 S&P companies cited NPS in 2018 earnings calls.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Products made for older customers are getting a makeover Image Credit: Katie Mims Who do you sell your product to? Is there a possibility that your product is being used by older customers? Older Customers Product managers know that older customers have long complained that products designed for them are clunky and unattractive.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Looking for real-life customer-led marketing examples that worked to get inspiration for your own campaigns? You’ve probably had enough theories already, so this article cuts to the chase to show you examples from top brands that are killing it with this approach. Calendly includes its customers in growth loops.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 12, 2021

Few people are better advocates for a unified view of the customer experience than Dan O’Connell. He’s been the Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at Dialpad, the cloud communication platform, since the spring of 2018, but his fascination for conversations and natural language processing came even sooner.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Intent on expanding the business to offer more to their users, the company observed a gap in the market and took a chance on something very different. In 2018, Calm quadrupled its revenue to become a profitable business. Since Sleep Stories, retention rates and time on app have increased dramatically. A subtle, but huge, win.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It was what I later learned was the classic startup experience of really smart founders and founding team have an idea that’s really clever, don’t validate it at all in the market, build a product, build out a team, realize they don’t have product-market fit, and just freak out and don’t know what to do.

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