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How live chat can warm up your cold outbound leads

Intercom, Inc.

For most sales teams, “personalizing” a cold email simply means referencing a person’s job title or company and sending them links to case studies or blog posts in the hope of generating a single click-through. From outbound to inbound. The conversation typically ends after that click.

Outbound 218
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From first touch to qualified lead: How to use live chat for sales

Intercom, Inc.

For many years, B2B companies have executed their inbound sales funnel in a traditional manner that looked a little something like this: Visitor prospects. Using live chat for sales, you can: Qualify inbound leads using customizable bots that ask relevant, targeted questions. Marketing qualified lead (MQL). Sales qualified lead (SQL).

Inbound 245
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Building Resolution Bot: How to apply machine learning in product development

Intercom, Inc.

Case study: Resolution Bot. Support teams get a lot of repeated inbound questions, which get tedious to answer. I think the ups and downs of that year – the things we are proud of, and the things we messed up – provide a good case study for how to approach an ML project.

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How pricing strategy helps shape your entire business model

Intercom, Inc.

At this level, your customer acquisition strategy needs to primarily be an organic one, based on inbound marketing, such as creating quality content that educates the market and attracts prospects to your site. If your application is a self-service one, focus on content and inbound marketing as your primary source of leads.

Strategy 195
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How user analytics helped us reduce mobile app churn: a case study

Mixpanel

To illustrate, I’ll share a case study in which identifying trends in user behavior and understanding “the why” helped us supercharge user engagement and reduce churn. Highly engaged users regularly set vacations in the app, which automatically rejected all inbound leads while they were on vacation.

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Single Grain’s Eric Siu on using content to grow your business

Intercom, Inc.

The interesting thing is that the way we get our clients right now is strictly around content marketing, inbound and SEO. Adam: All your clients today are inbound. But it ended up working out, because we built our own inbound machine just in the nick of time. Read his full case study here. Eric: Yeah, totally.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

Offering free access to some of these early contacts in return for social proof (case studies/ testimonials/ logos) is a useful way to get people using the product so future development decisions can be based on observed data rather than hypotheses. Create compelling content to help generate leads.