Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Artificial intelligence is radically redefining the customer service landscape. From automated emails to visual search , AI allows companies to better support their customers at more touchpoints along their journey. Nowhere is this radical change to the customer experience as apparent as in the new wave of chatbots.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

With lockdowns preventing in-store experiences, shoppers have gravitated towards brands that can provide the best online experience possible. And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams. Sense their frustration?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 16, 2020

For nearly a century, companies held to the same principles for driving growth: deliver value to stakeholders and employees first, then to customers. Customers, too, expect more and will put their money where their values are. Customers, too, expect more and will put their money where their values are.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When brands listen to and act on the voice of the customer (often referred to as simply “VoC”), it can completely revolutionize the way their business operates. Definition of the Voice of the Customer (VoC). The voice of the customer includes answers to questions like: What do your customers like? Prevent Churn.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 26, 2020

As support teams look to the year ahead, there’s no shortage of priorities to juggle – from team efficiency, to customer experience, to business impact. Customer expectations are on the rise and, at the same time, all parts of the business are facing increased pressure to operate more efficiently and at lower cost.

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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.

APRIL 8, 2020

This is a time of great uncertainty, with everyone suddenly having to adjust to social distancing restrictions and widespread industry upheaval. Our customers are relying on Intercom more than ever, and often in a host of new and unforeseen ways. A time for the tried and tested. What information do we need to figure this out?

Software Review 223

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 31, 2022

A mobile survey that is served to your customers at the right place and right time helps you understand who they are, why they use your app, and what improvements they want to see. Understanding and acting on emotion and sentiment are key to any customer experience strategy. Five types of mobile survey questions.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy and Change Strategy means different things to different people, so let me briefly share my definition. It achieves this by stating the product’s target users and customers, the value proposition, the business goals it should meet, and its standout features.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 8, 2022

When brands listen to and act on the voice of the customer (often referred to as “VoC”), it can completely revolutionize the way their business operates. Voice of the customer templates. Definition of the voice of the customer (VoC). Definition of the voice of the customer (VoC). What do your customers want?

Data Visualization 241

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1]. Or would it be better to address the worst debt now?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. At the same time, you are not the boss, and you cannot tell the team members what to do.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 9, 2020

It’s the perfect storm that produces a swell of people who need to get in touch with customer support. In the midst of such a surge, it’s essential to get customers’ issues resolved quickly. Assisting both customers and support staff by offering predictive suggestions. Short on time?

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Surveying your mobile customers is a great way to find out more about who they are, what drives them back to your app, how they feel about your app, and what they’d like improved. Every customer has unique preferences, tastes, likes, and dislikes. Intuitively, customer individuality makes perfect sense. We’re all different.

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Product Research User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience 246

Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As a fellow Product Talk coach, Hope Gurion uses opportunity solution trees with customers on a regular basis. How do you represent different customer segments on an opportunity solution tree? It’s easy to get overwhelmed when interviewing customer after customer. They have different types of customers. Tweet This.

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Customer Experience User Testing Product Research Customer Feedback 225

Product Talk

MAY 18, 2022

You might need to get buy-in or support from leadership, you may need to collaborate with user research or data science teams, and you will likely experience some overlap with customer-facing teams like sales, marketing, and customer success. Your sales rep is responsible for renewing revenue from existing customers.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is problematic especially for young products and those that experience a bigger change, like a life cycle extension , as their backlogs tend to be volatile and require frequent and sometimes bigger adjustments. Looking at the backlog, I noticed that it contained only detailed user stories—no epics or other coarse-grained items.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

They’re based on my experiences working in technology, the practical application of methods in varied use cases, and speaking with peers about their strategies and successes. If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. Between them they break down the process and share their collaborative way of working and how the customer voice remains central throughout the process – from initial feedback to a feature launch.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. This knowledge gives teams a competitive advantage that compounds over time. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The SaaS industry is full of advice on the perfect product metrics to gauge your users’ activation, engagement, and interactions. Product metrics are data measurements that businesses use to evaluate the success of a product and determine how customers are engaging with it. Percentage of users who used a certain product feature.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It was almost a year ago when our Customer Success team came up against an issue that all growing teams face: knowledge sharing. Our de-facto ways of working made it difficult for us to learn from one another, especially when it came to socializing best practices for talking to our customers. million a year in lost productivity.

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Technical Review User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience 223

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In some ways, this discussion is more relevant to product teams, and product-led companies, than for growth teams, who are by definition focused on outcomes. It wasn’t enough to efficiently solve customer problems; we needed to be thinking about how we were helping our business to be more successful. Feature-driven projects.

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Product Talk

JUNE 1, 2022

Not having enough time is one of the main reasons people say they can’t interview customers every week. So the idea of trying to carve out time to recruit and schedule interviews might feel like an impossible task. The idea of trying to carve out time to recruit and schedule interviews might feel like an impossible task.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

Delayed orders, faulty services, missing information, you name it – every time a customer reaches out, it tells you something about the friction they’ve experienced. Customer service teams are all too often drowning in angry, repetitive tickets, and yet, we don’t seem to focus enough resources on tackling the reasons behind it.

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Product Management University

JULY 15, 2024

If you think about what product management teams are doing in an effort to get stakeholder alignment, it’s a version of “trying to be everything to everyone” except now we’re talking mostly about internal stakeholders versus markets and customers. In some respects, they’re just like customers. Here’s some food for thought.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

App uninstalls are common and any app that fails to dazzle users, doesn’t offer value, or does not provide lucrative incentives to keep using the app, is likely to go down the uninstall path within the first three days. The main function of an app’s design is to simplify the customer experience and customer interactions.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Recently, Hope Gurion walked through three scenarios where she argued teams might benefit from including customer segments on their opportunity solution trees. I like to work ruthlessly to simplify the opportunity space as much as possible so that I can quickly see where I should spend my time and energy. I can’t emphasize this enough.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

For Dan Gingiss , at least, investing in your defense – the customer experience – is the smartest move you can make. He’s also a keynote speaker and CX expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, having led teams in social media, marketing, and customer experience at companies such as Humana, McDonald’s, and Discover.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. While this definition includes users and customers, I use the term in this article to refer to the internal business stakeholders.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our mission at Intercom is to “make internet business personal” – to enable online businesses to foster the same sort of relationships with their customers as “brick-and-mortar” businesses. . Do you prioritize efficiency at the expense of customer experience ? But what do we mean by “conversational experiences”?

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