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

Intercom, Inc.

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. Support teams get a lot of repeated inbound questions, which get tedious to answer. Balancing risks in machine learning development.

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Tactics to stay ahead of the curve and boost efficiency with proactive support

Intercom, Inc.

By using technology to detect signals in their product and monitor trends in inbound conversations from customers, workforce management platform Tanda is leveraging proactive support to stay ahead of the curve and offer help to customers before they reach out to the support team. Here’s how they’re doing it. What is proactive support?

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We run on inclusion: Sharing stories and lived experiences

Intercom, Inc.

In this episode you’ll hear from: Birdie Haumschild : Sales Development Representative (Inbound), San Francisco. Tyle Bivens : Sales Development Representative (Inbound), Chicago. Ciara Guinan : Customer Support Specialist, Dublin. Jessica Filizola : Customer Support Specialist, Dublin.

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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).

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Customer Support is being turned upside down. Here’s what you need to do about it.

Intercom, Inc.

The internet is moving more businesses and people online, and driving a huge increase in inbound support volume. Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. Self-serve Support and bots to automatically answer all common customer questions, reducing inbound volume to support agents.

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Automation in Action: Proven Ways to Boost the Bottom Line With Self-Serve Support

Intercom, Inc.

or “Phone and email support are inefficient and causing my team to get swamped with inbound conversation volume, how can I fix this?” With self-serve support, your team can be empowered to provide support to more customers than ever before – and still reduce your inbound conversation volume. Getting set up for success.

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Optimizing internal product communications

Folding Burritos

There’s high-level communication and discussion, and there’s low-level interaction with stakeholders about the day-to-day of the product’s development and operation. Most of the example questions above are about the delivery side of product development , and they come naturally.