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Moving from reactive to proactive customer support

Intercom, Inc.

Today, customer expectations are at an all-time high. A proactive customer support approach is the key to regaining control. But this approach not only overwhelms your team, it also means customers frequently have to wait hours or even days to get the help they need. What is proactive customer support?

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Opportunity Mapping: An Essential Skill for Driving Product Outcomes

Product Talk

As you collect customers’ stories, you are going to hear about countless needs, pain points, and desires. Our customers’ stories are rife with gaps between what they expect and how the world works. Each gap represents an opportunity to serve your customer. But our job is not to address every customer opportunity.

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CX expert Annette Franz on putting the ‘customer’ in ‘customer experience’

Intercom, Inc.

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

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How to Identify Customer Pain Points and Adress Them to Drive Product Growth

Userpilot

Understanding how to identify customer pain points and struggles is the cornerstone of creating a painless customer experience and a loyal customer base. The reason is simple – struggling customers hold the key to sustained product growth. There are different types of pain points.

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How customer support sessions help us stay close to our customers (even as we scale)

Intercom, Inc.

We all talk a good game about the customer being the most important thing in our business. But the truth is, as most companies scale, the customer can feel further and further away. Customer empathy is often one of the first things to suffer as companies grow from startup to scale-up. Bringing the voice of the customer to life.

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Everything just changed: How to keep your customers at the center during turbulent times

Intercom, Inc.

As marketers, our job is to understand our customers – their hopes, their wants, their needs – and then communicate the value of our product in the context of their lives. At SaaStr Summit , I spoke about how businesses can adapt during these uncertain times by focusing on customer impact. Embracing a philosophy of change.

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The future of support: 5 key trends that will shape customer care in 2021

Intercom, Inc.

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.