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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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Tips for using Intercom to help with your Covid-19 response

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve written about how you can manage your customer communications in a crisis detailing how you can proactively make it easier for your customers to get the answers they’re looking for, as well as on dealing with the inbound queries that you might be facing.

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Customer care in a crisis: How support teams are navigating shifts in volume, wait times, and CSAT

Intercom, Inc.

Below, we share how the outbreak has impacted three key support metrics – inbound volume, wait times, and CSAT scores – and advice from respected leaders on how to continue caring for your customers in a crisis. Inbound volume is spiking for half of support teams. The increased volume is affecting businesses of all types.

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A playbook for the impatient SDR: 4 key tips to grow your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

Buyers now have more information than ever before, inbound and outbound SDRs have to change their approach to capture buyer interest and add value, and the skill set needed to be successful has changed. This is accomplished through inbound qualification, or from outbound outreach to prospective customers. Here’s why.

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Making Continuous Discovery Work for You: The SPICEY Approach

Product Talk

They reached out to around 5,000 users from HiveMQs free plan, as well as several hundred marketing qualified leads (MQLs) from inbound leads. Consider some of the tips and tactics weve shared here. Next, he worked with a team of product managers and a product marketing manager to build an outreach campaign. Now Its Your Turn!

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Optimizing internal product communications

Folding Burritos

Think about it as either inbound or outbound comms. Over the next few posts, I’ll be sharing some tips and templates that can help you implement this in practice. To make this easier, I prefer to start by identifying the team or group of people that should know about each topic. What’s next?

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How to manage your support communications during a crisis

Intercom, Inc.

Below, we share tips on how to proactively message customers and respond to inbound conversations in a way that’s helpful, respectful, and mindful. Here are some tips for focusing on your customers’ needs: Address the crisis and your customers’ needs upfront, right away. Respond to inbound conversations with empathy.

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