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How customer service chatbots are redefining support with AI

Intercom, Inc.

They can recognize and answer multiple forms of the same question and can be trained to give responses using your preferred voice and tone. You can also train your bots to provide better answers. That’s a good opportunity to do some training and add those questions into your database. So far, it’s been a massive success!

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

Intercom, Inc.

Support teams get a lot of repeated inbound questions, which get tedious to answer. We took an off-the-shelf Python search engine and built another test bot that could answer our own inbound support queries. The solution we reached for was to train the bot by mining historical questions. Case study: Resolution Bot.

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8 steps to craft a winning sales strategy, according to industry leaders

Intercom, Inc.

When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. Some industries are used to PowerPoint sales presentations, handheld onboarding and onsite training. Let’s take inbound sales and outbound sales, for example.

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10 Best Customer Success Courses and Training Programs for Customer Success Managers

Userpilot

Whether you’re looking to train your team to engage customers or make a career leap as a customer success manager (CSM), different types of customer success courses and certifications are the closest to the formal education you can get. But, how do you know which certifications or training programs are the best for you?

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Capture your invisible pipeline of sales leads

Intercom, Inc.

The most common way to think about leads is to put them in two buckets: inbound and outbound. And unlike your visible pipeline of inbound and outbound leads, your invisible leads can’t be called or emailed. The first is owned by marketing and the second by sales. Where does the invisible sales pipeline come from?

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Strategies to take your customer support global

Intercom, Inc.

At Recruiterbox, Chelsea Baker instilled this respect for cultural differences through rigorous training: “[Supporting customers globally requires an] understanding of the cultures you’re working with and training for your team to make sure they’re being mindful of how different cultures process information or communicate.”.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. Historically sales training has been a pretty low priority for most entrepreneurs. For many B2B SaaS companies, inbound marketing represents a cornerstone of all marketing activity.