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Tips for creating a great customer support experience during the holidays

Intercom, Inc.

Below, we share our favorite tips for proactively and automatically resolving queries, at scale. These tips apply broadly to many different conversational support tools , but if you’re an Intercom customer, they’re actionable today and require no engineering work. Tip 1: Automatically answer common holiday questions.

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Moving from reactive to proactive customer support

Intercom, Inc.

With the right approach and proactive support tools – think Outbound Messages , Product Tours , and Mobile Carousels – you can provide every customer with the fast, personal help they need at the exact moment they need it. Below, we share our tips for delivering effective proactive support to your customers at any scale.

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Sweating the details: Designing improvements to our product navigation

Intercom, Inc.

“It became obvious that we had reached a tipping point of confusion, and some simplification was required” A couple of years ago, the navigation contained only a few items, and it looked pretty different, too. It became obvious that we had reached a tipping point of confusion, and some simplification was required.

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The support leader’s guide to proactive support: Provide help before it’s needed

Intercom, Inc.

With the right strategy and proactive support tools – think Outbound Messages , Product Tours , Mobile Carousels , and Banners – you can alert customers to known issues, like delivery delays, bugs in your product, and website downtime. Here are our tips: Gather valuable conversation data fast. Educate customers on new features.

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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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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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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

I hosted Max on our podcast, where he shares the strategies he’s used to grow Udemy and Sales Hacker, hiring tips for sales teams, and much more. Is it transitioning from inbound to outbound sales? Max: For the most part, it’s outbound efficiency. Are you doing outbound? Is it getting their stack right?

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