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In-context or out of touch: The future of online customer service

Intercom, Inc.

Support teams are facing a critical juncture: business costs and customer expectations continue to grow while resources like headcount and budget are decreasing. By adding a messenger to your product, you can help customers in their moment of need – in your product, website, or app while their query is top of mind.

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

Intercom, Inc.

For so many years, customer support was seen as a cost center – the first port of call for customer complaints. Customers’ expectations of support are also changing dramatically as the support landscape continues to evolve. What is proactive support? Here’s how they’re doing it.

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Found in translation: How multilingual support helps you scale customer experiences

Intercom, Inc.

For online businesses, our customers can come from any part of the world and at any time. How do you ensure a great customer experience globally without adding a ton of headcount? However, that means there is a huge opportunity for businesses who are able to scale personal, effective support. So where should you begin?

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12 Customer Success predictions and trends for 2023

ChurnZero

However, it’s tough to predict the future alone — so we asked Customer Success leaders across the industry to share their top trends for 2023. First, digital CS will become a way of life due to flat or reduced headcount. In 2023, CS leaders will need to take a hard look at their teams, tools, and customer journeys.

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

Give the candidate ~5 real examples of the kind of things you have to prioritize: customer integrations, feature requests, strategic releases, bugs, database extracts, opportunistic features… and ask them to prioritize. How to efficiently collect feedback from customer-facing teams? An organizational task. How is it working?