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Drive retention from customer support with 4 easy steps

Intercom, Inc.

Customer retention has never been more critical to business success than it is today. That’s why companies should look to support – and retain – the customers they have. Shifting focus to customer retention can actually be twice as powerful as customer acquisition. Focus on improving team efficiency.

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The ultimate customer support tech stack for 2022

Intercom, Inc.

Customer support is more business-critical than ever. But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks.

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How the pandemic has changed customer support forever

Intercom, Inc.

As a result, companies need to understand their customers and deliver to their high standards if they want to stay competitive. “How can you ensure that your support team is still providing personable, conversational support at scale?” 53% of support teams have seen an increase in support queries since COVID-19 hit.

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Why conversational customer support is a key strategic investment

Intercom, Inc.

In the not-too-distant past, customer support was seen as a hassle, a cost that had to be borne but which was really just a tax on success. If it wasn’t for those pesky customers with problems, profits would be through the roof, right? There is no escaping the fact that supporting your customers costs money.

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Building Product to Enhance Customer Support: The Key to Customer Retention in an E-commerce Business

Speaker: Bhavana Angadi, Senior Product Manager at Hopscotch (Demand & Growth) | Former Product Manager at Bigbasket

If you were to ask an E-commerce Product Manager what they would do to increase retention, they might suggest improving engagement by personalization/gamification, or by introducing loyalty programs. This begs the question: what’s the best way to increase customer retention? How to build effective Self-Service mechanisms.

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Moving from reactive to proactive customer support

Intercom, Inc.

Simultaneously, support teams are struggling with spikes in conversation volumes. A proactive customer support approach is the key to regaining control. The typical support “strategy” is to let common issues roll in for support reps to address. What is proactive customer support? Customer retention.

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Four beliefs shaping our vision for customer support

Intercom, Inc.

So while these technologies may have helped businesses scale, it sent relationships that customers had with businesses back to the dark ages. The challenges of customer support today. In the support world, we still have a long way to go to rebuild these customer relationships.