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Help desk metrics: Elevate your customer support with the right insights

Intercom, Inc.

But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? Data alone won’t produce results, but it will help you to contextualize customer behavior and feedback to provide better service faster. 12 help desk metrics to track for more effective customer support.

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How to keep KPIs meaningful for your customer support team

Intercom, Inc.

They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. When I first started to work at Intercom as a Customer Support Representative (CSR), KPIs were completely foreign to me. But KPIs carry the risk of seeming impersonal. What KPIs should you track?

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Customer Support is being turned upside down. Here’s what you need to do about it.

Intercom, Inc.

The internet is also driving an explosion in customer choice, allowing them to easily switch to businesses who provide better experiences. Delivering those better experiences requires a fundamentally new way to do customer support, a messenger-based approach that works at internet scale.

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How support leaders measure (and improve) the quality of their customer support

Intercom, Inc.

The wider global business scene is finally realizing what many successful companies have known for quite some time now: customer support is the face of your company. Together, we surveyed hundreds of CX professionals, team leads, managers, and executives to get a deeper understanding of how they measure and improve support quality.

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The biggest challenges facing support teams right now (and how to solve them)

Intercom, Inc.

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. As brick-and-mortar businesses closed worldwide, companies and customers alike had to pivot to digital-first ways of doing business. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges.

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SaaS Case Study: How Customer Support Can Assist Sales Initiatives

Sales Hacker

To create an effective and efficient sales funnel, your sales and customer support teams need to be well trained and in sync with each other. Insights gained from your customer support agents can improve the process of pitching, converting, and retaining leads. That free flow of information can aid sales.

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The one simple question our bot asks that saves our Sales team hours

Intercom, Inc.

Working as Sales Development Representatives at Intercom, we deal with a huge volume of conversations with potential leads that come in through live chat. Above all, it was a poor experience for our existing customers. Towards the start of every conversation, our bot would ask “Are you an Intercom customer?”,

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