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How we approach remote employee onboarding at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

That used to mean welcoming them to the company in person but, like everyone, we’ve had to adapt to a new way of onboarding over the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted the way we work and forced us to reinvent how we onboard new colleagues. Our remote onboarding program has come a long way since then.

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Effective customer engagement is business critical – insights from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services

Intercom, Inc.

Now, during this time of economic uncertainty and against a competitive landscape, effective customer engagement is business critical. Poor cross-functional collaboration impedes success: 44% of executives say a lack of collaboration and siloed efforts are the top impediments to successful customer engagement.

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4 Ways to Speed Up New SaaS User Onboarding

Totango

Onboarding sets the stage for customer retention by beginning a positive long-term relationship between you and your customer. For SaaS companies especially, the speed and ease with which your customers can progress through new user onboarding will act as the first indicators of how smooth their use of your product will be going forward.

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Q&A with Aruba: How We Scaled Our Customer Engagement Strategy

Totango

What do you do when you realize that 95 percent of your customer base is tech-touch and you don’t have the manpower to properly engage with and measure this group? Getting Started: Tips for Implementing an Effective Customer Engagement Strategy. How many employees support digital engagement at Aruba?

Scale 111
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Q&A recap: Driving customers to value during onboarding, at scale

ChurnZero

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? If you consider onboarding to be a success when a customer reaches their go-live date, then you need to dig deeper. How to increase customer value during onboarding with Donna Weber. Let me go back to my six-stage onboarding framework.

Scale 98
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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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2023 Leadership Playbook: Winning Hybrid Sales Strategies (With Examples)

Sales Hacker

In a recent podcast episode from The Sales Ladder , Justin Barth, Commercial Sales Leader at Algolia shared how one of his team members kept a prospect engaged through the sales cycle, all the way to closing the deal, by playing Wordle together. On your end, make sure that trainings and learning sessions extend well beyond onboarding.