
4 strategies to increase user engagement
The definition of an “engaged user” varies from product to product. For a to-do app an engaged user should be logging in every day to add...

How do you say no to customers?
Building a successful product means getting good at saying no. But exactly how do you say it? When you’re on the front line, representing...

Reduce churn by re-engaging your customers
Churn is one of the most important metrics tracked by today’s startups. But also one of the most misunderstood. We’re on the receiving...

Behind the messenger: making messaging human
The first wave of the internet was deeply impersonal. It enabled immediacy, scale, and access. But anonymity ruled – it made...

How people buy your product
Marketing works best when it connects your customer’s description of their problem with your product. But not all your customers...

The when and where of product feedback
Most product feedback is categorized by what was said, and occasionally who said it. But there’s more to it than that. When and where it...

How we use Intercom to support Intercom customers
We recently wrote about scaling a product team and we’re keen to share more of how we work. In that spirit here’s how we use Intercom to...

Podcast: Intercom’s go-to-market strategy
When you uncover the jobs that your product is hired for it can inform your entire go-to-market strategy. While Jobs-to-be-Done has...

Steps To Building A Loyal Audience
Although returning customers may account for only 20 percent of the people your company serves, Forbes reports that this 20 percent...

Steps To Building A Loyal Audience
Although returning customers may account for only 20 percent of the people your company serves, Forbes reports that this 20 percent...

The blind product manager
Ask any product manager and they will tell you that seeing and talking to their users is critical to success. Yet few walk the walk and...

Retain your customers by talking to a human
Marketing people worry developers can be a tough audience to communicate with, but that doesn’t have to be the case. For us at Pusher...

Time for sales to call a truce with customers
Remember a time, in the not too distant past, when people bought software without trying it first? It’s a time that is remembered fondly...

How to use triggers with behavior-driven user messaging
A poorly timed message is about as powerful as a badly timed punchline. Timing is of the essence. Using Events in Intercom, you can now...

Show, don’t tell, with GIFs
The gif is the cockroach of file formats. Every time we think it should die it re-appears with a new use case. In Intercom we create GIFs...

How Mention Increased Activation Rate by 50%
Much has already been said about the importance of getting users, and about converting and retaining them. However, most of the time,...

How to Educate & Persuade Customers
The most effective messages we see in Intercom either educate or persuade customers. Let’s talk about why they work. If you want users to...

You pay the price, but you get value
Sometimes your customers know that you provide a feature they want, but for some reason, they don’t use it. Why does that happen? It’s a...

Overcoming customer inertia
To create an anxiety relievable only by a purchase… that is the job of advertising. Advertising increases familiarity, reminds consumers...






















