
How to scale live chat (without spending a fortune or driving your team crazy)
If you’ve been reading this blog for the past few years, you’ll likely have heard a common refrain – the way people buy software is...

Lead nurturing 101: improve your lead nurture campaigns with these 6 strategies
Between 40% and 60% of people who sign up for a free trial of your software will never convert. What are you doing with the leads that...

Holiday messaging and chatbot tips for marketers
Gearing up for the holidays? For ecommerce and consumer focused brands, the holidays offer a huge opportunity to grow your customer base...

Live chat examples and best practices for 2019
A great customer experience today is about meeting people where they already are. And today, there’s one channel where more potential...

Customer retention strategies: 5 best practices & 6 strategies for low churn
Customer retention is the silent killer of SaaS businesses today. People get curious, kick the tires, shrug their shoulders and leave...

Announcing Custom Bots, the chatbots that drive business growth
Today we are launching a brand new product called Custom Bots, which allows you to create completely customizable chatbots on your...

A new dawn for the business messenger
Today is a big day for our customers. We’re releasing the biggest ever update to our Messenger. We’ve completely rethought how a...

Respect the inbox: How to improve customer communication
We’ve written a lot about how to send the right message at the right time. And while timing is important, how many messages you send also...

Reduce your churn with a retention messaging strategy
A successful SaaS business is built on retaining your existing customers, not just acquiring new ones. Today, we’re launching The...

Understanding your customers with live chat
Sales has changed – messaging and live chat is the new medium for initial sales conversations, not the phone calls or leisurely lunches...

Need for speed: how to address leads faster with live chat
In Sales, timing is everything. You can have the world’s most talented sales team and the greatest product but still lose to a...

Build your customer relationships around consistency and trust
It feels like we’re entering a golden age in relationships between customers and businesses. But really we’re just coming full circle....

Intercom on Customer Engagement – now on audiobook
In customer engagement, the right context for a message matters just as much as the right time and recipient. Given that content is in...

Seven messages that show the value of personalization
“Personalized messaging” is one of the most overused phrases in marketing today. To some, it’s a matter of voice and tone. Be friendly....

Making some wiggle room for engineering innovations
How do you find the space to take on high-risk, high-reward projects, especially when it involves a system the whole company relies on?...

The big whale and the long tail
In “Moby Dick”, Ishmael is taken by Captain Ahab’s quest to seek revenge on the whale that took so much from him. Most sales reps, myself...

The future of our Operator bot is in London
Since its founding, Intercom has been based in Dublin and San Francisco. For our first few years we built our product exclusively in...

A day in the life of a message
There’s a classic Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip that’s always stuck with me. In it we see our pint sized hero climbing out his bedroom...

Make online messaging personal by embracing the nonverbal
At Intercom we want to enable businesses to communicate with their customers in a personal and meaningful way. One of the ways we do this...
























