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Localization in Japan: Understanding the ins-and-outs of Japanese Websites

freshtrax

Inbound links will also work for Japanese search engines, and since content marketing is not really a huge part of Japanese SEO, affiliate advertising will still appear. Of course, you’re going to want to be doing keyword research for the Japanese market, as part of your international SEO. Your hreflang should read: company.jp.

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Product Channel Fit Will Make or Break Your Growth Strategy

Brian Balfour

LinkedIn is the perfect example where over time they've achieve Product Channel Fit with Virality, UGC SEO, and different forms of Inbound and Outbound Sales. But around end of 2012 Facebook started killing off the API's that enabled this channel. As a result you can't think about Product and Channel as silos.

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Why Most Companies Fail At Moving Up or Down Market

Brian Balfour

Since the product still requires a fair amount of setup and education to work they use Inbound Sales (Content) and Channel Partnerships (Product Channel Fit). But around end of 2012 Facebook started killing off the API's that enabled this channel. One of the reasons were they hit product channel fit.

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Intercom turns 10: Highlights from our first decade

Intercom, Inc.

Or support teams could have bots as the front line of defense to triage inbound inquiries, get more information from customers, or even solve problems.”. Or marketing teams could have tailored, one-on-one, white glove service bots that could hold the hand of users as they started to use your products. Changing the support conversation.

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Mirages and Broken Funnels: What’s Holding Your Businesses Back from Scaling and Reaching Profitability

Business of Software Conference

In her 2012 BoS Talk, ‘How to negotiate the Long, Slow, SaaS Ramp of Death’, Goodman lays out the most common hurdles software founders face and how to overcome them. Like many software companies, Constant Contact started with classic, online inbound marketing strategies. But the path to those factors is littered with obstacles.

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Customer Education & Training: The Investment That Keeps on Giving

Gainsight

Sam Mallikarjunan, Head of Growth at HubSpot, a leader in inbound marketing and sales software, explains that teaching the user in this example to create an email campaign isn’t good enough. They’re creating great inbound marketers, with the understanding that it will make them more successful customers.

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Reorganizing Product Teams

Mironov Consulting

And recently, a product leader at Spotify shared that her group (and many others throughout her company) have evolved to very different organizational models than described in Henrik Kniberg’s 2012 Scaling Agile @ Spotify. When dropping into companies as interim CPO/VP Product, that’s one of the first things I consider.