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Getting conversational: HubSpot’s CEO on a new species of disruptor

Intercom, Inc.

Brian also shares HubSpot’s strategy for creating an industry-defining category that helped more than 86,000 customers in over 120 countries move from unwelcome outbound marketing to permission-based inbound marketing. For HubSpot, that enemy was outbound marketing. Driving connection and growth with conversational relationships.

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Why customer engagement is the key to business growth in 2022 and beyond

Intercom, Inc.

Whether B2C or B2B, all businesses must now deliver digital experiences that are easy to use, delightful, and personal. When a prospect is intrigued by your outbound marketing and reaches out to your support team to ask a question, is that a marketing, sales, or support issue? The answer is yes – it’s both.

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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

In B2B, we’re seeing the same phenomenon. Outbound used to be painstaking and manual. Today, there are many sales tools that make outbound more accessible (Mixmax, Outreach, insidesales.com etc), which automates part of the process but also generates more noise and competition.

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A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan: Documenting Your Product/Market Fit Hypotheses

Sachin Rekhi

In B2B products, it's important to divide the target audience in terms of end users of the product as well as business decision makers who have the budget and will ultimately make the call on whether to rollout the solution in their company, because you'll often find that these are two completely different audiences with different desires and needs.

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MadKudu’s co-founder Francis Brero on unlocking the keys of product-led growth

Intercom, Inc.

For Francis Brero , co-founder and CPO of MadKudu , a platform that helps B2B businesses qualify and engage with their leads, PLG doesn’t work in a vacuum. There are people that are going to sign up for the product, and there are people that you’re going to reach out to through outbound. Francis: Yeah, absolutely. Francis: Right.

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Brex’s Michael Tannenbaum on fintech growth strategies

Intercom, Inc.

It depends on the industry, but Brex has had huge success by acting bigger than they are – particularly in the B2B space, where people are looking for signals that your product is going to be supported for years in the future. But for B2B marketing, it’s super valuable. In the consumer space, it’s a little bit different.