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Product Channel Fit Will Make or Break Your Growth Strategy

Brian Balfour

For virality to be a high ceiling channel, a product at a minimum needs Quick Time To Value. Value prop of the product needs to be applicable to large percentage of a user's network (branching factor). To have product channel fit with paid marketing: Quick Time To Value - Users have less patience to find value when coming from an ad.

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Why Most Companies Fail At Moving Up or Down Market

Brian Balfour

When you strip away all the outer layers, they all have essentially the same core product — a tool that lets you send and automate emails to your customers and audience. As a result they've differentiated their product on the things that enterprise customers care about: customization, security, and scale (that's their Market Product Fit).

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Intercom turns 10: Highlights from our first decade

Intercom, Inc.

We have achieved a great deal in the past decade – we have built a lot of great product , hired hundreds of wonderful people , and helped thousands of amazing companies form lasting relationships with their own customers. It’s in our nature to look forward, to focus on shipping , to keep innovating and providing value.

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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. It’s typical for professional services firms and custom development shops to have pro ject -based resource pools.

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Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scaleable sales team from the ground up

Intercom, Inc.

At Slack, she rose through the ranks from an Account Executive to a Senior Enterprise Leader, and by the time she left Slack six years later, their revenue had grown from about $12 million in ARR to more than a billion dollars. Customer first, then company, then yourself. And by the time I left, I was a senior account executive.

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8 B2B SaaS Marketing Tactics to Try in 2021 [Ft. Hubspot, Neil Patel, Kontentino & More!]

Userpilot

The first thing you need to know to craft a successful marketing plan is…what your users “hire” your product for. Does your product help employees save time while invoicing? Schedule a call and see how you can create personalized experiences just like the one above (no coding required). SaaS Outbound Marketing.