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

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How Mobile Market Industry Leader Adjust Became a Japanese Success Story

freshtrax

Founded in Germany in 2012, Adjust now covers regions all around the world with 15 global offices and close to 400 employees. This is led by our in-house Education department (a team of 7, many of who are former teachers), who have developed our Adjust coursework. One of those global offices is situated in Tokyo, Japan.

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STICKY POST: All Talks From Business of Software Conferences in One Place

Business of Software Conference

Steli Efti: Proven, Honest, Ways to Make Software Sales – Even if you are a Single Developer. Peter Coppinger: From Happy Consultant Developer to Unhappy Product CEO. Rand Fishkin: Helping Customers Find You Online – The Ever Changing World of Inbound Marketing. Greg Baugues: Developers, Entrepreneurs and Depression.

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

Intercom, Inc.

And that’s because Webflow, even though it’s been around since 2012, it’s all been really driven by the self-serve organic motion that is of course layered on with great customer support and customer service, marketing, amazing product. We’re seeing really good growth. We’re really just getting started.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

And so I worked with a whole bunch of companies in technology and financial services, consumer goods, helping them on things like growth strategy, developing new products, M&A. At the time, that was a really niche-ish idea because the B2D idea of selling directly to developers hadn’t really kicked off.