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Product Channel Fit Will Make or Break Your Growth Strategy

Brian Balfour

Once we have that we’ll test a bunch of different channels.” The Power Law of Distribution The second problem with that original statement is “we’ll test a bunch of different channels. ” You shouldn’t take a shotgun approach to testing channels. Here is a step by step on how to test and prioritize your growth channels.

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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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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. The training is all done in English and consists of a mix of readings, tests, and tasks. A: New leads relied on the usual forms of networking, inbound marketing activities, and events.

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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. That team would include key folks: developers, designer, architect, test automation engineer, tech docs.

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ProfitWell founder Patrick Campbell on life after acquisition

Intercom, Inc.

In 2012, looking to build something of his own, Patrick founded ProfitWell , a suite of products to help SaaS companies grow by optimizing pricing, reducing churn, and getting accurate revenue reporting. In the following years, he served as the Executive Director at BridgeBright Inc., Patrick: Yeah, I can take you through that thinking.

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

Intercom, Inc.

We came out of private beta on January 27th, 2012, where we announced that we’d raised a million dollars. .” “There’s a temptation to pigeonhole startups into a category so they can check a box and say, “This is a billion-dollar category”. We incorporated in San Francisco on August 15th, 2011, I think.