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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. It’s going to be really hard to create an inbound marketing category.

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What is conversational AI?

Intercom, Inc.

These bots can communicate in outbound efforts, or they can reply to inbound conversations. In some cases, conversational AI solutions can be trained on FAQs or knowledge base articles to resolve customer issues, and can even be programmed to give instant responses using the brand’s preferred voice and tone.

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How to describe your business as an equation

Lenny Rachitsky

ARR = New ARR + Expansion ARR + Reactivation ARR – Churned ARR – Contraction ARR New ARR = Leads * qualified leads rate * meeting booked rate * win rate * ACV Leads = Direct + indirect Direct = Outbound + inbound Outbound Cold emails Cold calls Cold DMs Events Inbound Paid ads SEO Referrals (e.g.

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Customer Support is being turned upside down. Here’s what you need to do about it.

Intercom, Inc.

The internet is moving more businesses and people online, and driving a huge increase in inbound support volume. Self-serve Support and bots to automatically answer all common customer questions, reducing inbound volume to support agents. This leads to more and more inbound support volume. This reduces inbound volume.

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The All-in-One ProductManager

Ask Benny

Should you split between inbound and outbound product managers? Inbound vs Outbound (PM vs PO). The rationale behind this split is that the outbound work requires more business-oriented thinking and the inbound work requires more technical thinking. Or should a product manager be “full spectrum”?

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The All-in-One ProductManager

Ask Benny

Should you split between inbound and outbound product managers? Inbound vs Outbound (PM vs PO) Sometimes companies split product management between outbound product managers that understand the market and discuss needs with customers and inbound product managers that understand the product and discuss requirements with engineering.

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The All-in-One ProductManager

Ask Benny

Should you split between inbound and outbound product managers? Inbound vs Outbound (PM vs PO). The rationale behind this split is that the outbound work requires more business-oriented thinking and the inbound work requires more technical thinking. Or should a product manager be “full spectrum”?