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Ship outcomes, not just features, with the Product Impact Framework

Intercom, Inc.

It took time to capture the data, to discover if we could move the metric, and to see if there was causation between the proxy and retention. We could have put in a lot more analytics effort to try to correlate successful searches with business results, but there are a lot of daisy chain steps along that path.

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Reaccelerate: Finding new engines of growth in your business

Intercom, Inc.

Celebrating success without clearly understanding causation, generally speaking, is something you should be very paranoid about. So we got our blog posts and our Twitter threads, and even a few ropey TikToks. Find the slices of your business that perform by things like: Vertical: B2B vs B2C, SaaS vs e-commerce, etc.

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User Retention Calculation For SaaS

Userpilot

This is especially true in the SaaS world, where retention, not acquisition, is so strongly correlated with profitability. User retention vs. growth. Other key takeaways from the study include: The relationship between retention and growth is one of causation, not just correlation. One of those is Userpilot.