Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. But we also use new tools such as Intercom to gather intent from inbound leads, or to gather intent from outbound companies that come back to the website. You have to go after a different person as your actual ideal customer profiles companies.

Feedback Software 162

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. Keep in mind, as your business matures from startup to scale-up, your sales strategy will need to evolve too. Act like a consultant and advisor to your prospects.

Outbound 177

Outbound Strategy Inbound Customer Experience 177

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

If there’s anything we’ve learned when it comes to working in hypergrowth startups is that you’re not really supposed to have it all figured out on the first try. But because they couldn’t be in the office, we brought in some consultants on the sales enablement side and we beefed up our sales force and our customer platform.

Feedback Software 223

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A marketing professional may get excited about creating an email campaign through an email software solution, for example, but she will be very excited when they improve their conversion rates after a simple change to the message. ” One-on-One Consulting Most customer training efforts begin as one-on-one consulting.

Education 52

Education User Testing Customer Experience Research Software 52

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. If your application is a self-service one, focus on content and inbound marketing as your primary source of leads.

Strategy 195

Strategy Customer Experience Inbound User Testing 195

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate.

Analytic Tools 151

Analytic Tools Data Visualization User Testing Artificial Inteligence 151

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

For example, a security or audit feature that is crucial to a CIO might be completely irrelevant to an individual user. Excerpt from “ What is the optimal structure of a startup SaaS B2B sales team? ”. For example, a six-person sales pod would be composed of three SDRs, two AEs, and one customer success rep.

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Weak Development Team Data Visualization Strategy User Testing 156

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

After college, I went to work at the Boston Consulting Group, BCG, which was my first experience in business. And at that time, I was mostly building PowerPoint decks” After business school, I did more work in strategy consulting and realized I love building things. At the same time, I was doing a bunch of startup advisor work.

Feedback Software 209

Feedback Software Research Software Reporting Tools User Testing 209

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Andrew’s been an angel investor and advisor for a slew of name-brand startups; however, he’s most widely known for his invaluable essays on growth. I’ve known Marc and Ben for a long time, and they originally seed-funded a startup of mine many years ago. Navigating supply and demand at Uber.

User Testing 224

User Testing Customer Experience Onboarding KPIs Customer Feedback 224

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. “Give away your legos” and other commandments for scaling startups. I’m now Director of Sales, leading sales globally for Webflow, which is a really, really fast-growing startup.

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Weak Development Team Feedback Software User Testing Customer Experience 118

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

This is something that we saw with a lot of our startup clients, and a mistake we didn’t make with Close, which I am very grateful for. For us, it was clear that startups and small businesses were the types of businesses we understood. Let’s use Box as an example: Box for many people is about syncing and sharing file storage.

Customer Experience 165

Customer Experience Customer Feedback User Testing Weak Development Team 165

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

So, for example, if it’s a big company that comes in, say, someone from Intercom, and signs up for the trial, sales is going to know that, and they’re going to react to that quicker than they’re going to react to a small startup that started to use the product. At Slack, our sales cycle is very consultative.

Research Software 139

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Andrew Chen

MAY 14, 2018

I’ve known Marc and Ben for a long time, and they originally seed-funded a startup of mine many years ago. When I think about growth and Dropbox, Drew Houston’s classic talk from the 2010 Startup Lessons Learned Conference immediately comes to mind. You’ve also worked with Dropbox, who just had their very successful IPO.

User Testing 71

User Testing Customer Experience Onboarding KPIs Data Visualization 71

Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 16, 2020

April is an expert marketing practitioner turned executive consultant and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. This is a talk about positioning one of the most misunderstood concepts in marketing, in startups, in business. I give you an example of this.

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