Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. A well defined sales strategy is your path to meaningful, sustainable growth. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. At Spendesk I am currently head of sales, so my main missions are about hiring and building the sales department on one side, and I also work around like all of the go-to-market strategy. That’s quite a large market.

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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. Here, we examine the pricing strategy continuum, and how the different price points relate to all aspects of your business model.

Strategy 195

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

We recently sat down with Mark to chat about onboarding in a hypergrowth environment, how that strategy played as the pandemic unfolded, and why taking care of your team is actually the best way to take great care of your customers. We have business development doing inbound and outbound. Iterate, iterate, iterate.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

This is not to say that bottom-up adoption is bad strategy; quite the opposite. If you can raise a ton of capital, it’s one strategy for winning and crushing the competition. Excerpt from “ What is the optimal structure of a startup SaaS B2B sales team? ”. Is your model primarily inbound or outbound?

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Weak Development Team Data Visualization Strategy User Testing 156

Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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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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.

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Analytic Tools Data Visualization User Testing Artificial Inteligence 151

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In this very special episode of Inside Intercom, I sat down with Des, our co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, for a wide-ranging conversation about our respective journeys so far, our thoughts on Intercom through the years, and what the future holds. And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup.

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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. First zero in on a strategy for achieving your desired outcome , and then pick high quality metrics to validate your tests. That seems to be when they changed their strategy.

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User Testing Customer Experience Onboarding KPIs Customer Feedback 224

Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Matt Wensing: 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes. Nilan Peiris: Building A High-Growth Startup Sustainably. Eric Ries: The Startup Way. Jon Reynolds: Riding the Swiftkey Rocket Ship from Startup to Acquisition. Patrick Campbell: Why a SaaS Pricing Consultancy Gives Away Free Software.

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Weak Development Team Data Visualization Customer Feedback User Testing 70

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.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

You’ll hear from: Dialpad’s Chief Strategy Officer, Dan O’Connell, and Sherlock’s CEO, Derek Skaletsky, on speeding up and slowing down deals to deliver value to your buyers and your business. That’s why it’s crucial to have an automation strategy to eliminate low-value work. At Slack, our sales cycle is very consultative.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

The process of defining your positioning strategy is not a one-and-done deal – in a crowded marketplace, it needs to be an ongoing exercise. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. For us, it was clear that startups and small businesses were the types of businesses we understood.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 14, 2018

[Hi readers: I wanted to share a podcast interview I did with Adam Risman of Intercom, who interviewed me on a wide array of topics including Dropbox’s viral growth methods, my time at Uber, and future growth strategies. I’ve known Marc and Ben for a long time, and they originally seed-funded a startup of mine many years ago.

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User Testing Customer Experience Onboarding KPIs Data Visualization 71

Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 16, 2020

April Dunford, Founder, Ambient Strategy. 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.

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