Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

When you think about trying to scale your software business and sell your product – especially in today’s world, where AI now seems to be the automatic default – you may be stressing over how to do it well. If you want to sell something – be it software or handbags or cars or bananas – it pays to consider that. Pick up the phone.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Investing in a variety of content formats including articles, case studies, and video courses is the best way to cover all your bases with both users and search engines. Think about how Slack targets senior operations staff or how HubSpot advertises its CRM software to upper management. Do your market research.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If you ask any sales rep, they’ll all tell you the same thing: the SaaS sales process is absolutely grueling! Today, we’re going to walk you through the top techniques you should implement into your SaaS sales strategy. SaaS sales can be broken down into three models: self-service, transactional, and enterprise.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

You will also learn how to choose the right growth strategy for your SaaS and how to leverage marketing-led growth to achieve your business goals. Paid advertising, like PPC or display ads, is another common marketing strategy used by SaaS companies. Second, marketing is about market and customer research as much as product promotion.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The report highlighted how support teams were adopting conversational support tools to meet rising customer expectations and a flood of inbound queries. Almost half of support teams are slowed down because their tools aren’t integrated. Last month, we published the second edition. The empathy void isn’t solved by more training.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That is why we asked some of the best SaaS marketing practitioners for their best plays with the highest win percentage. In this SaaS marketing playbook, we have compiled the hottest trends in growth marketing as told by real people on the field. SaaS Marketing Playbook Table of Contents. SEO for SaaS Marketing.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Technology companies are producing more complex software, which can often overwhelm customers during the onboarding process. As a result, it’s common for these customers to quickly abandon new platforms. These are just the tools, however. They’re not just creating great users of their software.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

Engineering as marketing is an inbound marketing strategy that involves creating free useful tools for your target audience. These tools are complimentary to your product or service meant to draw in potential customers. While it can be expensive and difficult to build these free tools, it pays back in many ways.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2020

Yesterday we launched powerful upgrades to the Intercom platform for support teams. So over the years, we’ve been able to build internal tools to cater to our team needs. By capturing related conversations in one place, we’ve drastically reduced the amount of time and tools people needed to gather customer insights.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 12, 2024

There are a trillion podcasts, they’re a lot of work, and it’s so dorky to tell people you have a podcast 🤦 But thanks to a nudge from Harry Stebbings , and having a newsletter platform to help kickstart it, I took the leap. Even better, the messages I get daily from listeners melt my heart. Say no to most of them.

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Userpilot

JUNE 22, 2022

The aim of the hook model is to make the user see your product as the obvious solution to their problem; this happens through repeated exposure until using your product becomes a routine behavior. Of course, the sooner in the product development process you manage to achieve that, the better. What is the Hook Model?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 30, 2018

Your aim should be to understand what they want, how you can help them and to judge how fast they need a solution. With lots of inbound leads, you’ll need to prioritize which ones need a response first, and it’s not always as easy as you might expect to make this judgment call. Ask the right questions right away. We’re all human.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I moved out to the East Coast of the US to go to Harvard where I majored in applied math with a focus on decision systems and artificial intelligence before it was cool. And that was my first time in enterprise software – I’d spent some time in consumer software before that and did that for a few years.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2019

During the course of her time there, she’s seen HubSpot grow from a small, plucky startup into a billion dollar household name. Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018. Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018. And yet, bafflingly, 66% of companies aren’t asking their willing(!)

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 10, 2018

Combined with all the new apps in our Intercom App Store , these Custom Bots will make sure that both you and your customers get exactly the right outcome. Here at Intercom we believe that the future is one where all businesses will have a messenger on their website and their app. Will: So many more. Paul: The list goes on.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

Move away from this concept and toward the idea of a flywheel instead: feeding energy back into the system instead of success rates diminishing over time. Michael: Most people listening probably think of HubSpot as this inbound marketing company. Of course, in a certain way on a spreadsheet, that’s true.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

And of course, a big thanks to all of our hosts on the Intercom sales team. Speed is our solution to hitting ambitious targets and increasing our efficiency. We do some interesting things in terms of implementing automated text messaging and leveraging chatbots and things to that nature. Dave: Awesome. Now there are 12 options.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Over the course of our conversations, we were pointed to several measurement frameworks for finding product-market fit, with differences depending on the product category, and industry. ” Startup Grind Jaclyn Allen, Partner Success Manager, and Daniel Reilly, Software Engineer, Startup Grind. Credit: Lenny Rachitsky.

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Usersnap

JULY 11, 2021

Of course, every email should be optimized for each user request. Also startups and SaaS companies build their organizational culture and company vision around providing amazing customer support. Send out auto-reply messages while being away helps too (but be honest and keep to promised response times). saying “thank you”.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

This is something where I think I, I wonder if a lot of the other product marketing teams I’ve talked to, I think, facing similar challenges, but research and just being as strategic as possible. So we generally know a lot about our target market and our customers going into something like this.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

This is something where I think I, I wonder if a lot of the other product marketing teams I’ve talked to, I think, facing similar challenges, but research and just being as strategic as possible. So we generally know a lot about our target market and our customers going into something like this.

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Brian Balfour

JUNE 20, 2017

Patreon is a platform that allows people who make things -- everything from music to blog posts to journalism to comics -- to to run a membership business for their fans. It's a number where we believe the platform has meaningfully changed a creator's life and ability to create more, focus more on their craft, and in many cases go full time."

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 16, 2020

Sometimes it takes a system design engineer and some cat gifs to really help you see what you’re doing and this funny and informative talk from Boston in 2019 has both! Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? The research on this is kind of interesting.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. Will any company perform this type of research for each product project? Probably not.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The technology for Resolution Bot has been waiting in the wings, but the user experience has been risky. That’s why we built a curation tool to help you search how your customers have asked questions in the past. And we have the machine learning technology to build a bot that can come in and can help and not look stupid.

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