Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We refined the message and added features important for our partners and users. Our story is not unique, of course. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features. Key Takeaways.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 26, 2022

In today’s modern age, support teams simply need to redefine what being “personal” means. But with the development of automation, like bots and contextual help content, we’ve significantly changed our perception of what being personal means. If your team is pondering whether to use “bots versus humans?” What will they choose?

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Messages that Matter

AUGUST 26, 2024

Messages that Matter Messages that Matter Involve partners early and often throughout creation of your product messaging! It is the key to getting partners to embrace and amplify your B2B software product messaging. The team’s first action is to interview channel partners on the team and the group providing feedback.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 16, 2023

Yes, all of the content we create—whether it’s this blog, the Product Talk Academy courses , the community , or the Continuous Discovery Habits book—focuses on the various facets of continuous discovery. And she’s also always happy to coach the members of the Product Talk team in how to develop our own continuous discovery skills, too.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

All you need is a company providing React Native services and an outstanding team of developers who know exactly what they’re doing. Before you start planning your budget, let’s see why Uber is so popular and discuss what you need to develop a React Native app like it. yeah, don’t forget to develop a version for drivers.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. Everyones chasing the next AI feature or untapped market. Theyre problem-solvers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Failure Point #4 – Poor design & execution. To that, I say unequivocally NO !

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As we look at what it takes to develop non-gaming VR products, their separation from gaming becomes very important. Developing business products in VR, however, is like creating a new sport by combining American Football and what the rest of the world calls Football. So what does all of this mean for product development?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2019

That’s why we built Product Tours to assist with the job of user onboarding within your product, alongside our best-in-class in-app messaging and knowledge base products. A poor onboarding experience can lead to refunds or cancellations that you can’t afford. What is user onboarding, and why does it matter? Here’s the proof.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. This of course varies widely and depends on each product’s characteristics; however, it is an easy metric to use as guideline. Join the support team and answer a few tickets yourself.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve. People in the organization start to realize there should be reasons behind product decisions, avoiding an ad-hoc development culture. We’ll keep working on this on our next development cycle.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. “How do you make sense of and identify the trends in the many conversations your team is having with your customers?” What does success look like?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Writing a clear, timely, and empathetic message to your customers is a very sought-after craft. For the past 25 years, she’s been helping people and businesses draft their own style guides and write better emails, chats, and social media messages to improve both communication and the customer experience. Say it like you mean it.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Given our cadence of launches and updates, we’ve developed a pretty well-oiled launch machine over the past few years. Our go-to-market teams have grown immensely, meaning more specialists and larger cross-collaborative teams for each launch. Get super targeted with your messaging.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

Personally, I think being open in realising when a feature has taken a toll is an art and unfortunately few teams depict the benefits behind it. Are you also one of the product teams where 80% of your roadmap or sprint is a stakeholder wishlist? Team member idea This one is a tricky one and I will explain why.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

As a Product Manager, at any given time you will be carrying on simultaneous conversations with developers, designers, your product team, data analysts, QA engineers, marketing, sales, possibly your executive team, client success, and of course, your users. You don’t like talking with your users Another biggie.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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Mind the Product

JULY 25, 2018

One prevalent theme that came up in all the interviews was how, when trying to find a solution to a challenging problem, you should try to leverage all the diverse skills available in the team. Encourage the team to think of at least four solutions to the problem being presented, if not more. engineering, commercial, design etc.)

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

I hosted Nir on our podcast to learn how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves, and much more. Here are five quick takeaways: We have good habits and bad habits , which are very different from addictions. For me, that was a bad habit.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2018

Of all the ways to get your message into the world, staging events might not seem like the most efficient or scalable. Of course, talking to people and building relationships is harder than sitting at your desk. A bad version of this opportunity is spending half of your annual marketing budget on sponsoring a conference closing party.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Machine Learning (ML) is at the forefront, allowing UX teams to analyze vast amounts of user data to identify trends and predict behavior. This technology is crucial for developing conversational interfaces like chatbots, which help create seamless and interactive experiences forusers. This brings us to the nextsection.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 17, 2018

That leads to bad outcomes for you. In a recent presentation I was demoing the latest version of a new product that was still in development. I knew what didn’t work well, and where errant error messages might appear. Answer the question, of course! Let’s fix that! Be prepared, Scout. Finding the objections.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. In today’s episode of Intercom on Product, Paul Adams , our SVP of Product, and I reflect on our own shortcomings as we scale – and the makings of a much-needed course correction. Paul: Yeah.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 12, 2020

This week however, myself and Paul decided to get back in the studio (remotely of course) and record a new episode to share with you. And perhaps more importantly, how can you develop it? There’s only really one way to develop product judgment and that’s through direct interaction with your customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? Your new book, Conversational Design , is out on abookapart.com on March 6. Erika: Absolutely.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. For example?—?you’ve

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