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Crowdsourced Testing vs. Beta Testing: What’s the Difference?

Centercode

Those aspects show the difference between crowdsourced testing and beta testing. Crowdsourced testing, like beta testing, gives testers real products to use in the real world before release. Bug focus vs. experience focus. How Crowdsourced Testing Works. your potential customers) is central to beta testing.

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. But we quickly realized that the job of sales at Intercom is two-fold: to drive revenue for the company and be the voice of our customers.

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30 Steps to Mobile App Launch

Alchemer Mobile

They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. When it comes time to launch, however, they fall into the trap of thinking submitting an app to the app stores is the same as launching an app. Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. It’s marketing.

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Clearbit’s VP of Customer Success on turning economic headwinds into a growth opportunity

Intercom, Inc.

First, as the economy is buffeted by turbulent seas, companies must batten down the hatches and devote their time and attention to their current customers. These enormous efficiency gains have allowed the company to continue building on its six consecutive years of double-digit growth, even during these lean times. .

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

From 1988-2004, winners were early adopters of Stage-Gate, cross-functional teams, and voice-of-the-customer. One of those elements is solving a significant customer problem. The company Church & Dwight showed us a funnel where they determine their “drill sites”—where to focus their innovation efforts.

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Top Data Labeling Tools for Machine Learning Projects

The Product Coalition

Generating labeled training data requires a great deal of time, effort, and investment. With over 20 years of hands-on experience creating custom data for the world’s largest technology companies, Lionbridge AI has built the most intuitive data annotation platform on the market.

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The Importance of Crowdsourcing Your Product Ideas

ProductPlan

You created your product to help customers solve a problem and align with your organization’s product vision. Your understanding of the problem may have evolved based on observing customers using your product. It should go without saying that you want to get customer feedback. What is crowdsourcing?