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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

We created our first sales function in 2014 and in the busyness of building out the team, we had little time to reflect on how our experiences on the frontline of sales could add value to our product roadmap. Trial and error: adding sales input to the product roadmap. Here’s how we did it with a few lessons we learned along the way.

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The Importance of Crowdsourcing Your Product Ideas

ProductPlan

Crowdsourcing can help you collect feedback and generate ideas from diverse people and perspectives. What is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is where you ask people outside your company for ideas, information, and opinions – usually via the internet – to help you craft better products. Why crowdsource product ideas.

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Idea Crowdsourcing 101: Inviting Users Into Your Product Strategy

The Product Manager

These smart user-centric idea generation tactics can help you shape your roadmap around the features your users really care about. The post Idea Crowdsourcing 101: Inviting Users Into Your Product Strategy appeared first on The Product Manager.

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Customer needs with JTBD–and other innovation insights for product managers July 15, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and…. 2) Crowdsourcing ideas frequently. (3) Read about it at [link]. 5 steps product managers use to prioritize great ideas. (1) 1) Check the details. (2) 2) Merge duplicates. (3) 3) Rank based on score. (4) 4) Respond quickly. (5) 5) Promote to features. Read about each at [link].

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and…. An innovation incubator that crowdsources solutions to common problems using NASA’s data is an impressive weekend hackathon. People are poor communicators of how they feel and why they feel what they do. Learn more at [link]. increase the number of right products developed.

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30 Steps to Mobile App Launch

Alchemer Mobile

If you’re ready to submit your app to the app stores next week, condense the most important elements of pre-launch into a one-week period and move the other items to your post-launch roadmap. Use this as an opportunity to crowdsource quality assurance and ensure a relatively bug-free experience once you release your public app.

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Connect Product Strategy to Execution in ProductPlan

ProductPlan

More recently, we’ve helped you crowdsource new ideas from customers and stakeholders alike , and create a consistent GTM process for every new launch. Many of our customers are candid about their struggles to connect initiatives planned in their roadmaps to the broader goals they support.