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How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. Or how working on outbound product management would make them better inbound product managers. Growth requires continuous effort, over a long period of time.

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The biggest challenges facing support teams right now (and how to solve them)

Intercom, Inc.

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. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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A New Inbound Approach To Customer Success

Gainsight

If you’re familiar with HubSpot, then the word that probably comes to mind is “inbound.”. In 2018, based on a new set of observations, we decided to update one of the core concepts of inbound marketing. Today, we’re going to adapt the inbound methodology to encompass tenets of customer success. From Funnel To Flywheel.

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From frontline manager to SVP of Sales: How to stand out in your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

Sales managers looking to stand out among their peers would do well to focus on four things: prioritizing work that will move the needle, making sure the right people are on their team, thinking about initiatives that will improve the business (not just themselves and their reps), and developing a solid decision-making framework.

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Customer Support is being turned upside down. Here’s what you need to do about it.

Intercom, Inc.

The internet is moving more businesses and people online, and driving a huge increase in inbound support volume. Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. Self-serve Support and bots to automatically answer all common customer questions, reducing inbound volume to support agents.

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Rugs.com increased their support efficiency 10x with Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

With the onset of COVID-19 and the accelerated move towards online shopping, Grayson Bagwell, Director of Business Development at Rugs.com, notes the sharp increase in shopping volume the business has experienced in the last 12 months as a result of people spending more time at home. “As We were using Olark chat, but it wasn’t very flexible”.

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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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