Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

When a prospect is intrigued by your outbound marketing and reaches out to your support team to ask a question, is that a marketing, sales, or support issue? Technology capabilities were one of the key factors of business success during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic”. The answer is yes – it’s both.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2021

Knowing how to sell UX research is an important part of every UX researcher’s toolkit. I didn’t get into research to end up doing sales,” might you say. First, we’ll start by seeing how knowing how to sell research will help you in your UX journey. Sometimes you’ll even be the only researcher in the team.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you’re still validating your SaaS product idea or launching a new feature to an existing product line, thinking about your Go-To-Market Strategy is always relevant. What Is a Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy For SaaS? A go-to-market strategy is your blueprint for successfully launching a new product in the SaaS market.

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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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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Early in my career as a product manager, I remember being introduced to the process of user research in a way that made it seem like a monumental undertaking. A typical user research cycle looked like this: write up an agenda. With all of those steps, user research became a chore. 7 tips to help you actually do user research.

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DevelopmentCorporate

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Yet, recent research has shown that the return on these investments is poor. B2B SaaS firms should temper the amount of time and energy they invest in leveraging social media to drive leads to the top of their sales funnel. Investing in outbound inside sales teams will probably deliver a better outcome.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2020

Yesterday we launched powerful upgrades to the Intercom platform for support teams. This launch is a meaningful one for us because our Support team partnered hand in hand with the Product team to develop many of the features. So over the years, we’ve been able to build internal tools to cater to our team needs.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. Market research, differentiation, and positioning are necessary to prepare for the product launch. Conduct market research. What is product strategy?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

User research process for startups Forget the 8-step process, just go talk to them. In order to get in front of users regularly with that process requires dedicated user researchers. Below is an overview of how I’ve learned to do user research at startups. Hack #2: Pull the user research subject emails yourself?—?don’t

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our outbound communication team – which includes social media and a team of content creators. We transform our clients into product-led companies through teaching and collaborative development.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our outbound communication team – which includes social media and a team of content creators. We transform our clients into product-led companies through teaching and collaborative development.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

JTBD is a great tool for understanding what you can do for your customer and helping you develop a product (or feature set) around that. Let’s say you’re developing a tool for people in a team to chat with each other about work (think Slack or Microsoft Teams). You can quite easily visualise this group and target them.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s why we partnered with Klaus , the conversation review and QA platform for support teams, to get a deeper understanding of what “quality support” actually looks like. Increasingly, we’re seeing that customers want digital-first solutions that allow them to get the support they need, on their own terms. Who will do the reviews?

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B2B Product Management

DECEMBER 6, 2016

As you can see in the picture, these categories are inbound and outbound Product Management. This division between inbound and outbound PM duties is much more pronounced at larger companies. If you are an inbound PM, you might want to take steps to get into an outbound PM role. You define the pricing of the product.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion. What is the purpose of customer acquisition in SaaS? This article answers that and more. Book a demo now to learn more.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

PMs have a unique role that brings together a synthesis of exploration, analysis, and strategic development. Developing a Product Strategy. Before we go any further discussing the activities of a strategic product manager, let’s review the key parts of developing and implementing a product strategy. Product Vision.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Sprout Social , which develops social media management, advocacy and analytics software for businesses, has mushroomed to 500 employees in its short, nine-year history. But as the organization expands, it becomes necessary to develop key partnerships with other teams to effectively support these stakeholders, Cuttica said.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Sprout Social , which develops social media management, advocacy and analytics software for businesses, has mushroomed to 500 employees in its short, nine-year history. But as the organization expands, it becomes necessary to develop key partnerships with other teams to effectively support these stakeholders, Cuttica said.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

The New Age of Product Marketing The evolution of Product Marketing is one of the newest and most important trends in software marketing today, so it’s important to understand it and know how to apply it for your career or company. Agile is now normal, and continuous development and delivery is the new standard.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 20, 2023

When choosing an appropriate customer support tool, you want to make sure that it ticks all the boxes your team requires. You’re off to a good start by researching the available options. Each method requires different tools to achieve the desired outcome. What’s Customer Support Software? So, congratulations!

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

Having a clear idea of how your solution adds value to your customers’ lives is the only way you’ll be able to clearly communicate the core benefits and get your value proposition across. The SaaS value chain is unique in that customers receive value from the product over a long period of time rather than a single interaction.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

They are trying to help businesses, no matter the industry, embrace the subscription economy and win it by providing cloud-based software solutions, especially for billing and revenue recognition. He believes his job entails everything outbound through product marketing into the field organization. A Data Nerd at Heart.

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ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

productboard , the all-in-one product management solution, launched today on Product Hunt the Portal , an all-new interface that bridges the divide between the product teams and marketplace. With the Portal, productboard overcomes limitations of all previous roadmapping and feature voting solutions.

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nulab

MAY 10, 2019

This means you’ll need to dedicate a lot of time and effort to innovation, research, and product patenting or trademarking. Once you’ve chosen your strategy, you’ll need to conduct some in-depth market research so you can gain a full picture of your competitors and their own offerings. Outbound Logistics. Technology Development.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Inbound marketing was the concept upon which we founded HubSpot: that outbound, interruption-based marketing was going extinct, and instead of interrupting people to get their attention, you needed to start attracting an engaged audience to grow bigger and better. Guide customers with proactive solutions that scale their success.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In the first podcast, I chatted with some of our teams from research, engineering, and product management, who translated your feedback into the features and products we built. I’m on the research and data science team here at Intercom. It didn’t provide any visual cues for the customers to check their outbound messages.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. Using data to drive outbound sales. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. Not likely.

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All About Product Management

APRIL 29, 2007

Porter views a company as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. The primary value chain online activities are as follows: Inbound Logistics: Data feeds (RSS, XML, CSV…), ad slots, business pain, keyword research, availability of community tools (e.g.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 20, 2019

Buyers now have more information than ever before, inbound and outbound SDRs have to change their approach to capture buyer interest and add value, and the skill set needed to be successful has changed. At the time I didn’t fully value the SDR experience or the skill set I was developing. Here’s why.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

The pandemic has transformed the way we do business and build relationships with customers – highlighting the need for digital-first solutions and personalized, conversational messaging. We commissioned Forrester Consulting , an independent research firm, to learn more about how conversational support is changing the industry.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A music streaming service needs different health indicators than an aircraft manufacturer or online ad marketplace or security software vendor or dating app. Let’s switch out of ERP systems and become currency traders.” BigCorp has $2M set aside for Blockchain research. But metrics aren’t generic. Grass is greener. “We

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that. Land and expand in a nutshell is very simple.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. Teams that benefit: Product, research and development, product education, customer success, sales, marketing.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. Alex Yang: The company where we work builds technology to fight global poverty.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2019

In that time, I’ve been lucky to work for some of the great technology companies in iteratively better and better roles. Building endurance across each role was the key skill that helped me to develop my career in PM. It takes vision, research, preparation, presentation, and so much more. You bring second party research.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2019

According to leading research on technical recruiting, the interview process for the Internet and Tech industry currently averages more than 24 days. You have a huge pile of leads based on inbound and outbound marketing, the pool is winnowed down based on their interest, ability to pay, etc., The Product Management Talent Funnel.

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