The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

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.

Strategy 139

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why…. What To Do?

Technical Advisors 142

Technical Advisors User Testing Weak Development Team Customer Experience 142

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 4, 2021

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”.

Customer Communications 118

Customer Communications Inbound Outbound Customer Experience 118

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. Short on time?

Outbound 183

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2019

While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM. Maintain Good Data Quality for Outbound Integrations. If you had bad data or too much data in the source application, you’ll now have bad data in the target application.

Reporting Tools 147

Reporting Tools Data Visualization Customer Experience User Testing 147

Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Unfortunately, product leadership culture can get a little messy.

Onboarding KPIs 52

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. It tells your product team what they need to do to build a product that satisfies the needs of a specific group of users, and contributes to the realization of the company objectives. Goals are important aspects of the product strategy. Source: Pragmatic Institute.

Product Research 89

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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. productboard Portal enables product managers to get the pulse of their customers. productboard Portal engages your product community in a whole new way.

Customer Feedback 45

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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. Together, we surveyed hundreds of CX professionals, team leads, managers, and executives to get a deeper understanding of how they measure and improve support quality.

Onboarding KPIs 129

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. Onboarding, but make it remote.

Feedback Software 223

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At Amplitude, we are big fans of customer development partners (CDPs), who help us build and test our new features. outbound integration. If you need an enhancement to a public API, you can probably get it on that team’s development roadmap (assuming that the integration is important to them).

Feedback Software 83

Feedback Software User Testing Weak Development Team Customer Feedback 83

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Where do they look for solutions like yours (this can help inform your marketing team as to where they should be concentrating their marketing budgets.).

Feedback Software 178

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2019

While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM. If you had bad data or too much data in the source application, you’ll now have bad data in the target application. It is essential to plan for these.

Reporting Tools 63

Reporting Tools Data Visualization Customer Experience User Testing 63

Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I strongly advocate a “portfolio pie” model of prioritization, to avoid putting all of our development eggs into the feature basket. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. More here.)

Roadmap 92

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development. Or to sell it through an outbound sales team?

User Testing 118

User Testing Document Product Marketing Marketing 118

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

Feedback Software 162

Feedback Software Marketing User Testing Finance 162

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. Although she was a product manager, she’d experienced sales first-hand growing up and had spent many hours studying revenue teams.

User Friction 118

User Friction Customer Experience Weak Development Team Travel 118

eG Innovations

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Three significant versions of SNMP have been developed and deployed. The communication from the poller to the eG manager is initiated in one direction only, outbound to the eG Manager. Prioritization of traps allows eG Enterprise alerts to be sent to IT operations teams with the appropriate level of severity.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Reporting Tools Data Visualization Transportation 52

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. The virtue of patience.

Weak Development Team 35

Weak Development Team Customer Experience Outbound Inbound 35

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. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

Weak Development Team 162

Weak Development Team Outbound User Testing Research Software 162

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. Grow relationships with customers to develop loyal promoters.

Inbound 55

Inbound User Testing Customer Experience Customer Feedback 55

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. 8 steps to develop a winning sales strategy. But that threshold exists.

Outbound 177

Outbound Strategy Inbound Customer Experience 177

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. When done right, your sales team won’t just accelerate your company’s growth; they’ll enrich your company’s culture and help build a better product too. 12 steps to build a world-class sales team.

Weak Development Team 156

Weak Development Team Data Visualization Strategy User Testing 156

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. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

Weak Development Team 129

Weak Development Team Reporting Tools Research Software Feedback Software 129

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release. Give us a feel for your career to date: what brought you to Clearbit, and what’s the mission of your team there? We provide data for modern sales and marketing teams across all the products they already use.

Data Visualization 182

Data Visualization Feedback Software Customer Experience B2B 182

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 19, 2021

. “Our in-app messages and email messaging enabled companies to reach customers inside the product in real time, so they could deliver the right message, at the right moment” Initially, our sole focus was developing in-product messaging. We knew we had to change tack and find a way to align teams and functions as we scaled.

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Framework Customer Experience Systems Review User Testing 272

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Whereas, in another company, the role is expanded to be the expert collaborator that binds the whole product team together. For example; in a smaller company, a Java Developer will have pretty much the same core activities as they do in a larger company. Or you may be heavily involved in either inbound or outbound activity.

Outbound 60

Outbound Inbound Product Management Product Manager 60

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

Weak Development Team 118

Weak Development Team Feedback Software User Testing Customer Experience 118

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. Support teams want it.

Reporting Tools 222

Reporting Tools Technical Review Data Visualization Research Software 222

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

Engineering 178

Engineering Presentation Technical Review Systems Review 178

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

Analytic Tools 199

Analytic Tools Research Software Data Visualization Technical Review 199

Modus Create

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When building complex applications, development teams often employ a microservice architecture pattern to achieve a maintainable, testable, and loosely coupled service structure. In the case of Log4j, if we know the Java daemon shouldn’t be making outbound calls or connections, we can disrupt the attacker’s kill chain.

Software Review 59

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. So we should take the time to propose various metrics, review them with our teams, argue a bit, and consider our first choices as experiments rather than instant full-year commitments. Yet it’s the first KPI proposed by many exec teams.

B2B 118

B2B Enterprise Onboarding KPIs User Testing 118

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2019

Building endurance across each role was the key skill that helped me to develop my career in PM. In all that time, I only declined to continue the interview process with two companies due to poor fit. When any single person can put in a bad word on your candidacy, you must always be on your game.

Weak Development Team 60

Weak Development Team Product Management Product Manager User Testing 60

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. How do you still manage to assemble a superstar team before you dive in.

Technical Review 52

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2019

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., Passively discovered —Their LinkedIn profile looked like a match, so you (or your talent team) approached them. The Product Management Talent Funnel. ” 8.

Technical Review 67

Technical Review User Testing Product Management Product Manager 67

eG Innovations

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

While designed for developers for easier web-scale computing, it provides 99.99999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects. You can permit access to the internal sites of your choice by funneling outbound traffic from a WorkSpace through a web filter. Onboard your development teams (developers, QA, DevOps/SRE etc.)

Data Visualization 59

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