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Getting conversational: HubSpot’s CEO on a new species of disruptor

Intercom, Inc.

Brian also shares HubSpot’s strategy for creating an industry-defining category that helped more than 86,000 customers in over 120 countries move from unwelcome outbound marketing to permission-based inbound marketing. For HubSpot, that enemy was outbound marketing. Driving connection and growth with conversational relationships.

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Why customer engagement is the key to business growth in 2022 and beyond

Intercom, Inc.

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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What is proactive support?

Intercom, Inc.

But now that customer experience has become a critical differentiator for modern consumers, this reactive approach to customer support is no longer good enough. Using clever features like outbound messages , banners , product tours , and more, you can provide customers with the help they need before they have to contact your team.

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Intercom’s product principles: Creating personal products by design

Intercom, Inc.

The use of embedded technologies like artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning within the product supports customers to set up processes in the way that works best for their team – resolving queries quickly for their end users, and in turn improving speed, efficiency, customer satisfaction, and brand loyalty.

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Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

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Going global was difficult for Prowly, but after a year and a half, they found that their differentiating factor was catering to SMBs rather than enterprises. We haven’t done any outbound marketing such as cold leads,” she says, letting us know that you don’t have to utilize every marketing variation. What is Product-Market fit?

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Four beliefs shaping our vision for customer support

Intercom, Inc.

“These technologies may have helped businesses scale, but it sent relationships that customers had with businesses back to the dark ages” To deal with this scale, a new generation of technology companies emerged introducing ticketing systems and concepts like “do-not-reply” emails. The challenges of customer support today.

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The Activities of a Strategic Product Manager

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Try these inbound/outbound efforts exercise by dividing your PM activities into either an “inbound effort” or “outbound effort” bucket. Common outbound effort activities include: Competitive differentiation. It rings so true for PMs (and if that’s you, you’re probably nodding your head vigorously in agreement).