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How do customers want to talk to businesses? Our new survey reveals what you need to know

Intercom, Inc.

We’re fast approaching a new year, with major changes in customer support trends and customer expectations. So what does “good customer support” look like for 2023? We conducted a major survey to find out what people want and expect from customer service, and made some fascinating discoveries. Our latest study contacted 1,000 US customers across generations, to learn more about what they want and expect from businesses as we enter 2023.

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Leadership Tip #20: Consciously Delegate to Free Your Management Time

Johanna Rothman

Jim, a relatively new manager said, “I don't have nearly enough time. I'm in meetings all the time. And I still need to do some of my previous technical work. I feel stretched from one end of the work day to the other.” We spoke for a few minutes. I asked him to eyeball the Management Time Sheet (link is to the google sheet) and see where he spent his time.

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Our biggest releases of 2022: A next-generation Inbox, our most powerful Messenger yet, and the introduction of tickets

Intercom, Inc.

2022 has been a year for the books, with major changes and uncertainty across every industry. . Through it all, we’ve focused on building delightful features for our customers – and today, we’re focusing on something a little more positive with our roundup of the biggest and best of what we’ve built for you this year. Below are the highlights of what we’ve built for you in 2022, but there’s so much more to see.

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From BigCo to Startup: 20 Tips for Evaluating Early-Stage Companies & Making the Leap

First Round Review

Considering moving from BigCo to startup? We crowdsourced a tactical guide for first-time startup job-seekers on how to evaluate career opportunities at early-stage companies.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Paperform “quiz”

Nir Eyal

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Identifying The Right Stakeholders to Increase Digital Product Success

Emerge Insights

Your stakeholders play a vital role in product discovery, definition, and delivery. They are the people inside or outside of your company who have a vested interest in the product and its success. Identifying product stakeholders is an essential first step in understanding who will be involved in your product’s development, launch, and evolution. The […].

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5 Surprising Tips for Beta Testing Your Product Over the Holidays

Centercode

Not only can beta testing help improve the quality of your product, but it can also provide valuable insights and feedback during the busiest time of the year. In this blog we share tips for planning and executing a successful beta test over the holidays.

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Harvard Business Review and Gainsight Report on the New Responsibilities for Product Leaders

Gainsight

During times of economic uncertainty, the secret to survival is to double down on your customers. That doesn’t mean just more time with Customer Success (CS) or building great products to meet customer demands. It also means delivering positive product experiences and overall exceptional customer experiences. . At Gainsight, we’ve seen firsthand that the most successful digitally powered B2B companies focus on delivering a positive product experience (PX) to their customers.

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The 2022 UX Research Tools Map with Roberta Dombrowski

UserInterviews

The 2022 UX Research Tools Map is live! Learn how the 4th annual UX Research Tools Map came to life, and how we categorized 230+ tools by primary use cases.

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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ONE THING on Differing Personas

Product Culture

I once saw four giant photos, each a with a different smiley person, posted on company elevators. “Those are the personas the marketing team came up with,” an unhappy-looking product manager told me. “They're making a big deal out of them but they don’t help us at all.” It turned out these were buyer personas , profiles of the people who wrote the check for the company’s product.

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Venture capitalist Harry Stebbings on getting into venture

Intercom, Inc.

. There were quite a few memorable scenes from The Social Network, the 2010 movie that chronicles the inception of Facebook – and the lawsuits that followed. There’s the initial whirlwind of a breakup that leads to the highly problematic Facemash.com, the moment Saverin confronts Zuckerberg for being cheated out of his shares, the perfectly delivered “drop the ‘the.’ Just Facebook.” But it was none of those scenes that lingered on Harry Stebbings ’ mind.