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Reading list: Advice for customer retention

Intercom, Inc.

We continue our series of posts looking back through the Inside Intercom archive with a selection of some of our most popular posts on customer retention. This has long been one of the most popular topics on Inside Intercom, and over the years we have examined retention from a number of different perspectives – from measuring net dollar retention to understanding activity churn; from cohort analysis to re-engagement messaging strategies. “Retaining customers will be more important for surv

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Want Business Agility? Use These Seven Innovation Principles

Johanna Rothman

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. I realized I have 7 innovation principles: Clarify the organization's purpose. . Manage for effectiveness. Seek outcomes, not outputs. Flow efficiency at all levels. Encourage small-world networks of relationships. Organizational integrity. Encourage change and experiments. Anytime I've seen a successful innovation culture, I've seen these principles.

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Business Model Patterns

Strategyzer

A lot of startups and established companies are trying to compete on superior technology, products, services and price. They are stuck in a rat race. Yet, the world's most successful companies compete on superior business models. These business models build on patterns, i.e. repeatable configurations of different business model building blocks to strengthen an organization’s overall business model.

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Leading your support team through a crisis

Intercom, Inc.

“A team takes its tone from its leader,” says our Global Director of Customer Support Kaitlin Pettersen. When an unprecedented crisis like COVID-19 hits how do you provide your team with the guidance they need? Your support team is likely experiencing an array of unprecedented stressors right now, like tackling high conversation volumes, resolving stressed-out customers’ issues, and abruptly transitioning to working remotely.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Stories from the ProductTank Community – Brisbane

Mind the Product

ProductTank organisers Jase Clamp and Louise Flynn give us a snapshot of the Brisbane product scene and reveal something the rest of us have been missing! What is it that motivates you to run ProductTank meetups? In running ProductTank we’re able to help our friends and product people in Brisbane to be happier in their work. It’s also an opportunity to build capability in Brisbane for great Product people, especially the ones that don’t know yet that they are great Product peop

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How to write acceptance criteria?

The Product Coalition

Best practice, format, examples, and tips for writing acceptance criteria Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Gathering and Organizing Feature Requests and Customer Feedback

ProductCraft

I have been with my current company for almost eight and a half years, in roles ranging from support engineer to management, and now, to product management. In that time, we as a company have struggled with how to gather, organize, and prioritize feature requests, even just those from internal stakeholders. When it comes to. Read more » The post Gathering and Organizing Feature Requests and Customer Feedback appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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17. How to make yourself work and whether it’s worth it

The Product Coalition

I have several friends who are professional classical musicians. Their children have been learning to play musical instruments like violin and so on since the age of 5, attending music academies and conservatories. Becoming a classical musician requires everyday practice, and not a very fun one. So I always wondered: how do you make a 5-year old work so hard?

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Podcast: Product Leadership, Career Planning, and Getting Fired/Hired

Mironov Consulting

What: Product404’s podcast, hosted by Kent Keirsey. Recorded: 14 April 2020. Length: 46 minutes. Product404 is an Atlanta-based product community, normally hosting in-person events. Kent Keirsey is turning this into a podcast series (for now). Kent and I talked at length about product leadership; smokejumping into companies; moving up the career ladder; helping those who need it (in the current COVID-19 crisis and more generally); paying it forward ; and what product management interviewi

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives

The Product Coalition

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns. This fifth article now dives into organizing a remote Retrospective with a distributed team: practices, tools, and lessons learned.

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The COVID-19 To-Do List for Revenue Leaders

TSIA

The COVID-19 crisis is causing Sales, Customer Success, and other revenue-focused leaders to scramble like they never have before. Unfortunately, many executives find themselves reacting to the constant stream of challenges. In the process of dealing with these urgent things, the temptation may be to address them as best you can and move on to the next pressing item.

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You Do Not Need to Fix Every Product Request

The Product Coalition

Listen like a parent?—?does your customer just need some love or is there a real problem to be solved? Photo by Zane Lee Joe Procopio wrote in Why You Should Build Every New Product Feature like an MVP : One question I always ask about feature ideas and requests is whether a fully-formed feature will add to our intellectual property or is it just a band-aid?

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Want Business Agility? Use These Seven Innovation Principles

Johanna Rothman

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. I realized I have 7 innovation principles: Clarify the organization's purpose. . Manage for effectiveness. Seek outcomes, not outputs. Flow efficiency at all levels. Encourage small-world networks of relationships. Organizational integrity. Encourage change and experiments. Anytime I've seen a successful innovation culture, I've seen these principles.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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Global Product Community, I need your help

The Product Coalition

Announcing P24 : The global movement for product people to support our healthcare workers P24 is a self-organising 24-hour product+tech+design livestream dedicated to raising support for healthcare workers globally. 48 x 24minute talks worldwide non-stop over 24 hours Thursday 23rd April, 9am to Friday 24th April, 9am GMT+1 I will give this my all, please join me.

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How to be a Great Product Manager According to Experts at Dropbox, Stripe, and Concur

Alchemer Mobile

Coffee and PMs are the perfect blend. Get your cup of coffee ready and watch the full recording from our live panel discussion with product professionals from leading brands like Dropbox, Concur, and Stripe. Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company?

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Remote Working For Product Organisations – Amir Salihefendi? on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

For obvious reasons, most of us are currently working from home, along with teams that are also all remote. Even if you’ve worked from home before, even if you’ve done it under tough conditions, this is different. Amir Salihefendi? should know. As the founder and CEO of Doist (makers of Todoist and Twist ), his company has been all-remote since day one.

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A Guide to Design System Field Studies

Modus Create

There is no shortage of guides published about how to build a design system. However, many of these guides do not pay enough attention to a crucial step in building a design system: user research. I’ll discuss why including user research in your design system process is an absolute must. I’ll also discuss one of my favorite methods for design system user research: the field study.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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How to Get Your Next 1,000 Customers without Breaking Your Bank

The Product Coalition

The Business of Generating Business is Getting More Expensive If making money is a top priority of every business then there should be no dispute how much more important an efficient business prospecting process is. After all, who doesn’t want more market share and revenue growth? Nevertheless not all businesses understand how to leverage on technology to break out of the ad-spend rat race nor harnessing it to help marketing and sales teams to be more effective.

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