Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

By determining these costs, you can draw useful insights for strategies to tackle them. I tried to correct the error of my ways from an early consulting career by joining a startup company in the customer service IVR service bureau field. Liam: What’s a good example? ” No inbound chat, no inbound email.

Customer Experience 138

Customer Experience Customer Feedback Feedback Software User Testing 138

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. In the example I used last week, we said that the problem you want to solve is to help people get faster from one place to another. that’s where you are at.

Education 142

Education Marketing Weak Development Team Advertising 142

Usersnap

JULY 11, 2021

In these startup-driven times, where we build products people love using, we have the obligation to provide the best customer service. As a small company or startup, you probably deal with all kind of different things when starting your business. And it will be a great inbound marketing channel for new prospects too.

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User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience Feedback Software 52

Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

The Kalungi blog is focused on educating users about how to implement inbound marketing in their SaaS businesses. The Sales Hacker blog focuses on sharing actionable content that offers helpful tips and strategies to reach SaaS sales goals. Stay up to date on the latest technologies, growth hacks, and marketing strategies.

Analytic Tools 52

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

Real-world examples to inspire you. Engineering as marketing is an inbound marketing strategy that involves creating free useful tools for your target audience. One of the most well-known (and original) examples of engineering as marketing is HubSpot’s Website Grader. Real-world examples of engineering as marketing.

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Research Software Engineering User Testing Marketing 80

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

How is the strategy here different for current MBA students? Basically, the strategy is similar. If you’re in marketing, for example, aim to work in inbound marketing, where you work on getting feedback from customers to influence the product. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Feedback Software Product Management Product Manager 98

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several recognitions, including The Economic Times Startup Award as the 2021 Bootstrap Champ. In the same year of its launch, Saravana closed on 5 inbound enterprise customers for BizTalk360. For example, Document360 was built to house complex documentation. 2,000+ customers. 5 products. How did Kovai make it here today?

Customer Experience 86

Customer Experience User Friction Enterprise Document 86

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. But I couldn’t raise the money for the startup; this was 2009, right after the recession. Starting sales from scratch.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

For example, if you’re a company like doola , it’s important to know if your audience is searching for “start a US bank account” or “form an LLC” as you build your initial inbound funnels. For example, I recently worked on a blog conversion project. Merge research-backed copy with company strategy.

Data Visualization 116

Data Visualization User Testing Research Software Product Research 116

Userpilot

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Before we get into the strategies and frameworks for monetizing integrations, keep in mind this: If any integration is fundamental to your product functioning and delivering value, it should not be treated as an upsell. Out-of-the-box integrations. Use integrations to increase product adoption and retention.

Customer Experience 89

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. They’ve worked with all kinds of businesses, from startups to established enterprises, in a wide variety of industries.

Research Software 52

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. They’ve worked with all kinds of businesses, from startups to established enterprises, in a wide variety of industries.

Research Software 52

Research Software User Testing Product Research Data Visualization 52

The Product Coalition

JULY 1, 2019

creating strategies and business models, setting goals, prioritizing idea, execution and validation using GIST. Here are a few examples of NSMs (some taken from Sean’s book Hacking Growth) : WhatsApp users come for free, rich, secure messaging. Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster”. Barcelona?—?July

KPI 92

KPI Data Visualization Workshop Analytic Tools 92

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. A well defined sales strategy is your path to meaningful, sustainable growth. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming.

Outbound 177

Outbound Strategy Inbound Customer Experience 177

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. If your application is a self-service one, focus on content and inbound marketing as your primary source of leads.

Strategy 195

Strategy Customer Experience Inbound User Testing 195

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. At Spendesk I am currently head of sales, so my main missions are about hiring and building the sales department on one side, and I also work around like all of the go-to-market strategy. That’s quite a large market.

Feedback Software 162

Feedback Software Marketing User Testing Finance 162

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

How is the strategy here different for current MBA students? Basically, the strategy is similar. If you’re in marketing, for example, aim to work in inbound marketing, where you work on getting feedback from customers to influence the product. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways.

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Technical Advisors Feedback Software Product Management Product Manager 40

Brian Balfour

JULY 18, 2017

The two most important elements of your model are: How Your Charge - For example, free (monetized with ads), freemium, transactional, free trial, one year up front, etc. The reason is because most startups need to keep their payback period to less than one year. LinkedIn is a great example of this. Pretty minimal.

User Testing 65

User Testing Outbound B2B Inbound 65

Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

Let's look at some examples. Since the product still requires a fair amount of setup and education to work they use Inbound Sales (Content) and Channel Partnerships (Product Channel Fit). Let's take a look at a few more examples. Plenty of startups try to attack all three tiers of the market with the same product/channel/model.

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Oren Steinberg

MARCH 7, 2017

How can startups work with large corporations? B2B and B2B2C startups trying to sell into large corporations know this all too well: big companies like to work with other big companies. If you’re a startup or even a growth stage company trying to sell into large corporation, you lag behind larger players by sheer DNA.

Reporting Tools 40

Reporting Tools User Testing Customer Experience Feedback Software 40

ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

There are shining examples of organizations that have succeeded — customer-obsessed companies like Invision, Zendesk, and Envoy. As a PM from a renowned Valley startup quipped: “Today’s feature voting forums might as well be called ‘disappointment forums’.” productboard Portal engages your product community in a whole new way.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

For example, a security or audit feature that is crucial to a CIO might be completely irrelevant to an individual user. This is not to say that bottom-up adoption is bad strategy; quite the opposite. If you can raise a ton of capital, it’s one strategy for winning and crushing the competition.

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Weak Development Team Data Visualization Strategy User Testing 156

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 9, 2024

Subscribe now P.S. New swag drop Q: I’ve been working on my startup for a couple of years now. Most startups, and new product ideas, fail—we all know this—but it’s different when it’s your product. Cold inbound interest: You’re seeing cold inbound interest in your product.

B2C 97

B2C Customer Experience User Friction User Testing 97

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

We recently sat down with Mark to chat about onboarding in a hypergrowth environment, how that strategy played as the pandemic unfolded, and why taking care of your team is actually the best way to take great care of your customers. We have business development doing inbound and outbound. Iterate, iterate, iterate.

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Feedback Software Reporting Tools Customer Experience Weak Development Team 223

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2020

I shared how we’re navigating these big changes, from the immediate impacts on customers, to the implications for our marketing and product plans, and, finally, to our customer communications strategy. The answer isn’t in a specific example but the approach you take to doing business. Adjust your product strategy and roadmap.

Customer Experience 228

Customer Experience User Friction Customer Feedback Data Visualization 228

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

A predictive lead scoring tool for B2B SaaS companies, MadKudu’s strategy is all about integrating with other platforms – including Intercom – to link customer intelligence and customer engagement. So I wanted to hear why that strategy makes sense for MadKudu and his advice for other teams thinking about building apps for their product.

Analytic Tools 190

Analytic Tools Data Visualization Customer Experience Inbound 190

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. Stripe hit the market with such force that they could rely on a high-velocity, bottom-up distribution engine to give them the kind of traction other startups could only dream of. How to bring formal sales into a growing startup.

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Weak Development Team Outbound User Testing Research Software 162

Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

Value chain analysis matters most to startups who don’t have much initial data to work with. Value chain examples Before we wrap things up, there are a couple of notable value chain examples that could provide some insights and inspiration for your own business. Customer pain points. Decision-making.

User Testing 89

User Testing Customer Feedback Feedback Software User Friction 89

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Take Slack, for example: the media points to its brilliant product as the reason for its impressive growth. A genius inbound marketing strategy. And really there are five most common market-moving strategies. Salesforce?

Data Visualization 186

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A marketing professional may get excited about creating an email campaign through an email software solution, for example, but she will be very excited when they improve their conversion rates after a simple change to the message. It’s not surprising that the first customer trainer at many SaaS startups is the founder of the company.

Education 52

Education User Testing Customer Experience Research Software 52

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

Analytic Tools 151

Analytic Tools Data Visualization User Testing Artificial Inteligence 151

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Too often, startup founders spend time hoping for a miracle. While this looks like a winning strategy on paper, it often isn’t as helpful as it might appear. And not only are they less interested in giving some unknown startup a boost, they don’t know how to sell that product effectively.

User Testing 52

User Testing Research Software Feedback Software Customer Experience 52

Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

The best candidates they have their pick of where to work and it’s really hard for small startup to compete. So, against this calibre of competition how does a small startup managed to remain competitive? High-level Strategy. Everyone knows that hiring engineers is really hard. And all of these have brand recognition.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Feedback Software Software Review Analytic Tools 52

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Andrew’s been an angel investor and advisor for a slew of name-brand startups; however, he’s most widely known for his invaluable essays on growth. First zero in on a strategy for achieving your desired outcome , and then pick high quality metrics to validate your tests. That seems to be when they changed their strategy.

User Testing 224

User Testing Customer Experience Onboarding KPIs Customer Feedback 224

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2018

Eric: I was leading growth at an online education startup called Treehouse, a company I still love, and that led to the opportunity to come to Single Grain. The interesting thing is that the way we get our clients right now is strictly around content marketing, inbound and SEO. Adam: All your clients today are inbound.

Webinar 192

Webinar Inbound Download User Testing 192

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Strategy first, technology second. But here’s the thing: a tool is not a strategy. The real value marketing software offers is in the strategy and approach it enables. A strategy needs to be the foundation of any marketing stack, one that takes into consideration who you are, what your goals are and who you’re trying to reach.

Analytic Tools 223

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