The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

I have traditionally been a believer that any form of marketing other than what is classified as, “Inbound” is typically a waste of money and time. As I think about it however, I actually think that this idea of, “Inbound marketing” is actually a bit ridiculous. HubSpot defines inbound marketing this way: “Since 2006, inbound marketing has been the most effective marketing method for doing business online. A little further down the page they ask, “What is inbound?”

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 23, 2019

If you’re familiar with HubSpot, then the word that probably comes to mind is “inbound.”. 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. In 2018, based on a new set of observations, we decided to update one of the core concepts of inbound marketing.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When 80 percent of Internet users own smartphones, it is no surprise that mobile marketing has quickly become one of the leading sources for generating inbound leads. Traditional outbound marketing efforts, such as cold calls, snail mail and trade shows have decreased in their effectiveness while inbound marketing campaigns have provided new growth opportunities. This tactic is fast and effective at delivering solid inbound leads to new businesses. By Sophorn Chhay.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2019

Should you split between inbound and outbound product managers? Inbound vs Outbound (PM vs PO) Sometimes companies split product management between outbound product managers that understand the market and discuss needs with customers and inbound product managers that understand the product and discuss requirements with engineering. The outbound product manager many times do a lot of business development work and the inbound product manager do a lot of engineering work.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 18, 2020

This provides a great platform for your inbound strategy to educate the target [.]. Today your customers are reluctant to buy, so what can product marketing folks do to help? You can educate your buyers. Whenever they are ready to buy, they will remember you.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Should you split between inbound and outbound product managers? Inbound vs Outbound (PM vs PO). Sometimes companies split product management between outbound product managers that understand the market and discuss needs with customers and inbound product managers that understand the product and discuss requirements with engineering. The outbound product manager many times do a lot of business development work and the inbound product manager do a lot of engineering work.

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Ask Benny

JULY 31, 2019

Should you split between inbound and outbound product managers? Inbound vs Outbound (PM vs PO) Sometimes companies split product management between outbound product managers that understand the market and discuss needs with customers and inbound product managers that understand the product and discuss requirements with engineering. The outbound product manager many times do a lot of business development work and the inbound product manager do a lot of engineering work.

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Inside Intercom

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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. It’s going to be really hard to create an inbound marketing category.

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Inside Intercom

JUNE 27, 2020

In this episode you’ll hear from: Birdie Haumschild : Sales Development Representative (Inbound), San Francisco. Tyle Bivens : Sales Development Representative (Inbound), Chicago. For Pride week, our LGBTI+ teammates have been sharing their lived experiences, including their coming out stories, how they’ve stayed engaged with their communities in light of COVID-19, and what ways they feel allies can best support LGBTI+ people.

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B2B Product Management

DECEMBER 6, 2016

As you can see in the picture, these categories are inbound and outbound Product Management. This division between inbound and outbound PM duties is much more pronounced at larger companies. If you are an inbound PM, you might want to take steps to get into an outbound PM role. The Inbound PM role : As an inbound PM, your role is to develop the product or the platform. We get this question a lot. This is very typical of someone from a technical background (ex.

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280 Group

AUGUST 4, 2019

The easiest way to think about the difference between these two is to think of them as inbound and outbound. Inbound (Product Management) spends most of their time with engineering teams and customers, making critical decisions and ensuring that everything gets done to bring customer-focused products to market. The article is a synopsis of The Phenomenal Product Manager: Chapter One , written by Brian Lawley.

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Apptentive

JUNE 30, 2020

Average inbound and outbound message volume. Lifestyle mobile app downloads have seen a surge in the last few months due to COVID-19. Everyone is stuck at home, therefore using their phones more than ever for things like fitness, meditation, DIY projects, and more. The first step to optimizing your lifestyle app for customer engagement is by understanding benchmarks. And that’s where our 2020 Mobile App Customer Engagement Benchmark Report comes in!

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280 Group

JUNE 18, 2020

It’s often said that a Product Manager has a more inbound focus, while a Product Marketing Manager has a more outbound focus. Managing the Interrelated Roles and Responsibilities of Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers. Product Management and Product Marketing Management are complementary roles. In some companies, different people occupy these roles. In others, the same person fills both. Regardless, both of these distinct roles are essential to product success.

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Dear Strategy

AUGUST 27, 2018

Inbound and Outbound Marketing. I should start this part of the answer by referring to an article that I wrote back in 2015 entitled, “Back In My Day…” or The Real Difference Between Inbound and Outbound Marketing. In it, I went on about the fact that the terms “inbound” and “outbound” marketing have recently taken on much different meanings than they did when I was coming up in the marketing world.

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It is often said that a Product Manager has a more inbound focus, while a Product Marketing Manager has a more outbound focus. Last month, we presented the co-hosted AIPMM webinar, Get Hired: Interview Like a Pro for a Product Manager Job (Remotely!).

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Folding Burritos

JANUARY 25, 2018

Think about it as either inbound or outbound comms. A lot of our time as PMs is spent communicating with other people in our organization. There’s high-level communication and discussion, and there’s low-level interaction with stakeholders about the day-to-day of the product’s development and operation. Since the majority of our communication time is typically spent on the tactical, let’s talk about that.

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Inside Intercom

JUNE 23, 2020

The internet is moving more businesses and people online, and driving a huge increase in inbound support volume. Self-serve Support and bots to automatically answer all common customer questions, reducing inbound volume to support agents. This leads to more and more inbound support volume. This huge increase in inbound volume is not sustainable for most businesses as they simply can’t afford to employ more and more support staff. This reduces inbound volume.

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Inside Intercom

APRIL 3, 2018

From outbound to inbound. Most people view live chat as a tool for responding to inbound leads, but one of the most under-utilized benefits we’ve seen on the Intercom sales team is to warm up the cold outreach experience. This new approach to live chat as a part of cold outreach has turned outbound emails into inbound conversations. Even better, these inbound conversations quickly become an opportunity to build a relationship with a future customer.

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Apptentive

JUNE 16, 2020

Average inbound and outbound message volume. If there’s one industry that was impacted the most by COVID-19, it might be the travel industry. From grounded flights to impatient customers to intensive cleaning protocols, everything looks different than it did a few months ago. One of the primary locations that travel brands interact with customers is through their mobile apps.

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Apptentive

MAY 27, 2020

Average inbound and outbound message volume. If you’re like me, your shopping habits have probably changed a bit (or a lot) over the last few months. I searched online for about two hours today for dumbbells to buy since the gyms are still closed, and had zero luck. Every grocery store has run out of toilet paper and flour, comfy sweats are out of stock at Target, and the wait to get into Home Depot is two hours long.

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Apptentive

MAY 14, 2020

Average inbound and outbound message volume. Mobile apps in the Media category have experienced an uptick in traffic these past few weeks and months as people scramble to get their hands on the latest news regarding coronavirus. So, what can these brands do to capture, analyze, and act on these changing customer behaviors?

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Inside Intercom

JANUARY 28, 2020

After trialling some other solutions, we chose Intercom because it centralizes inbound and outbound conversations without the friction that CRMs add.” . Using a combination of self-service features, like our Article search app , tags , assignment rules and routing, GetAccept keeps its large inbound conversation volume manageable, ensuring the right conversations are always routed to the right agents. .

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Inside Intercom

APRIL 7, 2020

Below, we share how the outbreak has impacted three key support metrics – inbound volume, wait times, and CSAT scores – and advice from respected leaders on how to continue caring for your customers in a crisis. Inbound volume is spiking for half of support teams. In our survey, nearly half (47%) of support teams report that inbound volume has increased since the outbreak and by an average of 51% above their normal volume.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Even more impressive, we've scaled a 50-person Sales team that was almost entirely inbound when I started to a proper inbound/outbound Sales Org with well over 300 people, comprised of Acquisition, Customer Success, Growth and Onboarding. "In Sprout Social , which develops social media management, advocacy and analytics software for businesses, has mushroomed to 500 employees in its short, nine-year history.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Even more impressive, we've scaled a 50-person Sales team that was almost entirely inbound when I started to a proper inbound/outbound Sales Org with well over 300 people, comprised of Acquisition, Customer Success, Growth and Onboarding. "In Sprout Social , which develops social media management, advocacy and analytics software for businesses, has mushroomed to 500 employees in its short, nine-year history.

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Centercode

AUGUST 14, 2020

“Within a moment’s notice, Diego joined me for an inbound qualifying call after I quickly found out the prospect needed communication to be in Spanish.

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Inside Intercom

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Support teams get a lot of repeated inbound questions, which get tedious to answer. We took an off-the-shelf Python search engine and built another test bot that could answer our own inbound support queries.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 17, 2020

In These Uncertain Times… A rather wonderful use of some of the messaging from inbound emails Jessica Salfia at the West Virginian Council of Teachers of English turned into a poem. It takes something special to turn some of the terrible marketing copy being shoved into outbound email into something that is both beautiful and somehow energizing. There’s an alternative career as a copywriter waiting to happen.

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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It brings together all the growth levers: Viral growth, performance advertising, consumer growth techniques – but also inbound marketing, enterprise sales, etc., The consumerization and developerization of B2B. Dropbox is the fastest SaaS company to $1B in revenue run rate with 600+ million users.

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Inside Intercom

AUGUST 18, 2020

In the face of the massive change the support landscape is currently experiencing, the one constant is that many companies are receiving rising numbers of inbound customer requests.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

Try these inbound/outbound efforts exercise by dividing your PM activities into either an “inbound effort” or “outbound effort” bucket. Common inbound effort activities include: Setting the vision. A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Our Product Activities Framework helps you work out who does what in your business The framework splits the activities into three main areas: Strategic; Inbound and Outbound. Inbound activities focus on delivering the product and Outbound activities focus on helping the business sell the product. Sometimes, the split between inbound and outbound is characterized as “getting the product on the shelf” and “getting the product off the shelf”. It’s true?—?objectively,

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Revulytics

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

These roles are called inbound product managers and outbound product managers, or technical product managers and strategic product managers. As you pause for a moment to take a sip from your “I’m a Product Manager, What’s Your Super Power?” coffee mug, consider a challenge that may require some super- human type thinking: are you a technical or a strategic product manager? I read with interest an article on CMS Wire about how many organizations are rethinking the product management role.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2019

Via distinct arrows, where thickness indicates number of navigations, user flows show you the inbound and outbound journeys for every screen and popup within your app. Via user flows, we recommend that you drill down to the inbound and outbound journeys from these specific screens, and ask the following questions: Is there a high percentage of users quitting the app just before the Payment screen? Are there inbound screens to Login other than the splash/opening screen?

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Inside Intercom

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. Let’s take inbound sales and outbound sales, for example. Inbound and outbound require vastly different skills and workflows. Excerpt from “Hubspot’s Mark Roberge Talks Inbound vs. Outbound Sales, Transparency and Big Data.”. Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

At some point, the volume of inbound events becomes too great, and it isn’t possible to only manage events retroactively. Each week the data governor does a little data maintenance work based on inbound requests, but does not have time to plan and execute cross-team instrumentation.

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Inside Intercom

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

For our inbound leads – new leads that are generated by marketing activities – we track: Sales eligible lead delivery: The total number of inbound leads across all channels that are passed from the marketing team to sales based on shared qualification criteria. As you can see in the chart above, we segment inbound leads by business type – small business, mid-market and enterprise – to ensure we’re delivering the right number of leads to each of our teams.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Many of the companies we work with are looking to analyze inbound traffic among their various channels. Businesses are constantly in search of useful tactics that improve their brand’s performance and bottom line. Cohort analysis is often overlooked, but it can yield insightful information and actionable advice to improve acquisition, retention and monetization. By definition, a cohort is a group of people who have a common characteristic during a period of time.

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Inside Intercom

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Here’s an example from LB’s own career: at LinkedIn, when her team of SMB AEs were short on inbound pipeline, she had her reps take an entire day off their calendars to focus on prospecting. But LB suggested they adopt an inbound round-robin model, even though it wasn’t particularly advantageous for her direct team.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 5, 2017

Top KPIs in organizations might include sales revenue, customer value, conversion rates, inbound marketing ROI, and site traffic to name a few. Key Performance Indicators or KPIs are basic measures that are often front in center in most board rooms. They give direction throughout an organization for what the priorities of that organization are. For decades, user experience professionals have been debating how to associate experience measures with these key KPIs.

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