Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

As a result, we’ve seen some major, long-lasting changes to how businesses and consumers communicate and build relationships with one another: The popularity of messaging channels is on the rise – messenger-based support is now the second most used support channel. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. This makes sense given the likely resource constraints and the value to be gained from getting in front of customers from day one. The sooner you adopt these steps, the faster you’ll see growth.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

Whether you want to bring in more demand from marketing campaigns or retain customers through better in-app communication – the right marketing team is a must. An organizational structure for a B2B marketing team consists of the following: The product marketing team for focusing on new feature launches and in-app marketing.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you’re still validating your SaaS product idea or launching a new feature to an existing product line, thinking about your Go-To-Market Strategy is always relevant. What Is a Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy For SaaS? A go-to-market strategy is your blueprint for successfully launching a new product in the SaaS market.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

You will also learn how to choose the right growth strategy for your SaaS and how to leverage marketing-led growth to achieve your business goals. Paid advertising, like PPC or display ads, is another common marketing strategy used by SaaS companies. Second, marketing is about market and customer research as much as product promotion.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

There are several reasons why a SaaS business will choose a micromarketing campaign over traditional marketing strategies to engage existing users and attract new ones. How to use micromarketing in-app: Use signup flows to collect data on your user persona. Want to try our in-app micromarketing campaign for better user experiences?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Think about how Slack targets senior operations staff or how HubSpot advertises its CRM software to upper management. Product marketing: Product marketing is the multi-stage process of aligning your product with specific customer problems to generate sales and optimize the core offering/message over time. Do your market research.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That is why we asked some of the best SaaS marketing practitioners for their best plays with the highest win percentage. In this SaaS marketing playbook, we have compiled the hottest trends in growth marketing as told by real people on the field. SaaS Marketing Playbook Table of Contents. SEO for SaaS Marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

While customers were already starting to show a clear preference for digital channels such as messaging , COVID-19 amplified this pressure to connect with customers online or risk not connecting with them at all. Technology capabilities were one of the key factors of business success during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 18, 2022

It shone a spotlight on how forward-thinking support teams were adopting conversational support tools – like proactive messaging capabilities and chatbots – to meet rising customer expectations and mounting inbound queries. Almost half (47%) of support teams are slowed down every week because their tools aren’t integrated.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2022

Selling software isn’t the same as selling any other product/service, that’s why a SaaS marketing plan can be a valuable asset. Unlike the traditional marketing plans that focus on only attracting prospects, SaaS product marketing helps you stand out in the market and looks at every stage of the customer funnel.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If you ask any sales rep, they’ll all tell you the same thing: the SaaS sales process is absolutely grueling! Today, we’re going to walk you through the top techniques you should implement into your SaaS sales strategy. SaaS sales can be broken down into three models: self-service, transactional, and enterprise.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This article will examine negative personas, what makes them essential for SaaS businesses, and how you can build one. Userpilot helps you collect user data in-app and collect direct feedback from users via microsurveys. It is your ideal user, curated using quantitative and qualitative research. Book a demo to learn more.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

Engineering as marketing is an inbound marketing strategy that involves creating free useful tools for your target audience. These tools are complimentary to your product or service meant to draw in potential customers. While it can be expensive and difficult to build these free tools, it pays back in many ways.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

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. Research ¹ has shown that lead generations tactics remained relatively unchanged over time as the world embraces high level of digitization.

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Userpilot

JUNE 22, 2022

The aim of the hook model is to make the user see your product as the obvious solution to their problem; this happens through repeated exposure until using your product becomes a routine behavior. During the Investment phase, users spend more time and resources using the product. Variable rewards are the value the product delivers.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 30, 2018

Your aim should be to understand what they want, how you can help them and to judge how fast they need a solution. With lots of inbound leads, you’ll need to prioritize which ones need a response first, and it’s not always as easy as you might expect to make this judgment call. Ask the right questions right away. We’re all human.

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Userzoom

JULY 9, 2019

A/B testing can be used to compare the performance of a webpage, app, email, or advert by pitting a control, ‘A’, against a test variant, ‘B’ A/B testing works by randomly splitting your inbound traffic equally between the two versions. Most A/B testing platforms are relatively easy to use and cheap to install.

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Userzoom

JULY 9, 2019

A/B testing can be used to compare the performance of a webpage, app, email, or advert by pitting a control, ‘A’, against a test variant, ‘B’ A/B testing works by randomly splitting your inbound traffic equally between the two versions. Most A/B testing platforms are relatively easy to use and cheap to install.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Move away from this concept and toward the idea of a flywheel instead: feeding energy back into the system instead of success rates diminishing over time.

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Usersnap

JULY 11, 2021

As a further resource I can truly recommend this awesome post from Help Scout about handling your support tickets (Spoiler alert: the post contains some awesome email templates). Also startups and SaaS companies build their organizational culture and company vision around providing amazing customer support. Salesforces. Final thoughts.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

This is something where I think I, I wonder if a lot of the other product marketing teams I’ve talked to, I think, facing similar challenges, but research and just being as strategic as possible. So we generally know a lot about our target market and our customers going into something like this.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

This is something where I think I, I wonder if a lot of the other product marketing teams I’ve talked to, I think, facing similar challenges, but research and just being as strategic as possible. So we generally know a lot about our target market and our customers going into something like this.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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Brian Balfour

JUNE 20, 2017

Patreon is a platform that allows people who make things -- everything from music to blog posts to journalism to comics -- to to run a membership business for their fans. It's a number where we believe the platform has meaningfully changed a creator's life and ability to create more, focus more on their craft, and in many cases go full time."

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

So, this added resource constraint takes an already difficult problem and suddenly makes a lot harder. Alex Yang: The company where we work builds technology to fight global poverty. Our current product is a biometric fingerprint scanner paired with an Android app.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. Will any company perform this type of research for each product project? Probably not.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 3, 2018

We knew from our own research that leads are 82% more likely to convert to customers if they’ve chatted with you first. So we began using our live chat tool – typically viewed as a tool for responding to website visitors – to continue engaging cold email leads. At Intercom, we tried something different. or “How can I help?”

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. Teams that benefit: Product, research and development, product education, customer success, sales, marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 6, 2021

You’ll either need to set up regional teams to provide round-the-clock coverage or look into self-service solutions such as chatbots or a knowledge base to help customers during off-hours. Support leaders say robust tools, KPIs, and handoff practices are key. Invest in workforce management resources.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I moved out to the East Coast of the US to go to Harvard where I majored in applied math with a focus on decision systems and artificial intelligence before it was cool. And that was my first time in enterprise software – I’d spent some time in consumer software before that and did that for a few years.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2020

But until recently, technological limitations meant that we, as business leaders, faced an impossible choice as our companies grew. In turn customers are rewarding these businesses by buying more, staying loyal, and recommending their solutions to others. These apps make communication feel friendly, quick, easy, and even fun.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The report highlighted how support teams were adopting conversational support tools to meet rising customer expectations and a flood of inbound queries. Almost half of support teams are slowed down because their tools aren’t integrated. Last month, we published the second edition. The empathy void isn’t solved by more training.

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