The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

That’s why I started Infinify, and that’s what I do in almost every service we provide — from strategic consulting to startup founders, through the CPO Bootcamp for product leaders, and all the way into our online courses and lectures to product and leadership teams. But unfortunately, the impact you can make there is limited.

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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. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

Outbound 183

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Four years later, and as the company moves decidedly upmarket with their customer base, it’s adapting its sales cycles to cater for bigger clients.

Feedback Software 162

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Brian Balfour

JULY 18, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. In part three, I covered Product Channel Fit - that products are built to fit with channels, channels are not built to fit with products. Channel Model Fit.

User Testing 65

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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. At a smaller company or a startup, usually one person plays both roles. This is not contradictory but rather complimentary.

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ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

productboard Portal enables product managers to get the pulse of their customers. But with hundreds, thousands, or millions of users, collecting information about user needs at scale can threaten to overwhelm even the most user-centered team.

Customer Feedback 45

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

The State of Product Marketing today Product Marketing is like Customer Success was 5 years ago; misunderstood but easily thrown around. Back then, Customer Success sounded cool, and more companies started to adopt the role. And the first test of Product-Market fit is when new users are exposed to your product for the first time.

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Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. In part three, I covered Product Channel Fit - the concept that products are built to fit with channels, channels are not built to fit with products.

Marketing 57

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

A good grasp of the customer value chain is essential to product-led growth. Having a clear idea of how your solution adds value to your customers’ lives is the only way you’ll be able to clearly communicate the core benefits and get your value proposition across. What is the customer value chain concept?

User Testing 98

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

You can delay it until you’ve acquired your first 100 or 1,000 customers, but at some point you’ll need to find sustainable traction in the market. 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

Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

When it comes to boosting your product growth, user tracking tools can make your life a lot easier. They offer insights into product performance , what your users are doing inside your product, and why they are doing it. Userpilot is the best user journey-tracking tool for web analytics. What is user tracking?

Data Visualization 105

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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.

Weak Development Team 162

Weak Development Team Outbound User Testing Research Software 162

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Only then will you have the foundation to consistently win new customers, upsell existing ones and see the kind of predictable growth that’ll be the making of your company. Why not simply invest in hiring more engineers and let the targeted end-user virally adopt the product of their choice? Excerpt from “ Hire a Head of Sales.”.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Research ¹ has shown that lead generations tactics remained relatively unchanged over time as the world embraces high level of digitization. Quality Leads Come at a Price Another research in B2B lead generation shows that outbound tactics such as events and trade shows generate the highest quality leads ³.

Banking 78

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. A genius inbound marketing strategy. And, really, growth comes from figuring out that product-market fit, that go-to-market fit within each of those markets.”. Moving downmarket: Offer self-serve options for individual users.

Data Visualization 186

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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? We’ve also received some incredible feedback from our interview process. And all of these have brand recognition.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Blitzscaling: An execution framework that prioritizes speed over efficiency and allows a company to go from “Startup” to “Scaleup” at a furious pace that captures the market. For a startup to move very fast, it must take on far more risk than a company going through the normal. It’s a binary test.

User Testing 52

User Testing Reporting Tools Product Management Product Manager 52

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. Now, Maggie is the Director of Sales at Webflow , a web design tool that helps users design and build responsive, custom websites with no code whatsoever. Customer first, then company, then yourself.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2019

According to leading research on technical recruiting, the interview process for the Internet and Tech industry currently averages more than 24 days. You have a huge pile of leads based on inbound and outbound marketing, the pool is winnowed down based on their interest, ability to pay, etc., Sounds familiar, right?

Technical Review 60

Technical Review User Testing Product Management Product Manager 60

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

So, for example, if it’s a big company that comes in, say, someone from Intercom, and signs up for the trial, sales is going to know that, and they’re going to react to that quicker than they’re going to react to a small startup that started to use the product. Dave: Yeah. What type of experience do they want to have?

Research Software 139

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