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. In this post, I outline how SaaS founders should modify their approach and implement a simple sales methodology to increase their odds of success. The sooner you adopt these steps, the faster you’ll see growth.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If you want to take your SaaS company's MRR to the next level , it might be time for you to investigate the subject of product growth platforms. By turning your product itself into a viral sales engine, these platforms take the pressure off traditional sales and marketing departments — and, of course, their associated budgets.

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. The right platform will equip you with the tools to interact effectively, gather valuable feedback, and build lasting customer relationships. Integrations with other tools: Does it integrate with CRM, marketing automation, and other essential business applications?

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Userpilot

JULY 12, 2021

Data is the engine for SaaS, but without data analytics tools , your SaaS team will not be able to make sense of the data. The right set of SaaS analytics tools can help you generate actionable insights that fuel strategic decisions. But how do you ensure you’re picking the right tools?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 10, 2020

In New Zealand, mobile-centered solutions company PaperKite put that thought into action when they developed the country’s lifeline to reopening the economy – contact tracing app Rippl. The team at PaperKite knew that they needed to build a safe and secure solution to the problem – and fast.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2022

Live chat – especially when it’s part of a modern customer communications platform that helps you make the most of every engagement – is a powerful addition to your sales tech stack. For many years, B2B companies have executed their inbound sales funnel in a traditional manner that looked a little something like this: Visitor prospects.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2024

Looking for the best customer experience management software to fuel growth and drive product adoption ? This comprehensive guide breaks down the top 10 platforms, comparing features, pricing, and benefits to help you make an informed decision. Research the available options. Search no further. Ready to get started?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. The solution: Optimize your resources with the Conversational Support Funnel. Challenge #2: Agents are wasting time jumping between tools. So how can you manage a larger volume of queries without needing to add headcount?

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Having a customer engagement platform in your toolbelt can greatly increase your conversions, and help you drive business success. Here are 12 of the best customer engagement platforms in 2024! Userpilot is the best in-app customer engagement solution for web apps. Whatfix is the best employee engagement platform.

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2021

The B2B SaaS marketing space can feel a lot like an echo chamber. SaaS marketers need to move fast and break things, but rather than jumping from one ‘shiny new growth hack’ to another, stick to a few tried and tested tactics first. What do SaaS Companies spend on B2B Marketing? Creating A B2B SaaS Marketing Plan.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

Technology capabilities were one of the key factors of business success during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic”. As a result, digital technologies are being seen as the critical differentiators they are. This trend shows no signs of slowing down. More on that later.). Ahead of the trend: Vend.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 19, 2021

The study showed that companies that get customer success right prioritize technologies that improved customer experience. A Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) is an example of a tech solution that can help you achieve a great customer experience. What is a customer engagement platform (CEP)? Revenue growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We surveyed 170 non-native English speaking SaaS customers, and 135 support team leads to learn more. SaaS customers are more loyal to products that provide native language support. According to our research, 29% of businesses say they’ve lost customers because they don’t offer multilingual support. For example w?ith

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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. From outbound to inbound.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the key steps to conduct a comprehensive competitive analysis in SaaS, giving you the tools to turn market knowledge into a strategic advantage. In SaaS, this also means analyzing competitors’ user interface and user experience. Then, use different digital channels to dive deeper.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The most common way to think about leads is to put them in two buckets: inbound and outbound. These are the invisible buyers who visit your website, check out your product and even research your solution on a site like G2Crowd or LinkedIn, but ultimately, never get in touch. Find and pick the right sales tool.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2020

Yesterday we launched powerful upgrades to the Intercom platform for support teams. So over the years, we’ve been able to build internal tools to cater to our team needs. By capturing related conversations in one place, we’ve drastically reduced the amount of time and tools people needed to gather customer insights.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In the world of cohort analysis for digital products, a cohort is a group of users who have performed a common action or set of actions during a specific timeframe on your website or app. Gaming is a great use case because gaming companies are trying to understand UX on one mobile platform versus another. Test Your Hypothesis.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 4, 2018

For many years, B2B companies have executed their inbound sales funnel in a similar manner: Much like the word “funnel” suggests, it’s based on the idea to filter out the visitors and leads that aren’t ready to buy or aren’t qualified. Let’s look at how this came about. Invest in sales conversations, not touches.

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 10, 2022

Customer Success is a core growth driver for any SaaS business. In 2022, when the SaaS market is crowded with tons of similar products, the best ones are those who delight their customers regularly. We have created an ultimate guide that will serve as a blueprint for SaaS owners to maximize SaaS customer success in 2022.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 6, 2019

But these metrics taken in isolation don’t reflect whether users are successfully incorporating your product into their daily routine, adding it to their lineup of business tools or embracing it as something they can’t do without. Increase your product magnetism. Decrease the fear and uncertainty of change.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But, too often sales and marketing tech stacks are cobbled together from existing tools and workflows that have organically developed over time. It’s time for marketing and sales leaders to redefine tech stacks as growth stacks — the suite of tools that unlocks new ways of selling and better customer relationships.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

Identify direct and indirect competitors via market research to better position your product. Use user research tools such as surveys , interviews, focus groups, SimilarWeb, SEMrush, Ahrefs, and Crayon for competitor insights. Here are some competitive analysis examples that can help SaaS businesses get the job done.

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Userpilot

APRIL 3, 2024

Wondering how to create a resource center for your SaaS product? Essential elements of most resource centers include user documentation , video tutorials , FAQs, a search function, a feedback widget , product updates , and AI tools. Jira’s Resource Center effectively places common solutions at the top, enabling quick user access.

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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

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.

Feedback Software 98

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2022

In July, newly released research from Harvard Business Review Analytic Service, sponsored by Intercom, revealed what we’ve all been thinking – customer engagement is the key to retention and loyalty. Map your sender address to the inbound address your customers contact you from with Intercom’s updated sender address settings.

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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. We’re all human. Don’t forget it.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Today, many software companies are delivering their software over the internet via web-based log-ins compared to traditional installed software. You might use SaaS applications daily already, cloud software like Google Drive, Zoom or Slack. Or are you wanting to code and develop software? The metrics (ie.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

“These technologies may have helped businesses scale, but it sent relationships that customers had with businesses back to the dark ages” To deal with this scale, a new generation of technology companies emerged introducing ticketing systems and concepts like “do-not-reply” emails.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. It is a combination of processes and tools that helps startups create products and features that customers want.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Real-life SaaS examples of successful market development attempts. Let’s explore four real-life examples of how top SaaS companies implemented market development strategies to expand their reach and grow their user base. HubSpot broadened its product range to cater to more business needs, becoming an all-in-one customer platform.

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Userpilot

JULY 1, 2024

Product market research is essential for comprehending your customer base, competition, and the prevailing trends within the industry. Conducting effective market research guarantees that your products are aligned with the marketplace and fulfill the needs of customers. What is product market research and why is it important?

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Usersnap

JANUARY 20, 2023

When choosing an appropriate customer support tool, you want to make sure that it ticks all the boxes your team requires. You’re off to a good start by researching the available options. Each method requires different tools to achieve the desired outcome. What’s Customer Support Software? So, congratulations!

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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. Inbound marketing is a tool mostly purposed in driving new acquisitions.

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