Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2019

While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM. Below are some of our learnings, as well as approaches and practices that product managers can look at as they start thinking about the integration of their SaaS software.

Reporting Tools

The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role.

Strategy

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. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

Weak Development Team

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release. Give us a feel for your career to date: what brought you to Clearbit, and what’s the mission of your team there? We provide data for modern sales and marketing teams across all the products they already use.

Data Visualization

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 4, 2021

With the onset of COVID-19 and the accelerated move towards online shopping, Grayson Bagwell, Director of Business Development at Rugs.com, notes the sharp increase in shopping volume the business has experienced in the last 12 months as a result of people spending more time at home. “As We were using Olark chat, but it wasn’t very flexible”.

Customer Communications

Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re wondering what strategic product management is, you’ve come to the right place! In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Are you ready to dig in?

Product Research

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. It can be used for the entire building process at engineering and even product management.

Engineering

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. A simple way to access these is to do a LinkedIn search on the job title of the persona, say for example “marketing manager”, where connections = 1st, location = the city you reside in.

Feedback Software

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The roles of Product Manager, Product Marketer and Product Owner (if they all exist in your company) will all vary depending on what senior management have seen before, what other roles exist, the types of product and the size (or maturity) of the company. it’s much trickier in the world of products. What’s in a name?

Outbound

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s why we partnered with Klaus , the conversation review and QA platform for support teams, to get a deeper understanding of what “quality support” actually looks like. Together, we surveyed hundreds of CX professionals, team leads, managers, and executives to get a deeper understanding of how they measure and improve support quality.

Onboarding KPIs

Userpilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

What are its strengths and weaknesses? Catering to businesses of all sizes, it enables teams to track user interactions with the brand at different stages of the customer journey. It also helps new team members understand what your data processes are and makes it easier to scrutinize and review them. How do you set it up?

Data Visualization

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. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

Weak Development Team

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

Feedback Software

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Creative email strategies and other outbound hacks, and of course, this playbook wouldn’t be complete without Product-led growth frameworks that have led to double-digit ARR growth rates. Outbound vs. Inbound. Inbound and Outbound Success Stories. SaaS Marketing Playbook Table of Contents. Content Marketing.

Research Software

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 17, 2022

John isn’t your average product manager. In his twenties, he stumbled through a number of quirky jobs – from working in a kids TV show to touring the US with a van with friends and creating an obscure bartending video game – until eventually, he got into product management. Stumbling upon product management. Short on time?

Analytic Tools

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Key Skill For Success In Product Management SUCCESS TAKES TIME Product Management career entry and long-term success can be challenging. Building endurance across each role was the key skill that helped me to develop my career in PM. ENDURANCE FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS Endurance matters when you hit resistance.

Weak Development Team

The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2019

While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM. Below are some of our learnings, as well as approaches and practices that product managers can look at as they start thinking about the integration of their SaaS software.

Reporting Tools

Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. So we should take the time to propose various metrics, review them with our teams, argue a bit, and consider our first choices as experiments rather than instant full-year commitments. Yet it’s the first KPI proposed by many exec teams.

B2B

Amplitude

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At Amplitude, we are big fans of customer development partners (CDPs), who help us build and test our new features. By talking to customers ahead of time and understanding their use cases, we managed to learn a lot about how to build our cohort sync feature. outbound integration. Good integrations start with customers.

Feedback Software

Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue.

Roadmap

ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2019

But if you’re recruiting product management talent, you’re in luck. Today’s article is dedicated to helping you source, recruit, and hire product managers by establishing a product management talent funnel. The Product Management Talent Funnel. Diversify your sources of product management talent.

Technical Review

DevelopmentCorporate

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Yet, recent research has shown that the return on these investments is poor. Investing in outbound inside sales teams will probably deliver a better outcome. appeared first on Development Corporate. The post Does Social Media Posting Drive Engagement for B2B SaaS Firms?

B2B

ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

productboard , the all-in-one product management solution, launched today on Product Hunt the Portal , an all-new interface that bridges the divide between the product teams and marketplace. productboard Portal enables product managers to get the pulse of their customers.

Customer Feedback

Userpilot

AUGUST 7, 2019

In other words, the mission of Customer Success teams is to make sure that your users are satisfied, happy, and that they’re meeting their goals with your product. If the person who introduced your product to the entire team leaves the company, the other part of the company will continue to use your product.

Customer Experience

Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. But how you handle these requests is where it matters. Let’s dive deeper!

Onboarding KPIs

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. Although she was a product manager, she’d experienced sales first-hand growing up and had spent many hours studying revenue teams.

User Friction

Gainsight

OCTOBER 23, 2019

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. Grow relationships with customers to develop loyal promoters.

Inbound

Modus Create

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When building complex applications, development teams often employ a microservice architecture pattern to achieve a maintainable, testable, and loosely coupled service structure. In the case of Log4j, if we know the Java daemon shouldn’t be making outbound calls or connections, we can disrupt the attacker’s kill chain.

Software Review

eG Innovations

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

You can deploy and manage your own cluster of EC2 instances for running the containers. RDS is a managed service from AWS using which you can set up, operate and scale a relational database in the cloud easily. Allows you to focus on the application instead of managing the database. AWS RDS – Relational Database Service.

Data Visualization

Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. So, against this calibre of competition how does a small startup managed to remain competitive?

Technical Review

eG Innovations

DECEMBER 7, 2022

SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol. It is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behavior. Three significant versions of SNMP have been developed and deployed. Figure 1: How SNMP works.

Enterprise

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. 8 steps to develop a winning sales strategy. But that threshold exists.

Outbound

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 19, 2021

Here’s a simple framework for managing it. “Our in-app messages and email messaging enabled companies to reach customers inside the product in real time, so they could deliver the right message, at the right moment” Initially, our sole focus was developing in-product messaging. A three step framework for tackling the debt.

Framework

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. When done right, your sales team won’t just accelerate your company’s growth; they’ll enrich your company’s culture and help build a better product too. 12 steps to build a world-class sales team.

Weak Development Team

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. And I think you need to think about people management the same way. Well, at the beginning of 2020, no one had the playbook for that.

Feedback Software

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why…. What To Do?

Technical Advisors

Gainsight

MARCH 7, 2022

Over the past few years, we’ve been keeping our eye on an incredibly positive trend in the most successful companies: closer, more collaborative relationships between Customer Success and Product teams. . At Gainsight, we believe it’s vital for these teams to partner— we always have, always will.

Customer Feedback