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How live chat can warm up your cold outbound leads

Intercom, Inc.

As an outbound SDR, this approach has drastically reduced the amount of time it takes me to schedule demos, and also creates meaningful, personal engagement at scale. As sales trainer John Barrows once told us , our job is to create context around the content that marketing creates. From outbound to inbound.

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

The core focus of these activities is on thorough market research, continuous customer engagement, and strategic product development. This led him to research and identify 19 core activities specific to product management, with clear separation from product marketing, sales, and go-to-market functions.

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430: How changes in marketing are influencing products – with Ali Plonchak 

Product Innovation Educators

How product and marketing teams can work together Today we are talking about the interdependence of product and marketing and how marketing trends have changed. Since 2006 at Crossmedia, she has helped clients navigate the changing marketing landscape. 7:14] What trends or big shifts have you seen in marketing?

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Marketing doesn’t stop when you’ve acquired a customer

Intercom, Inc.

In the very early days of any SaaS business, you will employ numerous marketing tactics to acquire your first customers: blog posts, paid advertising, landing pages, hero videos, webinars, everything but the kitchen sink. I wrote our docs , hosted our webinars , created our help videos and managed our outbound messaging to customers.

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Moving from reactive to proactive customer support

Intercom, Inc.

With the right approach and proactive support tools – think Outbound Messages , Product Tours , and Mobile Carousels – you can provide every customer with the fast, personal help they need at the exact moment they need it. Help customers navigate known issues with Outbound Messages. What is proactive customer support?

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Data-driven sales: 18 sales KPIs and metrics to grow your revenue faster

Intercom, Inc.

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. This KPI is also referred to as Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).

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How to use Intercom to generate more leads and close bigger deals – faster

Intercom, Inc.

Marketing teams are under constant pressure to find creative ways to generate more leads for sales teams. Over the past few years, marketers have learned one of the most effective methods for lead generation is engaging with prospective customers while intent is high, like when they’re browsing the website or perusing the pricing page.

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