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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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

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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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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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

When a prospect is intrigued by your outbound marketing and reaches out to your support team to ask a question, is that a marketing, sales, or support issue? Technology capabilities were one of the key factors of business success during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic”. The answer is yes – it’s both.

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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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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2021

Knowing how to sell UX research is an important part of every UX researcher’s toolkit. I didn’t get into research to end up doing sales,” might you say. First, we’ll start by seeing how knowing how to sell research will help you in your UX journey. Sometimes you’ll even be the only researcher in the team.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 14, 2018

Work on how you’ll pitch and describe the solution in a way that makes the most sense for your users. Jump on customer calls and send targeted messages based on usage of the beta to gather feedback. An example of this was enabling customers to capture an email and replace the standard conversational reply on outbound messages.

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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. Increasingly, we’re seeing that customers want digital-first solutions that allow them to get the support they need, on their own terms. Who will do the reviews?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion. What is the purpose of customer acquisition in SaaS? This article answers that and more. Book a demo now to learn more.

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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 22, 2022

With an open rate of 98% , you can almost guarantee that your most crucial messages will reach your customers – and not only that, 95% will read those messages within three minutes. Intercom’s two-way SMS solution means customers can ask questions and give feedback in the most convenient way, at the most convenient time.

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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. Guide customers with proactive solutions that scale their success.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In the first podcast, I chatted with some of our teams from research, engineering, and product management, who translated your feedback into the features and products we built. I’m on the research and data science team here at Intercom. It didn’t provide any visual cues for the customers to check their outbound messages.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

The pandemic has transformed the way we do business and build relationships with customers – highlighting the need for digital-first solutions and personalized, conversational messaging. Conversational support is the modern way to provide efficient, personal support at scale via messaging-based, context-rich interactions.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A music streaming service needs different health indicators than an aircraft manufacturer or online ad marketplace or security software vendor or dating app. Let’s switch out of ERP systems and become currency traders.” BigCorp has $2M set aside for Blockchain research. But metrics aren’t generic. Grass is greener. “We

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Customers expect a seamless and personalized experience at every point of their journey, but managing all of these interactions across different channels, teams, and tools can often be difficult and inefficient. Design cohesive messaging flows across multiple channels with our new visual campaign builder.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 20, 2019

Buyers now have more information than ever before, inbound and outbound SDRs have to change their approach to capture buyer interest and add value, and the skill set needed to be successful has changed. This is accomplished through inbound qualification, or from outbound outreach to prospective customers. Here’s why.

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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. Conversational support is the modern way to resolve customer questions through a digital-first, messaging-based interaction.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

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. There’s inbound hiring and there’s outbound hiring. Outbound hiring is the opposite. That’s a form of outbound hiring.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Speed is our solution to hitting ambitious targets and increasing our efficiency. We do some interesting things in terms of implementing automated text messaging and leveraging chatbots and things to that nature. Because you sent me an email, you called me, you sent me a text message. Dave: Awesome. Now there are 12 options.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Instead of the old outbound marketing methods of buying ads, buying email lists, and praying for leads, inbound marketing focuses on creating quality content that pulls people toward your company and product, where they naturally want to be. Inbound marketing is a tool mostly purposed in driving new acquisitions. Delight over time.”

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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

AUGUST 7, 2019

Customer Success is the sexy new topic in the SaaS & Software industry. That’s the reason why focusing your efforts on what happens after you make the deal is also an important part of every B2B SaaS company. Oracle’s research explains how important Customer Success is for businesses.

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