Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals. If you enjoy the conversation check out more episodes of our podcast.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Datadog CMO Alex Rosemblat took the stage at SaaStr Annual 2023 to share how marketing teams can get more deals done with less budget. At the same time, they got more than 20% more marketing-qualified leads for their sales team. In the pre-2023 column, the team produces 1,000 qualified leads per month. The good news?

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2023

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday — held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Most of the time, a missing teams view or the ability to integrate with one more system isn’t the answer. Founders have many jobs: to build a product, get customers, stand up a marketing function, manage a team, manage your burn, fundraise, and get an office space.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2024

When sales slow how do you keep the team motivated and push through? Because your product, if it’s early, is feature-poor, bug-ridden, slow and does nothing. ” Question #3: When sales slow, how do you keep the team motivated? Dedicate the right resources to business development to channel and partner.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Totango

DECEMBER 23, 2021

To help you and your team combat this dangerous phenomenon, we’re going to do a series of articles over the next few weeks discussing various burnout and mental health topics. Decreased productivity, a high turnover rate, low engagement, and employees with poor mental and physical health all lead to heavy financial burdens for companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? I know the workshops at Mule Design have taken off. Conversation is the original interface.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

SaaStr’s own Jason Lemkin shares the top 10 mistakes he sees during the hiring process during Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. But for a non-sales or marketing product, a tech or development product, or products that are more complicated than the last sale are likely to implode because they can’t learn it on the fly.

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Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 1, 2018

You have Bad-fit Customers. Perhaps you have a lot of bad-fit customers, even more in the pipeline, and even more you’re currently paying to get in front of via SDRs or Marketing campaigns. As long as you keep bringing in customers that don’t have Success Potential, your churn will reflect this poor business decision.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2022

This article is an excerpt from Outreach’s Unleash Customer Workshop: “Content Therapy.” Your content strategy evaluation should start with understanding your team’s current challenges. The entire sales team is clear on the plan, and it’s working. RELATED: Use Outreach?

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

According to them, AGI “controls itself autonomously, with its own thoughts, worries, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and predispositions.” ” Teams across the world are working on AGI, but the closest to a consensus from researchers is that we might see it sometime within our lifetime. What can you do? Some still do.)

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2023

Too often, I see sales teams thinking of their “ sales process ” as a set of stages in their pipeline and maybe a bunch of fields to complete at each stage. We were weak on some key functionality areas where the winning vendor was strong. Bad news from left field There was a change in company direction. It happens.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

I hosted Nir on our podcast to learn how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves, and much more. Here are five quick takeaways: We have good habits and bad habits , which are very different from addictions. For me, that was a bad habit.

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Neil Patel

JULY 6, 2021

As you grow on your own, you’ll develop better habits that you can translate into business growth and monetary gain. When we’re aware of our strengths and weaknesses, it makes it so much easier for us to capitalize on what we’re good at and make the most of every step. A coach is going to look at your entire life: all aspects of it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. Arin has even successfully conducted customer workshops with Lego bricks. Prototype it til you make it.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The entire event takes place online, allowing attendees to get to know employers better, network with other job seekers, and attend workshops and guest speeches, all from the comfort of their own homes. Put a team together that shows off the best aspects of your business. Develop a Marketing Plan. Don’t underestimate this part.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

We kicked off this year's event with a Pricing & Monetization Workshop. This article will break down some key workshop takeaways. Many companies devote ample time to developing a great product and then strategize pricing as an afterthought. However, not aligning your surveys properly will result in poor data.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

After coaching 100+ tech leads, managers, directors, VPs, and CTOs, Jean and Edmond are distilling their most valuable lessons into workshops and online courses. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. Edmond: That reminds me of the workshop we ran a while back with members of the engineering team from Medium.

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Totango

DECEMBER 26, 2021

If you’ve noticed any signs of burnout within your team, it’s important to take action immediately to prevent any long-term consequences to the health of your employees as well as to your organization. Check out these five tips for how to fight burnout and keep your customer success team healthy and effective. . And vice-versa.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 28, 2019

To begin, perform an audit of your own sales team, and answer these questions: How are women compensated in comparison with men of their same role level? By the way, even if you don’t find there are gender differences on these three criteria (good job), this exercise can help you improve how you manage your team in myriad other ways.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. It’s called Resilient Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 12, 2020

And perhaps more importantly, how can you develop it? There’s only really one way to develop product judgment and that’s through direct interaction with your customers. Create a safe environment for sound product judgment to develop by ensuring feedback is immediate, clear and concrete. ” What is it?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales team.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Book a demo now to discuss with our team! For example, Slack’s advertising frequently highlights the tool’s ability to improve communication and collaboration within teams, contrasting the traditional, often disorganized nature of email communication. Promote new features with in-app ads to upsell users. Ready to get started?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. Company : AltiSales Noteworthy : Tito is an expert in sales development and all things sales.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

Self-service sales model This is when customers explore and experience your product independently without needing hands-on help from your sales team. Your sales team may need to map out all potential targets and how to access potential buyers within those larger businesses. What does “Qualified really mean for your team?

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? Sam will have a lot of interesting perspectives on how he manages his team through these times. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

SaaSy Sales Management runs in-person, public, and private workshops to teach go-to-market SaaS leaders how to produce the best outcome for their company and their people. If you missed episode 94, check it out here: PODCAST 94: Expert Management of a Remote Sales Team w/ Ellie Tamari. What You’ll Learn. Advice on How to Train [3:48].

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. SDR services ( sales development ) to qualify, follow up and nurture leads by email and phone and to discover sales opportunities for your own account executives (AE). Challenging your own sales force.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. We are leaving with new friends, new knowledge and new ideas.” – Team Microsoft. Director of Business Development.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software. And so, our teams it’s a huge motivator for them. Even the poorest of the poor. So long haul, Brazil, Sydney, and visiting our teams down there.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 10, 2021

Know why you’re training your team before you start. Learn how the team follows up with every lead in record time after virtual events and turns them into revenue. Building those kinds of processes and then developing that training. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn. Keep the four S’s in mind when setting goals.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

To create a successful product marketing strategy, you need to set tangible goals, create user personas to understand your target audience better, and develop messaging that showcases your unique value proposition. Userpilot is a product growth platform that allows product teams to: Create different UI patterns for in-app marketing campaigns.

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Unbounce

AUGUST 20, 2019

As you’ll see, getting it wrong helped them grow their business, develop a customer-focused philosophy, improve their abilities as a leader, and much more. Understanding what your target audience is searching for (and how you can rank for specific keywords) can help you optimize your campaigns and develop an effective SEO strategy.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 9, 2024

This is both a good and a bad thing – if there’s something else you’d like to be known for, you have a lot more work ahead of you than if your content is centered around what you say your expertise is. Content showcasing your industry authority ranks higher in the algorithm.

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