Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

When used correctly, data can powerfully enrich sales and marketing efforts and help any business fuel growth. As the Head of Growth Marketing at Clearbit , and previously a co-founder and CEO of more than a few startups (including WorkMob, ApiXchange, and GoFlow), Matt Sornson knows these pitfalls intimately and how to avoid them.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 16, 2024

B2B SaaS equations A B2B SaaS business sells cloud-hosted software on a subscription basis (that’s what makes it software as a service—SaaS) to other businesses (that’s what makes it B2B). B2B SaaS businesses typically monetize in one of two ways— per seat (e.g.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

However I've seen too many startups use the lean startup methodology as an excuse to fly by the seat of their pants and shun almost any structure to their approach to iterating, validating, and finding product/market fit. Here is what I typically capture when initially documenting a startup's product/market fit hypotheses: 1.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 27, 2018

Whether you’re dealing with an inbound or outbound lead, this is a softball question that helps uncover your prospect’s motivations for checking out your product. If it’s an outbound lead, I ask, “Was there something specific in my outreach that piqued your interest?”. What initially piqued your interest?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

Whether B2C or B2B, all businesses must now deliver digital experiences that are easy to use, delightful, and personal. Third, the lines between sales, marketing, product, and support are blurring. With a plethora of comparable options in the market, customers will take their business to the company that provides the best experience.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Like any playbook in sports, your marketing playbook is only as good as the coach who wrote it. That is why we asked some of the best SaaS marketing practitioners for their best plays with the highest win percentage. SaaS Marketing Playbook Table of Contents. SaaS Marketing Playbook Table of Contents. Content Marketing.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. This brings sustainability when strategies or decisions need to be pivoted to respond to the market changes. The frameworks (image 1 &2) highlight the approach to take the product into the market.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Define your marketing personas. To do this it is necessary to create marketing personas that represent your ideal prospect or match your ideal customer profile. 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.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How is marketing-led growth different from product-led growth and sales-led growth? 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2020

Enter GetAccept , the all-in-one platform for B2B sales teams that brings video, live chat, proposal design, document tracking and e-signatures together to simplify the life of a sales team. And to keep track of everything, GetAccept has been using Intercom across its support, sales, and marketing teams to drive faster growth.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 26, 2017

Although he doesn’t directly talk about it, the end of a tech cycle has major implications for launching new products, growing existing product categories, because of a simple thing: It gets much, much harder to grow new products or pivot existing ones into new markets. In B2B, we’re seeing the same phenomenon.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 11, 2023

Understanding the different ways in which people want to buy software and aligning your go-to-market approaches accordingly. For Francis Brero , co-founder and CPO of MadKudu , a platform that helps B2B businesses qualify and engage with their leads, PLG doesn’t work in a vacuum. The first step towards driving product-led growth?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

“Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. Short on time? It’s a little bit of a different life.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

After all, who doesn’t want more market share and revenue growth? 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.

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Userpilot

JULY 28, 2024

Products that are expensive, target a narrow/specific market or are struggling with high acquisition costs are ideal candidates for free trials. Average lengths for a free trial range between one week to two months but B2B SaaS companies typically fall in the 14 to 30-day range. Get your Userpilot demo today to get started.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 18, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. Because they have higher ARPUs they can take advantage of higher CAC channel like Paid Marketing. Here they use mostly Content Marketing and Inside Sales.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

An insight into Product Marketing roles, responsibilities and KPIs after interviewing dozens of Product Marketing Managers. Everyone is hiring Product Marketing Managers (“PMMs”) and there is a great demand for expertise in this space, so read on for a strategic and tactical definition of “What is Product Marketing?”.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2024

Usually, he works with B2B companies that have already achieved product-market fit and are looking to scale their operations. Unlike traditional sales approaches that rely heavily on outbound channels, PLS focuses on identifying and engaging high-intent prospects based on their interactions with the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Slack’s Manager of Mid-Market Sales, Maggie Hott, and Guru’s Senior Director of Sales, Halid Ibrahimovic, on the power and pitfalls of accelerating sales with automation. Dan: We do something similar, which is we start to segment the market. So, what can sales leaders do to maintain their momentum in the market? Dave: Yeah.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. We also did a lot of co-marketing.

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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.

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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. In fact, iterating your strategy and improving each feature Go-To-Market plan as you grow and receive customer feedback is even more important. Let’s dive in!

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B2B Product Management

DECEMBER 6, 2016

As you can see in the picture, these categories are inbound and outbound Product Management. This division between inbound and outbound PM duties is much more pronounced at larger companies. If you are an inbound PM, you might want to take steps to get into an outbound PM role. You lead the overall Go-to-market effort.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 9, 2020

It’s been awesome to see all teams – engineering, sales, marketing – jump in and really appreciate that. We want to use outbound emails infrequently and wisely these days, but can you also present it on your website? We’ve been just trying to share those fun posts and positive feedback out to the whole company.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This team structure does depend on the current objectives and needs for that specific product, such as increasing employee engagement or getting to product market fit for a specific industry. These product managers are driving inbound and outbound activities, so they are part of the product team and the GTM teams.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 7, 2019

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. How is Customer Success correlated with Product Marketing? It boosts word-of-mouth marketing. Everyone knows that word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective type of marketing you can have.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The most powerful and configurable in the market with the best user experience, making it the easiest to learn and use, which we know is a big customer priority. Paul Adams: The market is changing, it’s unstable, and we’re all unsure what the next 12 months will hold. Third, a new visual bot builder. Pretty remarkable.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Product-led growth is a go-to-market strategy that relies on using your product as the primary vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers. It’s also essential to understand how product-led growth differs from growth driven by marketing or sales functions. But what is it exactly, and how do we make it happen?

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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.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Excerpt from “ What is the optimal structure of a startup SaaS B2B sales team? ”. It’s perfect for mature startups trying to optimize existing sales resources to tap into new markets and verticals. Is your model primarily inbound or outbound? it all “works”. “Sales doesn’t need to be a cost center.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 17, 2022

Through a series of ad tech and what’s called “rich media”, I was trying to persuade people to buy things with interesting layouts for e-commerce, and then I gradually drifted into B2B SaaS as I moved along as a UX researcher and product manager. You get respect for the markets and how things work.

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Userpilot

JUNE 19, 2023

There’s no magic number when it comes to conversions, but knowing B2B SaaS funnel conversion benchmarks can benefit any SaaS product manager. In this article, we will discuss the most common B2B SaaS conversion rate metrics and their benchmarks. Gainsight’s 2022 report shows free trials involving PQLs had 2.8X

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