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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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Interested in building a B2B customer journey map? In this article, we’ll cover B2B customer journey stages, how to build a B2B customer journey map, and the right tools to use. In this article, we’ll cover B2B customer journey stages, how to build a B2B customer journey map, and the right tools to use.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

He emphasizes that these activities vary based on context (large vs. small organizations, B2B vs. B2C, Agile vs. Waterfall). Waterfall) Product type (AI vs. non-AI products) Market focus (B2B vs. B2C) He emphasized that these contextual factors significantly impact a product manager’s role.

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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. 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? The answer is yes – it’s both. So how do you stand out?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Inside we reveal the strategies, learnings, and best practices that have enabled us to build a business worth more than $1.275 billion. I shared a deeper look at how we run our sales organization – everything from how we keep our top reps motivated to why we take a highly targeted approach to outbound sales. Short on time?

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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. TL;DR Marketing-led growth is a strategy that relies on marketing efforts to drive product growth and retain users. Most companies use all 3 strategies to some extent.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

In B2B products, it's important to divide the target audience in terms of end users of the product as well as business decision makers who have the budget and will ultimately make the call on whether to rollout the solution in their company, because you'll often find that these are two completely different audiences with different desires and needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. When trying to sell to enterprise, take into account all the potential users and stakeholders and create a multithread, go-to-market strategy that aligns with the whole business.

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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. We know that often, innovation in the B2C world tends to translate a few years after into the B2B world.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 26, 2017

In B2B, we’re seeing the same phenomenon. Outbound used to be painstaking and manual. Today, there are many sales tools that make outbound more accessible (Mixmax, Outreach, insidesales.com etc), which automates part of the process but also generates more noise and competition.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

When you’re a rep, you could be thinking about outbounding to prospects, building pipeline, or moving forward the opportunities already in play. At the director and VP level, you should be thinking about strategy and proactive, not reactive, work. 4 steps to stand out as a sales leader. Prioritize work that will move the needle.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

You’ll hear from: Dialpad’s Chief Strategy Officer, Dan O’Connell, and Sherlock’s CEO, Derek Skaletsky, on speeding up and slowing down deals to deliver value to your buyers and your business. To Derek’s point, I think a lot of walls get broken down in selling B2B software these days. Halid, how about yourself?

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Brian Balfour

JULY 18, 2017

In the B2B world you also have B2B products like MailChimp, Slack, or SurveyMonkey that live on this end of the spectrum as they take advantage of viral and paid channels to drive most of their volume. Because they have higher ARPUs they can take advantage of higher CAC channel like Paid Marketing. This is the ARPU-CAC Danger Zone.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ben’s approach focuses on continuous learning, data-driven decision-making, and leveraging product-led growth (PLG) and product-led sales (PLS) strategies. If you want to learn more about these strategies and hear directly from Ben Williams, join our Product Drive Summit to learn more from Ben himself! Who is Ben Williams?

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Userpilot

JULY 28, 2024

In this article, we will give you a look at the different types of free trials and explain strategies for converting free trial customers into paying subscribers and driving product-led growth. 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I’m a writer of a newsletter called Tech Bound, in which I hone in on marketing strategies and customer acquisition. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Absolutely.

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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. SaaS Marketing Strategies for Growth in 2021. SaaS Marketing Strategies for Growth in 2021. Outbound vs. Inbound.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 9, 2020

This is a rapidly evolving situation in so many ways, so our strategies are also rapidly evolving. We want to use outbound emails infrequently and wisely these days, but can you also present it on your website? We’re doing that at the support frontline level. We’re also doing that at the manager level. Bobby: Yeah.

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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. This is not contradictory but rather complimentary.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. Remember that outbound marketing teams are focused on generating interest among customers at the top of the funnel and in the renewal cycle. A lumpy pipeline that depends on closing some specific deals.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The product managers drive the team roadmaps according to set objectives aligned to company objectives, as well as the product strategy overall. These product managers are driving inbound and outbound activities, so they are part of the product team and the GTM teams. So product is quite central to your operations?

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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 a strategy that puts the product at the forefront of your growth efforts, leveraging its value to acquire, activate, and retain customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When we talk to you, our customers, we hear you talk about the same challenges across B2B and B2C companies and industries. Create different news feeds for different audiences, share content across many news feeds and reuse news in your outbound post messages as embedded content. Let’s look at it in action. Over to Charlotte.

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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. Note: This article has embedded real-life examples, strategies, and cases from the author and her company, Growbots. Why it’s important to conduct Customer Success strategies?

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2021

The B2B SaaS marketing space can feel a lot like an echo chamber. You hear many people chanting the same things about how this one specific tactic gave them +1000% in ROI, and then you look at your own strategy and wonder why it’s all crickets. What do SaaS Companies spend on B2B Marketing? Creating A B2B SaaS Marketing Plan.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

This is not to say that bottom-up adoption is bad strategy; quite the opposite. If you can raise a ton of capital, it’s one strategy for winning and crushing the competition. Excerpt from “ What is the optimal structure of a startup SaaS B2B sales team? ”. Is your model primarily inbound or outbound?

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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. Sales strategy ( product-led vs sales-led ). more conversion than freemium.

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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. Do they set strategies and can they run experiments to do that?”

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