Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Surveying your mobile customers is a great way to find out more about who they are, what drives them back to your app, how they feel about your app, and what they’d like improved. Every customer has unique preferences, tastes, likes, and dislikes. Intuitively, customer individuality makes perfect sense. Gather product feedback.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 16, 2020

For nearly a century, companies held to the same principles for driving growth: deliver value to stakeholders and employees first, then to customers. Customers, too, expect more and will put their money where their values are. Customers, too, expect more and will put their money where their values are.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

But the one conversation that people often tell me they find uniquely insightful is our discussion on finding product culture fit. As an industry, we frequently talk about the reality that there is no single definition for the responsibilities of a product manager and that product management roles differ meaningfully across companies.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. This knowledge gives teams a competitive advantage that compounds over time. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Engineers will hear different insights during your customer interviews. Since participating in a Product Talk Master Class about a year ago, Ellen says she’s been obsessed with aligning business goals to product value for her customers and has been working to implement pieces of that over time at her company. Tweet This.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When brands listen to and act on the voice of the customer (often referred to as simply “VoC”), it can completely revolutionize the way their business operates. Definition of the Voice of the Customer (VoC). The voice of the customer includes answers to questions like: What do your customers like? Prevent Churn.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 26, 2020

As support teams look to the year ahead, there’s no shortage of priorities to juggle – from team efficiency, to customer experience, to business impact. New research from Intercom reveals how support leaders are striking a balance. Below we dive into each of the five key trends from our research.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1]. Or would it be better to address the worst debt now?

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work. What does the company do and who are your main customers?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It’s true that discovery takes time. Interviewing customers , building opportunity solution trees , running assumption tests —these are all activities that take your attention away from delivery. Tweet This Still, in our Product Talk courses and webinars, we often hear the complaint that teams don’t have time for discovery.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 9, 2020

It’s the perfect storm that produces a swell of people who need to get in touch with customer support. In the midst of such a surge, it’s essential to get customers’ issues resolved quickly. Assisting both customers and support staff by offering predictive suggestions. Short on time?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In some ways, this discussion is more relevant to product teams, and product-led companies, than for growth teams, who are by definition focused on outcomes. It wasn’t enough to efficiently solve customer problems; we needed to be thinking about how we were helping our business to be more successful. Feature-driven projects.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Guest post by Mark Mayo, Senior Quality Engineer at Terem Technologies This is the process of writing code and using tools to automate the user interface (UI) testing of front-end components of websites, desktop applications or mobile applications. But, getting it right goes beyond the coding of the tests and the tools you use.

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Product Talk

JUNE 1, 2022

Not having enough time is one of the main reasons people say they can’t interview customers every week. So the idea of trying to carve out time to recruit and schedule interviews might feel like an impossible task. The idea of trying to carve out time to recruit and schedule interviews might feel like an impossible task.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It was almost a year ago when our Customer Success team came up against an issue that all growing teams face: knowledge sharing. Our de-facto ways of working made it difficult for us to learn from one another, especially when it came to socializing best practices for talking to our customers. million a year in lost productivity.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery.

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Product Talk

MAY 18, 2022

You might need to get buy-in or support from leadership, you may need to collaborate with user research or data science teams, and you will likely experience some overlap with customer-facing teams like sales, marketing, and customer success. They don’t understand if the customer’s going to like it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. And you can always feel product/market fit when it is happening.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re not tracking metrics, analyzing them, and tweaking your app accordingly, you’re missing out on potential optimizations that could dramatically improve customer experience. In 2021, mobile apps were downloaded more than 230 billion times globally. It indicates if your user base is growing or shrinking.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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Product Talk

MARCH 20, 2024

April 2nd: Continuous Interviewing: Unlock the Power of Story-Based Customer Interviews This webinar is designed to help you better understand what a good customer interview looks like. It’s because most product people are stuck in a project-based idea-testing world. Register here. Register here. They’ve been a ton of fun.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I don’t have enough time in my day. If you feel like you have too much to do, it might be time to restructure your to-do lists in order to adjust the priorities of your responsibilities. Not enough time in the day. LifeHacker has endless tips and practices to experiment with. My team is too small. We hear ya.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Consumers, however, have limited storage, short attention spans, and little patience for sub-par performance. App uninstalls are common and any app that fails to dazzle users, doesn’t offer value, or does not provide lucrative incentives to keep using the app, is likely to go down the uninstall path within the first three days.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As a fellow Product Talk coach, Hope Gurion uses opportunity solution trees with customers on a regular basis. How do you represent different customer segments on an opportunity solution tree? It’s easy to get overwhelmed when interviewing customer after customer. They have different types of customers. Tweet This.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is problematic especially for young products and those that experience a bigger change, like a life cycle extension , as their backlogs tend to be volatile and require frequent and sometimes bigger adjustments. Looking at the backlog, I noticed that it contained only detailed user stories—no epics or other coarse-grained items.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

I’ve worked with teams in all industries—regulated industries, consumer companies, B2B companies. It’s a framework that’s been well tested and works in a lot of different contexts. We know in the tech industry that we’ve had challenges for a long time in terms of the diversity of our employees.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. At the same time, you are not the boss, and you cannot tell the team members what to do.

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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. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Good design is good business.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s explore the reasons teams engage customers and the challenges they are likely to face in doing so In the past, I have written a post on how to start engaging customers without going into reasons why that may be helpful. Also, in this post, I do not speak about specific techniques to increase value from customer engagement.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2023

Startup growth expert, Matt Lerner, talks about his million dollar lesson learned while characterizing consumers. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product people know that their greatest value lies in how well they understand consumers. He realized he was asking the wrong questions about consumers. Helps manage fraud 6.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Many of these approaches are intended as reasonable defaults; they are my opinions, they aren’t rules, and they certainly won’t fit every situation. They’re based on my experiences working in technology, the practical application of methods in varied use cases, and speaking with peers about their strategies and successes.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 20, 2023

You’re creating a regular habit of talking to customers , you’re identifying opportunities and assumptions and building out your opportunity solution tree and starting to run small tests to explore different ideas. Question: What do you do when a stakeholder has an idea that isn’t related to your outcome or your discovery efforts?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The SaaS industry is full of advice on the perfect product metrics to gauge your users’ activation, engagement, and interactions. Product metrics are data measurements that businesses use to evaluate the success of a product and determine how customers are engaging with it. Percentage of users who used a certain product feature.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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