Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The holidays are fast approaching, and for ecommerce businesses, that often results in significantly higher support volume for your team – which is set to further accelerate this holiday season due to the impact of COVID-19. For instance, studies have shown that shipping and delivery times influence 87% of shoppers’ purchase decisions.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2021

It’s a familiar problem for all companies that scale fast – how do you keep your core technologies manageable for the increasing number of teams that depend on them? How our core technologies were being used was also diverging, leading to needlessly increased complexity in our systems. Our first challenge – Elasticsearch.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You might already have a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program in place that you’re looking to improve, or perhaps you’re just trying to get started. You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” But in truth, there’s never been a better time. This is a valid question.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

When we were writing this post, we did a little research to see what other brands were saying about mobile customer experience. So, we won’t waste your time. Stop talking about customer-centricity; turn it into action. Every company says they’re “customer-centric,” but very few actually are. Sound good?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

Customer success – every business wants to invest in it but only a few know what it actually entails or how to do it well. There are a lot of words that get thrown around with customer success: problems to be solved, implementation, product experts, expansion, strategic partners, technical advisors, proactive versus reactive.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This increases the chances of creating a product that users actually want and need and achieving product success. Carrying out product discovery involves answering the following questions: What is the specific value the product should create for the users and customers? Who are the users and who are the customers?

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 18, 2022

The following data and information on Business Services apps is from our 2022 Mobile App Customer Engagement Report. Brands in Business Services had varied experiences in 2021. Data included: Ratings and reviews. Expressed customer emotion. Below is a short summary of how Business Services apps fared in 2021.

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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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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I review strategies and roadmaps. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And further along the line, customer support started being treated as a cost center – a necessary, but non-profitable part of a business. Today, more and more businesses are realizing the true bottom-line impact of creating great customer experiences. In fact, he says the customer experience has never mattered more.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Learn Targeted Skills in Small Chunks On the Go Today, Product Management University announced the availability of 15 new micro learning courses for high technology product managers in B2B. Product Management University micro learning courses are offered in live virtual, onsite and on-demand e-learning formats.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Feature parity across desktop and mobile is rarely what customers need or want. If an organization wants to shift to product teams—teams empowered to drive outcomes —they need to structure their teams such that each team includes the necessary skills and abilities required to build and deliver customer value. and CBC Gem. and CBC Gem.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 21, 2021

Quick transitions to remote learning, usage and integration hurdles, lack of funding for new tech, and massive fluctuations in MAU all played a role in delivering a challenging year for educators and education technology across the country. Ratings, Reviews, and Interactions. Popular Phrases. Working in Mobile Education in 2021.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s no secret that when it comes to support, customer expectations are higher than ever before – but how are support leaders and teams adapting to these increased demands? Nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Understand how customer expectations are changing.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. Take a portfolio like Microsoft Office, for example. But platforms come with potential drawbacks. Treat the Platform as a Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

As she tells it, “When I was fresh out of college, I was working at my first job in the tech industry. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. Many people believe tech to be apolitical and unbiased, but that’s simply not true. The language we use shapes our world. Paving a way forward.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] How can you capture the right user stories , for instance, if you are unsure who the users are and why they want to use the product? But don’t stop there.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

For example, while Teresa recommends creating a product trio that includes a product manager, engineering lead, and a designer, she acknowledges that some product trios might be made up of slightly different members. It’s not about finding the right tech stack; it’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? Christy: All right.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 20, 2022

But when we make technical decisions, we like to be conservative. In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. Here, Waheed discusses our engineering principle “Be technically conservative”.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. We recently sat down with four product experts and asked them about their experiences in this field. What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Modern customers expect quick, personal, and effective service. To provide this, you must understand how your customer experience stacks up against these expectations. Data alone won’t produce results, but it will help you to contextualize customer behavior and feedback to provide better service faster.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2020

As customer success managers, we wear many hats. We need to stay on top of market trends and product updates, all while making sure our customers become wildly successful. During times of rapid change, juggling everything on our plates, along with everything on our customers’ plates, can feel like a herculean task.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In my previous post , I described a way to think about our internal product communications, and how that can help us optimize our time and make us more effective as Product Managers. Out of the key dimensions ( Content / What , Audience / Who , Timing / When and Format / How) , the Format is probably the hardest to get right.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2021

Are you leaving money on the table, or are you scaring away potential customers? The post Pricing Strategy for Product Dummies – Fanni Fejes on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. The post Pricing Strategy for Product Dummies – Fanni Fejes on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 22, 2022

In our 2022 Mobile Customer Engagement Benchmark Report , a study of more than 1,000 apps across a billion mobile app installs, we take a close look at apps in the Food and Drink category. Data included: Ratings and reviews. Expressed customer emotion. Ratings and reviews. Expressed customer emotion.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 2, 2021

One of the key things to do in any product lifecycle is to review if it’s meeting your user’s needs. The last time we sat down to do this for the podcast, we decided to use the Jobs To Be Done approach, which led to a key question: how might we power up our JTBD [.]. Links mentioned in this episode. Rocketship.fm

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. I don’t have enough time in my day. We hear ya.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders. This makes the roadmap harder to understand, and it increases the effort to keep it up to date. It will also limit your ability to experiment and learn, to run sprints and discover the best way to address the user and customer needs and create value for the business.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

It achieves this by stating the product’s target users and customers, the value proposition, the business goals it should meet, and its standout features. But this only works if the product and market are stable and experience little change. For digital products, this is hardly ever the case in my experience.

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Product Management University

APRIL 25, 2023

Creating a value based resume means it’s time to treat yourself as a product that has strategic (employer) value. Here we are in the early part of 2023 and so many of my talented friends, former colleagues and customers have fallen victim to the mass layoffs in high tech. Is there any technology company that doesn’t want that?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. 2 Involve the Right People. 3 Have the Right Input Available.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 24, 2021

billion smartphone users worldwide (yes, that’s roughly 80 percent of the population!), Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) : The amount of revenue each of your active customers (on average) contribute. Retention: Retention is a measurement of customer churn: How many customers continue to actively use your app after one week?

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2021

Now, more than ever, your customers want to be heard. Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. mParticle is the customer data platform for brands leading the CX revolution.

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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). To put it simply, the voice of the customer (VoC) is everything your customers think and feel about your customer experience.

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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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