Product Talk

JULY 8, 2020

As you collect customers’ stories, you are going to hear about countless needs, pain points, and desires. Our customers’ stories are rife with gaps between what they expect and how the world works. Each gap represents an opportunity to serve your customer. But our job is not to address every customer opportunity.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2022

A customer journey can be defined as the interactions a customer has with your brand from the very first time they engage with you to the point of purchase. What are the steps of the customer journey? At each phase of the customer journey there are touchpoints. What is a customer journey map?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Why does the outcome focus on business value and not customer value? Why can’t you just generate opportunities from what you know about your customers? How do you represent customer segments on an opportunity solution tree? Examples of Opportunity Solution Trees What are some examples of opportunity solution trees?

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Product Talk

JULY 3, 2024

When we interview customers , our goal is to learn as much as we can about their context. This will help us understand their specific needs, pain points, and desires (otherwise known as opportunities) which will inform our product decisions. ‘Atypical’ is not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to customer stories.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Customer support is more business-critical than ever. But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. The future of support is here.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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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. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Recently, Hope Gurion walked through three scenarios where she argued teams might benefit from including customer segments on their opportunity solution trees. You’ll see as we revisit Hope’s examples that this theme will recur throughout. Scenario 1: Uncovering Potential Customers. I can’t emphasize this enough.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

Yes, product and pricing are still important ingredients – but, a great customer experience is the secret sauce (chef’s kiss). Here are 5 ways e-commerce companies can improve their customer experience: Act on customer feedback. Maintain an omnichannel customer experience. Prioritize meaningful customer engagement.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

According to Gartner , companies that properly use customer journey maps are twice as likely to outperform their competitors that don’t. But to unlock such effective results, first, you need to know how to create impactful maps—which is what these 8 customer journey map examples are for. Creating user personas.

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Product Talk

JUNE 2, 2021

Let’s walk through an example. It starts with focusing on the customer. The team isn’t likely to reconcile their personal preferences about what they should build, but they can find alignment by developing a shared understanding of what their customers need and want. They have several key decisions they need to make.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

As customers expect more and more out of support experiences, support leaders can risk burnout on their team to meet the escalating demand. But even for larger teams, an influx of customer questions can overload agents, leaving them frustrated and overworked, and in turn, not able to provide great support.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process. If we are lucky, we might do some customer research at the beginning of the project.

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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. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities. The opportunities represent customer value.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Looking for real-life customer-led marketing examples that worked to get inspiration for your own campaigns? You’ve probably had enough theories already, so this article cuts to the chase to show you examples from top brands that are killing it with this approach. Calendly includes its customers in growth loops.

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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. Thomas: Awesome.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We all talk a good game about the customer being the most important thing in our business. But the truth is, as most companies scale, the customer can feel further and further away. Customer empathy is often one of the first things to suffer as companies grow from startup to scale-up. Bringing the voice of the customer to life.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2020

As marketers, our job is to understand our customers – their hopes, their wants, their needs – and then communicate the value of our product in the context of their lives. At SaaStr Summit , I spoke about how businesses can adapt during these uncertain times by focusing on customer impact. Embracing a philosophy of change.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One of the biggest challenges that business owners or product managers (PM) face is figuring out what their customers want. Too often, we ask customers what they want, instead of asking what they do. Instead of asking customers what they want, ask them what they do. Your customer is not the solution designer.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2021

Today, customer expectations are at an all-time high. A proactive customer support approach is the key to regaining control. But this approach not only overwhelms your team, it also means customers frequently have to wait hours or even days to get the help they need. Why proactive support is your first line of defense.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams. Great e-commerce experiences for customers are built on speedy responses, instantaneous gratification, and convenience – this is no easy feat to provide. Sense their frustration?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 7, 2019

If getting started with your product requires new users to install software, invite colleagues or message customers, then the path to value may not seem as short or straightforward. In cases like these, the user onboarding flow from signup to realizing value can be long and arduous and can cause your onboarding funnel to leak users.

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Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2024

How do you even know if you have no clue what your ideal customer looks like? That’s why you need a customer profile template. Read on to find out the different types that make a customer profile, how you can create a customer profile template in 5 steps, and some customer profile examples.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 29, 2021

Customers want to be heard. Product feedback is the ideal way to hear from specific customers and understand their needs before they move to one of your competitors. Proactively gathering feedback allows you to quickly identify and solve their pain points. Create products and release features customers want.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

For Dan Gingiss , at least, investing in your defense – the customer experience – is the smartest move you can make. He’s also a keynote speaker and CX expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, having led teams in social media, marketing, and customer experience at companies such as Humana, McDonald’s, and Discover.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The feelings customers take away from an experience with your company are far more important than any “response time” metric. This applies not only to conversations a customer may have with your sales or support teams, but even when they’re not talking to you at all – such as when they’re on your help center , searching for answers.

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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. He also regularly looks for opportunities to jump on sales or customer success calls with customers who have new use cases.

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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. How do we know when a pain point is worth pursuing?

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Userpilot

JUNE 4, 2024

Looking for a customer behavior analysis example to see how you can extract valuable insights? In this article, you will also learn how to conduct customer behavior analysis step-by-step and how Userpilot analytics can help. To gain meaningful insights, the analysis should focus on specific user segments.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

Customer perception can make or break your brand reputation. But why is customer perception important, and how can you improve it? Let’s explore what it is and how to measure it, then look at 10 ways to make customers look at your brand with a positive lens and increase product engagement !

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

I want to start with a couple of examples. So what we’re seeing is this product—which is actually a pretty critical health device for measuring how severe, for example, your COVID-19 case is—works better for some people and not as well for other people. We don’t think, for example, of a scantily clad woman in a video game.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 5, 2024

Key elements of a product messaging framework include Target Audience, Value Proposition, Key Messages, Messaging Pillars, and Proof Points: Let’s go over the steps to create an effective product messaging framework: Research to identify your target customers : Gather high-quality data to build accurate user personas.

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Product Talk

APRIL 3, 2024

Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Tweet This An early customer interviewing mistake is to spend your interview time exploring your solution ideas. But only if we use the right methods.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them. It felt like 10+ years of experience, from customer development to Jobs Theory all in one actionable package.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at a few specific examples of how she defined outcomes for the companies she was interviewing with. Example 1: A B2C tax software platform One company Teeba interviewed with was a B2C tax software platform. I made sure to think about both the end customer experience and the tax expert experience,” says Teeba.

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