Mind the Product

AUGUST 18, 2020

This provides a great platform for your inbound strategy to educate the target [.]. Whenever they are ready to buy, they will remember you. Forrester SiriusDecisions says 67% of the buyer journey is done digitally. The post How to Build a Killer Product Microsite appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2022

That’s why we’re excited to introduce Intercom Switch: the easiest way to move inbound call volume to messaging. Introducing Switch, Intercom’s personalized solution to high inbound call volume. With Switch, we aimed to make it not just possible, but easy, to move inbound call volume to messaging. 6 reasons to Switch.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 30, 2018

As an Inbound Sales Development Rep, I face the challenge of not having any control over the leads that get passed to me. Here at Intercom, we use live chat to qualify our inbound leads. Like many things in business, certain elements of sales — the quality and volume of inbound leads, for example — are out of your control.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2022

For many years, B2B companies have executed their inbound sales funnel in a traditional manner that looked a little something like this: Visitor prospects. Using live chat for sales, you can: Qualify inbound leads using customizable bots that ask relevant, targeted questions. Marketing qualified lead (MQL). Sales qualified lead (SQL).

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

The internet is moving more businesses and people online, and driving a huge increase in inbound support volume. Self-serve Support and bots to automatically answer all common customer questions, reducing inbound volume to support agents. This leads to more and more inbound support volume. This reduces inbound volume.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2021

News apps did, however, respond to many fewer inbound messages than other apps (17% vs macro average of 72%) mostly due to how much trolling they receive about the news itself rather than their product; those messages are not typically responded to. These low numbers are partly due to not reaching out to enough consumers. Sports Apps.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For each example, we’ll explore why it works and lessons that can help improve your marketing strategy. TL;DR Customer-led marketing is a strategy that puts the customer at the center of all marketing efforts, making their pain points , behaviors, and feedback the driving force behind decisions.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With increasing conversation volumes and mounting customer expectations, support teams need a way to ruthlessly optimize their support strategy for maximum efficiency and CSAT. Many support teams implemented the funnel and saw game-changing results, including reduced inbound conversation volume, faster resolution rates, and enhanced CSAT.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

There are many parts to a high-performing sales organization – the right people, processes and strategy, to start. As you can see in the chart above, we segment inbound leads by business type – small business, mid-market and enterprise – to ensure we’re delivering the right number of leads to each of our teams. Existing business KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

As a product manager , you must understand strategy and business, but your responsibilities as well as your day-to-day activities are focused more on execution.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

I have traditionally been a believer that any form of marketing other than what is classified as, “Inbound” is typically a waste of money and time. As I think about it however, I actually think that this idea of, “Inbound marketing” is actually a bit ridiculous. Inbound marketing is a tool mostly purposed in driving new acquisitions.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2020

I shared how we’re navigating these big changes, from the immediate impacts on customers, to the implications for our marketing and product plans, and, finally, to our customer communications strategy. And if your customer’s context has changed, as it has so dramatically in the current situation, then your strategy must evolve as well.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2021

Proactive support is a crucial part of any good conversational support strategy, empowering you to pre-emptively deliver targeted, personalized support via messenger-based channels. For many teams, making the switch from reactive to proactive customer support can be tricky – but it’s a necessary element of any support strategy.

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Folding Burritos

JANUARY 25, 2018

If we stop to think a little bit about our internal communication strategy we can be both more effective in getting the message through, and reduce the amount of time we spend on this (having specialized communication tools for PMs would help even further, but I’m working on that ). Think about it as either inbound or outbound comms.

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Userpilot

MAY 3, 2022

Inbound works really well for smaller SaaS businesses, whether B2B or B2C. Pair that with in-app communication and you’ve got a pretty good marketing strategy. We’re going to teach you how to craft a marketing strategy made for the enterprise sales cycle so you can adapt your sales process. Longer sales cycles.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With bots and automation resolving simple queries and triaging inbound conversations behind the scenes, Stuart’s support team can be empowered to spend more time resolving issues – and less time performing manual tasks that can quickly become a time sink. Identifying opportunities for growth. Driving efficiency through automation.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 4, 2018

For many years, B2B companies have executed their inbound sales funnel in a similar manner: Much like the word “funnel” suggests, it’s based on the idea to filter out the visitors and leads that aren’t ready to buy or aren’t qualified. Let’s look at how this came about. Invest in sales conversations, not touches.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What product marketing strategies can you use to increase your chances of success? To answer this, let’s explore: What a market development strategy is. A step-by-step process to build a viable market development strategy. Let’s review the essential steps to build an effective market development growth strategy.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

One effective strategy to boost your confidence in your report managing these situations is to spend time roleplaying certain scenarios and provide immediate and constructive feedback. Treat interactions on escalations and blockers not just as tasks to complete but as mentorship opportunities.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steve Blank?—?This The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million by Mark Roberge?—?Builds Builds the case for the inside sales team and inbound selling, then explains how to put it into practice.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

TL;DR Product-led growth strategy is a business model where the product is the primary driver of engagement, retention, and acquisition. Userpilot is one of the best product-led growth examples, with a strong digital community that can help you create a PLG strategy that works. Book a demo today !

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 23, 2019

If you’re familiar with HubSpot, then the word that probably comes to mind is “inbound.”. In 2018, based on a new set of observations, we decided to update one of the core concepts of inbound marketing. Today, we’re going to adapt the inbound methodology to encompass tenets of customer success. From Funnel To Flywheel.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Although it may seem like a no-brainer for businesses to offer customer support in multiple languages, in a recent survey we found that the vast majority of businesses struggle to implement an effective multilingual support strategy. Benefits of multilingual customer support. So where should you begin? For example w?ith

Customer Experience 209

Customer Experience Research Software User Testing Technical Review 209

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 18, 2022

It shone a spotlight on how forward-thinking support teams were adopting conversational support tools – like proactive messaging capabilities and chatbots – to meet rising customer expectations and mounting inbound queries. With widespread change and increased pressures comes new opportunities to rethink outdated strategies and tools.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

However, getting the attention of your target customers with B2B marketing strategies is a lot harder. This article will teach you the difference between B2C and B2B marketing, go over a few B2B examples, and walk through 15 proven strategies that can take your product marketing to the next level! B2C marketing.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? This is where the GTM strategy comes in. In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies. Successful product launches stand on the back of an effective GTM strategy. What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy?

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 3, 2023

13:42] Have you seen any shifts from outbound (getting information to people, e.g., billboard, advertisement) to inbound (people coming to you, e.g., on social media) marketing? For example, one strategy is to target consumers in the right context. Absolutely, and that’s related to having so much more data out there.

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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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Feedback Software Analytic Tools Research Software User Testing 105

Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

A well-crafted go-to-market strategy could be your secret weapon. In this article, we’ll take a quick look at Maja’s journey and discuss the steps to build a GTM strategy. In an upcoming talk , Maja Voje will share insights into the go-to-market strategy for AI-first products. What is a go-to-market strategy?

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The Product Bistro

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

As I started this with a bent to highlight my specific skills that I could market (strategy, pricing, inbound marketing analysis) the posts were heavily tilted to the practical.

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Analytic Tools Embedded Analytics Inbound Customer Experience 195

Alchemer Mobile

MAY 27, 2020

We’re also adopting new shopping strategies such as using delivery services and curbside pickup. Average inbound and outbound message volume. Every grocery store has run out of toilet paper and flour, comfy sweats are out of stock at Target, and the wait to get into Home Depot is two hours long. So, what are retail brands to do?

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Feedback Software User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience 147

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

A predictive lead scoring tool for B2B SaaS companies, MadKudu’s strategy is all about integrating with other platforms – including Intercom – to link customer intelligence and customer engagement. So I wanted to hear why that strategy makes sense for MadKudu and his advice for other teams thinking about building apps for their product.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Here’s an example from LB’s own career: at LinkedIn, when her team of SMB AEs were short on inbound pipeline, she had her reps take an entire day off their calendars to focus on prospecting. At the director and VP level, you should be thinking about strategy and proactive, not reactive, work.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

By allowing support teams to get ahead of known problems and provide help to customers before they need to reach out, proactive support has enabled major companies to scale their support without increasing headcount, drive down inbound conversation volumes ( in some cases by up to 80% ), and maintain incredible customer satisfaction ratings.

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Customer Experience Inbound User Testing User Friction 118

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. Strategy first, technology second. Let’s dive in.

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Technical Review Feedback Software Analytic Tools Reporting Tools 249

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. For inbound leads I tailor the question to ask, “What drove you to request a demo?” For example, is their strategy to break down each of your solutions feature by feature?

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