Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Q: How do you hit #1 on Product Hunt? Product Hunt is one of the most effective ways to get early users for a product. Below, Leo shares the seven things you need to get right to win on Product Hunt, and five myths.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. I didn’t have to touch product, it didn’t require any money, and I really felt like there was a cool story to tell. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Recommendations for similar products. Onboarding tips for a new app. The first step to take is to find an email marketing service that has the features you need to interact with your customers. You can fill it with links to your articles, product news, company announcements or all three. An onboarding email series.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. 8 steps to develop a winning sales strategy. Define your ideal customer profile. (The

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. product called Yahoo!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

Because we’re just a different kind of onboarding tool! ?????. So we’ve classified the different alternative onboarding tools by a) user persona b) JTBD (Job-To-Be-Done – in other words, what you want to use the tool for). It’s also more difficult to use for user onboarding, doesn't offer checklists or resource center.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. The role that started me on this path was joining a very small startup a little over a decade ago, Climate Corp.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The term “growth hacking” was coined by Sean Ellis in 2010 after he used this strategy to ignite unstoppable growth for Dropbox, LogMeIn, and other successful startups. The AAARRR funnel is a great tool for keeping an eye on important metrics like acquisition and retention rates. Customer Journey Mapping Growth Hack #2: .

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

? ?. If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Focus on outcomes over output.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. This makes products less sticky and retention more difficult. Learn more here.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

To answer this question (and take action), you basically need three things: Metrics – so you know how fast is your SaaS growing and what do you need to do to improve the growth rate. You can measure growth by using various metrics like pirate metrics. Dave McClure’s Pirate Metrics. Pirate Metrics consist of: Acquisition.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this blog post, we’re going to break down the pros and cons of using UserGuiding as an onboarding and engagement tool for SaaS and give you the best alternatives that may fit your specific needs and use cases. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. Userguiding features. User onboarding. Feature adoption.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

As a product team grows from one or two individual contributors to a larger, more diverse team, it takes some work to ensure everyone is set up for success. Different personalities, styles, and expectations can create inconsistent experiences for others when dealing with the product team. Empowered and autonomous.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 25, 2017

This is a guest post in our Product Innovator Series from Jennelle Nystrom, product manager at Farmstead. . Today, it’s common to hear people talk about testing early-stage products like it’s a bad thing. You can’t build a better product just by A/B testing button colors, no. Once a week.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Well, I reviewed 40 session recording options in the market and handpicked the top 10 for startups, mid-market companies, and enterprises to review. Free plan available for startups and small teams. Collaboration tools : Leave notes, annotate replays, and share them with your team for better alignment.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

If there’s one critical skill for product managers to nail, it’s customer activation. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll break down underlying customer activation strategies and actionable strategies, specific onboarding tools , and techniques, and tangible examples to learn from. Dive in and let’s get going!

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. As a product manager, you know the drill. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Cons: Few features.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 18, 2024

Looking for an effective onboarding automation tool and wondering if Userlane is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether Userlane is the ideal choice for your onboarding automation needs. Looking for a Better Alternative for Onboarding Automation?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 18, 2024

Looking for an effective onboarding automation tool and wondering if Userlane is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether Userlane is the ideal choice for your onboarding automation needs. Looking for a Better Alternative for Onboarding Automation?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Do you know that customer touchpoints can exponentially influence product growth ? It may be reading articles on your blog, engaging with ads, leaving reviews, contacting the support team, and so on. Group customer touchpoints by using the Pirate metrics framework. Userpilot – for monitoring what users do in the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

As the Head of Growth Marketing at Clearbit , and previously a co-founder and CEO of more than a few startups (including WorkMob, ApiXchange, and GoFlow), Matt Sornson knows these pitfalls intimately and how to avoid them. This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Looking for an effective new customer onboarding tool and wondering if Userlane is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether Userlane is the ideal choice for your new customer onboarding needs. Let’s get started! Ready to see Userpilot in action?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Looking for an effective new customer onboarding tool and wondering if Userlane is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether Userlane is the ideal choice for your new customer onboarding needs. Let’s get started! Ready to see Userpilot in action?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

We’ve expanded our principles to reflect Brian Balfour’s better-defined “New Age Growth”, and adopted Product Thinking to unlock huge A/B tested conversion, retention and AOV uplifts. As lockdown looked like it would last longer and longer, I wondered if the team and I would sit around doing nothing for the rest of the year.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Product data capture is essential for SaaS companies looking to understand user behavior, optimize user experiences, and drive product growth. TL;DR Product data capture is the process of collecting, organizing, and managing information about your product. Collect product data through A/B tests.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2021

Appcues Product Tours is one of the most popular tools for building new user onboarding for SaaS. In this post, we will explore the pros and cons of building product tours in Appcues, how to do it, and look at the top 3 alternatives for your SaaS. How to build Appcues product tours? But is it the best tool?

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Amplitude

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the Product Analytics Summit in Seattle this past March, we chatted with some of our customers about how they use Amplitude as part of their product development toolbox. It helps you stay in tune with user needs and helps you make product development decisions that cater to those needs.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Even among experienced product professionals, a common misconception in business holds that product strategy and business strategy mean the same thing. Product professionals need to understand the distinction between business strategy vs. product strategy. How Business Strategy Shapes Product Strategy: A Quick Example.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more).

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2024

Understanding the salary range for customer onboarding coordinators is crucial whether you’re entering the field or looking to advance your career. TL;DR A customer onboarding coordinator is a professional responsible for guiding new customers through the initial stages of using a product or service.

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