Usersnap

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you’re still validating your SaaS product idea or launching a new feature to an existing product line, thinking about your Go-To-Market Strategy is always relevant. In fact, iterating your strategy and improving each feature Go-To-Market plan as you grow and receive customer feedback is even more important.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

If you don’t have a product that can fit that channel, then I would recommend not leveraging that. For example, at contentmarketer.io, we had a product that was kind of okay, and we were still validating product–market fit. Naturally, I went to town as a marketer. Rachel Hepworth, Head of Growth Marketing, Slack.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

However I've seen too many startups use the lean startup methodology as an excuse to fly by the seat of their pants and shun almost any structure to their approach to iterating, validating, and finding product/market fit. Here is what I typically capture when initially documenting a startup's product/market fit hypotheses: 1.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? Using data to drive outbound sales. This meant that when Jeanne wanted to get an outbound sales program off the ground, she had to get creative. We just were never going to get that headcount.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

For this virtual panel, we’ve gathered the team that made it happen: Thomas Creighton de Farias – Senior Product Education Producer. Alex Potrivaev – Senior Product Designer. Nicole Garrison – Product Marketing Manager. Wal McConnell – Senior Product Analyst. Nicole: I’m Nicole.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In this post, we’re going to provide you with the best Product Marketing tools for each Product Marketing Job-To-Be-Done – which are critical for allowing your product marketers to do their work independently from your dev team or graphic designers! Conversational Marketing : Intercom.

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The Product Bistro

MARCH 7, 2017

Often, product managers are expected to wear multiple hats, in particular to play Product Owner for the Scrum team, to be the business owner or the true Product Management function, and to be the outbound marketing expert and wear the Product Marketing hat. It is time to set the team up for success.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2024

TL;DR Ben Williams, also known as the Product-Led Geek, is a strategic advisor with over 20 years of experience, specializing in product-led growth and scaling high-performing teams. PLG relies on the product itself as the primary driver for customer acquisition , conversion, and MRR expansion. The product-led geek.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You will discover the latest content marketing trends by people who began their careers as content writers and have no shortage of MQLs. Creative email strategies and other outbound hacks, and of course, this playbook wouldn’t be complete without Product-led growth frameworks that have led to double-digit ARR growth rates.

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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 A framework for thinking about how to really engage your users and customers with your product. Takes the view that you need to build and test your traction channels in conjunction with building and testing your product fit.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Product, marketing, and sales are table stakes for growth. We see wildly successful companies and attribute their success to a combination of their product, the story they tell about it, and their ability to monetize it. Take Slack, for example: the media points to its brilliant product as the reason for its impressive growth.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

While there’s merit to both product-centric and customer-centric business models, it’s impossible to fully capitalize on the customer-centric business model if you don’t have a well-defined customer value chain. Customer pain points. Decision-making. Get your free Userpilot demo today!

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The emergence of the product-led growth strategy. In the past, any rapid growth that occurred in software companies was largely sales-based or marketing-based. To be clear: both of these user acquisition strategies still work in 2021. But there is a new kid on the block… What is product-led growth?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

And the transition is already happening, as 88% of marketers think first-party data is more important now than a couple of years ago. But since most online advice is either generic or meant for ecommerce businesses, where can you begin as a product marketer working at a SaaS? It’s evident that businesses will start using it.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While a product-led growth flywheel and funnel both leverage product usage, there are a few key differences between the two product-led growth strategy frameworks: PLG funnels are almost structurally identical to conventional funnels, except the product experience takes the place of sales and marketing teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 20, 2018

As the co-founder of WebProfits , he’s led marketing strategy for the likes of Intuit, LinkedIn and Salesforce. He joined me for a chat about everything from how to deploy chatbots effectively to strategies for balancing automation and human connection. Sujan: Mailshake is an outbound sales tool. Short on time?

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Brian Balfour

JULY 12, 2017

This is part 3 in a series about the growth frameworks companies need to grow to $100M+ Part One: Introduction & Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product. Which brings us to part three: Product Channel Fit. Subscribe to get the rest of the series.

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Userpilot

JULY 4, 2023

TL;DR The chasm is the gap in the product adoption curve between the early adopter and the early majority. Build an MVP to let a small user base test out your product and provide feedback to perfect key features , messaging , and positioning. Use popular platforms like Product Hunt to launch your product to get new users.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it. What is product strategy?

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

How to Drive Product-Led Growth By KATHRYN SHEPHERD-KING If you’ve been in the product management world for any length of time, you’ll have probably heard about product-led growth. Product-led growth is a go-to-market strategy that relies on using your product as the primary vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

There isn’t a canon of resources that can provide you with a tried-and-true strategy to deploy. Anthony Kennada , the Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight , has helped navigate these tricky waters and put the Customer Success category on the map. In the early days, if an outbound call [asked], ‘Who runs customer success for you?’

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This team structure does depend on the current objectives and needs for that specific product, such as increasing employee engagement or getting to product market fit for a specific industry. These product managers are driving inbound and outbound activities, so they are part of the product team and the GTM teams.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this article, we share 11 tried and tested tactics for product managers who want to up their PLG game. TL;DR Product-led growth (PLG) is a go-to-market strategy where the product is the main driver of customer acquisition , adoption, and account expansion. What is the product-led growth strategy?

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Brian Balfour

JULY 18, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. You can have a business here, but your acquisition strategy ends up a patchwork of bits and pieces from a lot of different channels rather than owning one channel.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At Spendesk I am currently head of sales, so my main missions are about hiring and building the sales department on one side, and I also work around like all of the go-to-market strategy. It’s super important to think early on about what strategy you have. So of course we are doing corporate cards, basically smart cards.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Today, we’re going to walk you through the top techniques you should implement into your SaaS sales strategy. We’ll also go over how to improve essential SaaS sales metrics like customer acquisition cost, annual recurring revenue, average purchase value, and expansion MRR so you can make the most out of your SaaS product.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

Chris revealed that as CPO, he sees his role as having accountabilities for ALL the product strategy, product roadmap, and product execution. He believes his job entails everything outbound through product marketing into the field organization. From finance and investment banking to product?

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Kernel of a Strategy: A process to create a strategy. Operating Plan (OP1) is an annual planning document that covers the strategy for the next 12 months, ways of executing the strategy, and the budget required. You can always feel product-market fit when it is happening. It contains 1. Where will you play?

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Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. As a result they've differentiated their product on the things that enterprise customers care about: customization, security, and scale (that's their Market Product Fit).

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This makes sense when most outbound spending is through Marketing (not field sales) and we can isolate campaigns or messages or channels with enough volume to accurately compute CAC. Fitbit sold 28M units before being acquired, having tested hundreds of distinct marketing campaigns.).

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Product managers can learn a lot from growth marketers. Growth teams can be part of product teams and modify the product to increase growth. Although some growth tactics are specific to outbound marketing, many are directly tied to the product.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 7, 2019

Note: This article has embedded real-life examples, strategies, and cases from the author and her company, Growbots. How is Customer Success correlated with Product Marketing? Why it’s important to conduct Customer Success strategies? What’s the correlation between Customer Success and Product Marketing?

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

However, the better observation is that if you are starting a brand new company, then you have the opportunity to both pick the idea — and have a hypothesis about product/market fit — as well as to pick its growth strategy at the same time. Product/market fit could be a lot better. Stay outbound.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 2, 2024

Let’s dive into the practical steps to take and start reaping the benefits of product-led growth. TL;DR A go-to-market (GTM) strategy is a comprehensive plan that outlines how a company will launch a new product or service into the market and drive customer success. Shorter sales cycle.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

In some organizations, the strategy/decision making (roadmap) happens without product management. Organizations don’t always wants product managers to align product (or technology) initiatives with the business strategy. Instead, decisions are done by executives or a different function like sales and marketing.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

However, the better observation is that if you are starting a brand new company, then you have the opportunity to both pick the idea — and have a hypothesis about product/market fit — as well as to pick its growth strategy at the same time. Product/market fit could be a lot better. Stay outbound.

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2021

The B2B SaaS marketing space can feel a lot like an echo chamber. You hear many people chanting the same things about how this one specific tactic gave them +1000% in ROI, and then you look at your own strategy and wonder why it’s all crickets. Venture Harbour’s Influencer Marketing Strategy That Has Led to 9 Successful Businesses.

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