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The Best Way To Understand User Needs and Pain Points Without a Big Research Budget

The Product Coalition

Understanding user needs and pain points is essential for building successful products and services, but that doesn’t mean we need to get stuck going down a multi-month research hole in order to be “ready” to collaborate, innovate, or prototype. These forums offer rich insights around needs and pain points.

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Moving from reactive to proactive customer support

Intercom, Inc.

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. What is proactive customer support?

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The ultimate customer support tech stack for 2022

Intercom, Inc.

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.

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Case Study: Launching PayMe from HSBC

Mind the Product

We then identified and quantified the pain points around this core job to get our first cut and roadmap (see the process I’ve since developed here ). We validated the pain points using focus groups and user interviews, and we quantified them using a survey. It can be in social value – and this is how we won.

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

By using the Product Discovery Cycle, teams can find new ideas, understand customer pain points, and test solutions quickly and cheaply. When teams solicit and act on customer feedback, they can cycle through ideas quicker, and find the best ones sooner. Why you should be involving engineers at every stage of the Cycle.

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Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know

Product Talk

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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Balancing support efficiency with a great customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

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.