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How LinkedIn Has Transformed The Businesses of These 3 Entrepreneurs

Buffer Resources

Building Thought Leadership While other social channels are typically reserved for building your company’s brand, LinkedIn provides a unique opportunity for you to grow a personal following—that can, in turn, support your brand’s recognition. It won't take much time and it can go a long way!

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Miro’s Andrey Khusid on the art of distributed teamwork

Intercom, Inc.

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. Embracing professional services as a distribution channel. So our platform is also built for them to use. Andrey: Exactly.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PatientPop and Plaid — August 16, 2019

SaaStr

And I think that’s the opposite of what some people think of when they think of sales or sales leadership. There was the product and the service, which I just completely believed in. They use it to maximize their own revenue and they’ve created this really incredible thought leadership community.

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Top 5 Udemy Courses to Upskill Your Customer Success Career

ChurnZero

Their mission is to improve lives through learning and it’s the largest online destination that help students and businesses gain skills from expert instructors teaching over 155,00 online courses on topics from programming to leadership to Customer Success. After a year of being VP of Customer Success, I worked myself out of the job.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. In 2015, Andrew joined Uber to lead their rider growth product teams. A transactional marketplace like Uber, where riders can actually use it every day for commuting, is very nice.

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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

A great way to look at this is through the lens of buyer psychology and the way that products and services get procured in the modern market. People are not buying technology products and services in isolation anymore. But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people.

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