Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers. Here’s why.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 207

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Stax

MAY 6, 2025

While many platforms are built for getting started, not all are designed to support scale. In this blog, well unpack what scalability really looks like in a payment solution and how to choose one that wont hold you backwhether you’re just beginning to start accepting payments or scaling to new markets. Consider the following.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2024

These nine sales concepts, when done correctly, will greatly improve your sales and sales teams. #1: You don’t end up saving time because you have to interview different firms and onboard them, and you still have to look through resumes, do back-channel references, take calls with them, and more. That’s the wrong answer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Developing a product that solves a customer’s pain point provides a sense of pride and can drive the positive, emotional moment of awe that retains customers for the long haul. Companies need to grow at a pace that still allows their employees to experience the onboarding and responsibility that will set them up for success.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? If you consider onboarding to be a success when a customer reaches their go-live date, then you need to dig deeper. How to increase customer value during onboarding with Donna Weber. Let me go back to my six-stage onboarding framework.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. It often involves a two-step process: First, launch a customer satisfaction survey asking existing customers to rate their experience on a scale. Bad experiences can, thus, cause irreparable damage to your brand.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

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. If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals. If you enjoy the conversation check out more episodes of our podcast.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Earlier this month, Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov sat down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin at SaaStr Europa 2024 to talk about all things AI and the lessons learned while scaling to billions. Will they be able to follow up on a deal or handle onboarding and deployment issues? You can’t sell hype.

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Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 299

User Pilot

MAY 29, 2025

Poor mobile UX design leads to high bounce rates, abandoned carts , and negative app reviews. Performance expectations: People using mobile web or app expect speed and instant clarity because theyre often on the go, juggling multiple tasks, or dealing with weak connections. Heres an example from Duolingos onboarding flow.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

Its purpose is to collect data necessary to personalize the onboarding experience by highlighting relevant features or resources for each user type. The survey aims to better understand users workflows and help prioritize product development initiatives, like new integrations, that add the most value to its users.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 172

SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? This is where they started, but startups weren’t adopting the product as much with a discount, and there was a lot of conflict with the sales team. During SaaStr Annual, Zendesk Sr.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Our team is in Room 111.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Ensure that your data is clean and easily accessible, as poor data quality undermines the value of even the best customer success tool. This will allow teams to identify at-risk accounts and prioritize proactive outreach.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 6, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. AI is transforming how go-to-market teams operate. Here are several ways we heard from leaders that they’re actively doing to reinforce certain skill development: Manual before automation. SDRs are prospecting faster.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Poor performance includes slow loading times, complex design, confusing navigation, and unresponsive features. To assign meaning to whether the numbers are good or bad, context is crucial.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? This can empower teams to take strategic action to improve their overall support experience for customers. This metric represents the average amount of time it takes your customer support team to settle a case once it’s opened.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? This begs the question: how should an app developer make decisions about the amount of text to show and its quality? Measuring the letters. of its first screen to show text. of their first screen.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

It can be easy to consistently double revenue if you’re an early-stage company, but as you scale up, sustaining that becomes more difficult. Your CAC is how much you spend on acquiring and onboarding a customer, and can include marketing, communications, sales, and other expenses. Customer acquisition cost.

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Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. a lot of Sean’s early focus and success there came from experimentation with onboarding. Developing a growth culture at Dropbox.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

Scaling SaaS is not for the faint of heart. If you do not scale, you will be unable to reach a new pool of customers and your competitors will leave you in the dust. If you scale prematurely, you may struggle to satisfy customer expectations. Provide the necessary training for your sales teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2019

This week on Scale , we’re getting an inside look at how marketing helped them grow to a $1.5 But scaling a marketing team to the heights Segment have isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A-players in a room and getting them to start churning out paid advertising. billion dollar valuation. Startup marketing is tough.

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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.

MAY 1, 2018

They help their users be successful, and that means providing great onboarding. At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design.

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User Pilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. A SWOT analysis helps discover gaps and opportunities in your product for new feature development. Why do you need feature ideation in your product development process? Book your demo to learn more.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. Some sales teams consider a customer success manager as the post-sale counterpart of an account executive. The role of customer success teams.

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Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

There are some important variations to MRR that would be good for your sales team to be aware of, including new MRR, expansion MRR, and churn MRR. How To Calculate Other Types of MRR Now, while the above is the most basic form of MRR, there are some important variations to MRR that would be good for your sales team to be aware of.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This is about making that connection with the customer and the limbic part of the brain, the emotional part of their brain to get that connection and to get them onboard, to get your employees connected to your purpose, to get them onboard with what you’re doing. Because it’s not so much focused around X, Y, Z NPS score.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Previously, Will was an engineering leader at Digg and then at Uber, where he scaled infrastructure engineering from a small team to more than 70.

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User Pilot

MAY 31, 2025

Intercom Mobile is a suite of mobile software development kits (SDKs) that lets you embed customer messaging , support, and engagement into your mobile app. Intercom Mobile cons Poor customer support For a support tool, its quite a surprise to see many users complain about the lack of sufficient customer support. Source: G2.

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