Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2018

As the rise of bots and automation continues apace, a lot of people are wondering how the sales process and lead qualification will be affected by this fast-evolving technology. Working as Sales Development Representatives at Intercom, we deal with a huge volume of conversations with potential leads that come in through live chat.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. The first, I want it to be part of a company with cutting edge technology. Want to see more content like this? Good afternoon.

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Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

Even if you believe your technology is easy to set up and use, it may not be for the average person. Your software has bugs Product bugs and software issues are bound to happen when youre using any kind of technology platform. Bad software user experience User experience is everything when it comes to SaaS platforms.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Software Review Churn SaaS Payments 88

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. I think the foundation of high performance teams is that they share five things.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For better or worse, technology affects communication because it is a part of our everyday lives. You might see the average elementary-aged child with their head buried in a smartphone and tempted to take a gloomy outlook on what technology has done to us. But is it all bad? How Has Technology Affected Communication?

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Communication Technology Artificial Intelligence Social Media 145

User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A product analytics strategy is essential for any business looking to make informed decisions about product development and user experience. Plus, there are many reasons why you need a product analytics strategy: Aligns product development with user needs and business goals. Outdated technology. Lack of team resources.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 15, 2020

But we can share some of the habits the best salespeople in the business have developed to guide them to success. So strap in, and get ready for the 17 sales habits you need to develop to crush it in Sales. That’s why developing good habits is so important. Function as an individual and as part of a team. Avoid bad leads.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Sales Technical Review 135

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. I think Lambda is an amazing piece of technology, but it has its place. You should optimize globally, and that means using the tools you’re already using.

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Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Voice recognition technology has improved, AI solutions can interpret customer feedback, and chatbots have started to answer the questions they receive, not just pass them off to a human. As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support AI Headcount 279

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

And the biggest difference between the two of those statements is one, low value to sort of medium and high value, and then two, the actual service layer built into the technology underneath the hood. The cost of the technology is high, the cost of customer acquisition is high. And so in the past, it was really a chat environment.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Is there a lot of internal or customer work that needs to be done or managed by your team? While mParticle has a killer, commercially focused CS team, inertia affected the team as well early on.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 123

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 26, 2022

In today’s modern age, support teams simply need to redefine what being “personal” means. But with the development of automation, like bots and contextual help content, we’ve significantly changed our perception of what being personal means. If your team is pondering whether to use “bots versus humans?” What will they choose?

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Scaling Development 209

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 3 Brand stretch.

Branding 209

Branding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Airlines 209

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? Often, product-oriented founders think they’ve created a technology business that seeks distribution when in reality they’ve founded a distribution business that makes technology.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2024

But with all the bad comes so much good : the ability to share your life and work with billions of users all over the world, an outlet for creative expression, the possibility of monetizing your passion, and, perhaps, the most important of all: the ability to share and connect with family and friends.   Content, poof. Audience, bye-bye.

Social Media 112

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Government Blockchain 112

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! You were a VP of Technology at Salesforce back in the day? I had always done general software things, database software, mainframes, PeopleSoft, run that technology groups, Salesforce.com platform for everybody. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT .

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

Classic agencies don’t value the software enough to engender pricing power, develop fast sales cycles, or change the operations of their business to maximize the value of the ML innovation. Consequently, product market fit is weak. And they ought to develop that pricing power. In some cases, agencies sell their time.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

The reason I contemplated doing it because I really want to be involved in cutting edge technology and work with smart people. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. How defendable is the technology of the product or the business model? So I think it plays on both dimensions.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason Lemkin: I’ll answer it, but are you thinking more on sales or technology or broadly speaking in the question? But potentially even technology.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. These two tools are bookending the extremes of a very long timeline of the relationship between humans and technology. You’d struggle because the tool is so bad!

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Underperforming Technical Team New CTO CTO Hire Technology 223

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2020

But obsessing over efficiency can mask what’s most important, and most rewarding, to support teams – actually helping customers. Support teams exist to solve customers’ problems, not to deflect them or find the fastest way to hit the “close” button. The evolution of customer support. Customers] just want to use the solution.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Support teams want it.

Technical Review 222

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Marketplace as a Service 222

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The good news is you have a big backlog, and the bad news is you have a big backlog. Adam came up with the wildest idea he could think of for an app and used Anthropc, a large language model company, to help develop the idea. All these developers will have agents to help them write faster and faster. What’s the data model?

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Generative AI AWS Artificial Intelligence AI 299

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. The team has grown quite a lot, but it’s still tiny: we’re now close to 40 people in 13 different countries. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

Since 2010, she’s been leading teams, building websites, web applications for nonprofits, K through 12, higher education, government, businesses of all sizes. And so some of the people that we commonly think of are blind people who use assistive technology called screen readers, which read out all of the code on the website to them.

Business 108

Business Software Review Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 108

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2022

The reality for many organizations is—top performers thrive and the rest of the team is left behind. of sales teams hit their goals. So what if sales leaders could figure out the recipe for their top sellers’ success and then build an entire team of high performers? A technology-driven strategy.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Enablement Construction Forecasting 124

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. If you go to a team and say, “I can do 70% of what your team is doing now automatically and at a fraction of the cost.” It’s a playbook you’re developing, and it’s not easy. It’s not a bad thing. There will be jobs that no one could have envisioned.

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Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 311

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Technical Review Leadership VP of Engineering CTO Coach 274

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Its goal is to help e-commerce, m-commerce and online advertising through its advanced computer vision technology. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites. There were way too many messaging apps, so Matt and the team decided to bring it all into one, and it’s secure, encrypted, and local to the device. Automattic is a behind-the-scenes brand.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. The Conversational Support Funnel has three layers: Proactive Support with messaging to answer customer questions in the product experience, reducing the number of queries reaching the support team.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

His book, Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement , takes some of these learnings and distills them into an actionable guidebook for “how to turn arguments into a productive and enjoyable dialog rather than a bad-natured confrontation.”. How do we use science and technology and apply it to our practical lives?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technology Social Media Outsourced Development 232

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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Customer Support Metrics Technical Review Scale 211

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2019

A while ago, we introduced a feature called Inbox reports , which gives you metrics about your support team, number of conversations, how quickly your team is getting back to them and how happy the customers are with those conversations. Choose boring technologies. It’s called “ Choose Boring Technology.”

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the past five years, we’ve seen neural network technology really take off into its own. ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one.

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