The Ticket: Discover the Future of Customer Service, Support, and Experience, with Intercom

Turning your product into a platform that developers can build on is a great way to tap into new audiences and expand your market share. But that mean you should take the leap blindly, simply because it’s popular at the moment. In this compilation episode, we've collated some of the best industry advice on how to build a platform (and whether you even should). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.c...

Like a sports franchise, a sales team should be both collaborative and competitive. But how do you build this dream team? That's the focus of Close.com CEO Steli Efti’s new book, The Startup Sales Playbook . He rejoins the podcast this week to share advice on hiring in sales and building a collaborative culture. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...

Gerry Scullion (Human Centred Design Network) joins Dee Reddy (Intercom) to look at human centred design. They explore what it means, why designers should care and how design teams can be a force for good. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Join Intercom co-founder Des Traynor and Intercom SVP of Product Paul Adams as they discuss their latest thoughts on how to build successful product at scale. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

We're celebrating the launch of our new book Intercom on Sales. It's a deep dive into the many lessons we’ve learned about how selling works at scale, covering everything from hiring tactics to the needs of modern buyers to fundamental processes for forecasting and managing deals. So, we've delved into our podcast vaults to bring together a compilation of some of the best sales insights our guests...

At many companies, content designers and strategists are expected to be like Stretch Armstrong: with one hand on a product, the other hand touching another and fingers and toes splayed wide in an attempt to reach as many different products as possible. At Intercom, however, we’ve found that content professionals have the most success when they do less — but better. See Privacy Policy at https://ar...

Author and consultant, Jeff Gothelf, joins Intercom's Dee Reddy for a chat that ranged from strategies for making design part of a company’s DNA to the lessons we can learn from the human cannonball at a circus. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

In this week's Inside Intercom, Slack's Lane Collins chats to Kaitlin Petterson about their policy of 'radical convenience' and how Slack manages the customer experience as a product and how that experience should evolve as the business grows. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

When you’re starting a company, it’s only natural to crave a roadmap. But although it’s inspiring to look at the paths other companies have successfully traveled, you also run the risk of ending up at the exact same destination. That’s why Brex’s CFO Michael Tannenbaum believes in breaking a few rules. He chats to Intercom's Tara Larson about knowing when to follow your intuition and driving the f...

In this episode Des Traynor and Paul Adams discuss the principles upon which we've built our product, and indeed our business, here at Intercom. They talk about the value of having a clearly defined set of principles and how they can become the foundation for cohesive decision making. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-...

Developing software is a tough, complicated task. But as companies strive to become more agile and innovative, DevOps is gaining an increasingly important seat at the table. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Michael Redbord, General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub, sits down with Intercom's Kaitlin Pettersen to discuss how a billion dollar company like Hubspot apply that human touch in every customer support interaction.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Josh Seiden, author of the new book Outcomes Over Output, joins the Intercom podcast to discuss why focusing on outcomes instead of outputs has become a rallying call for product teams today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Intercom co-founder Des Traynor and Intercom SVP of Product Paul Adams share their latest thoughts on how to build a great product. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

When it comes to platform marketing, Ceci Stallsmith’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their first platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. Our Group Product Marketing Manager Jasmine Jaume speaks with Ceci about building a winning platform marketing strategy that delivers value for both developers and end-users alike....

As part of our exploration of product platforms, we’re revisiting an insightful conversation we had awhile back with Jeetu Patel, the seasoned Chief Product Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at Box. Box is a prime example of a company that has successfully transformed their product into a platform and through that process, grow their business exponentially. Jeetu shares what made Box evolve into...

Apps and integrations are critical for up-and-coming products looking to expand their reach. Predictive analytics tool MadKudu has capitalized on this strategy to grow their business with mid-market and enterprise customers. So we sat down with their Head of Marketing, Liam Boogar-Azoulay, to discuss how they embarked on this strategy and his advice for other teams thinking about building apps for...

In the second episode of this new product-focused series, Intercom co-founder Des Traynor and Intercom SVP of Product Paul Adams discuss how to harness the power of feedback to shape your product roadmap. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This week our Director of Product Management, Paige Costello, talks with Deepa Subramanian, CEO of Wootric, about the critical points of the user experience that companies need to measure, how Wootric's been able to apply machine learning to their platform and what it means to be a customer-led product team. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a...

We recently launched Product Tours, a simple tool to help teams create great user onboarding experiences. But the story of how this product came about is anything but simple. In this episode, our Product Education lead Phil Byrne, Director of Product Management Brian Donohue and Senior Product Manager Patrick Andrews talk about issues they had to address to build a compelling product and validate...

The rise of the Big 3 - Amazon, Google and Facebook - means that the way we find and consume information is ever-changing. This has deep impact on the way people discover and make purchase decisions. For our final episode of Scale, we talk with HubSpot's VP of Marketing Meghan Keaney Anderson on how marketers should adapt their customer acquisition strategies in the age of the internet. See Privac...

From Instagram to Instacart, Bangaly Kaba's seen what it takes to grow a billion dollar business. The Instacart VP of Growth explains how exponential business growth starts with a fundamental understanding of your customers and a patient approach to monetization. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This special episode of Inside Intercom sees the launch of a brand new podcast series, Intercom on Product, where co-founder Des Traynor and SVP of Product Paul Adams discuss their latest thoughts on how to build successful products. If you're a designer, product manager, engineer, researcher or anything in between, this series is for you. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califo...

Growth has become, in essence, the primary measure of a startup’s success. But can you grow too fast? On this week's episode of the Scale podcast, we asked Tara Bryant, SVP of Sales @pipedrive, how she manages the challenges of scaling. Throughout her career, she’s increased sales by 100% or more year over year at fast-paced, high-volume organizations. She’s seen both the triumph and folly of mete...

This week, we've got a special bonus episode with Rick Nucci, who's founded not just one, but two, successful companies, Boomi and Guru. He speaks with Intercom's Kaitlin Pettersen about the direction of automation trends in the subscription industry, why it's shortsighted to view your support and success teams as cost centers and how knowledge gaps cripple team collaboration as you scale. See Pri...