
Why your customers’ second invoice is so important
In the SaaS industry, we have all come to realize that retention is just as important as acquisition. There is no point exerting lots of...

Product engagement: the most important metric you aren’t tracking for your SaaS business
If you have followed us over at Sherlock, you will likely have heard us say many times that product engagement is the lifeblood of any...

How marketers are using Custom Bots to drive more engagement
We believe that conversational bot technology will be transformative for the businesses that embrace it today. Bots have the power to...

What we shipped: 7 new data and customization-driven features
Data is key to driving revenue and engagement at scale. In the past month, we have released a series of sophisticated features that help...

How to make product improvements to existing products
Kaizen is the philosophy of continuous improvement. Web businesses searching for product market fit think they can follow this philosophy...

From hi to buy: 6 live chat sales techniques
Adding live chat to your funnel is a great way of generating more sales and targeting specific leads in a more effective way, ensuring...

Build your customer relationships around consistency and trust
It feels like we’re entering a golden age in relationships between customers and businesses. But really we’re just coming full circle....

4 strategies to increase user engagement
The definition of an “engaged user” varies from product to product. For a to-do app an engaged user should be logging in every day to add...

Reduce churn by re-engaging your customers
Churn is one of the most important metrics tracked by today’s startups. But also one of the most misunderstood. We’re on the receiving...

5 simple messages to engage your customers
At Intercom, we’ve worked with hundreds of our customers, helping them target messages to their customers and improve their messaging...

Why you should provide VIP support
Giving every customer an amazing support experience is a challenge. It’s especially true in the early days of a startup, when resources...

Meaningful growth vs metric manipulation
What gets measured gets done, no matter the cost. But there is a genuine danger in reducing product onboarding and design to an exercise...

How Invision uses Intercom to scale authenticity
“Would I want to receive this in my inbox?” This is the single most important question Ben Jordan (pictured above), VP of Customer...

How Put.io reduced churn by 14%
What happens when the sh*t hits the fan? Your company gets hacked, your users’ data “disappears”, your service is disrupted at the wrong...

Before you plan your product roadmap
Are all your users using all the features in your product? Of course they’re not. Let’s talk about that. When planning your roadmap, and...

Growth hacking is bullshit
Step 1: Build a product. Step 2: Release a product. Step 3: Growth Hack your way to success. It all smells too strongly of a “get rich...

Retain your customers by talking to a human
Marketing people worry developers can be a tough audience to communicate with, but that doesn’t have to be the case. For us at Pusher...

Tablets Vs. Smartphones: Online Engagement Patterns Present Opportunities
Two of the overarching goals for online marketers are maximizing the reach of their campaigns and increasing engagement levels. While...

Tablets Vs. Smartphones: Online Engagement Patterns Present Opportunities
Two of the overarching goals for online marketers are maximizing the reach of their campaigns and increasing engagement levels. While...























