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How to build and structure your sales team

The traditional SaaS sales team structure is built on outbound sales — an approach that requires salespeople to pursue leads that are...

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...

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...

How to overcome the startup growth plateau

Every startup hits a plateau at some point. At CloudSponge, we hit ours after four years, when we noticed our growth and churn began to...

How to Educate & Persuade Customers

The most effective messages we see in Intercom either educate or persuade customers. Let’s talk about why they work. If you want users to...

How Draft Grew Paying Customers by 200%

As Nathan asked himself, “How can I reach my revenue goal for Draft?” it dawned on him that Intercom could help a lot, with very little...

If it’s important, don’t hack it

Growth hacking is a dirty world. Scraping websites and spamming activity feeds grows a business in the same way anorexia solves weight...

Measuring Viral Distribution

Explanations are explanations, promises are promises, diagrams are diagrams… but only performance is reality. Let’s look at how to...

Designing for Viral Distribution

At some point every product owner ponders how to make it go viral, as a thought experiment if nothing more. The opportunities to create...

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