
RICE: Simple prioritization for product managers
Prioritization is a perennial challenge when building a product roadmap. How do you decide what to work on first? If you’ve put the...

The power of payback periods in online advertising
There’s a common misconception among SaaS marketers and analysts about measuring the success of online advertising campaigns – and it...

Picking a pricing strategy for your product
Choosing the correct pricing for your product is a daunting task – particularly if you’ve never priced anything before. But there are...

Finding the metrics that matter for your product
Startup literature is full of ardent advice on how to measure activation, engagement and how users are interacting with your product....

Customer support is an investment, not a cost
There’s no escaping the fact that supporting your customers costs money, but how much money can you afford to spend while optimizing for...

Your product is already obsolete
The relentless march of technological improvement means that by their very nature technology businesses fail. That’s why as founders,...

When the answer isn’t in the data
Easy availability of data has fundamentally changed the game when it comes to validating business activities. But if we’re all data and...

Building a feature no one asked for
We recently created a feature in Intercom that none of our customers were asking for – video replies. I explained why at a recent...

Our new book: Intercom on Product Management
We’ve published a lot of articles on product management over the past two years. Rather than leave them in our archives, we’ve updated...

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...

Rarely say yes to feature requests
Here’s a simple set of Yes/No questions that you can quickly answer before you add another item to your product roadmap. Saying yes to a...

Client, Agency, And Vendor Wishlists For Santa
And, is there really anything more fun than sitting on our high horses — granted to us by the writing gods — and picking on other people?...

Client, Agency, And Vendor Wishlists For Santa
And, is there really anything more fun than sitting on our high horses — granted to us by the writing gods — and picking on other people?...

Iterative Improvement Is No Substitute For Creativity
With so many tools to measure, experiment, and quickly iterate through the designs of cloud software products, it’s tempting to fly by...

Why Microsoft needs a new focus
For Microsoft to survive the gravitational pull of enterprise irrelevance, a lot of things need to change. Starting with focus. At a...

Make Every Word Matter
The same companies who produce lengthy, hard-to-read press releases create bloated, hard-to-understand products. It’s no coincidence;...

Customer Support: Always Easy, Never Necessary
Judge a company by how they treat customers, not prospects, because you’ll be a customer for a lot longer than you’ll be a lead in a...

An Interview with Andy Budd
We talked to Andy Budd about the role of design in startups, the difference between designers and stylists, and the danger of chasing...

Building a Brand On Customer Service
Zappos are held up on a pedestal for a very good reason. There are very few companies who have built a brand upon amazing customer...
























