Intercom on Marketing

Too often we blow the marketing budget on acquiring new customers – only to ignore them as soon as they sign up. In reality, the best marketing strategies drive not just sales, but also long-...

Every business should have an active interest in why people buy their products and the situations people find themselves in before they become customers. Do that, and you'll understand why yo...

It’s easy to have a highly data-driven view of everything you do and overlook hard to measure things like brand. This leads to a tunnel-vision focus on optimizing funnels and growth hacking b...

When you ask people what product marketing is, the first thing that comes to mind is usually product launches. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of product marketing. Launche...

Product launches are exciting – culminating with the rush of joy and fear as you finally share your creation with the world. More importantly, launches are one of your best opportunities to d...

Thanks to SaaS, there are more features to talk about on a constant cadence. The challenge then becomes, which things do you shout about? With more opportunities, it’s tempting to shout about...

A lot of businesses fail because they’re simply not good at acquiring and retaining customers. That's where demand generation comes into play. Here's our guide to getting started.See Privacy ...

When you’re just starting up, other than knocking on someone’s front door, events are the most targeted, proactive and personal way you can meet the people you need to meet. Do them well, and...

The usual content marketing approach is to make people want to read the things you’ve already written. We knew writing things that potential customers already wanted to read would be easier, ...

There’s a misconception that word of mouth is a mystical force that’s out of your control. Sure, you can’t control what words come out of whose mouths, but you can encourage people to say the...

Despite the mountain of contradicting evidence, the mantra of “if you build it, they will come” is still extremely prevalent among product-first companies. Don’t delay aligning your product a...

No matter how good your product is, if you can’t tell a cohesive, compelling story about it, you’re going to have a very hard time getting people’s attention when you actually do take it to m...

The most important tasks for any early-stage startup are to write code and talk to users. The latter represents your very first marketing opportunity, whether that's asking prospects to try y...

There’s a common misconception about marketing at a startup. People think marketing means doing things like signing up on Product Hunt, writing a few blog posts about what’s wrong with your i...