

The Ticket: Discover the Future of Customer Service, Support, and Experience, with Intercom
Intercom
On The Ticket, you'll hear Intercom's Customer Support team in conversation with the customer service leaders, renowned customer experience thinkers, and influential authors who are shaping the field of customer support.Follow The Ticket to get the weekly episodes and sign up for our twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of customer service. https://www.intercom.com/blog/newsletter🏠 www.intercom.com
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May 24, 2018 • 26min
Matt Sornson, Head of Growth Marketing at Clearbit
Matt Sornson, Head of Growth Marketing at Clearbit, discusses data-driven growth strategies, including the mistakes marketers often make with data. He also explains Clearbit's long-form content marketing efforts, releasing books one chapter at a time to build momentum and audience. The speakers touch on integrating sales and customer success teams, automating outbound sales efforts, and the importance of PR as a growth tactic.

May 17, 2018 • 35min
Bob Moesta on unpacking customer motivations
Bob Moesta, President and CEO of The Re-Wired Group, is a pioneer of the Jobs-to-be-Done framework, having shaped over 3,500 products. He discusses uncovering customer motivations and the importance of effective interviews to reveal true needs. The conversation emphasizes redefining sales as a science, addressing the disconnect between customer needs and company offerings, and advancing marketing strategies based on deep customer insights. Moesta highlights how aligning company messaging with real consumer problems can greatly enhance customer experiences.

May 10, 2018 • 35min
Andrew Chen, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
What do Dropbox, Uber, AngelList, Front, Gusto and Boba Guys have in common? All have benefited from the sage advice of growth expert Andrew Chen. Now a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Andrew shares his latest thinking on viral growth, user acquisition, "The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs" and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 3, 2018 • 32min
Rohini Pandhi, Product Lead at Square
Rohini Pandhi has been a product manager at early-stage startups all the way up to publicly traded companies. Now a Product Lead at Square, Rohini sits down with Intercom Senior Product Manager Michelle Fitzpatrick to share her tips for staying close to customers, parsing feedback and prioritization at scale.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 26, 2018 • 30min
Nir Eyal on designing healthy habits
Nir Eyal's best-selling book "Hooked" explores how to design habit-forming products. In conversation with Intercom's Adam Risman, he explains how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, and what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves as they make frequency improvements within their product.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 19, 2018 • 31min
How to run less software, featuring Intercom's Rich Archbold
In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software push against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom, explains all.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 12, 2018 • 24min
Zack Onisko, CEO at Dribbble
As the CEO of Dribbble, a global community and invite-only platform for designers to share and find work, Zack Onisko faces a unique challenge: growing a gated product. In this conversation with Intercom Director of Brand Design Stewart Scott-Curran, Zack explains the similarities between how designers and growth marketers solve problems, why Dribbble has remained invite-only, how grassroots events have grown the Dribbble brand, and much more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 5, 2018 • 31min
Gina Gotthilf, former VP of Marketing and Growth at Duolingo
As VP of Marketing and Growth at Duolingo, Gina Gotthilf played a key role in getting the app to more than 200 million users. And these aren’t just signups who’ve gone dark; Duolingo users complete 7 billion lessons each month. In a chat with Intercom's Adam Risman, Gina shares how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 29, 2018 • 30min
Eric Siu, CEO at Single Grain
Eric Siu has helped some of the biggest brands in tech, including Amazon, Lyft, Intuit and Salesforce, grow their revenue. Also the host of two podcasts – Marketing School and Growth Everywhere – using content to nurture and ultimately convert leads is Eric’s sweet spot. In this chat with Intercom's Adam Risman, Eric explains why content is a channel worthy of early investment, the tactics he sees as underutilized, when to ask your audience for something in return, and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 22, 2018 • 32min
Brian Rothenberg, VP and GM at Eventbrite
Brian Rothenberg, VP and GM at Eventbrite, shares his journey from co-founding SkillSlate to leading growth at the largest self-service event ticketing platform. He discusses the vital link between a company’s mission and its growth. Brian outlines strategies for scaling growth teams and navigating the complexities of B2C versus B2B focuses. He emphasizes the role of empathy and strategic collaboration in driving success and explores the challenges of managing horizontal marketplaces while enhancing user experience through local engagement.