

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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Oct 26, 2017 • 33min
Joanna Wiebe, co-founder at Copy Hackers
As the co-founder of Copy Hackers, Joanna Wiebe is on a mission to help startups use writing as a tool to grow their business. In this chat with Intercom's Geoffrey Keating she explains the biggest mistakes she sees startups making with their email strategies, how to improve subject lines, what bottled water can teach us about tag lines, 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.

Oct 19, 2017 • 30min
Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana
Before Asana was a publicly available product, Jackie Bavaro was guiding the company’s product decisions behind the scenes as its first product manager. In this chat with Intercom Director of Product Management Brian Donohue, she shares the way her product team works, how they tackle scoping and prioritization, how to balance intuition with data, 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.

Oct 12, 2017 • 14min
Designing human experiences - an audio essay from James Buckhouse
James Buckhouse, Founder of the Sequoia Creative Lab, shares this short story to inspire and remind us all that we’re never just designing pixels or features or new user flows. We’re designing complements to the human condition, and in the process, there’s a wealth of value to be found in the events happening around us on any given day.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Oct 5, 2017 • 29min
Ryan Hoover, Founder at Product Hunt
In 2013 Ryan Hoover founded Product Hunt, a community of product enthusiasts who share and discover new products every day. In this interview with Intercom's Adam Risman, Ryan talks about his journey from product management to founder, scaling a community of enthusiasts, and tips for founders to trying to stand out from the crowd. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sep 28, 2017 • 29min
Krithika Muthukumar, Product Marketing at Stripe
As Stripe's first marketing hire four years ago, Krithika Muthukumar spanned anything from positioning and branding to developer campaigns, product launches to writing copy. In this interview with Intercom's Adam Risman, Krithika shares how the marketing team has evolved over the years, the importance of launching with intention, 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.

Sep 21, 2017 • 28min
John Barrows, sales trainer for fast-growing software companies
John Barrows is a sales trainer and consultant whose client list includes Dropbox, LinkedIn, Twilio, Salesforce, Bitly, New Relic and yes, even Intercom. In this chat with Intercom VP of Sales LB Harvey, John explains when a startup is ready for a dedicated sales team, how to better align sales and marketing, the traits that make for a promising sales hire, 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.

Sep 7, 2017 • 28min
Emmet Connolly, Director of Product Design at Intercom
Following an eight-year run at Google, where he designed Google Flights and co-founded Android Wear, Emmet Connolly joined Intercom as Director of Product Design in October 2014. In this chat with Intercom's John Collins, Emmet shares how he's evolved the way his team works as its grown, the importance of our design system in that process, how that system serves the product team as a whole, 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.

Aug 31, 2017 • 33min
Dom Price, Head of R&D and Work Futurist at Atlassian
As Head of R&D and Work Futurist at Atlassian, Dom Price travels the world studying how Atlassian teams work, and visiting with outside teams across industries to share insights, with the aim of keeping teams autonomous, innovative and nimble. In this episode he explains the importance of cognitive diversity in high performing teams, maintaining a culture of innovation at scale, how to check the health of our teams, 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.

Aug 24, 2017 • 32min
Casey Winters, Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners
Before advising startups at Greylock Partners, Casey Winters played a prominent role in shaping the successful growth strategies at Pinterest and Grubhub. In a chat with Intercom's Adam Risman, he explains when a startup is ready for a dedicated growth team, the problems they should tackle first, user onboarding best practices, 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.

Aug 17, 2017 • 29min
Michael Margolis, UX Research Partner at GV
As perhaps the only UX researcher on staff at a VC fund, Michael Margolis is parachuting into startups year-round to help them better understand their users. In this chat with Intercom Director of Research Sian Townsend, Michael walks us through his "start at the end" research framework, the ways in which he quickly develops rapport with new product teams, how to conduct research faster, 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.