Chief product officers from Box, Zoom, Slack and PagerDuty share their ‘best of breed’ best practices

There are some people who don’t really understand the term “best of breed,” but in the case of one customer, all it took was a botched video call for Jeetu Patel to educate them. The chief product officer at Box recalled the incident during a panel discussion with his peers ahead of BoxWorks, the company’s […]

Intercom CSO Des Traynor

Intercom CSO wants to get the message out that retention is the new conversion in SaaS

It was probably the most important slide in Intercom exec Des Traynor’s presentation, and also the most memorable — probably because it had all the most popular marketing tactics pointing to a giant Poop emoji. The chief strategy officer at customer messaging platform Intercom was trying to make a critical point to the many other […]

Slack's enterprise growth

Slack’s VP of engineering breaks down the message he’s using to convert e-mail holdouts

It’s already one of most talked-about startups innovating in workplace productivity and collaboration, but Slack’s Michael Lopp is working hard to respond to enterprise decision-makers who say they just can’t let go of traditional e-mail. Though it is based in San Francisco, the firm’s vice-president of engineering has been making a series of in-person appearances […]

Zoom.ai

Zoom.ai wants to start a conversation about chatbots and AI in the enterprise

If human language is the new user interface and messaging the predominant medium, businesses should start thinking about making better use of artificial intelligence and chatbot technologies, according to Zoom.ai. Speaking at the 2017 Data Marketing Toronto event earlier this week, Zoom.ai vice-president of business development Amanda Parker said the rise of Facebook Messenger, Kik […]

Effective B2B Marketing: Everything you’ve wanted to know about B2B traction

Traction: a repeatable, scalable way to get, keep and grow customers and revenue Most businesses don’t fail because they don’t build good products, they fail because they can’t generate traction. Let’s be honest, getting traction for your company isn’t easy. As a business, you need a strong team, customers, and a differentiated product or service […]

What you need to know about building (and maintaining) a B2B app

Many businesses face a specific set of challenges in creating stellar apps and maintaining them over the long term. As Hubspot writer Corey Eridon wrote, “Why allocate limited resources to a mediocre idea with results you can only guess at?” According to a report on business and productivity apps compiled last year, expected growth within the […]