Customer Conversations

Sean Boyce and Stuart Balcombe

Sean Boyce and Stuart Balcombe interview the world's leading marketing, growth and product experts to learn more about how they make products customers love.

  1. 09/22/2020

    Understanding the Demand Side with The Re-Wired Group’s Bob Moesta

    Bob is the President and CEO of the Rewired Group, a pioneer of Jobs to Be Done, the author of the Jobs to be Done Handbook and his latest work Demand Side Sales. On this week's episode of Customer Conversations, Stuart and Bob cover Defining and applying the demand side Where to start with identifying the “struggling moment” The limitations of correlation in assessing customer behavior An atomistic approach to the customers buying timeline Trading off money, time and knowledge What causes the transition from passive to active looking Resources: Demand Side Sales, by Bob Moesta - https://www.amazon.com/Demand-Side-Sales-101-Customers-Progress-ebook/dp/B08FRRF68Q The Jobs-To-Be-Done Handbook, by Bob Moesta - https://www.amazon.com/Jobs-be-Done-Handbook-techniques-application/dp/1499339232 Shape Up, by Ryan Singer - https://basecamp.com/shapeup Jobs-To-Be-Done Radio - http://jobstobedone.org/topics/radio/ The Disruptive Voice Podcast - https://www.hbs.edu/forum-for-growth-and-innovation/podcasts/disruptive-voice/Pages/default.aspx Connecting with Bob: Connect with Bob on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/bmoesta/videos Connect with Bob on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmoesta/

  2. 09/15/2020

    Building an Ecommerce Presence for a Major Brand with Maytex’s Michael Callahan

    Michael Callahan is Vice President of eCommerce and Transformation for Maytex and Zenith Home Corp. Michael started his career in large CPG companies and has worked on national brands like Mr. Coffee, CrockPot and T-fall. Over the past 15 years, Michael has been transforming organizations to think Consumer and Digital First. He believes that the key to running any successful eCommerce business is full organizational integration… The words he lives by are “Work Hard, Stay Humble”. On this weeks Customer Conversations, Sean and Michael cover  What it means to build a digital strategy  Managing necessary organizational change  Interchange from digital to brick and mortar  Ensuring complementary online and offline strategies What can be done to reduce "friction" for the consumer  Determining whether or not to offer DTC Resources:  Digital Commerce 360 - https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/product/b2b-ecommerce-market-report/?utm_source=GA&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=2020B2BECMarket&gclid=CjwKCAjw4rf6BRAvEiwAn2Q76jrjpcDb0pI8rREID_ok2doy1vfIW0gsHZ_2Z4FyeFFShhaoxCs3eBoCC-gQAvD_BwE Digital Shelf Institute - https://www.salsify.com/digitalshelfinstitute The Digital Transformation Playbook - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27797899-digital-transformation-playbook The Retail Ecommerce Playbook - https://www.forrester.com/playbook/The+Retail+eCommerce+Playbook+For+2020/-/E-PLA440 Connecting with Michael  Connect with Michael On LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-g-callahan-b3331516/ Connect with Michael Over Email at michaelc@maytex.com

  3. 09/01/2020

    Going Beyond Your Early Adopters with UpKeep’s Jeff Ignacio

    Jeff Ignacio is the Head of Revenue and Growth Operations at UpKeep, managing the Go To Market Systems and Enablement teams. Prior to working at UpKeep Jeff spanned a variety of roles at both large tech firms such as Accenture, Intel, Google, and high growth ventures such as Vizier (viz-ier) and PatientPop. In this episode of the Customer Conversations podcast, Sean and Jeff cover The difference between product fit vs. go to market fit Expanding from early adopters and engaging the early majority Monitoring a customers risk profile Defining and managing a post-sales cycle Resources: Product Lifecycle - https://www.amazon.com/Diffusion-Innovations-5th-Everett-Rogers/dp/0743222091 Crossing The Chasm - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61329.Crossing_the_Chasm Sales Enablement Podcast - https://www.ringdna.com/sales-enablement-podcast-with-andy-paul Connecting with Jeff: Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbethechange/

  4. 08/25/2020

    Shaping strategy with Basecamp’s Ryan Singer

    Ryan currently leads product at Basecamp, is the author of Shape Up and the host of the Synthetic a Priori podcast. Here are a few of the topics we’ll talk about on this episode of Customer Conversations: The role and goals of customer research in the shaping process The workflow breakdown of the ‘jobs to be done’ framework Using research in your pitch The main goal of prototyping your product Connect with Ryan Follow Ryan on Twitter

  5. 08/19/2020

    Customer support from cost center to profit driver with Gorgias’s Lucas Walker

    Lucas currently leads product marketing and strategic partnerships at Gorgias and has previously founded successful companies including Venngage and Treats Happen. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Customer Conversations: Actionable steps towards improving your customer support Generating profit from customer support Reducing friction to purchase Why you should always have an offer or promo for customers Connect with Lucas Gorgias.com Text him at 416.388.4470

  6. 08/12/2020

    Bootstrapped to booming with Tuple’s Ben Orenstein

    Ben is the CEO and co-founder of Tuple (the best pair programming app for remote teams). He is also the host of one of my favorite podcasts the Art of Product, a former Thoughtbotter and the creator of several educational products for Rails developers. Here are only a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Customer Conversations. An update on progress at Tuple Keeping your finger on the pulse of your customers needs Building a product for developers and the importance of understanding your audience Soliciting feedback from customers from different channels Connecting with Ben Tuple’s website Follow Ben on Twitter The Art of Product Podcast

  7. 08/03/2020

    Voice of the customer to copy that converts with Nikki Elbaz

    Nikki Elbaz is a persuasive copywriter and email specialist at CopyHackers who’s written revenue generating content for brands including Shopify Plus, Doodle and Resident Home.  She’s an expert in using research to understand why customers buy (and writing emails that make them do just that) and has shared her research knowledge for Product Led Institute, Bossitude Academy and CXL.  Here are just a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Customer Conversations. How to be a persuasive copywriter What it means to be data driven in copy How to get Voice of the Customer (VoC) data Getting emotional data from customers How to know if you VoC data is representative of your customer base Different strategies to leverage to get customers to speak with you Resources Paper form Google sheets Connecting with Nikki NikkiElbaz.com

  8. 07/28/2020

    Positioning for growth using customer insights with Customer Intelligence Institute’s Lorin McCann

    Lorin is the Founder of the Customer Intelligence Institute.  She has worked with dozens of high-growth companies including best-in-class startups, emerging market leaders, and unicorn companies to contribute to successful exits and record quarters.  Here are only a few of the topics we’ll discuss in this episode of Customer Conversations with Lorin. Early warning signs for companies that may have a positioning problem The first step towards repositioning around your customer Finding the customers, getting the conversation started and what to ask them Making sure you’re actually getting valuable data from your customer conversations Resources Customer Intelligence Institute Connecting with Lorin Connect with Lorin on LinkedIn

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Sean Boyce and Stuart Balcombe interview the world's leading marketing, growth and product experts to learn more about how they make products customers love.

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  • Creator
    Sean Boyce and Stuart Balcombe
  • Years Active
    2020
  • Episodes
    28
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    Clean
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    © Sean Boyce and Stuart Balcombe
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    Customer Conversations