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If you are looking for timber tiles, TFO have all the biggest brands at factory outlet prices.
1. Resistance to water and scratching
Unlike natural timber that is sensitive to water and easy to scratch, timber look tiles that are made of porcelain bodies are extremely hard wearing. A glazed surface makes them resistant to water absorption which prevents any damaging elements from staining the surface. A hard porcelain body makes them extremely hard to scratch. They can even be used outdoors or in a high traffic commercial environment.
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Innovative technology has allowed manufacturers to produce a wide range of stunning colours and designs using ink-jet digital printing. In comparison to traditional glazing, this new method makes it possible to reproduce the warm character of natural timber in fine detail. TFO has a wide range of timber look tiles, ranging from light to dark and modern to rustic, while still retaining the delicate natural character of timber.
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We offer two pay as you go taster session with free insurance, then fees are payable by standing order. The Standing Order is due on the 1st of each calendar month and we ask you pay the balance due until the Standing Order is set up by cheque. These payments will continue throughout the year including school holidays as this spreads your costs more efficiently through the year. We train 36 weeks with payment spread over 52 weeks.
A £30.00 Club membership fee is payable annually as a separate payment in addition to the rates below. This incorporates your Club Membership and Sportscover insurance.
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As you may be aware, we are starting to take a small number of gymnasts to competitions, and at the moment we can only take four since we do not have enough judges to take any more. For every three gymnasts we must supply a judge/official. You do not need to be a coach to be able to judge, just be willing to represent the club. If selected to judge, you must be able to do so for the duration of the competition. Without judges, we can not compete. If this is something you would like to know more about then please contact the club.
Welfare officers – The safety and welfare of our gymnasts is paramount, we are fortunate to have welfare officers within our club, however we are GYM mark registered therefore we welcome additional support.
If you are interested, we will place you on two BG child protection courses, where you will be educated on BG policies and procedures with regard to child protection which the club follow and how to deal with and issues should it occur with in the club.
Fundraisers – Do you have a creative mind? Good at organising events? The club is always looking for ways to fund raise. If you have any ideas, no matter how small, then please let the fundraiser know… all pennies add up and with them we can fund courses or buy new equipment. (Please note we are currently looking for some one to fill this role if interested please contact the club).


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People in the past were as interested in how the world worked as we are. Authors and illustrated produced works to cater to that interest—including an incredibly bizarre "flap book" that shows what human insides look like. Now you can look at the whole thing online.
In 1613 Johann Remmelin published a book, Catoptrum Microcosmicum, which became a best-seller for about a hundred and fifty years. Today, Columbia University published it online. The work, originally in Latin, was translated into several languages. It explained the human body, using movable flaps to take people down through successive layers. The first layer was the person delicately draped in a way that preserved their modesty. The layer of drapery came off first.
After that, Remmelin went under the skin.
This is a 1661 edition, which needed a little work before it could be scanned. The archivists at Columbia had to undo some damage to the book, as several pages had a dark stain that made it difficult to read, and also made the flaps brittle.
They lightened the stain by moistening the pages and applying a suction device to lift away some of the stain particles. Other damage they left alone. Clearly, they decided not to do anything about the female figure's resplendent moustache.
The book features a female figure and a male figure, both shown from the front and the back. Each figure is drawn with one foot standing on a skull. As you can see in the picture above, the book isn't short on Bible allusions. The skull has a snake going through it and an apple branch next to it.
Get a little closer, though, and the dissected skull just looks like Krang. from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
In addition to the regular male and female figures, the book takes us inside a pregnant female torso. As you can see in the gif above, it's the creepiest experience imaginable—made worse by the fact that for an unexplained reason, we get a shot of what can only be termed a crotch-demon before we delve deeper into the anatomy.
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How to Draw a Friendly Puppet on Your Hand
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Puppets. They don't have to be just for show. They can be friends too. This kind of hand friend really comes to life when you fold your hand correctly. These puppet friends can be the perfect companion, and now you can make your own!
Part 1
Making the Friend
1Grab a washable marker or tattoo pen. If you have neither, you could use a Sharpie or permanent marker or the like, but it is not advised.
2Think about how you'd like your friend to look. Will it be a male or a female? What color will its eyes and mouth be? Which hand will you use?
3Fold your selected hand into the correct position. Make a fist, then slide your thumb below the folded fingers.
4Draw the face onto your hand, keeping it in the fist-like form. Usually the eyes go on the pointer and pinky fingers, and the mouth is between the thumb and folded fingers.
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What to Do With Your Friend
1Name your friend. It can be named anything you'd like.
2Make your friend speak. Simply stretch your fingers and thumb apart (keeping the fingers folded, of course) and be its voice. Its vocabulary can be as limited as just its name or it can have a vocabulary equal to yours.
3Introduce your hand friend to your human friends. They might think it's a little silly at first, but with some time, they'll probably accept your hand friend.
4Make a chair for your friend. It can be as simple as a paper chair.
5Make other furniture for your friend. Make sure it's big enough!
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- When you unfold your hand, it will just look like two dots or eyes and a bunch of scribbles. It will not resemble your friend.
- When your friend begins to wash away, draw another! It could be the same as your old one or a whole new design.
- Make sure your parent(s) or guardian(s) are okay with you drawing on your hand.
- If you bring your friend to school, make sure it isn't against school rules. Otherwise, wash it off before the next school day.
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Police find a 22-year-old man shot to death in a deserted parking lot. Investigators uncover a possible motive for the murder. It appeared the victim, his middle-aged co-worker and a teenaged girl were involved in an internet love triangle.
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Sponsored by the Morgan County Audubon Society, a Chapter of the Illinois Audubon Society, and the Jacksonville Public Library (201 W. College Ave.)
Students of all ages are invited to join the Young Explorers Club (YEC) and participate in the Junior Bird Feeder Challenge!! There is no pre-registration and all YEC activities are totally free!! YEC meets from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. one Saturday per month (December – March / see schedule below) in the activity room at the Jacksonville Public Library. Students are invited to attend all or some of the YEC meetings.
December 22, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. We will set up the Junior Bird Feeder Challenge and provide supplies for each participant to make a bird feeder to take home. Students will learn the basics of bird identification, and learn how to record the birds coming to the feeders.
January 19, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. Participants will discuss their bird feeder challenge results so far and Ed Anderson will give a program on Owls! There will be arts and crafts for a fun project.
February 16, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. Participants will update the group on their bird feeder challenge results and Rita Bahan will give a program on our local mammals! There will be arts and crafts too!!
March 30, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. During this meeting, participants will provide their final bird feeder challenge results and prizes will be awarded. In addition, Ed Anderson and Allen Yow will give a program on birds' nests and each participant will be able to build and take home a birdhouse!!
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The Tutorial and the Science
Making your own laundry detergent will save you both money and toxins. Here's how to make it, why my recipes are a little different, and why they work.
First, why do I make my own laundry powder? Well, saving money is definitely part of it. But knowing that 75% of the chemicals in everyday products in Australia have never been tested for human or environmental safety is also a real motivation for me to keep making my own consumables, from ingredients I can identify. (source)
Both my cousin and my sister were diagnosed with cancer in the past year. I haven't talked about it on the blog, because those aren't my stories to tell. But I can tell you that it has really boosted my motivation to get the toxins out of my – and my children's – daily environment.
Note: If you just want an easy print out of the recipes, without all the explanation just go get my free printables. They include both these recipes.
Now, here's how to make your laundry detergent:
How to Make Washing Powder
- 1-2 parts oxy-bleach or borax
- 2 parts washing soda (use the powder, not the crystals)
- 4 parts grated soap or soap flakes
- For hard water add 1 part citric acid and 4 parts extra washing soda
Mix together thoroughly and use about 1-2 tablespoons per wash (add an extra tablespoon for very hard water). (Note: An Aussie tbsp=4 teaspoons)
You may need to dissolve it first, especially if you are washing in cold water.
Leave out the borax if you are using the grey water on your garden, or for a more eco-friendly mix. I now prefer to use ecostore's Laundry Soaker & Stain Remover (which used to be called Pure Oxygen Whitener).
For extra heavy duty powder use ratio 1:1:1:1 of the soap, washing soda, borax and an oxygen cleaner. Use 2 tbsp per wash.
Add ¼-½ cup vinegar to the rinse for sensitive skin, or if you notice any soap residue. This also works as a fabric softener.
Hard water variation – why it works: The citric acid reacts with the alkaline washing powder to form a salt that keeps the hard water minerals suspended in the water, rather than allowing them to deposit on your clothes. You can also just add a cup of vinegar to the wash, and ½ cup to the rinse, but this will likely be more expensive if you do it every time.
Questions about borax
Should your non-toxic powder include borax?
From a safety point of view, I am not too concerned with using borax in this way. When mixed with water some of it reacts to form H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide, which is also the main ingredient in oxygen cleaners, once they are dissolved in water), which helps to clean your clothes, but also breaks down very quickly, to leave you with plain water.
And, by adding ¼-½ cup vinegar to the rinse, any small amount that remains in the clothes will react to form salt and water.
However, borax is not so great for your garden, as too much boron is toxic to plants and insects, and there are questions about the environmental effects of mining it too. Also, like all chemicals (whether or not they are considered 'safe' when used as intended) keep out of the reach of children. Borax is toxic if ingested. Also, avoid breathing it in.
How to Make Laundry Liquid
- 5 litres water
- ½ bar grated soap, or ½ cup soap flakes (about 60g)
- ¼-½ cup washing soda
- ¼ cup borax (optional, and leave out for grey water use, but it may improve the overall stability)
- Essential oils (eg Eucalyptus and Lemon) optional
- 3 empty 2 litre bottles or containers with tight fitting lids
Boil the soap with 1 litre of water until fully dissolved (use a wooden spoon or potato masher to speed this up).
Fully dissolve washing soda & borax in 1 litre hot tap water, in a large bucket.
Pour soap solution into soda solution and stir.
Slowly add cold water to make up five litres. Mix thoroughly. Add essential oils at this point if desired, and mix well.
Decant into containers straight away, leaving a good head room for shaking: it may solidify overnight. Make sure your bottles are air tight, as this will break down with exposure to air. Some separation of solid and liquid can occir
Shake well to re-liquefy. Use ½-1 cup per wash, or more for very dirty loads.
For hard water, add 1 tsp citric acid and 1 tbsp (4 tsp) washing soda per load.
Use ¼ cup white vinegar in the rinse cycle for a slight lightening effect and fabric softening, and to remove any soap residue.
Why only 5 litres
Most recipes I've found online make ten litres of laundry liquid at one time. However, the efficacy of both the borax and the washing soda are reduced fairly quickly once dissolved in water. I've found 5 litres lasts well enough for the washing needs of my family of five. Any more than that and it is less effective by the last bottles.
Note though that it won't be completely useless – the soap is still good. It's just the borax and washing soda that have broken down. But, soap works best in an alkaline solution, so add ½ -1 tbsp washing soda or borax to each load, if your liquid has lost it's power.
Why do these recipes always give a range for how much soap to use?
The reason I always say things like "use 1-2 tbsp per load" is that every load is different.
Firstly, if you have harder water, you will need more than if you have softer water. But clearly there's a spectrum from very soft to very hard. You will know – or come to know, through trial and error – what works best for your water.
Secondly, some loads are dirtier than others. Soap works by binding to the non-water soluble dirt molecules in your clothes (that is, those that the water can't wash out on its own). So if you have a very dirty load, you are going to need more soap than if you have a very lightly soiled load.
A note about Australian measurements:
In Australia, 1 tbsp = 4 tsp/20ml. In the US & UK 1 tbps = 3 tsp. I always use the Aussie measurements.
Now over to you:
Have you made your own laundry powder or other non-toxic cleaners? Do you have a favourite recipe to share, or a question for me about how something works? Leave a comment!
If you're not sure yet whether you should go to the trouble of making your own laundry soap, you might like to read this post: Why I don't use DIY Laundry Powder Anymore – But You Might Want to.
- Robin Stewart's Chemical Free Home
- Barbara Lord's Green Cleaner (Kindle edition)
- How Soap Cleans
- Baby center discussion thread on laundry myths & science
- 3 Things Before You Mix Baking Soda and Vinegar
- Getting to the Bottom of Borax: Is it Safe or Not?
- Environmental Exposure and Human Health Policy, from the Public Health Association of Australia
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Waste Management COR Achievement
Waste Management, British Columbia
In 2010, a group of Waste Management senior leaders, operations, and district and safety managers discussed the Certificate of Recognition (COR) program. The COR program is a nationally recognized audit, certification and incentive program, rewarding employers that go beyond the legal requirements of the Workers Compensation Act and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Regulation. Waste Management had a strong safety program but we believed our staff would benefit from program improvements. By taking the COR "best practice" approach to implementing our injury prevention and injury management programs, we would take our safety program to the next level.
The Waste Management British Columbia operations hauling site opened in 1972. Waste Management offers comprehensive recycling and solid waste services to meet the unique needs of our customers and the communities we serve. We have over 400 employees and serve 13,310 residential and 15,454 commercial customers.
Employee safety is our highest priority. Safety is essential at Waste Management, for our employees, customers and the success of our business. Therefore, in 2010, we adopted Mission to Zero?.
The aim of this program is to reduce the number of on-the-job accidents and injuries to zero through an extensive training initiative.
Although, we have committed company initiatives we also wanted to have a program that is specific to WorkSafe BC regulations. We also believed our safety committee could grow and learn from the additional offerings put forth in the COR program.
Results and Recommendations (see attached for detail)
In late 2012, Waste Management of British Columbia (BC) presented a proposal to seek COR certification to the WM PNW senior leadership team. In early 2013, the BC team was given the green light and started searching for approved auditors.
The auditor reviewed approximately 50% of our BC operations in late February, 2013. With Scott Sadler, BC area safety manager as our lead, he completed the COR Occupational Health & Safety Course and Injury Management Course. Taking the course gave Scott an opportunity to meet colleagues from other trucking companies that were also seeking the COR certifications. That networking opportunity proved invaluable. Scott and his peers were able to discuss safety programs that yielded results and some that fell short.
By late March 2013, Waste Management received our COR Certification Score and achieved an exceptional rating on our Occupational Health & Safety and Injury Management/Return to Work audits. WM had a very detailed road map and we were required to submit a corrective action plan for the improvement items noted on the audit. Over the course of the next year, we worked hard to address the issues listed in the action plan. In March 2014, we completed the internal auditor course and later that summer, completed our first internal audit. It was amazing to see the new programs in place and to see the changes we had made from our first external audit in 2013.
On April 3, 2014, it was official; Waste Management received our Health & Safety Leadership Award. Waste Management was the first waste company in British Columbia to be COR Certified. Then on April 11 2014 Waste Management accepted the COR Achievement Award at the Safety Driven Annual General Meeting.
2013 SafetyDriven COR Achievement of Excellence Awards
From left to right: Randy Pollard (WM Vancouver RM), Scott Sadler (WM BC Safety Manager), Hardeep Sarai (SafetyDriven COR Program Manager) & David Millman (WM BC DO).
Waste Management British Columbia would like to thank all their employees for working so hard to achieve this distinguished certification. For an organization to achieve a Certificate of Recognition, a great deal of commitment from employees is required to ensure that a robust health and safety management system is effectively managed and maintained. Having this in place will ensure a positive influence on a company's safety culture which in turn will drive down injury rates and claims costs. Moreover, employee morale and relationships between management and workers are strengthened. This, in turn, reduces absenteeism and other associated business costs.


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One of the most interesting aspects of using new-age technologies for research is how they can redefine the very objectives of research studies! New horizons are being touched every day as researchers, scientists and technologists unravel new ways to capture data, newer kinds of data that can be captured and fascinating insights drawn from them!
Here are 5 ways in which you can think of expanding the scope of your study or elevating your study goals, leveraging the power of mobile frameworks such as Apple ResearchKit and Android Research Stack, and the innumerable components creating the modern Internet of Things (IoT) smart world we are moving towards.
• Tracking medication/treatment effectiveness in real time
This is a real boon of a possibility thanks to the fact that today research can be conducted using mobile apps. Smartphones these days are equipped with the ability to capture health data via frameworks such as Apple HealthKit or by interfacing with wearable devices that capture activity, heart rate, sleep information and more. By enrolling patients for a study via a mobile app, and asking them quick surveys about their health from time to time, having them perform quick 'active tasks' in the study and also capturing health data from their device, it is possible to track effectiveness of treatments and medications on a near real time basis.
• Drawing co-relations between lifestyle habits and health indicators
This is another super-valuable addition to the world of mobile-based research. There are several ways you can track lifestyle habits of your study participants (with their due consent of course) and this includes activity levels and fitness information, time spent on sleep, food consumption and much more.
• Remote monitoring of health conditions for people who are on the move
This had always been a challenge until mobile app-based research study became a reality. Caretakers and researchers now need to worry less about the regularity or physical on-location presence of participants in a study because a lot of the study adherence can now be met with the surveys and active tasks that are part of the study app itself.
• Understanding the effect of pollution on health conditions
There are sensors available that can track the level of harmful chemicals and pollutants in the air. People these days report a lot of health conditions that doctors are often unable to explain with conventional diagnosis methods or with existing medical knowledge. However, there is a sense of agreement that the rising level of pollution in the air around is causing various kind of allergies and health issues in people. To be able to put a finger to the cause of these would pave the way to treating these conditions and so it would help to install sensors around areas where the study population frequent, and capture air pollution data from them and at the same time have the study population take surveys to answer questions that will help co-relate their health experiences with their environment.
• Detecting behavioral symptoms using video and audio capture
Without actually meeting the study subject every single day, it is now possible to capture video and voice samples using the provisions of mobile devices and frameworks. This is invaluable in terms of what it means for more data and more convenience for researchers. It helps them infer how variations in face expressions, voice tone and actions or content captured from these media samples, can reveal new insights into indicators and influencing factors for various aspects of mental health.
There are definitely several more possibilities and this was just a sampling! In the days to come, we are going to see amazing findings coming out of various research studies thanks to what technology is making possible!


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This blog was contributed by David Steele, Policy Manager Financial Services, at Age UK
What happens when all the banks in a town or suburb decide to close their branches? Where do people go to talk about tricky transactions or more complex services? Where do local businesses bank their cash and cheques? The UK bank branch network has shrunk by half over the last 25 years with another 2000 closures expected in the next 3-4 years, meaning that the number of stranded customers is likely to continue increasing. Continue reading "Branch closures present banks with age-friendly design challenge"


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Management lessons from AAP's showing
In each and every event and situation there is a lesson to be learnt. We only miss that very often. If we are willing and be prepared to learn then we can always connect the events or the outcomes with the Management Principles. But, even the so called Geniuses miss this. Take for example the Film 'Ravanan' by Manirathnam. Why it failed? Whereas he was very successful in 'Thalapathi'. Why? Thalapathi is the story of Karnan and Dhuriyothanan. He just narrated the story as in the Epics. It received the acceptance of the Society. He just utilized the Strength of that Epic and the strength of that Character "KARNAN".
Ravanan is the story of Ramayana. This nation believed in that epic for centuries together and the respect they have for Sita and Rama is some thing great. In such a circumstances if he is going to portrait Sita loves Ravana - do you think that the people will agree that? There may be difference of opinion about the 'Agnipravesh'. I do agree that Rama demanding an 'Agnipravesh' by Sita is unacceptable in today's parlance. But, still lakhs and lakhs of people take Ramayana and its versus as watchword. So, trying to change the belief of the people proved him costlier.
Coming to the strength of Aishwarya - her beauty, did he materialize that? He has missed the chance even in the film 'Iruvar'. But whereas the film 'Jeans' en-cashed it. Maniratnam is not an ordinary Director. He is a Management Graduate and he knows about 'SWOT' analysis. In spite of that he has not paid much attention to that aspect.
To conclude, Management Lessons are there every where. Many a times we miss it first and then realize that mistake by that time it is too late and too costlier. -KRG


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Intercom is a quietly MASSIVE hit:
I asked Chris Von Wilpert, the brains behind Rocketship Agency, to be a marketing detective and figure out WTF marketing ideas they use to grow so quickly.
Today, Chris is going to show exactly how Intercom has grown from $0 to $50 million — and how you can use the same principles in your own business.
Take it away, Chris…
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Intercom has grown from $1 million to $50 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) faster than other "big-name" SaaS startups including
Here's an even crazier fact: The only SaaS in history to grow faster is Slack.
Best of all, Intercom has grown — and continues to grow — WITHOUT spending insane amounts of money on advertising or marketing.
This means you can do it for your business, too. Let's get it on!
Intercom is a tool founded in California by Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee, and David Barrett in 2011. The tool's goal is to help companies personalize, simplify, and organize their communication.
Here's how Intercom gets most of their web traffic.
With an amazing blog, a select group of targeted paid keywords, and an advanced referral traffic strategy, it makes sense they have a very high amount of direct traffic.
Beyond direct traffic, Intercom gets the most traffic from search and referral.
To increase your own direct, search, and referral traffic, here are eight growth marketing ideas you can apply to your business.
Here's a look at Intercom's top referring sites.
The number one referrer is from the Intercom app itself – most likely coming from the free trial or paying customers logged in to the app.
The other referrers are where it gets more interesting because of Intercom's incredible "powered by" tactic. Let's look at the 2nd referrer as an example.
First, we head to the Atlantic Global Asset Management page. Notice the personalized live chat box in the bottom right corner.
If I click the chat box, I'll find an unobtrusive little message stating "We run on Intercom."
If I'm curious and want to learn more, I can click and I'll be taken to a dedicated landing page Intercom has set up for people who come from the Atlantic Global Asset Management website.
This is what the landing page looks like (pay close attention to the headline):
The team at Intercom uses dynamic keyword insertion in the headline to personalize the landing page experience for visitors based on the referring company.
They do this using a custom keyword variable in the URL. Here's the exact URL for Atlantic Global Asset Management:
You'll notice Intercom is using a "company" parameter in their referral URL. Intercom combines the "powered by" tactic with dynamic keyword insertion to increase conversions from their referral traffic.
The takeaway: Identify marketing channels that are already working for you right now and look for ways to growth hack them to a whole new level.
Drift (one of Intercom's competitors), is on Intercom's list of top 5 paid keywords.
Intercom has done enough research to know the type of people searching for Drift have certain needs. And Intercom can "intercept" those searchers and appeal directly to those needs to turn these people into customers.
Here's the paid ad Intercom uses to direct Drift branded traffic back to their website:
Specifically, Intercom sends people to their live chat landing page for Drift branded keyword traffic.
When you look at Drift's top paid keywords, you can see that three of them are Intercom-based:
Drift isn't just standing by, though.
They're following a similar strategy to try and get people to switch from Intercom to Drift — but they're taking it to a whole new level. Check out Drift's "Intercom Alternative" landing page.
The Drift team is using this personalized landing page to try and convert Intercom customers into Drift customers.
Below is an example of one of the questions. Take note of how Drift uses question-based copy to tie into each of their unique selling points to try and convince people to switch from Intercom to Drift.
They even use their chat widget to link to a case study on their blog about why 15Five switched from Intercom to Drift (the first time you visit the page). Here's what it looks like.
If you're trying to compete against a major competitor, this is your David vs. Goliath opportunity to take them down using highly relevant, targeted marketing.
Bidding on competitors' keywords isn't cheap, especially when your competitors are bidding on their own branded keywords (like Intercom).
The takeaway here: Be aware of big competitors that may have a more enticing offer than your own and work to counter it (Intercom use the same strategy for Zendesk branded keywords, sending Zendesk branded keyword traffic to a dedicated Zendesk Alternative landing page).
Intercom has built their keywords and SEO presence by providing answers to core problems their target customers face every day. This has allowed them to achieve 2 specific goals:
409 of Intercom's 29,230 keywords on Google rank as first page results.
While the raw number of total organic keywords (409) may be on the low side, every keyword that ranks on the first page has one common theme.
Each piece of content solves one core problem.
Here's a summary of some of their top organic keywords, ranked by keywords on the first page of Google with the highest average global monthly search volume:
Intercom didn't get these rankings by keyword-stuffing articles.
They got them by writing articles solving a real problem their target customer faces.
It's what SEO experts call "Semantic SEO."
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In other words, an article answering a question or search phrase, so even when the article doesn't contain an exact match of the keyword, Google's search algorithm is smart enough to interpret a searcher's intent and show it to the user.
The takeaway here: With artificial intelligence in search evolving beyond "keywords", using the "The Core Problem Framework" is a great long-term white hat SEO strategy that is proven to work.
You may think that all of Intercom's organic traffic just comes from their high ranking Google keywords in the last section, but that is not the case. Those "Semantic SEO" optimized articles are just one part of Intercom's overall brand-building content strategy.
Intercom's content strategy also includes original, thought-provoking branded content pieces that get thousands of shares (but you won't find ranking anywhere on the 1st page of Google).
These original, branded content pieces are at the core of Intercom's marketing and customer acquisition strategy.
Intercom's content team has been blogging for close to 6 years to build their branded content, starting when Des Traynor posted their first article "Recent new features in Intercom" on October 6, 2011 (98 days after Intercom launched).
The branded content on their blog has helped the product rapidly grow so, it's worth taking a look at some of their most shared posts.
Let's breakdown how each of these individual posts have become so popular...
This is Intercom's most popular article that draws inspiration from a 2014 article with 4,700 shares on qz.com titled "Most smartphone users download zero apps per month".
After drawing inspiration from that article and adding to the discussion, Intercom's own article went viral on Hacker News with 185 comments:
Coming up with content topics like this comes from reading widely. This "Read widely" content tactic is tip #5 from Intercom's Managing Editor, John Collins in his article from "How do you decide what to write?"
This is Intercom's second most popular article that was published on March 7, 2017; however interestingly enough there was a post that went viral and made it to #1 on Hacker News on exactly the same topic over 4 years ago on February 7th, 2013:
Intercom leveraged the popularity of this #1 Hacker News post from over 4 years ago, drawing inspiration and adding to the debate.
Instead of leading with a story like the old Hacker News #1 article did, Intercom lead with data-backed evidence from a recent study to "move the conversation on."
This smart "Move the conversation on" content tactic is tip #4 from Intercom's Managing Editor, John Collins in his article on "How do you decide what to write?"
Intercom's third most popular article is a direct response offer to help Muslims in the tech community relocate to Dublin (providing free relocation advice, a job opportunity in a Dublin tech company, legal bills up to €5k and an Intercom buddy program to explore Dublin).
This article was so widely shared because of the amazing offer Intercom made giving back, and expecting nothing in return. It also perfectly aligns with Intercom's original vision, marketing strategy, and current solutions that are all based on one emphasis: Real, human connection.
This "Recycle content" content tactic is tip #1 from Intercom's Managing Editor, John Collins in his article on "How do you decide what to write?"
Intercom's fourth most popular article became so popular because it was their first public update from co-founder, Eoghan McCabe on Intercom's growth since their last 4 rounds of funding.
In the post Eoghan reveals Intercom's number of monthly active users, in-app conversations, revenue growth for the past 5 years, profitability and plans for future growth.
This "Expose your data" content tactic is tip #2 from Intercom's Managing Editor, John Collins in his article on "How do you decide what to write?"
The takeaway here: There are many different ways to make your content viral. Pick a content marketing idea from Intercom's content arsenal and write your own original, thought-provoking piece of branded content.
There are 2 elements that are uniform across all of Intercom's blog posts:
But arguably, one of the most interesting and unique aspects of Intercom's blog posts is the final call-to-actions are very irregular.
At the end of a blog post for your average website, you can almost guarantee you'll be bombarded with an annoying, brightly colored email sign-up box or sales push.
That's not always the case with Intercom.
While some of Intercom's articles do offer the expected lead magnet, the others vary quite a bit. See below:
Here's a quick breakdown of the CTAs from the image above:
Occasionally, I came across a CTA asking readers to join the free newsletter.
Of all the CTAs I saw on Intercom's blog, the ones broadcasting the newsletter were the biggest and boldest (though compared to what you usually find on other websites, it really was neither big nor bold).
Even the weekly newsletter itself lacks any sort of the usual CTAs you would expect to see.
The lack of CTAs is likely a reflection of Intercom's vision. As opposed to focusing on keyword-stuffed, lead generation obsessed articles, many articles operate from a foundation of strong, personal, genuine communication.
Here's an example. This article is a visual representation of the company's #1 goal: Clear communication and open dialogues.
In some ways, perhaps creating articles without strong CTAs, annoying pop-ups, or aggressive "marketing speak" is one of Intercom's ways of showing its customers that it hasn't given up on its original vision of authentic connection.
In other words, this could be a beneficial way to strengthen customer trust and improve perception of the company as a whole.
The takeaway here: Think about what the most logical next step is for someone to take after reading your content piece and use that as your CTA. Is it to download your book, download a cheat sheet, sign-up for your newsletter or something else?
To increase the traffic, reach and engagement for each of their blog posts, Intercom set up a Medium publication called Inside Intercom (to match the branding of their blog).
They launched their Medium publication on July 3, 2014 and use Medium as a platform to re-post their articles from their blog.
Interestingly, Intercom doesn't just re-post to their Medium publication right after a blog post is published. They wait 2-11 months before re-posting their original piece of content from the blog.
Here are the top 5 Medium posts (based on Medium recommends) with their publish dates on the Inside Intercom blog vs. Inside Intercom Medium publication:
As you might have noticed, their most recommended articles on Medium are not the same as their most shared blog posts on their main website's blog.
I found the exact same findings when I researched HubSpot's Medium strategy.
HubSpot found that their "optimized for search" blog content wasn't generating many views on Medium. Instead they found "optimizing for people" with opinion pieces, personal accounts and reaction posts had the best performance on Medium.
The takeaway here: Articles with unique and controversial viewpoints generally perform better on the Medium platform (as you can see from Intercom's blog vs Medium data).
The most common Intercom Medium articles have four different CTA links:
Instead of forcing readers down one specific path, Intercom give people multiple options to further engage with their brand.
The takeaway here: look for other media platforms where your target audience hang out and re-purpose your content for that platform (like Intercom are doing with their blog content on Medium).
Of the 2,000 PPC keywords Intercom is bidding on, here are its top 5 highest performing ads:
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The ads vary by directing visitors to different landing pages depending on a search term. The variance in ads allows each of Intercom's solutions to get exposure.
Here's the entire paid search funnel for the second ad "The Autoresponder Tool".
This is how it breaks down:
After scrolling past the top performers, the focus seems to be on paid ads targeting the live-chat tool – most likely because this is a search term that has proven to do extra well.
On that note, here are Intercom's 4 main active paid search funnels along with the 4 landing pages they drive traffic to:
The majority of Intercom's PPC keywords were first seen at the end of 2016.
This suggests it's only recently Intercom has been ramping up its paid marketing strategy (probably because their content and word-of-mouth marketing has been so effective).
It also looks like Intercom is investing in retargeting ads. Recently, this ad popped up on my Facebook News Feed:
To really grab the attention of casual Facebook browsers, the ad double-mentions the free trial — Something the Google ads above don't.
The takeaway here: PPC traffic works best when you go ultra-granular (1 Keyword > 1 Ad > 1 Landing Page). It's a strategy I see more and more SaaS companies like Intercom using to increase qualified leads as they dial in their PPC campaigns.
Intercom has three main landing pages, one for each of their three core solutions.
But the long-form copy solution pages you can see on Intercom's website are NOT the same landing pages they use for their paid ads. They use short-form copy solution pages for their paid marketing campaigns.
Here's the above-the-fold section for Intercom's Onboarding & Retention solution.
There's a lot happening on this page, so let's break it down:
If visitors want to know more, they can continue scrolling to read through the features.
You may be thinking right now… why are they talking all about features and not benefits? Isn't using benefit-driven copy marketing 101?
Well, yes and no.
Intercom understands people in their market already have a very high level of market awareness about products their solution is replacing. They're what legendary copywriter Eugene Schwartz calls "Most Aware."
When you're marketing to customers in the "Most Aware" stage, you either need to differentiate yourself on product or price.
Intercom differentiates by telling people about their unique features. This lets potential buyers know how Intercom is different from standard marketing automation, CRM, live chat, and help desk tools.
Intercom mentions some of the more surprising features that customers might not expect (for example, in-app messages). This section also uses catchy sales language that the visitors want to hear like "lead", "drive them towards a goal", "target your customers" and "live goal conversions."
Once people know what Intercom's Onboarding & Retention solution is and how it can help them, a final scroll offers some social proof and tells them what to do next.
Let's take a look at more parts of the page:
The three elements on this part of the page:
All three of Intercom's solutions have a very similar landing page layout by covering the very same sections numbered 1-10. Here's an example of a landing page for Intercom's live chat software:
The takeaway here: Match your landing page copy with the level of market awareness for your product in your market to convert more of your traffic into customers.
Intercom has adopted marketing strategies outside of the norm, and that's how they separate themselves and stay wildly successful.
By avoiding flashy CTAs and big, over-the-top sales promises, Intercom has kept its core ideas strong.
In other words, it remains a company that thrives on word-of-mouth brand awareness by creating content that's useful to its customers and true to its company's vision of personal communication.
Of course, this isn't to say their entire strategy is perfect - but you've seen the results possible after just 6 years, and you've seen the analysis.
Here are the 8 key takeaways:
If you are serious about becoming great at growth marketing, you should do two things:
For every person who retweets and leaves a comment, I will get a Twitter notification. Then, I'll tweet you a growth hacks and marketing ideas spreadsheet (WITHOUT an opt-in required) with new growth hacks from:
LEAKED: @Intercom's $0 to $50M growth #marketing strategy 🤑 (leaked by @noahkagan + @vonwilpert) https://t.co/qGEYPZf8Nn
— Chris Von Wilpert (@vonwilpert) May 31, 2017
How can a saas company pull off the "powered by" in tip one. Its a great tip but how would you actually do it for another business that is not a bot company.
Hey Brian, use a custom keyword variable in the URL for the referrer. Then use that same custom keyword variable on the landing page. This is something you could ask a developer to help with.
Or look into "website personalization software" on Google (for example: RightMessage). Link them to this article and see if their software is able to do it.
Definitely "the powered by tactic" coupled with the dynamic keyword insertion. Very cheeky way of driving leads and conversions
Yes! Killer tactic. Glad you liked it Adom.
Excellent article. Very helpful
I learned new marketing ideas.
Thank you Noah.
Nice one Olivier. Best of luck using the ideas 🙂
My main takeaway is how user focused they stay.
Notably when laying out the next logical step, picking core problems for SEO keywords and using different awareness levels to inform their landing page copy.
They clearly understand their customer and design everything around them.
This is something you often here, but seeing the sophistication with which they carry that out is striking.
Go get it Seb!
Hi Noah I can asking how can do this marketing
Excellent, practical and detailed
What can I ask more?
Thanks a lot Noah!
Awesome to hear Antonio. Thanks for reading 😉
A very well articulated piece of Intercom case study, Chris - thanks a ton!
You're welcome Surya.
Really inspiring article. At initial stage when we don't have any marketing budget, i think it is better to concentrate on creating valuable content which will bring initial customers and then use that budget to start using Ads
Great takeaway Sripal 😉
All these points are very cool and insane. The main thing to use them!
Haha yeah for sure Mike. Don't be reading and procrastinating. That's just as bad as drinking and driving. Both lead to loss of life 😉
This is very detailed and well written. Thanks Chris
Thanks Avijit, appreciate the comment my man ?
Love the detailed analysis of growth levers. Intercom had a well-thought out strategy and an amazing execution.
Thanks Dejan. The only execution I've seen better is that standing overhead press in your profile pic 😉
You're making me blush, Chris ??. One thing that I'm curious about is how did you find out which 4 websites where the biggest contribution to HubSpot's growth. I haven't been able to find that through SimilarWeb. Did you use something else? Thanks!
Hey man, I did background research on all of HubSpot's website properties, then ran them through SimilarWeb.
Thank you for this valuable post! I'm a bit confused about the "Bonus" sections. I'm looking for this one below, where do I see this list of 5 tools?
BONUS: Get a list of the 5 tools we used to Reverse Engineer Intercom's Traffic & Conversion Strategy (including the tool we used to find these top performing paid search ads)
Hey Andy, you just click on that link and opt-in and you'll get the list of 5 tools I used. If you don't see the link, try opening this article in a New Incognito Window and you should see it.
Hey Chris, do you have the URLs for the 3 landing pages? Very intrigued by this idea and want to review in a lot more details.
Hey Alex, which tip in the article are you referring to? Let me know and I'll dig them up for you.
Straight fuego.
What do the folks at Intercom think? 🙂
Dude, the Intercom folks were drooling all over their keyboards in shock, awe and amazement wondering what tools I used to reverse engineer their marketing strategies.
Jokes aside... I setup a call with Des Traynor (Intercom's VP of Marketing) and Noah for Noah's podcast, so you should get the low-down straight from the horses mouth soon.
Christ, this is a great article with loads of added value. There's loads of helpful info here.
There's just one this that's not clear to me; the relevance of dynamic keyword insertion.
Is this for SEO and/or clarity for person who clicked through?
I'd really appreciated it if you could let me know the relevance of eace
Thanks James. Dynamic keyword insertion is used to increase conversion. If you click on "We run on Intercom" to see what tool that company is using then you are more likely to convert if the headline of the page mentions the name of the website you came from (as you are familiar with them).
Dynamic keyword insertion also works really with Google ads, so when people click on your Google ad they see the same keywords from the ad on the landing page. It increases relevancy for the user so they are more likely to convert.
Finding out about Similarweb, found out so much info on my competitors, game changer for sure, thanks a bunch
No worries Kevin, SimilarWeb is a baller tool for spying on your competitors website traffic. It's the closest thing to having access to their Google Analytics.
Really interesting article, good point with the blog CTA. Will use this in our experience!
Thanks mate, best of luck implementing this.
Well done. I loved the article--concise with detailed backup! Nothing better than a real life, qualified case study. Thank you!
Thanks Lel, only the best for you my man.
The reason why Intercom has been so successful is they invested heavily in understanding their customers struggles and motivations for buying and using or stop using Intercom. This new knowledge about their customers has helped them create compelling advertising that speaks directly to the visitors' struggles by using language from their existing customers. To find out more about what they did, read this: https://blog.intercom.com/marketing-the-job-to-be-done/
Thanks for adding to the discussion Rene. Intercom certainly have a world-class product and starting with the Jobs-To-Be-Done Methodology developed by Clay Christensen is definitely one of the best ways to inform go-to-market strategy.
It's super insightful to see how Matt Hodges leveraged Clay's methodology to take Intercom from 1 product to 4 that solve specific jobs people need to have done in their business.
But sometimes the devil is in the details... exactly how did Intercom use the Jobs-To-Be-Done methodology to 5X their qualified traffic from 35k/mo uniques to 220k/mo uniques in 1.5 years? This article answers that question by showing people EXACTLY where that traffic came from.
Thanks for the response, Chris. I do think the tactics you outline are great, however, folks should be aware that the tactics alone won't necessarily bring the expected results. You need to do the ground work of truly understanding your customers' struggles, motivations, hopes and expectations as they will be fundamental for your tactics to work. For example, Intercom knows from their JTBD research with language/keywords to use in their advertising. IMO, this could have been highlighted more in your article. And speaking of "sometimes the devil is in the details", Clayton Christensen actually did not develop Jobs-To-Be-Done at all. He certainly popularised the phrase in his book "The Innovator's Solution" (2003) but the actual creators of the theory are John Palmer, Richard Pedi, Bob Moesta. Even their work is the result of many people over a long period of time.
Good point, I should add a tip about JTBD as the framework Intercom used to base the core foundation of their strategy around... I'm just busy right now over in Austin consulting with Noah to grow Sumo.
I'm pretty sure the link you referenced was to a video with Intercom's Senior Director of Marketing, Matt Hodges who said Clay was the brains behind the JTBD methodology during his presentation. I guess no one has the trademark on it.
At first I thought I liked all the OKDORK stuff for the taco bullets because I am hungry all day...now I realize that was all a ploy. You guys are crushing it with food for my brain. So much to consider here, and all so actionable. As a non-tech SAAS company, we run on the same principles as the big boys but without all of the smarts, articles like this are critical for us.
My biggest take-aways here are: (1) simple marketing strategies work, even at scale (2) speak personally to people as they will respond better to your content (3) getting your customers to talk about you is the most important predictor of "scale success" ....
Thanks again!
Haha, I'm glad this analysis was so helpful for you Patrick. Great takeaways. Hope you can go out and kill it at your non-tech SaaS company with all these new marketing weapons now you know how it's done.
Awesome work. Great read!
Thanks Krael, glad you liked it buddy. You snuck in comment #100 😉
My takeaway is the power of well-written, targeted content. As a former editor, this is reaffirming.
Is that "The Jason Goodrich"? Great takeaway my man and great photography shots on your site 😉
Hi Noah! Interesting post. Great to see you using screenshots of SimilarWeb's free product to understand a website's traffic sources and referrals. Can you please cite the source in this post and any other where you use our data!?
Hey Nitzan, glad you liked it. I was the one who included the SimilarWeb screenshot. We've included a link to the source in the content upgrade on the post. I've also been sharing that document with hundreds of people who have asked me for it, so rest assured SimilarWeb has gotten A LOT of exposure.
We used many competitive intelligence tools in the post, so found it more effective to include all the tools we used in one simple pdf document people can access. SimilarWeb in #1 on the list with a direct link to your website.
That's an impressive piece of content, and I'll certainly try to implement some of the tactics you presented. I am just wondering if competitor bidding isn't somehow frowned upon?
Thanks Kuba. It may be frowned upon by some people (especially your competitors), but it's perfectly legal if you're willing to spend 'cash money cash' to buy the traffic. The only thing illegal is using your competitors trademark in your ad copy.
Nice breakdown, found it really useful!
Thanks Tristan, glad you got some growth goodness from it.
The dynamic powered by hack is some Hing to try out. The competitor bidding is a standard tactic and should be used if u have a large budget to play with. Those leads cost a lot.
Glad you found a nugget in their for yourself Janis. Yeah, that competitor bidding tactic is done by a lot of companies, but I've never seen it executed quite so well as Drift did against Intercom.
Their USPs on that landing page are very compelling. They have studied their competitors product inside and outside before putting that landing page together. Very few companies do that level of research.
Absolutely loved the post. I'll be definitely implementing some of these tactics.
Go for it Rabani. Implement like crazy!
This is the best reverse engineering I've seen, totally awesome.
Thanks Maggie. Good ol' fashioned blood, sweat and tears PLUS 40+ hours research, 20+ hours writing, 10+ hours editing and you've got the formula for killer content.
Then there's the 30+ days of content distribution if you want people to see it.
But it's all worth it in the end for comments like this 😉
Awesome post Chris. Thanks for doing all the research and sharing. I've been thinking a lot lately (waking up in the middle of the night) about reasons our traffic isn't converting on landing pages, and think it is because the LPs are not 1:1 with the keywords and/or the wrong level of awareness. I'm curious to know if you recommend a tool for creating those "template" landing pages. My wordpress theme isn't conducive to it.
No worries Erin, glad you liked it. That doesn't sound healthy waking up in the middle of the night due to traffic conversion problems.
I'm not sure where you are at in your business and what your offer is, but if you are just getting started with AdWords this article I wrote should help you out (https://rocketshipgrowth.com/the-highest-roi-adwords-campaign-in-the-world-1-in-13-out-873570508d45).
Step 3 about three quarters down the page goes over the exact landing page formula I use to convert traffic into conversions. The tool I used to base that template on is LeadPages. Shoot me a message if you're still having problems after that so we can get you sleeping well at night again 😉
Brilliant insights!
The different landing pages thing sounds really cool. Especially when it comes to convincing people that your product/service is better than a competitor's one. This article got me thinking about the possible implementation of this trick for my business. Thanks!
Yep, it's a baller strategy Max (that your competitors are guaranteed to hate). Building a landing page like that really forces you to think about what your 4-5 unique value propositions are vs your #1 competitor.
thanks for the great post. The biggest takeaway for me is the long-term nature of brand building.
Great takeaway Linh. 5 years of brand building and all the glory in the world is yours to have. Just don't get bored of it after 5 months and move onto the next thing like most people do 😉
Very helpful article. I did have a question: What is "The Core Problem Framework"? Could you please provide a link or something to understand the framework. Google didn't come back with anything particularly relevant.
Yo Hassan, great question my man.
I coined the term "The Core Problem Framework" in Tip #3 to succinctly describe what Intercom are doing with their SEO strategy (that's why you won't find it searching on The Big G).
It's basically about writing articles on topics based on core problems your customer persona faces (not just writing to rank for a keyword). In Intercom's case some of the core problems their customers face include: customer feedback, user onboarding, pricing models and user engagement.
If you still need more clarification, then let me know.
Love this article! #2, #4 and #7 are very usable and applicable to one of my businesses at the moment. Will definitely dive more into those! Thanks!
Thanks Thomas, really happy you found 3 nuggets that you can directly apply in your own business! Go out and execute like a mad man.
Great article but had a question. Where does the 351 keywords come from for tip #3? Were you looking at stats for .io or am I misreading as Intercom.com ranks for a lot more keywords than 351- both homepage and blog.
Good fact checking Josh. You're right, that is an error. The correct # of total keywords is 29,230 with 409 ranking on the first page of Google.
Thanks for picking that up and helping improve the accuracy of the article. Noah is going to eat a taco, then login to WordPress and update it 😉
Mmmm... taco's.... NP and great article.
Wonderful article! Thank you. Gave me some pretty good insights. Looking forward to using some of the learning.
Thanks Cyril, glad you took some good insights away from it. Start executing on them my man.
Great article
Thanks Shawn. Brief and to the point, I like it.
Great article! Liked the #1 tactic the most, wondering if they might even apply remarketing to visitors (excluding their customer audience) only interacting with their widget without clicking "we run on Intercom".
Thanks once again for the summary.
Thanks Michael. Tip #1 is definitely a killer tactic few are leveraging. I doubt they have a remarketing tag embedded in their chat widget. I could imagine their customers being pissed for stealing their traffic.
Also, that would probably cause privacy concerns as that sort of thing would need to be mentioned on their customers website privacy policy. Interesting growth hack though if they found a way to do it.
Very insightful. Appreciate the information and tips
Mo, you're welcome my man. I now anoint you Mo "the growth beast."
Question for the group on the competitive Drift / Intercom ads. Isn't it against Adwords TOS to include trademarked terms in the ads? Noticed intercom included in the display URL.
Fantastic Post!
Hey Justin, great question. It isn't against AdWords TOS. The trademark owner needs to fill out the AdWords trademark complaint form (https://services.google.com/inquiry/aw_tmcomplaint) to stop competitors from using their trademark in their ads.
It's possible that Drift either hasn't filled out that form to protect their trademark or their trademark isn't registered in that country Intercom is advertising.
or, drift is also using same technique to get the traffic. so seems like both parties are having smoking guns 😀
As usual, yet another great post from the Chief Sumo! I have definitely learnt a lot of creative marketing ideas. What I am thinking is that, at its core, it still comes back to genuinely helping your clients solve their problems. We can see this when 'semantic SEO' is at play. Also, customers wouldn't stay if the product itself is low quality.
Too true David. Great takeaways my man.
Thanks for the fantastic article. I'll surely apply the content strategy that you mentioned.
My pleasure Alice. Apply that content strategy like it's never been applied before... your target prospects won't know what's hit them when you start solving the core problems they face via your amazing content.
I'm just about to launch my business and have no experience in marketing. However, this article about Intercom ramping up to a $50 million dollar company and how they did it gave even this newbie a framework for even a small level of growth. You took a complex marketing strategy, analyzed it, and presented it in a way that even I can understand. Not only Intercom but Noah Kagan has provided a model for me to communicate my message effectively.
Thanks for the detailed comment Mr. Rist. That's what big dawg taco-eating Noah is all about... making complex marketing ideas, simple.
Best of luck with the launch of your new business, and if you ever get stuck with marketing your business this article and the comments section is only 1 click away 😉
I'm so gonna copy the cra[ outta these tactics
Hahaha... Do it! That's what they're there for. Go to town on these tactics Dennis 😉
This was a great article. Thank you for taking time. As a follow-up, I am always interested in knowing how companies, like Intercom, grew to their first $1,000,000, and how that varied from reaching $5,000,000 or $10,000,000. Again, thanks for putting in the work.
Thanks for the follow-up tip Nate. Duly noted. May the growth gods be with you.
I love this post! Very detailed and some cool growth hacks I never thought of or read about before.
Thanks for dropping by and reading Chris. Keep kickin' ass and takin' names 😉
Outstanding article. I'm starting up a new company focused on content marketing. I'm spending a lot of time honing in on my core value proposition which leads to the biggest take-away from this article: "Focus on Core Problems". This is similar in concept to E. Musk's focus on 'core engineering principles'. It's easy to get distracted by trying to game key words and similar tactics, but if you stay focused on delivering a product that solves a 'core problem' for your market, your customers will be better off and so will your brand.
Great analogy with Elon Musk's 'core engineering principles' Steve. Good luck with the new company and focussing in on your customers core problems.
Fantastic article. This article itself is a fantastic model for powerful content creation. I might be getting old, or my spectacles need a bigger lens, but some of the images are too small to be useful. 😉
Once again an excellent blog post and insight into the growth and marketing strategy of an awesome SaaS startup. This is all beautiful music to my ears. I've been fortunate enough to apply some of the above the strategies and tactics. I'm slowly pushing my marketing team at a new company to take these strategies seriously. This is just another excellent example to evidence!
Thanks for the comment William, best of luck as you continue to motivate your team to execute on some of these strategies.
I really think that the content strategy they are using is awesome. I live in Colombia and all the content that is out there, is really crap. I think I can make incredible improvements of most of the content of the big news sites. We all here complain about the quality of the information they write. I really think no company has a really killer content strategy in place. I´m going to get into it. Thanks man...
Go out and kill it Mauricio! Few companies do content really well like Intercom. And the few that do often don't know how to promote their great content pieces properly to reach their target customer. Most companies content marketing is missing the 'marketing' part.
The Colombia market and your new title awaits you... Mauricio "the Colombian Content King"
Another excellent article, Noah. I'm going to share this with my team and implement these strategies, especially the SEO tactic you mentioned. Well done sir!
Thanks for the kind words Noah (nice name too BTW). Go get em'!
Great article, Chris.
"The only SaaS in history to grow faster is Slack." That's a huge accomplishment, if true. I wonder how that compares to Russel Brunson's ClickFunnels? According to Brunson, and an Forbe's article that featured him, he hasn't taken on any outside investments and grew his company to over $360 million in just over 3 years, averaging $60 million per year.
Romeo, that is a great smile my man. Russell Brunson is an A grade SaaS baller. I believe ClickFunnels did $30M last year. That $360M figure is a bit of creative math from the Forbes reporter. It's an amazing result though, and ClickFunnels is possibly the fastest-growing non-funded SaaS in history.
First, when I saw the tweet, I hesitated a bit before clicking as there are too many tweets every minute.
But after reading this post, I am happy and subscribed also.
Will be back soon for more.
Music to my ears Rohit! When Noah tweets you know he means BIZness. Glad you liked it and if you're really hungry for more growth goodness, I'd recommend you check out Noah's podcast: http://okdork.com/podcast/
I've been listening and can't believe he actually hops on a plane to go interview his guests #realtalk #RabbiCan'tLose
On tip #6 - I thought this was an SEO nono - to post duplicate content. Is this not the case for posts on Medium.com?
Nice spotting Aaron. Medium actually has an 'Import' feature which will allows you to import a blog post from your blog and attribute the canonical URL (the "preferred" version of a web page you want to rank for SEO) back to your original post.
I'm not sure if Intercom are using that feature or not, but that is how you do it right. That's also how you should do it if you are re-posting your content on any other media platform (point the canonical URL back to your original content piece to avoid duplicate content issues).
Awesome! Thanks for the reply.
My understanding is that it's ok to cross-post as long as you indicate which version of your content is the canonical source. For example, you can include a blurb at the end of your post "This article originally appeared here", and link back to the original article. Here is a very good article by Ryan Battles about the good and bad of cross-posting: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/seo-impact-cross-posting-linkedin-medium-ryan-battles
Another tactic that I've seen used successfully is to rewrite or paraphrase enough of the article that it becomes a truly separate article.
Thanks for adding to the discussion Ryan. You're right, you just indicate which version of the URL you want to be the preferred URL with the rel="canonical" link element in the section of your page.
Here is what that code looks like on this article you're reading right now:
link rel="canonical" href="http://okdork.com/marketing-ideas-from-intercom/"
Then you make sure wherever you re-post the piece of content that there is a link back to the original article.
Personally I don't like the rewrite/paraphrase tactic because re-posting your content won't hurt your SEO if you do it right like above. I believe you should be spending your time creating original, well-researched content that can add more value to your audience.
First time to read a whole article in one sitting, its lengthy but worthy to waste your time to understand the new tactics. I really fascinated with blogging strategy and thinking to implement on my blogs. Thanks Noah.
Very happy to hear this article was worth your time to read in one sitting Shaikh. Definitely jump on that blogging strategy and see how it works for you. Write down the steps you need to take and execute on it my man.
I wonder what Intercom's retention metrics are like.
I've been a user twice for two different clients. Both times, I had an awful experience. Granted, one client was convinced it was email marketing software, which it most definitely isn't, so yeah, that wasn't fun.
But also, support was never there when you needed them, which was often.
Anyway, I'm happy to read about these marketing tactics because they're definitely working at the TOF.
Hey Lauren, yeah it's hard to look 'under the hood' at retention metrics unless the company makes that retention metric public. Overall their revenue growth is growing, so Intercom are definitely acquiring more customers than they lose.
I know though that retention and churn are always big issues for fast-growing SaaS companies while they try to manage customer hyper-growth and customer success at the same time.
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with them, hopefully they've taken the feedback onboard from when you used them last and doubled-down on world-class customer support since then.
Hey Lauren, I feel like this article will be in your newsletter on friday? 🙂 Anyway, fun to see you in the wild!
Thanks for sharing Noah - Awesome read with lots of tips and interesting insights. Now I just discovered two new blogs to follow (yours and Intercoms). Great stuff! I would really appreciate if you would send me the growth hacks and marketing ideas spreadsheet. Thanks.
Thanks for the kind words Jeppe. If you want that growth hacks spreadsheet, just retweet that tweet at the end of the article. When you do that I'll get a Twitter notification and PM it to you.
What's the best way to get all these metrics, Noah?
Hey Tim, can you elaborate more about what you mean by "get all these metrics". Are you referring to the tools I used to reverse engineer Intercom's growth marketing strategy?
Some are free and some are paid tools. Some of it is just good ol' fashioned blood, sweat and tears research going back through 6 years of Intercom's online history.
If you want a pdf of the 5 tools I used, I'll barter trade you for it: You share this post, then tweet to me @vonwilpert with the proof and I'll PM you the pdf.
Hello Noah,
I'm Brazilian, from Varginha / MG of ET land. I know of appsumo but did not know who the founder was.
Today through an email marketing of Ramon do Grothw Hacker Brasil, inspired by the emails of TIM Ferris of Growth Hacker Idea, I had the pleasure to meet you through this excellent article that you wrote, about intercom.
I read your article twice, I liked the content too much.
I have a question and I would like to ask you.
In Tip # 3 you talk about a simple SEO strategy. You quote "The Core Problem Framework". Do you have this material to share? I did a google search, but I did not find it. Can you talk more about it?
Thank you,
Paulo Beneton, his newest blog reader.
Yo Paulo, thanks for the comment. "Ramon do Growth Hacker" sounds like a pretty cool dude for hooking you up with this article. Thanks for taking the time to read through TWICE.
I coined the term "The Core Problem Framework" in Tip #3 to succinctly describe what Intercom are doing with their SEO strategy (that's why you won't see it being talked about anywhere).
It's basically about writing articles on topics based on core problems your customer persona faces (not just writing to rank for a keyword). In Intercom's case some of the core problems their customers face include: customer feedback, user onboarding, pricing models and user engagement.
In Noah's case some of the core problems his customer persona faces include: website traffic, email list building, content marketing and business growth. That's why you'll see articles covering these themes on Noah's site.
Hope this explanation helps. Hit me up if you still need clarification on anything.
Thanks for these tips! What's great is that these marketing tips can be applied to all industries not just SaaS!
You got it Miku. Lots of friends have been contacting me and saying exactly the same thing. Whenever someone asks me for startup marketing advice now I'm just going to refer them to this article (it's got all the fundamentals... Viral Marketing, Competitor Marketing, SEO, Content Marketing, Offsite Content Marketing, Conversion Optimization, PPC, Landing Page Optimization).
Excellent post, Chris, and pretty accurate too 🙂 Controversial posts can often outpace more "niche" posts, and often generate more top-of-funnel signups.
That said, it's important to have a mix of both - the cumulative niche audiences you'll reach with those types of posts are often more likely to take action and try your product more quickly to solve a specific problem they have at that point in time. Measuring the top of funnel effect of each post is good practice.
It's often worthwhile to partner up with other publications on Medium to drive distribution of what you've written. My "Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile" piece was (strictly speaking) published via "The Startup" on Medium (https://medium.com/swlh), which helped drive distribution of the content to a new audience.
Expect to hit the majority of recommends on Medium within a 2 week period, as was the case with the "End of app stores" piece. Don't forget to link back from Medium to the original post, and include a form (where possible) embedded on Medium to collect intent signals from people who don't hop back to the original post.
For brand new blogs, often the "Offsite content strategy" (nice name for it btw!) can work well with a 2 week re-post waiting time, instead of 2+ months, to help get distribution for your content quickly. I've adopted this for a new blog launched less than a month ago (https://www.developerecosystem.com/) and Medium is already delivering some slow but steady referrals and recommends (https://medium.com/developer-ecosystem/what-is-a-platform-anyway-5b4d3b7aad2).
Kudos again on a great post! Not every tactic you've called out will work for everyone, so don't forget to test and iterate as you go 🙂
Thanks for chiming in on this Hugh. That's smart how you leveraged one of the biggest Medium publications to drive distribution of your content to a new audience.
I can see your "Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile" article was published on the Intercom blog on October 31, 2016 and then 30 days later on November 29, 2016 you got it re-posted on The Startup Medium publication.
Thanks for the tip on the re-post waiting time. I think that will help a lot of people.
Congrats on the new blog. Just shared your article on Platforms vs Products on my Medium and Twitter.
The first time, I read a full article. Thank you, Chris for explaining wonderful marketing ideas these will definitely help newbie to market their SaaS business.
Great to hear Sam! We tried to cut out ALL the fluff and just give you all the juicy bits... that's how Noah likes to roll. I think this is gonna help the SaaS newbies and the big boys kill it with digital strategy. Just leverage one of these strategies and you've got $$$.
Brilliant read Chris. Well structured and written. I will remember a lot of takeaways from this for a long time.
You da man Kausik! Don't just remember them, use them as well my man 😉
Always good to read about how successful companies have made it. Great analysis here, excellent work! 😀
Thanks Hugo. We're all about taking your growth powers to super saiyan level 😉
I love this idea to focus on core problems instead of keywords implementation while creating a content for a blog! Sounds like a smart plan, thanks a lot!
You nailed it Alexandra, there's soooooo much content being put out today, but if you focus on core problems you can break through the noise and create a piece of content that has real value for your audience. It also means you can develop a content plan around many of the problems your target customers face on a day-to-day basis (not just problems your product solves).
Whoa! This is some mind-blowing analysis, Noah! Thanks a ton, for this detailed guide, it surely helps aspiring content marketers and product marketers grasp some of the strategies that Intercom has used to get to where they are today. I think the biggest takeaway for me at a personal level would be to working backward from my goal of what I'd want my audience to do after reading my content and craft an ideal CTA accordingly. I also love the power of the subtle "we run on Intercom" badge.
Thanks for the comment Tejas. Yeah, the next step CTA method you mentioned is a great one and really requires thinking about the ideal next best step for your audience to take after reading your content piece. The "Powered by" tactic is a classic one, and Intercom nailed it with that subtle copy.
The WORST thing about most growth hacking articles is that they all seem to include a big heaping scoop of good old fashioned dumb luck. I loved this article because it shows how Intercom methodically and consistently used several very smart tactics to drive viral and organic traffic. None of it (or very little) was luck - all of it was hard work done repeatedly over a long period of time. Luck I don't have, hard work I can do.
Thanks for the mad props Ryan. You discovered the secret to all things great: HARD WORK
Superb article Noah, in particular I thought the section about Semantic SEO was very interesting – there is so much emphasis on keyword stuffing, that it's very interesting to hear how writing genuine content is worth it.
Thanks for the comment Tom, you found one of the golden "nuggets"! Semantic SEO is definitely the new SEO. Keyword stuffing is dead.
Thank you for such a detailed guide, Noah. Great strategies, we are actually currently trying out this Product Alternative tip you've described with Chanty. Moreover, I've seen some popular SaaS products doing the same thing. GrooveHQ has a number of "competitor alternative" pages to collect traffic to their website and receive leads. They claim it's their top working strategy so I think it's definitely worth trying out.
Nice work Olga! Good to hear you are executing on the competitor traffic strategy. Smart SaaS companies are doing this like you said. It works great when you have a really compelling USP that can solve your customers problems better than your competitors.


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