The Demand Efficiency Podcast

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Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice on the aha moments of the customer journey to solve pain points

In this conversation with Matt Young, CEO at UserVoice, he talks about retention and product.

Today, you’ll hear about finding the a-ha moment, the customer journey, Matt’s top of mind thoughts around retention and product, the greater noise-to-signal in the industry today, the main problems Matt sees in companies doing user research, when and how to re-evaluate and recalibrate your value proposition, and the future of UserVoice.

As a leader in SaaS, product management, and product management, Matt has been challenging what it means to deliver great SaaS products for over 20 years. Prior to his current role as CEO of UserVoice, he served as VP of Engineering and President of UserVoice, as VP and CTO at Vodori, and as a Senior Analyst at Duke University. Since 2020, Matt has been a Product School Featured Speaker. Matt holds a BSc in Computer Science from Syracuse University and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Episode Outline

[01:20] What’s most top of mind for Matt around retention and product?

[02:21] The a-ha moment and the customer journey

[05:35] Today’s greater noise-to-signal

[07:37] Re-evaluating and recalibrating on your value proposition

[09:27] Primary problems in companies’ user research

[12:13] UserVoice today and in the future

[14:48] Matt’s influential people

Matt’s Mentors

All the people he has wronged along the way.

Rahul Vohra

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The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

In this episode, we have Hiten Shah, founder of multiple successful companies, including Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, and FYI. He shares the knowledge he has gained from starting the businesses and also how being curious about observing other businesses has helped him along the way.

Hiten explains the power of branding, highlighting three keywords: New, Different and Right. He also mentions the importance of setting the right intention with content as well as producing high-quality content which is in understanding of the market and its people.

He later mentions why identifying immature and mature channels and understanding the difference is key while scaling a business and also gives out the criteria he uses to evaluate channels.

Outline of this Episode

  • Content marketing - Hiten talks about the potential customer journey whether it's decisions around purchase or landscape of the product.
  • WebTraffic - FYI focuses on content that is specifically aligned with the audience.
  • The Audience - Hiten shares his experience on the selection and understanding of your audience.
  • Market research - FYI focuses on understanding the customer experience and sentiment analysis.
  • Channels - Hiten describes managing them and scoring channels.
  • Blog content - Hiten shares the importance of creating the structure and time needed to be put in before seeing results.


Hiten's Inspirations

  • Joel Gascoigne (Buffer)
  • Nathan Barry (Convertkit)
  • Matthew Kobach
  • Eric Yuan (Zoom)
  • Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson (Basecamp, previously 37Signals)


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