It’s a special holiday edition of Seeking Wisdom 🎁 and DC and DG are taking listener questions live. On this episode, DC and DG share their favorite books of the year, provide insights into their daily routines and habits, how we train managers to develop their teams and much more. You can get Seeking […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from TextUs, a Drift partner, on our newest integration. You can learn more and get started here. Today, businesses are no longer in control – the customers are. And those customers aren’t up for cold calls and stale emails – they’re demanding real-time communication on their terms. In […]
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This is the second episode of Build in its brand new dedicated feed (subscribe here to stay up to date when new episodes drop). On today’s episode of Build, host Maggie Crowley sits down with Richard Banfield, CEO and co-founder of Fresh Tilled Soil, a leading user interface design and experience agency, and co-author […]
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I hate to break it you, but at some point in your career, you’re going to fall into an ego trap… assuming you haven’t fallen into one already. Ego traps tend to appear during moments of success, or when you’re unlocking that next level in your career. And this is especially the case if you […]
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In the Season 1 finale of #Exceptions, host Jay Acunzo goes inside a seemingly ubiquitous brand in the business world today: Zoom. In talking to the company’s CEO Eric Yuan and head of marketing Janine Pelosi, we learn why they refuse to settle for conventional wisdom and how they orient their team to push past […]
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Have you ever gone to a baseball game without a scoreboard? No? Well, you should never buy software from a company without a scoreboard either. You need to know if you are winning or losing – in other words you need to set clear goals and the company needs to exceed them. At Drift, we […]
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Alright. If you’re into personal productivity (and getting more stuff done at work) then this episode of Seeking Wisdom is for you. DC and DG talk about Slack and a recent shift in how we’re communicating internally at Drift, plus lessons from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and a new book […]
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Since launching our first chat widget on drift.com almost three years ago, real-time conversations with buyers on our website have been the #1 driver of our hypergrowth. Leads that come from conversations are 2.5x more likely to become opportunities than those from any of our other lead sources. And leads from conversations convert 2X faster […]
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It’s a special crossover episode of Build! And the first episode in our brand new dedicated feed (subscribe here to stay up to date when new episodes drop). Today’s guest? Dave Gerhardt, Drift’s VP of Marketing. Dave discusses his one week spent as a product manager at Drift plus, the real meat of this episode […]
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Always be learning. That’s the mantra Drift has lived by since day one. Which is why you’ll often hear our founder, David Cancel, say “Don’t reinvent the wheel.” And he’s right. Innovate, don’t invent. Practically every business question has been answered in a book. Sometimes we get so focused on one thing that we miss […]
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If you manage a website or blog — or regularly listen to podcasts — there’s a 99.999% chance you’ve heard of Squarespace. And considering the website creation company now boasts more than 2 million paying customers, there’s also a decent chance that you either a) use Squarespace yourself or at least b) know someone who […]
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Welcome to #Growth, a brand new podcast from Seeking Wisdom hosted by Matt Bilotti, Senior Product Manager on Drift’s Growth team. On our first episode, Matt digs into choosing the metric that matters. Plus, Pirate Metrics, mapping out your funnel and more. In this season you can expect to learn how to run growth experiments, […]
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