Another installment of great research from OpenView Venture Partners. A few examples: 15. Leads responded to within 5 minutes are 100X more likely to be contacted and 21X more likely […]

Today I experienced one of the best new product implementations since I got my first iPhone. I installed the Drift chat capability on my website developmentcorporate.com. Their entry level offering is free forever. It took me 10 minutes from start to finish and it worked right out of the box. I do not expect that people are dying to chat with me about calculating the enterprise value of private companies or open source competitive intelligence for product managers. But chat would be a cool feature.

I admit that I am a data junkie. I have found that data, both quantitative and qualitative, enables me to better understand key topics and trends. I am a voracious consumer of various periodic surveys. Recently, I read SalesForce.com’s third annual “State of Sales” research report. I believe that many organizations could obtain some significant benefits from sponsoring annual surveys amongst their customer bases. In this post I will talk about three specific surveys and how these surveys bring outsized benefits to their organizations.