Grow 2-3X Faster With a Research-Backed Growth Plan – Katelyn Bourgoin – Founder of Customer Camp (GMT044)

SaaS companies that invest in customer research grew 2-3x faster than companies that don’t, according to research done by ProfitWell. The problem is that 65% of marketers rarely do customer research.

That’s where Katelyn Bourgoin comes in. Her mission is to make customer research sexy again and help frustrated product and marketing teams use customer insight to guide innovation and identify untapped growth opportunities. In this episode, Katelyn reveals her step-by-step process in helping companies identify their best customers and trigger them to buy more.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode
  1. Katelyn’s step-by-step process for helping companies identify their best customers
  2. Katelyn’s “How Might We” exercise to help teams turn insights into actionable growth steps
  3. Some of the biggest mistakes companies make when it comes to audience research
  4. What does Katelyn see in the future for audience research, marketing, and UX
My Takeaways from This Episode
  1. You don’t know what you don’t know. One of the first steps of Katelyn’s customer research process is to gather the team and ask the question, “What don’t we know about our customers?” It’s tempting to fill in the blanks with assumptions. Audience research starts with having the humility to say there’s a lot of things your team doesn’t know about.
  2. Audience research can’t work in silo to the product, sales, and marketing team. Using Katelyn’s “How Might We” exercise, you can take your insights into suggestions and improvements for the product, sales, and marketing team. This is one of the ways to make sure that your audience research actually makes an impact on your company.
  3. Always communicate on the value delivered of your work. Katelyn said that the way she gets buy-in from the leadership team of any company to do audience research is by communicating the value of audience research. For Katelyn, that’s helping companies figure out who their best customers are and the trigger that causes them to buy so they can sell more stuff.

 

About Katelyn Bourgoin
Katelyn Bourgoin is 3x founder turned growth strategist and lead trainer at Customer Camp. Katelyn helps frustrated product teams use customer insight to guide innovation and identify untapped growth opportunities.
Show Notes
  • 3:42

    How Katelyn went from 3x founder to lead trainer at Customer Camp

  • 7:28

    Why some of the best growth marketers are entrepreneurial

  • 9:10

    What is customer camp

  • 13:20

    Why is that 65% of marketers rarely do customer research

  • 12:55

    How do you get buy-in from leadership to do customer research

  • 14:45

    Katelyn’s step-by-step process for doing customer research

  • 21:10

    Using customer surveys vs. interviews

  • 23:20

    Incentivizing customers to jump on an interview call

  • 24:30

    How does Katelyn position customer research to customers

  • 26:40

    How can a company figure out its best customer based on customer research?

  • 28:45

    Katelyn’s “How Might We” exercise to help companies use audience research to solve business problems

  • 32:21

    An example of a “How Might We” exercise

  • 34:13

    What are some of the biggest mistakes companies make when it comes to audience research

  • 35:29

    How do you remove or avoid bias when doing audience research

  • 38:45

    Why market research reports are not effective

  • 39:52

    Challenges with working with larger companies when doing audience research

  • 42:42

    What does Katelyn see in the future for audience research, marketing, and UX

  • 41:55

    Tools and resources for customer research

  • 47:15

    How does Katelyn get such great engagement on Twitter

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