Better Done Than Perfect. Switch Interviews & Strategic Context with Alli Blum

Published December 25, 2020 by Jane Portman
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Today we invite you to listen to another one of our Better Done Than Perfect episodes. Our guest is Alli Blum, SaaS consultant extraordinaire and onboarding strategist. You’ll learn about Alli’s professional journey, her definition of ideal onboarding, customer success milestones, and her bulletproof advice on conducting customer interviews.

Please head over to the episode page for the detailed recap and key takeaways.

Show notes

• alliblum.com — Alli’s website
• UI Breakfast Episode 112: Optimizing SaaS Trials with Alli Blum
• Conducting Switch Interviews — an article by Thoughtbot
• JTBD for User Onboarding with Ramli John
• Stop Aiming at Happiness: Unconventional Wisdom for Customer Success — Anna Jacobsen’s Microconf talk
• What is a North Star metric? — a Mixpanel article
• How Long Should Your Pages Be? — an article on stages of awareness by Copy Hackers
• The JTBD methodology by Bob Moesta and Chris Spiek, one of Alli’s recommended resources
• Forget the Funnel by Claire Suellentrop and Gia Laudi — one of Alli’s recommended resources
• Copy Hackers by Joanna Weibe — one of Alli’s recommended resources
• The Mom Test — a book by Rob Fitzpatrick, Jane’s recommendation

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