Chameleon Blog

PLG

How To Improve Free Trial Conversion Rates Without Dev Time

Five easy ways to improve your product's trial experience without needing your engineers

Pulkit Agrawal

12 min read

Other

Why We Chose Product Redesign Over Growth

Product redesigns come at the cost of new features, but early on they are worth it.

Pulkit Agrawal

8 min read

Product Marketing

Why User Onboarding Isn't Just Your Designer's Job

Your product and marketing team can help drive up new user activation and retention.

Pulkit Agrawal

6 min read

Other

How to Run Recruiting Like a Sprint

Applying this agile methodology to recruiting can save time and energy

Pulkit Agrawal

12 min read

Self-Serve Support

The Two Types of Help Your Users Need

Having help content is not enough; you need to deliver it effectively.

Pulkit Agrawal

9 min read

User Onboarding

How to Use Empty States for Better Onboarding

Staring back blankly at a new user isn't very welcoming -- here's what to do instead.

Pulkit Agrawal

7 min read

Product Marketing

What Apple Stores Teach SaaS Products About User Onboarding

The key lessons from brick-and-mortar expertise on how to engage new visitors.

Pulkit Agrawal

10 min read

Other

The Distributed Team's Guide to Slack

Slack’s tagline is "a messaging app for teams". But at Chameleon, Slack is our dashboard and swiss-army knife for getting things done…

Pulkit Agrawal

9 min read

Product Marketing

How to Use Release Notes to Drive Feature Adoption: Best Practices and Examples

Blog posts and email announcements only do half the job—here's what else you need to make a real impact with your release notes

Pulkit Agrawal

11 min read

PLG

Our User Onboarding Stack to Drive Retention

The tools that we leverage to drive a more contextual and effective first-time user experience.

Pulkit Agrawal

14 min read

User Onboarding

10 Onboarding Lessons from Product Experts

We interviewed user onboarding practitioners at top companies and this is their advice.

Pulkit Agrawal

12 min read

User Onboarding

The First-Timers Guide to User Onboarding

Great onboarding isn't just great design; here's how to create the framework for success.

Pulkit Agrawal

7 min read

User Onboarding

Teardown: Pokémon GO first time user experience

Find out why Pokémon GO's technology, timing and user experience are a recipe for global domination.

Michael Moore

6 min read

User Onboarding

Teardown: LinkedIn User Onboarding

Find out how LinkedIn teaches their users how to use their powerful (and sometimes overwhelming) business networking application.

Michael Moore

1 min read

User Onboarding

Teardown: Pinterest User Onboarding

Pinterest recently update their first time user experience, we were all really impressed. Check out what's changed and how they are teaching their users with a low-touch approach.

Michael Moore

1 min read

Feature Engagement

You Need Emails AND In-App Messages for User Onboarding

Don't just use emails to onboard your users. Here is our breakdown of how and when to the different channels.

Pulkit Agrawal

6 min read

Feature Engagement

Don’t Assume New Users Want to Learn How to Use Your Product

Don’t send your users away by boring them with the how! Instead focus on why to stimulate their own self-discovery.

Pulkit Agrawal

5 min read

Other

Apply a data-driven approach to attending conferences

Attending conferences can be costly so don’t leave the benefits to chance. A few simple tactics can help you drive real value for certain.

Pulkit Agrawal

6 min read

News

Connect Chameleon to your tools with Segment

Use Segment.com to implement Chameleon with just a few clicks and send all your tour data to hundreds of other services.

Michael Moore

2 min read

Other

Should my company go on The Pitch? Yes, here's why...

Chameleon appeared on The Pitch in it’s first episode, when we had a basic prototype and not much else. Here’s how it paid off…

Pulkit Agrawal

4 min read

News

Chameleon announces $1.9m seed funding

Funding round led by True Ventures with many other SaaS angels participating.

Michael Moore

2 min read

User Onboarding

Why We Add Our Customers to Slack

Listening and responding to customers builds strong brand relationship and creates an open stream of communication with early adopters.

Michael Moore

2 min read

News

Open beta is live at LAUNCH 2016

We're live at Launch Festival 2016, where we've just unveiled Chameleon Version 2 and pitched our product on stage to a room of journalists, peers and to our judging panel.

Pulkit Agrawal

2 min read

Other

How to Successfully Run a Distributed Hackathon

We just launched PageGauge.io — designed and built in a one-day hackathon, across San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver and London. Here’s what we did it..

Pulkit Agrawal

7 min read

Other

How to Create Serendipity at Your Startup

Many of the world’s greatest scientific breakthroughs were down to serendipity — finding success...

Pulkit Agrawal

7 min read

Feature Engagement

User Onboarding: More Than First User Experience

The main reasons why you should consider user onboarding an ongoing process and not just the first user experience.

Lexis Hanson

8 min read

Product Marketing

Standing Out as a Startup at Tech Conference (Lessons from TC Disrupt)

As I walked the floor at TechCrunch Disrupt I thought, what makes people stop at one startup’s booth versus...

Lexis Hanson

4 min read

Other

The Founder's Guide to Giving Up Control

Enabling your team by ceding control is tough, so here's my advice.

Pulkit Agrawal

4 min read

Other

5 Things I Learned in my First 30 Days at a Startup

Most would agree that working for a startup is an exciting / stressful / fun / scary experience, and yes,...

Lexis Hanson

8 min read