Growth idea action plan
Help-center homepage section order by job
Reorder articles and collections on the help-center homepage around the first job the visitor needs done, not the internal information architecture.
Why this can grow a startup
The first screen of a help center is a routing surface, not a sitemap. If the homepage always leads with collections when the fastest answer lives in a hand-picked article block, the layout is doing politics, not support. Reordering the sections around the most common job reduces the number of guesses before the reader hits a useful page. It is one of the cheapest ways to make a support surface feel more obvious.
Ian's take
From scaling consumer platforms across MENA and Southeast Asia, my default is to distrust growth work that only looks good in a slide. My bias is to treat this as a small market test first. Make the audience narrow, make the promise concrete, and let the first real response decide whether it deserves more work. I would run it small enough to learn quickly, then only scale the parts that real users repeat, save, reply to, or buy from. For this tactic, I would watch one clear growth signal before putting more time or budget behind it.
Action plan
- Define one narrow startup segment where help-center homepage section order by job can create a measurable lift.
- Turn the tactic into one offer, page, campaign, or workflow for the Support and UX channel.
- Use the evidence from intercom.com to set the first version of the message, format, and audience.
- Launch a small test for 7 to 14 days with one success metric: one measurable growth signal.
- Review the result, keep the winning message, remove weak variants, and turn the learning into a repeatable growth playbook.
Source-backed example
Intercom lets teams drag and drop homepage sections so Articles can sit above or below Collections.
Source: Intercom Help (intercom.com)
GrowthDex source hub: Intercom Help
Last checked: 2026-05-28
Adjacent tactics in the same lane
If this page is close to your problem, these tactic pages usually belong in the same working set.
- Translated collection gate before multilingual help-center launch same source · 2 shared channels · 2 shared stages
- Unlisted public article preview before search release same source · 2 shared channels · 1 shared stage
- Single collection home for each public help article same source · 2 shared channels · 1 shared stage
- Private help-article login redirect before publish same source · 2 shared channels · 1 shared stage
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Ian Goh has helped grow consumer platforms across Southeast Asia, India, and MENA. His work includes scaling Tiki to 100M+ users, doubling BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months, and increasing OYO's direct booking share across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
- Helped scale Tiki to 100M+ users.
- Doubled BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months.
- Raised OYO's direct booking share by 50% across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
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