The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Peloton product managers were unable to predict the future Image Credit: Phillip Pessar How great would it be to be a product manager who was responsible for a very popular high priced exercise bike? This is the position that the Peloton product managers found themselves in just before the pandemic hit.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 13, 2020

For such an integral part of product, it’s amazing that nobody seems to know what Product Ops is! As a skill on LinkedIn, Product Operations has grown 80% in the last year. So why is no one really talking about it the way they talk about things like Product-Led Growth ? What Does ‘Product Ops’ Mean?

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 5, 2019

There are many methodologies for feature prioritization in product management. If you are a product manager dealing with this, beware that one size doesn’t fit all. Choosing the right feature for the stage of development your product is in can unlock enhanced market performance. . Who do you listen to?

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2024

How do you create a robust product funnel for your SaaS? We also explain: How product funnel differs from marketing and sales funnels. Why it is important for your product management efforts. There are multiple product and marketing metrics to track at each stage of the funnel.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

Product Feedback Step-by-step guide with examples How do you handle product ideas from customers? You’re a SaaS business serious about building a product your customers love. And that means you need a system for managing feature requests and customer feedback. Here’s your complete guide.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 26, 2020

You then define one or more key results associated with each objective. For example, "publish 15 blog posts" is a useful key result, but you'd also want to pair it with a key result that speaks to the outcome you hope to drive from publishing these blog posts. How do you expect this feature will impact users?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

. "Digital transformation" is the process of using technology to redefine processes, products, and services to create more value for customers and organizations. It can take many forms, from automating mundane tasks to completely reimagining how a company operates. What Is Digital Transformation?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2022

Want to skip ahead and learn the most common product marketing manager interview questions and answers? Sneak Peak: - What is your favorite marketing campaign? Estimate the market size for a new product. Have you ever investigated a technology product and instantly had a good feeling for what it was?

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bpma ProductHub

MAY 22, 2017

The Path to Product Management. By John Zilch – I recently stumbled across a thought-provoking question posted on the Boston Product Management Association group page. Justin asked: “Is an MBA a pre-requisite for Product Management?” How can one fix it? I’ve been asked a thousand times.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

An unconventional view of what it takes to be a Product Leader Photo by Porapak Apichodilok from Pexels *Note: this is a revised and updated version of a guest blog I did for Department of Product, titled: ‘Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product’ ?—?check How do I build alignment? check it out!

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Mixpanel

APRIL 20, 2022

In another blog , we provided a look at how we implemented a product-led growth (PLG) strategy at Mixpanel from a data and analytics perspective. In this blog, I’ll pick up where we left off by walking through what we do with all of this joined data in BigQuery. Here’s how we did it.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

By John Zilch – This blog post is based on an interview conducted with Brian Lawley, the CEO and Founder of the 280 Group. Brian will be hosting the next BPMA event titled “Becoming a Phenomenal Product Manager and Getting to the Next Level” on September 14th, 2017 at Wayfair, 4 Copley Place, Boston MA.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

If you’ve been in the product and SaaS space for a bit, there’s no way you haven’t heard the term product-led growth strategy. In our comprehensive guide, we discuss what PLG is and how it’s different from other models. We also explore its benefits and different ways product managers can approach it.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

They’re changing how we own and exchange digital goods, from virtual real estate to concert tickets. Check this out: The global NFT market is predicted to hit a whopping $5.1 Wondering how it can benefit you? But How Do NFTs Really Work? billion by 2028, up from $1.9 Businesses and individuals are keen to dive in.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What is concept testing and how can it help accelerate your product-led growth ? TL;DR Concept testing evaluates an idea before it’s introduced to the market to gauge its potential success. How concept testing can help: You can gather feedback about a new UI design with a survey showing an image of the wireframe design.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What will be the biggest Product Trends in 2022? Interestingly – they seem completely different from the product trends we’ve identified for 2021 – including Product Led Growth , the rise of a Growth Product Management Role, chatbots, or gamification. Will 2022 be the year of Product Ops?

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 5, 2022

If you enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning when you are at home, just exactly how do you go about making that cup of coffee? This way of making coffee has become so popular that the product managers at Keurig have started thinking about branching out. How To Make A Better Cocktail. for most cocktails.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2021

Being a product manager in a growth industry is one of the best jobs that any of us can have. This is exactly how life must be for product managers who are involved in the fracking industry. A product management job in this industry has been one to have for a long time. The Problem With Sand.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 3, 2021

Check out the 10-minute video version of this blog post. link] Have you ever found yourself sweating bullets staring down a product decision? What about your product intuition? When you start to understand the world better, when the whys seem less mysterious, you gain confidence in how you navigate it. mental models.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2023

Because of how complex product management can be, it’s not hard to see why effective data sharing can be difficult to achieve throughout an entire organization. In this guide, we’ll go over what data silos are, how they occur, why they’re problematic, and the steps you can take to break down data silos!

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

He’s pretty sure a colleague, John, is plagiarizing his blog posts. Soon after I published Manage Your Project Portfolio , I wrote an article, Project Portfolio Decisions–Decisions For Now. That article has an image that shows how the work flows through the portfolio. Or, have your manager buy it for you if you can't afford it.”

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

TL; DR: 11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics Stakeholder communication: It is simply not enough for an agile product development organization to create great code and ship the resulting product like a clockwork. Marketing your journey to the rest of the organization?—?and Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward fifteen years later, and I’m the Director of Product Management at HG Insights. So, what qualities does it take to become a product manager ? Who am I building for?, and so on.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. What is product positioning?

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in Product. Women in SaaS.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 11, 2018

Editor’s note: As a follow up to the article from Ashley Sefferman that was written for the 280 Group blog last month, this month we’ve invited Roger Snyder from 280 Group to discuss how to turn the data these metrics provide into real insights to better manage your product strategy.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 12, 2021

However, it turns out that for the product managers who work at these food delivery firms, all is not so good. They have a real challenge on their hands and they need to find out how to make their new business be financially successful. The Challenges Associated With Delivering Food. Image Credit: Telefood Telefood.

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Userpilot

MAY 3, 2022

How is enterprise SaaS marketing different compared from acquiring and retaining users for an SMB? Pair that with in-app communication and you’ve got a pretty good marketing strategy. Enterprise SaaS marketing, however, is a different story entirely. What is enterprise SaaS marketing?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I believe the same synthesis of skill sets is occurring between marketers and product managers, but all too often, they’re treated organisationally as separate disciplines, broken up into siloed teams. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 7, 2022

If you were a product manager who worked at Amazon you would be under a great deal of pressure to find ways for the company to make more money. One way that they would like to bring in more revenue is to start to sell high end products. One way that they would like to bring in more revenue is to start to sell high end products.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2021

The internet is rife with advice on how to become a Product Manager – often written by people who have never worked as a Product Manager themselves. So if you’re looking to switch careers and become a PM – you will for sure find some insights in this blog.

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Userpilot

MARCH 16, 2023

If you’re a product manager who doesn’t have a firm grasp over your customer onboarding cost, stop right there – you’re putting your business in danger. TL;DR Customer onboarding describes the process of showing your users how to get value from your product or service. Let’s get into it!

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Userpilot

JULY 26, 2021

Have you, like me, ever wondered how it’s possible to try so many SaaS products for free? It’s because of something called product-led growth (or product growth for short.). It’s how companies like Slack, Notion, Calendly, and Loom have achieved such viral growth. They use their product as the selling point.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In this article, we’re going to cover the 3 key growth benefits that you can leverage by expanding and scaling your product integration roadmap. Beyond improving efficiency, integrations can unlock additional value in your product through account expansion and co-marketing campaigns. Building integrations with Zapier.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

How are you going to find one metric that matters enough to help grow your business? So, let’s find out how you can identify this metric and leverage it to drive product growth. There are multiple SaaS metrics you need at different stages of the customer journey for marketing and growth purposes.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 29, 2021

That is why in this blog post we gathered our learnings about how to communicate research results better. We like to think of a digital product as a living thing. It has its own cycle of life, each stage having specific characteristics, and the product is defined by the surroundings and its capability to adapt to situations.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Customer-oriented marketing means tailoring your marketing strategy to fit your customers’ needs first, rather than focusing on your business goals only. With a customer-centric marketing strategy, you can improve your customer experience and easily drive product growth by helping new and existing users discover more value.

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