The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Getting customers is hard, keeping them is even harder Image Credit: Stock Catalog There’s no question that streaming services are very hot right now. Sure would be good to be a product manager for one of them. Sure would be good to be a product manager for one of them. What’s going on here?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 24, 2020

But Fabrice des Mazery, CPO at Thiga, suggests the skills we’ve honed during this time can actually be useful in building relationships with our customers. In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude, he draws on his experience at Deezer, [.]. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 21, 2022

The following data on mobile surveys and interaction and response rates is from our 2022 Mobile App Customer Engagement Report. Brands who interacted with a higher number of consumers tended to have a better Love Percent, as seen in Media and Entertainment apps. Mobile interaction and response rate benchmarks. Mobile survey benchmarks.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

We’ve heard it again and again – these are odd times; we’re not working remotely, we’re working during a crisis; this is not the new normal. You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. Customer Discovery. Remote Working. Adapting to change.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 10, 2021

Creating Positive User Emotions For Your Products Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash The colleague who always runs late for your meetings annoys you. In the beginning it was entertaining, but now just seems a waste of time. When Fin came around, he was charming, nice and entertaining. Do you like Anise?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Source In the realm of entertainment, few companies have revolutionized the landscape as profoundly as Netflix. At a time when brick-and-mortar video rental stores dominated the market, Netflix offered unparalleled convenience and selection, allowing subscribers to order DVDs online and have them delivered to their doorstep.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. The biggest challenge I face is people trying to do too much in one go… people trying to do a rebuild and a redesign at the same time.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Lean User Research. Analytics. *

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 21, 2022

At the end of a long day, many people like to go home and spend the evening losing themselves in playing video games on their home entertainment systems. How can game product managers be successful doing this? Mobile has proven to be a great business opportunity for the game product managers.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2021

For most of us, the way that we conduct user research has been different during a year of lockdowns. Not so much for Anna Lee Anda, UX Research Manager at Zendesk — as someone with a global customer base, she’s been working with these techniques for ages. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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Product Management University

APRIL 10, 2018

It’s the little things that matter most when it comes to raising the customer experience from good to great. Sometimes there’s no substitute for just being “the customer” yourself. As a bona fide road warrior, I spend more than my fair share of time in hotels. Google maps is the winner every time! Hotel Wi-Fi.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash One of the most common questions that Product Managers have to deal with is how they would improve the product they are managing. In this blog, I will talk about the steps that I, as a Product Manager at Instagram would take to improve it.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 11, 2017

Dave Wascha started as a product manager 20 years ago working on Internet Explorer 4.0. Since then he’s had his share of successes and failures in a storied career spanning the US and Europe, and in this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product San Francisco he distills those 20 years into twelve key lessons.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If you’ve been in the SaaS or start-up space for some time, there’s no way you haven’t heard about ‘delightful products.’ And what can product managers do to build quality products that really delight users ? Use anticipatory design to make your users feel special.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

Egyptian-born Abdelrahman (Abdo) Wahba co-founded popular Arabic audiobook site Iqraaly – but it wouldn’t have seen its current success unless Abdo had taken the time to analyse deeply what made customers stay loyal. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

In Product Management, user friction is not always a bad thing. Let’s learn about how you can use friction to help consumers recognize what’s important and increase their trust in your product or service. We often obsess over reducing friction for users. But have you considered introducing friction by design?

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The goal is to sell more cars, perhaps software is the key Image Credit: rakyan ‘boyan’ tantular Product managers know that if we want to sell more of their product, we need to find ways to make the product more appealing to our customers. These days, that can be very difficult to do.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 13, 2022

Ad product managers think that they have found a new market Image Credit: United Nations Development Programme. Advertising product managers are always looking for the next “big thing” The advertising market has its ups and downs as customer’s needs, wants, and moods change seemingly overnight.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. In the academia of applied science in 2012 it was not common practice to think about design and user experience.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2024

Auto product managers believe that software will control the future Image Credit: JC As product managers, we are generally fairly focused on what we need to do to make our product become a success. However, some auto product managers are starting to realize this.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 6, 2020

The tips below have all helped me, so I hope this article will help product managers to cut through the noise and better understand how AI can fit into their daily work. As product managers, we must thoroughly understand our problem space so that we can properly define requirements and allow our team to solve the right problems.

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Product Talk

JUNE 2, 2021

What does decision-making really look like in a product trio? Many of us have never had the opportunity to experience true cross-functional collaboration so it can be hard to imagine what this looks like in practice. Suppose a product manager, a designer, and an engineer are working together on a shared desired outcome.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2019

The only person in the room who is an expert on the customer’s context is the customer. If your customers don’t care that much about your product, then they’re not going to talk to you. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. We weren’t disappointed.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In this part we dive into what you really came here for – product management-specific mental models. Why are product management-related mental models different? The mental models I’m going to talk about share two key characteristics: They are about about products. They are not used enough.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The range of work we do as product managers is so broad that we inevitably end up finding inspiration from all sorts of sources, whether it’s books on business strategy or essays on design. Thinking, fast and slow, in product management. What, you might wonder, does this have to do with product management?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jimena Almendares has held senior product roles and leadership positions at Zynga and Meetup , and now runs the Global Expansion efforts for Intuit. She has plenty of great stories to tell from those roles, but it’s her time as Chief Product Officer at OKCupid that we wanted to talk about.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Customer engagement loops can serve as extensions of your CS and marketing teams. Here’s why: a good engagement loop creates excitement and motivation that keep customers returning to your product. It follows the customer activity outlined above. And you know what that means—free customers without the extra CAC.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2024

We’d like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition for his valuable contributions in the research, development and writing of this article. We also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a collaborative product management education environment.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode. Airbnb: Racism , Gentrification.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 7, 2023

Clearly, for the product managers who promote musicians this was a major setback. However, product managers are never stopped for long and virtual concerts that were delivered online were then quickly created. That has helped artist product managers to zero in on their superfans.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it. The definition of product-market fit:] When customers agree that your product creates enough value for them relative to the other options that are available. Quote of the Episode. Suggest a guest to us here.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

How do you know what your customers need and want? In this webinar, Robi Ganguly, CEO and Co-Founder, Apptentive and Ben Johnson, VP Mobile Strategy, Rightpoint will cover the essentials to have in place both pre- and post-launch in order to provide the best customer experience possible.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 22, 2020

COVID-19 dramatically impacted how we live, learn, work, socialize, shop, and entertain ourselves. Here are some of the top mobile customer trends from 2020 and what they mean for your brand. Customer expectations have never been higher. We see strong customer relationships built off of conversations, not transactions.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This presents businesses with an opportunity to enhance their search functionalities for both internal and external users. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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The Product Coalition

JULY 20, 2022

Overcooked is a silly cooperative game with silly characters trying to make silly food before the time runs out. User interview: Spyfall (tabletop) No, it’s not a game about collecting qualitative feedback. The Product Manager is the spy trying to guess what the users want by asking questions with little to no clue on their needs.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2020

One of the things we’ve learned from doing this podcast is that it’s important to schedule in time to reflect and to revisit some of the lessons you’ve learned along the way. The three magic questions] What are the user and customer behaviours that drive business results? Quotes of the Episode.

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