The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. Starting with a niche market ensures focusing on a very specific customer problem and probably little to no competition. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Product positioning strategies are not only a marketing tactic but a survival strategy. In this article, we’ll go over product positioning definitions and their types, then go over our process for creating a product positioning strategy that gets positive user feedback. Why are product positioning strategies important?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. To reframe things, only about one out of three feature ideas actually come directly from customers… you know, the people who are paying money to use your products.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 11, 2020

The 5 types of Product Differentiation How to fight your natural instinct to copy others The allure of copying competitors The gravitational pull towards copying competitors is real. The product teams who are able to fight this natural instinct to copy others are the ones who will build truly differentiated offerings.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The data used throughout this post is from anonymized, US-based Apptentive customers’ iOS apps. Almost all of our customers’ apps have experienced a significant change in their DAU due to COVID-19. Here are our top recommendations for Travel and Hospitality brands at this time: Focus on reducing customer churn and boosting loyalty.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Are you wondering what the customer development process is? Would you like to know how a product manager can use it to deliver products that customers love? The customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Why does the outcome focus on business value and not customer value? Why can’t you just generate opportunities from what you know about your customers? How do you represent customer segments on an opportunity solution tree? What if you are being asked to deliver more than one outcome? How do you find opportunities?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2023

As the digital landscape gets increasingly crowded, with more brands fighting for the same customers and target audience, a micromarketing strategy may be just what you need. When done correctly, it drives brand awareness, boosts sales, and customer retention , and, ultimately, stimulates profit growth. What is Micromarketing?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. How will you win?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well. A roadmap example.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What is the product-market fit framework? How is product market fit different from product-customer fit? A company achieves the product-market fit when the product satisfies the needs of enough customers who are willing to pay for it, and it is easy to scale. What should a product manager do to achieve and maintain the PMF?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

A good grasp of the customer value chain is essential to product-led growth. Having a clear idea of how your solution adds value to your customers’ lives is the only way you’ll be able to clearly communicate the core benefits and get your value proposition across. What is the customer value chain concept?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2021

For years, customer support was seen as a cost center, not a value driver – a necessary response to inevitable customer questions or frustrations. But now that customer experience has become a critical differentiator for modern consumers, this reactive approach to customer support is no longer good enough.

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Split

MAY 15, 2024

Deployment focuses on the automated, frequent, and reliable transfer of code to production, while release management ensures that new features and updates are delivered to users in a controlled and coordinated manner. This flexibility and speed are crucial for meeting the needs of customers and staying ahead of competition.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. This article will provide an in-depth look at the blue ocean strategy, including its origins, core principles, implementation, and measurement of success. What is the Blue Ocean Strategy?

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Ever wondered how likely your customers are to recommend your business? This measurement is more than a statistic—it’s a mirror reflecting your customer’s loyalty and the health of your customer relations. Leveraging customer feedback received via this method paves the way for SaaS companies to strengthen bonds with clients.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 3, 2022

Solid messaging strategies are the key to grabbing your audience’s attention and nurturing their interest in your product. But how you can create a really good messaging strategy that will support your product marketing goals? In this article, we’ll be discussing everything you need to know about messaging strategies.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Figure 1: FRAMEWORK OF METHODS TO CAPTURE AND DEFINE PRODUCT FEATURES. Different written and visual methods can be used to detail problems that target user experience as pain points. This, I think, is a better way to begin to understand a user or market need and its associated pain points.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it. What is product strategy?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Instead, I believe that AI will have the most profound impact on the high-level (and historically most valued) skills of product management: developing a strategy, crafting a vision, identifying new opportunities, and setting goals. That sounds a lot like a tool that would be incredibly good at identifying a clever strategy.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

An effective customer activation funnel can be an extremely powerful way to channel new customers through your product and get them to experience value fast. In this article, we’ll explore what customer activation is, how to unlock it within your own product, and the best tactics, techniques, and onboarding tools for the job.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

In Step 4, you seek customer insights and run experiments to assess user interest. Popular validation techniques include online surveys , user interviews and focus groups, and fake door tests. Once you launch the MVP, you can use product usage data and customer feedback to inform further iterations.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2017

Spend as much time as necessary to become an expert in all details relating to the medium, the industry, the market and the audience of the product so to provide direction for creating monetizable customer value. Why it’s critical to use data, stories to dig deeper to uncover the real pain-points. At least not right away.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2023

The aim of product analysis is to better understand its strengths and weaknesses, to evaluate how effective it is at satisfying user needs , and to identify areas for improvement. Product analysis benefits teams from across the organization, including your product , marketing , customer success , and UX design colleagues.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2024

TL;DR The product funnel is a framework outlining the stages of the customer journey , starting from its discovery and ideally leading to customer loyalty and advocacy. Product funnel is a wider concept, focusing on the whole customer journey, while marketing and sales funnels concentrate on its early stages.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Brainstorm ideas on how to solve customer problems in an innovative way and validate them. How can you gather such insights?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yet the customer experience continually improves while KPI targets come into view. Alternatively, how can we let our current customers suffer and miss out on easy wins just to chase after something that might not even work and won’t generate meaningful revenue for years? This portfolio approach is baked into everything VCs do.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What product management best practices can help you build valuable and delightful products for your customers? Ensure alignment between the product vision and product strategy on one hand, and the business objectives on the other. Collecting user feedback in-app is the most direct way to gain insights into customers’ needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We’ve expanded our product offering and the customers we target, meaning we’re marketing to new and more varied audiences. It’s a simple framework for defining the tier of a launch where P1 refers to the biggest launches, P4 refers to small updates or improvements and P2 and P3 cover everything in between. Prioritize based on impact.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is inspired by the book The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen and aims to describe two essential concepts described in the book, namely the Product-Market Fit Pyramid and the Lean Product Process that aims to help us achieve that fit. it’s a hypothesis.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product. Being good at user interviews is not equal to simply listening to your users.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2022

Having a product messaging framework is important because it sets the precedence for how the market and your potential customers will see your brand. Good product messages highlight your value proposition and the benefits you promise to deliver to users. Highlight what differentiates you from competitors.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The signs of the feature factory mindset are prioritization of outputs over outcomes, excessive focus on KPIs , and not validating customer requests. Feature factories often build parity products that don’t bring any unique value to the users. Not validating and prioritizing customer requests.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

You need a robust ideation process to bring the right ideas to life and add more value for your users. This guide explains what feature ideation is, what strategies to use to come up with new ideas, and how to focus on the right ones. This will help you build the most-requested features, giving users exactly what they want.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

After 10 years, this internal tool supported thousands of daily internal users across countless teams, but nobody could explain exactly what the tool was providing. The system provided different functionality for different customers and the total scope was far greater than the internal team’s staffing capacity. What is the problem?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 11, 2019

How you prioritize, marketing campaigns, sales strategy, it all changes based on how your product is positioned. Step 1: Understand why Your Customers use Your Product. Sean Ellis’ survey to discover if you’ve hit product/market fit is a great way to understand your customers. How do you differentiate a soap’s messaging?

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