The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Ford’s famous quote tells you exactly how he wanted it done: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants, so long as it is black”. In our world, this would have been considered a great product strategy. As you are reading this, replace Ford’s car with your own product. What was so special about it?

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Centercode

JUNE 4, 2019

Was it entirely in the name of research? But using the Oculus Quest did get us thinking about what goes into Customer Validation for VR and emerging tech. Below is a summary of our discussion on the testing strategies that bring delightful VR products to market. Collecting Feedback from Actual Customers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The customer journey is such an important tool when building your product strategy. In product-led growth, its importance is even more significant. The real customer journey — whether you understand it or not — is much richer. How did people really start using Slack and got to become paying customers?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. The way they understood the term ‘product’ was very straightforward — the actual bites of code that are released to the world for people to use.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Bad Feedback Doesn’t Always Mean Your Product Is Bad Bad product feedback is a bummer. But contrary to what you might think, it doesn’t always mean your product is bad. Here is a quick guide to strategic thinking about product feedback. The feedback on all three talks was great.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The fact that your potential customers have a problem, doesn’t mean that they are willing to do what it takes to solve it. Each one ran a series of tests over a few hours, and told me I’m a good fit for the surgery. As a product leader, you must define not only the problem you are solving but also for whom.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

A successful product can only work if people actually buy it. But too many product leaders focus on the product itself and not on what makes it sell. As product leaders you cannot ignore the full customer journey to make sure it makes sense. It appears in your product itself. Hint: it’s not features.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. Even higher-level goals can be refined and detailed.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, messaging product announcements internally and externally, and myriad other activities, the list of “to-do’s” for mobile product managers may seem endless, and the job is ever-changing.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But is it really what your customers want? Here’s how to look at it in order to make the right decision for your customers. Layer 1: Your Customers We always try to make things simple for our customers, while preserving the value. That’s the magic of a great user experience. But which one is more important?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Customer experience isn’t just for products. As an employee, you provide customer experience to your manager, your colleagues, and your own employees. There are many things to take from it, but I mainly took the fact that you need to think about the customers from their point of view. Is it a great one?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Your product might be awesome, but if there is no significant need on the other side, it wouldn’t succeed. A need is more than a general desire, and you should trust your customers’ actions more than their words. His stats showed that over 60% of his customers only bought from him after having known him for two years or more.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2023

But to truly solve customers’ problems, founders and product leaders must think beyond what they already know about the product. But that leads to another problem — how do you know which product to create? How to solve a certain customer problem? Real invention is hard, that’s why real innovation is hard.

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Userpilot

JULY 26, 2022

SaaS businesses tend to have heterogeneous customer bases, which means you will probably have customers with different needs. Therefore, you should set different, specific goals for them inside your product and segment them to better understand their needs. A goal is like a milestone that you want your customers to reach.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. We were monitoring our customers’ databases, and the architecture caused a severe performance impact on the databases themselves. Its entire architecture was bad.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Your product will always have bugs, and you will always need to chase and fix the important ones. But sometimes, the really important bugs are not showing in the product itself. These are bugs in your product strategy, and if not fixed, it will be very difficult for your product to succeed.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Throughout my product management years, I have led full rewrites of the technical documentation (in different companies and for various reasons), and although it was a huge amount of work, the result was an asset that the company could rely on for many years to come. I have worked with great technical writers, they weren’t the problem.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2024

Your product sells not for its features, but for the value it brings to your customers. True product value lies in understanding and meeting the deeper, often unspoken needs of customers, beyond just functionality. Here’s a three-step approach to ensure products connect with users on a more meaningful level.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Since we played in the e-commerce search space, the list included almost exclusively e-commerce search engines, and one was a generic search engine that seemed to be a good fit for e-commerce apps. With any of our customers. I’m sure that your product, too, has a generic list of competitors. Not a single one.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2024

The competitive analysis itself is a major part of your product strategy efforts, and here is how to do it at the right level. When I work with the product leaders of the companies I mentor on their competitive analysis, they usually come up with a comparison table for each competitor, that includes mostly features.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They named it after the feedback I constantly gave them on their presentations. For example, if your journey is along the lines of the general journey toward product-market fit , you might explain that you have identified your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and now are in the process of succeeding with a few of them.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Make sure you can connect the dots very very clearly between what you are doing and your desired outcome (which especially in times like this should lead all the way to a business result , not “a good feature” or “happy customer”). You need to have a product strategy. That’s why we must take action and test it.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic. But is it enough?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Working on product strategy is an iterative process. I wrote this article to answer that question.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Spend an adequate amount of time researching the answers to the questions above. You need to research deep because what you see on the surface isn’t going to give you the answers. For example, even if potential customers tell you they are willing to pay for something, you can’t know for sure until they are actually paying for it.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 11, 2021

We have three distinct products: the ad-supported video streaming platform, which is what we started with four years ago; a subscription version of the business with ad-free content; and exclusive original content. We also have a kid’s product, with ebooks, video games, audio stories, videos, movies, etc.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With so many social media posts, blogs, videos, ebooks, and podcasts, it’s hard to keep up. 10 Great Questions Product Managers Should Ask Customers. It’s a tenet of Product Management 101 that PMs need to get out of the building and talk to real-live customers… even if it’s just over Zoom.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2022

There are many ingredients needed in order for your product to succeed. Not all of them are related to your product, or even to your product’s domain. Your customers’ ecosystem has more impact on your ability to succeed than you might think. Since I’m a business customer of Google, I decided to open a support ticket.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. Because your customers aren’t product leaders.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Redefine Success As a product leader, your end game is different than the one you had as a product manager or even as a group leader in larger organizations. You can no longer define success as having a good product, or as satisfying sales’ or users’ needs. The product strategy plays a critical role here.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. I see them everywhere, and apparently, they see me too.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2024

There are many such loops in our professional lives: It could be a complex idea that you are thinking about: Your product strategy, the org structure, how to approach a new functionality, or any other complex decision you need to make. You can dive deep into certain topics and then see how they fit into the bigger picture.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 18, 2023

In-app messaging is a way of communicating with users within the context of your product, often taking the form of tooltips, banners, or in-app chat. For software products, in-app messaging includes all of the native messages sent to a user while they are using your product.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. It has access to the most training options, making it more convenient.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

“Market problems should be defined based on multiple sources of data, not just anecdotes from visiting customer offices,” one respondent said. This year’s survey reveals that product managers spend an average of just seven hours a month talking to customers in non-sales situations.

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