Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product features.  Commitments

Product Research 143

Product Research Reporting Tools Technical Review Onboarding KPIs 143

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Generative AI empowers businesses to create tailored recommendations, product descriptions, and chatbot interactions. Generative AI enables companies to innovate rapidly, adapt to market changes efficiently, and establish a leading position in their industries.

Generative AI 106

Generative AI Data Visualization Reporting Tools Research Software 106

Userpilot

MARCH 22, 2022

The quick ratio is a relatively better measure of a SaaS company’s growth prospects than other metrics like monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and expansion MRR. Secondary onboarding helps users engage with advanced product features and drives continuous value so that they stick to your product. Reduce churn.

Analytic Tools 91

Analytic Tools Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience Software Review 91

Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is (of course) an unreasonable question, as every product/ business has its own uniqueness. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. 1] Generic KPIs? But metrics aren’t generic.

B2B 118

B2B Enterprise Onboarding KPIs User Testing 118

Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

Without product analytics, how do you know how to move the needle with your product growth? If you’re only beginning your adventure with product analytics, looking at all the usage data may seem overwhelming at first glance: Source: Heap. Here are the need-to-know takeaways: What is Product Analytics?

Data Visualization 61

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Onboarding KPIs Feedback Software 61

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product.

Reporting Tools 145

Reporting Tools Analytic Tools Onboarding KPIs Data Visualization 145

Userpilot

MAY 5, 2021

When you first hear the term onboarding workflow software, you might think, what is a workflow? They are completing a series of steps or tasks from when they sign up for your product until they get their job done. You also have to be aware of the solutions that fit smaller companies vs more mature products. Table of Contents.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools Onboarding KPIs Data Visualization Customer Experience 52

Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

To help you, we’ve listed the 10 best customer lifecycle management platforms in the market, including key features, user reviews, and pricing. You should also make sure it aligns with your customer journey KPIs. An all-in-one no-code product growth solution for SaaS product teams. Key features User profile.

Analytic Tools 96

Analytic Tools Research Software Feedback Software Reporting Tools 96

Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Kevin Xu is an engineer-turned-product manager with experience at big tech companies like Google and Stripe. Read on for our conversation with Xu about finding product-market fit when you’re the ideal user, growing a following vs. growing an app, and what the future of social media looks like. They say write what you know.

Analytic Tools 116

Analytic Tools Research Software Data Visualization Technical Review 116

Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 25, 2019

version releases, feature releases, and more? It could be the driving force in making data-driven product roadmap decisions and having a comprehensive view of customer sentiment. Metrics of success look different across industries based on differences in customer engagement opportunities and goals. Now it’s your turn.

Travel 211

Travel Feedback Software Data Visualization Reporting Tools 211

Userpilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

Are you a SaaS product manager wondering how to analyze NPS responses effectively and draw actionable insights that will help you grow your business? TLDR; The NPS score measures customer loyalty – it asks how likely they are to recommend the product to their friends or network. Then keep reading! Let’s get started.

Data Visualization 80

Data Visualization Customer Feedback Feedback Software Analytic Tools 80

Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

What are the best tools for user activation and feature adoption? What tools should I use to boost my feature engagement? We get these questions *a lot* in our Product Growth and Retention group (go check it out, BTW.!), Product Growth requires improving your different ‘Pirate Metrics’ and that calls for several tools.

Data Visualization 54

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Feedback Software Onboarding KPIs 54

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

how many users are actively logging in and using your product). To measure customer retention , focus instead on specific accounts paying for access to the product (i.e., The flipside of measuring retention is understanding user churn (the percentage of users who stop using your product). This is a usage metric.

Analytic Tools 68

Analytic Tools Customer Experience Customer Feedback Data Visualization 68

Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2024

Brand activation is about driving product growth by connecting emotionally with people on a personal level. To create a successful activation strategy , you must first define your product's value proposition. Userpilot showcases brand values on Product Hunt to attract like-minded people. Let’s dive in!

Branding 84

Branding Analytic Tools Feedback Software User Testing 84

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. And just relabeling the positions of the old middle management rarely works. Fallacy #6: We Need a PMO for Product A PMO?—?short

Agile 176

Agile Startups Technical Review Software Review 176

Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Developers can remove the pains associated with constantly incorporating new SDKs into an app and focus on delivering products that transform the customer experience.

Feedback Software 147

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Reporting Tools Data Visualization 147

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See  (“Our AI-based tech support lookup product will cut your support costs by 25-35%. ”) Why try to transform from a services company to a product company? to 0.8x.

Reporting Tools 80

Reporting Tools Data Visualization Analytic Tools Feedback Software 80

Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

TL;DR A go-to-market strategy is a comprehensive plan for taking your product or service to target customers. Key members of the GTM team: Go-to-Market Manager: Responsible for overseeing and coordinating the entire GTM process , ensuring alignment across go-to-market teams and successful product launches. Who is part of the GTM team?

Research Software 69

Research Software Data Visualization User Testing Marketing 69

Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Every business is unique, and metrics frameworks apply differently 5.

User Testing 130

User Testing Onboarding KPIs Product Research Startups 130

Gainsight

APRIL 15, 2022

In a world where SaaS and tech are transforming businesses with recurring revenue models and subscription-based products and services, even the most established enterprise players need to adapt. Ideally, customer success will be represented in the C-suite by a Chief Customer Officer (CCO), or an equivalent position. . Technology.

Enterprise 97

Enterprise Customer Experience Feedback Software Data Visualization 97

Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2022

To help you in your first 90 days on the job, we’ve compiled a collection of some of the best product management resources. The collection includes our favorite conferences, podcasts, blogs, books, newsletters, courses, and Slack groups for product managers. o get the sponge mode on and dive in!

Analytic Tools 87

Analytic Tools Data Visualization Research Software Feedback Software 87

Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Can marketing resource management help streamline your product marketing processes and workflows? Marketing resource management (MRM) is a system for managing marketing resources, including digital assets, finances, staff members, and external vendors. Key features of marketing resource management (MRM) software.

Analytic Tools 83

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Reporting Tools Customer Experience 83

Gainsight

APRIL 26, 2022

After metric-based customer success strategies have been put in place, companies typically enjoy a meaningful increase in their net retention rate (NRR). Even worse, CSMs end up tackling a lot of time-consuming operational duties that steal time from what should be their core focus: helping customers thrive with the company’s product. .

Reporting Tools 92

Reporting Tools Analytic Tools Enterprise Data Visualization 92

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul (Adams, our SVP of Product) delve into how product teams can and should partner with their marketing team peers. To this end we’ll be broadening our scope in future episodes, to look at the various intersections that a product team meets in a typical SaaS organisation.

Marketing 238

Marketing Feedback Software Onboarding KPIs Reporting Tools 238

Gainsight

JANUARY 25, 2023

Hiring one moves Customer Success (CS) from a function to a company-wide strategy, offering a customer voice in the boardroom and a peer to your Sales and Product leaders. It’s quite expansive—the ideal job description will have responsibilities tailored to your unique asks for the position.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Customer Feedback Onboarding KPIs Certifications 52

Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

Drawing a clear line between a product owner vs. product manager can be tough, given their varying roles from company to company. Despite any difference in roles, both the product manager and the product owner share a common goal: building products that create value for the stakeholders. a Product Owner.

User Testing 94

User Testing Customer Feedback Onboarding KPIs Product Management 94

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. By automating planning, businesses can save time, increase productivity and turn support from a cost center into a profit driver.

Feedback Software 206

Feedback Software Research Software Customer Experience User Testing 206

Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2021

Even if you’ve got a pretty good handle on user sentiment with your product, harnessing it to transform negativity into positivity can be challenging. Detractors ( NPS 6 or lower) are customers who are unlikely to recommend your product to others due to low satisfaction with it. So let’s jump right in!

Feedback Software 98

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Data Visualization User Testing 98

Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing individual products. Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team.

CTO Coach 108

CTO Coach Onboarding KPIs User Testing Customer Experience 108

The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

A typical product development process would follow the Waterfall principles, taking quarters, and even a year to release a product to the market. The importance of building products that customers valued and the limited amount of finances forced startups to take a different approach when building their products.

User Testing 146

User Testing Development Customer Experience Product Research 146

ProductPlan

AUGUST 1, 2019

In a world where advertising-supported products, SaaS products with monthly renewals, and free trials are de rigueur, customers don’t have nearly as much incentive to stick around as they used to. Using product analytics and personas , product managers can furnish sales with the optimal customer profiles for active and engaged users.

Customer Experience 60

Customer Experience Onboarding KPIs Analytic Tools Data Visualization 60

Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If so, you may have seen the recent uptick in interest and advertisement for positions as a Customer Success Operations Manager or Administrator. We at Gainsight have discovered that there is no one path to most positions in CS. . People in finance become Product leaders. So, you want to be a CS Ops Professional?

Reporting Tools 59

Reporting Tools Data Visualization Analytic Tools Feedback Software 59

Amplitude

MAY 27, 2020

The world has never before seen a shift in usage to digital products like what our customers are experiencing now. These pivots in consumer and business behaviors are benefiting some and challenging others—we’re seeing massive swings in our customers’ product usage, in some cases going from single digit percentage growth to +/- 50%.

Analytic Tools 59

Analytic Tools Feedback Software User Testing Data Visualization 59

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

How did you get yourself into that position? I pivoted my own function from trying to generate demand for a product that clearly wasn’t quite right to let’s figure out what the right product is. After I had left, we started to see that we had product-market fit. Rachel: A lot of luck and serendipity.

User Testing 174

User Testing Marketing Research Software Feedback Software 174

Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

We learned how our customers went beyond the call of normal business activities to reach higher levels of productivity for themselves and their customers. Their most significant influence on customers was in the last year developing a strategy centered on “ positive change in customer health.

Feedback Software 52

Feedback Software Reporting Tools Customer Communications Data Visualization 52

Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

I spend a lot of time sifting through documents, positioning and stories – trying to figure out who we’re talking about. As a product manager, I think it’s my obligation to bring clarity and precision to discussions… so talking generically about customers or users can be exasperating. You say potato, I say WTF.

User Testing 101

User Testing Customer Experience Analytic Tools Research Software 101

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

Even as the company begins to expand, it’s important to prioritize these one-to-one conversations because understanding how your users interact with your product is actually the key to healthy growth. So the aim of this product is to enable that virtuous cycle, where your customers become your best marketers.

Customer Experience 188

Customer Experience User Testing Research Software Customer Feedback 188