The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A framework for thinking about how to really engage your users and customers with your product. Takes the view that you need to build and test your traction channels in conjunction with building and testing your product fit. Product/market fit needs the product and market to fit. by Justin?—?Takes

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

While there’s merit to both product-centric and customer-centric business models, it’s impossible to fully capitalize on the customer-centric business model if you don’t have a well-defined customer value chain. Customer pain points. Decision-making. What are value chain management and mapping?

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you’re still validating your SaaS product idea or launching a new feature to an existing product line, thinking about your Go-To-Market Strategy is always relevant. In fact, iterating your strategy and improving each feature Go-To-Market plan as you grow and receive customer feedback is even more important.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. What is SaaS marketing?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

As the discussion in the CPO Bootcamp continued, another participant gave the example of a product manager in his team who is really good at some parts of the job but isn’t willing to take on additional responsibilities or dwell in new types of activities?—?although My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. Short on time?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The second stage is treating growth as top of funnel marketing and layering on sales to open up profitable yet harder to reach segments. Stripe hit the market with such force that they could rely on a high-velocity, bottom-up distribution engine to give them the kind of traction other startups could only dream of.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

As a product manager , you must understand strategy and business, but your responsibilities as well as your day-to-day activities are focused more on execution. If it isn’t, you should recalibrate your expectations — for yourself first, and then for everyone else in the company, starting with leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As the team at the Saas Commerce Platform Paddle has learned, real growth is about entering new markets – and that takes thoughtful attention to pricing, making inroads into new geographic regions, deciding whether to move upmarket (or downmarket), and offering new standalone products instead of bloated features tacked onto old ones.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

it’s much trickier in the world of products. The roles of Product Manager, Product Marketer and Product Owner (if they all exist in your company) will all vary depending on what senior management have seen before, what other roles exist, the types of product and the size (or maturity) of the company.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

Increased market share (42%) , increased differentiation or advantage relative to competitors (32%) , and better informed business and R&D decisions (29%). Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing. Teams that benefit: Product, research and development, product education, customer success, sales, marketing.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

And the transition is already happening, as 88% of marketers think first-party data is more important now than a couple of years ago. But since most online advice is either generic or meant for ecommerce businesses, where can you begin as a product marketer working at a SaaS? It’s evident that businesses will start using it.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Suddenly you could sell and market to millions of people, anywhere in the world. And with that explosion in addressable market came an explosion in customer service requests. And even when it wasn’t face-to-face, it was still personal: mostly phone calls, or letters with hand-written signatures on them.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 8, 2021

By turning your product itself into a viral sales engine, these platforms take the pressure off traditional sales and marketing departments — and, of course, their associated budgets. Unlike traditional sales or marketing, product-led growth makes your app itself into the center of your marketing activities.

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Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. CAC spectrum and how your product and product tiers need to align on this spectrum. Marketo Their market is the enterprise. I went through the ARPU ?

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Within each product team there is a product manager, up to eight developers, quality assurance, and – where appropriate – a team-dedicated product designer. The product managers drive the team roadmaps according to set objectives aligned to company objectives, as well as the product strategy overall.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Strategic Product Management Activities and Tips. Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. Goals are important aspects of the product strategy. Conduct market research.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 18, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. Because they have higher ARPUs they can take advantage of higher CAC channel like Paid Marketing. Here they use mostly Content Marketing and Inside Sales.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Blitzscaling: An execution framework that prioritizes speed over efficiency and allows a company to go from “Startup” to “Scaleup” at a furious pace that captures the market. Product-Market Fit: PMF is achieved when your users love your product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 12, 2017

This is part 3 in a series about the growth frameworks companies need to grow to $100M+ Part One: Introduction & Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product. Which brings us to part three: Product Channel Fit. Network Makes Product Better. Paid Marketing.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The SaaS sales cycle takes 84 days on average but can be shorter (around the 40-day mark) if your product is priced below $5,000. Creating a user persona will help you target the right prospects and later use the same data to segment your in-app marketing. Let’s take a closer at each model’s unique sales process.

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