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Dear Sales, It’s Me… Your Product Manager

ProductPlan

Should a product manager accompany the sales rep to prospect meetings to demo the product? When a customer calls their account manager for support, should the rep pass that request on to the product manager? Should sales reps call a product manager anytime they have a technical question about the product?

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Using the 3 T’s to Curate a Customer First Culture by Shyna Zhang

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Shyna Zhang , shows us how product marketing and product management can combine to create a customer-focused culture. A product marketing and product management marriage. A Product Marketing and Product Management Marriage. What exactly do product marketers do?

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The fine line between appeasing your shareholders vs. your customers

Product Management and Strategic Marketing

Many of my fellow product management practitioners are often placed in a difficult situation where customers request certain features for their products, but the product manager's hands are tied. It's not that they don't care about the voice of their customers, rather management's vision is different. Look for common threads.

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Joyeuses fêtes & Happy Holidays

Bain Public

After all, the topics you engage with are a signal to us of which Product Management articles are most useful and important today. We have really enjoyed bringing you constructive and atypical Product Management research, practical work advice, and analysis. found the most interesting in 2019. Click here to download. PAUL ORTCHANIAN.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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Goals vs objectives and why you got it wrong

The Product Coalition

Manage goals and OKRs that connect to your team’s daily work to build alignment and transparency. for international digital ad campaigns and increase the reach from 100 to 500 people per week Objectives has the word “object” in it. Set quarterly goals, review them in weekly meetings, and log work with quick daily check-ins.

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Product Managers Ponder How To Market An Unwanted Product

The Accidental Product Manager

As product managers we all would like to think of ourselves as being the person who is in charge of a cool product like Facebook or the iPhone. However, the world is filled with other products that need the help of product managers and so who’s to say what product we will eventually be put in charge of?

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

Fact: Only 8% of sales and marketing professionals say their data is between 91% - 100% accurate. In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. of companies achieved a score indicating maturity in data management practices in the space.".

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. According to Forrester Research, only 8% of marketing professionals have confidence that their data is 90-100% accurate.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

In today's rapidly evolving market, product managers face the challenge of driving innovation while also meeting the needs and expectations of their existing user base. This webinar aims to equip you with strategies and insights to successfully navigate this delicate balancing act.

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

Product Managers looking to leverage data to make informed product design decisions can learn a lot from renowned gaming company King, maker of Candy Crush and many other games - even if their product has seemingly no overlap with games. take on how he guides King’s Product Managers through: How to think through product data strategy.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

Multiple industry studies confirm that regardless of industry, revenue, or company size, poor data quality is an epidemic for marketing teams. As frustrating as contact and account data management is, this is still your database – a massive asset to your organization, even if it is rife with holes and inaccurate information.

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Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting

A value-driven product organization optimizes team structures, funding cycles, processes, and metrics to drive traction and growth across the entire product adoption curve by identifying opportunities to solve valuable customer problems and closing those market gaps for either over-served or under-served markets.

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The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use Instead)

Speaker: Daniel Elizalde - Product Executive and Advisor

There is a big problem with the term "product market fit." Launching successful products requires a rare combination of market understanding, iterative development, and a lot of luck. Our role as Product Managers is to eliminate confusion, not add to it. Ask ten people to define PMF and you’ll get ten different answers.

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How Product Teams Can Leverage Community

Speaker: Scott Baldwin of ProductBoard

Product managers and community managers share a common goal: to deliver value to their users. Building products is a team sport and involves everyone working together to get the right products to market faster. How product managers and community managers can work effectively together.

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The Product Symphony: Orchestrating Success with Storymapping

Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data

In today’s dynamic business landscape, successful product management hinges on a keen understanding of customer needs and market dynamics. It serves as a catalyst to better align your entire organization, setting the stage for impactful, customer-centric product management.

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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

64% of successful data-driven marketers say improving data quality is the most challenging obstacle to achieving success. Given data’s direct impact on marketing campaigns, reporting, and sales follow-up, maintaining an accurate and consistent database is a top priority for B2B organizations.

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Drive in the Express Lane to Product Growth

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

If you’re a hard-core believer in traditional product management practices, you might be uncomfortable, but growth occurs outside of our comfort zones. You’ll walk away from this webinar with a fresh perspective on: Top target market traits. Navigating product management in a time of uncertainty.

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Feedback Frenzy: Restoring Customer and Internal Alignment for Product Success

Speaker: Evan Leong - CEO & Founder, Product Signals

Customer feedback is integral to effective problem management and product development for senior product professionals. How do industry leaders like Apple and Amazon successfully leverage customer and market insights to enhance their products, even with vast customer bases and extensive market data?

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Product Analytics, Prioritization, and Decision-Making - What We Can Learn from Einstein and Drucker

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

As a Product Manager, a big part of your job will always be to balance which features to develop, and which to scrap. How do you trade off multiple excellent options to choose the one option that’s best aligned with your strategy and which will deliver the most value to the market with the resources you have? And much more!

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Product management goes beyond product development; it involves nurturing a cohesive team. Nonetheless, by leveraging foresight and valuable insights, you can cultivate a thriving product management team that works together harmoniously to craft customer-centric products.

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Fuel the Engine of Product Growth with an Impeccable Framing Model

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst - President, Tyner Blain

An approach to tackling the interdependent decisions of which problems to solve, to what degree, and for whom in a competitive market. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! The importance of retaining as well as acquiring customers to succeed in a product-led business.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Every product manager has heard, “Keep the customer at the heart of everything you do". But what strategy do managers use to keep the customer and their key problems at the center of the product development process? How do product managers instill this knowledge of the customer across the rest of the organization?

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How Leveraging Data Creates Efficient Product Roadmaps

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager

Without product usage data and user feedback guiding your product roadmap, product managers and engineers end up wasting money, time, and effort building what they think stakeholders want, rather than what they know they need. This lack of insight makes it impossible for these teams to prioritize.

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How to Develop a Recession-Proof Product-Led Strategy

Speaker: Wes Bush, Author of "Product-Led Growth"

What features do their strategies have that allow them to see continued success in this ever-changing market? Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Collaborate Better with Your Customer-Facing Teams

Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Leader Coach, Fearless Product LLC

Join Hope Gurion, Product Leader Coach at Fearless Product, as she shares 3 techniques to accelerate your cross-functional collaboration with other customer-centered teams like sales, product marketing, and customer success. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! You won't want to miss this!

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Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Speaker: Nir Eyal, Author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a start-up founder—not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products.

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Leverage Your Organization for Best Product Decisions

Speaker: Rene Kolga, Senior Director of Product and Marketing, Nyotron

You can learn a lot by studying your product data, but the real magic happens when product managers blend different types of data from different sources. Rene Kolga, Senior Director of Product and Marketing at Nyotron, knows the answer: from other teams in your organization!

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The Product Corner: Maximizing Impact, Reducing Hours, and Accelerating Roadmaps with Data

Speaker: Edie Kirkman - VP, Digital at Focus Brands

By leveraging data-driven insights, companies can accelerate time-to-market, enhance product quality, and align offerings with customer needs. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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Feedback Management: A PM's Key for Continuous and Impactful Product Growth

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal at Pendo & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager at Pendo

Working with customers to improve product feedback management is a major driver of product-led growth. Strengthening the relationship between customer feedback and product development may help businesses remain competitive in a global market that is becoming more difficult by the day. How to assess customer value.

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Get Growth With Partner Integrations

Speaker: Mandy Howard, Product Manager, ServiceTitan

If you're strategic about your integrations, you can strengthen your ties to your target market. Join Mandy Howard, Product Manager at ServiceTitan, as she takes you through the three key questions that you need to answer to grow your product with the right partner integrations.

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Run a Business, Not a Backlog

Speaker: John Mecke, Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, Jon Gatrell, Principal Partner at Market Driven Business

The role of a product manager has evolved significantly over the past 20 years. In today’s Agile world, product managers are expected to be leaders in market knowledge, strategy, organizational enablement, etc. Numerical literacy is a key skill for effective product managers.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your Database Management Strategy

It's quite a process for marketing teams to develop a long-term data management strategy. It involves finding a data management provider that can append contacts with correct information — in real-time. Forward-thinking marketing organizations have continuously invested in a database strategy for enabling marketing processes.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. But most products fail to do so.

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Maybe We Should Be Problem Managers Instead

Speaker: Steve Johnson, Founder and CEO, Under10 Playbook

Yet many product managers and most product owners are too busy with tactical issues that they never come close to addressing these issues. Is product management primarily supporting the tactics of other departments? Or is it a strategic role that is grounded in market facts? Does it solve their problem? Will it add complexity?

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Iterate Your Way to a Top Analytics Product Experience

Speaker: Richard Cheng, Associate Product Manager, Mark43

Mark43 is on a mission to bring public safety data management into the 21st century. To fix traditionally paper-heavy and error-prone processes, they needed a secure and easy-to-use product experience that simplified and unified crime data collection and management. How efficient intelligence and analytics will benefit your users.

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What Is (and Isn’t) Product Management?

Speaker: Steve Johnson, VP of Products, Pragmatic Institute

Product Management is one of the most exciting - and most misunderstood - functions in technical organizations. Many product professionals are unclear about what is (and isn't) product management. After all, product management spans many activities from business planning to market readiness. Is it strategic or tactical?

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Why the Product Message Should Come From Product Management

Speaker: Jordan Bergtraum, Head of Product at Equip ID & Consultant

Features and benefits may be part of the overall product marketing plan, but they are NOT the basis for a compelling “Product Message”. Product Managers may feel the “message” should be developed by the Product Marketing function, but I disagree. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Changing Times, Changing Roadmaps

Speaker: Stephanie Lewandowski, Senior Product Manager, Teachstone

Have you found yourself scrambling to adapt to the market changes? Join Stephanie Lewandowski as she candidly talks about the realities of roadmaps - how often they change, how to navigate the changes, and how to survive in an uncertain market. She will discuss techniques and approaches that Product Managers can use to adapt quickly.

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Your #1 KPI as a Product Manager

Speaker: Shardul Mehta, VP of Product Management, American Well

What's the #1 metric you should be tracking as a product manager? Speed-to-market? Because to understand your #1 KPI, you need to understand your primary job as a product manager. Because to understand your #1 KPI, you need to understand your primary job as a product manager. Is it on-time delivery? Features per release?

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

Only 20% of these companies attain product market fit, despite years of excruciating effort by founders, early employees, and investors. Creating an iterative process to identify Product Market Fit. What metrics you should track to measure product-market fit. At least 3,000 start-ups receive seed investment each year.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move.

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How can your firm attract the best product managers?

Product managers help accelerate the product development and launch for many companies. However, the pool of talented product managers can be elusive, the following article explores how companies can aim to attract and retain the best talents. Therefore, it's important to have the right employee in place.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.