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The Sales Funnel Isn’t Really a Funnel

The Product Coalition

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. At this point, the importance of the process is very clear.

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Build Delightful Products with Customer Validation

Speaker: John Little, Head of Product Marketing, Centercode

When it comes to delivering a solid product/market fit, customer validation is key. After all, you want to provide customers with a product that not only fills the need, but is delightful -- right? To get there, you need to commit to a vital blend of market research, strategy, and user testing.

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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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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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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. And sometimes the most important feature for selling your product is one that customers never end up using. Don’t miss this surprising webinar from Nils Davis, author of The Secret Product Manager Handbook!

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The Empowered Consumer

Read our ebook, The Empowered Consumer, to learn more about how AI can help you connect with your customers with strategies such as: Hyper-personalization by targeting ads to the needs of the individual consumer. Predicting the next CRM state, which can inform the strategy of future marketing communications.

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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. The key is the strategy and tools for accessing product data at the level that you'd like.

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Meet Your Goals with a Practical Product Strategy

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

Whether you manage a feature, a product, or a whole suite of products, you likely have some goals that you're trying to meet. But do you have a strategy? Strategy and goals are different. It's your strategy that allows you to make decisions that help you meet your goals in the first place.

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Maybe We Should Be Problem Managers Instead

Speaker: Steve Johnson, Founder and CEO, Under10 Playbook

Rather than departmental issues, these are product strategy issues. 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? Does it solve their problem?

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Positioning to Win: How to Harness a Product Superpower

Speaker: April Dunford, Executive Consultant, Speaker, and Author

Positioning forms the foundation of a product's go-to market strategy. Your marketing plans, your sales strategy, your customer segmentation, your product roadmap - each of these uses positioning as an input. Yet as important as positioning is, it is deeply misunderstood.

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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 to Develop a Recession-Proof Product-Led Strategy

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

As PMs, we all know the importance of building a successful product-led growth strategy. Zoom, Stripe, and Airtable are all examples of software companies with strong PLG strategies. What features do their strategies have that allow them to see continued success in this ever-changing market?

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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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Mixpanel's Guide to Product Metrics

Mixpanel has partnered closely with hundreds of companies on their analytics strategies, and have found there is simply no single set of metrics that works for everyone. Businesses and products are all unique and have different goals based on stage and ambitions.

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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.

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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. Through in-depth user insights, a clear product strategy, and an inspiring roadmap. Building products is a team sport and involves everyone working together to get the right products to market faster.

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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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To Build or Not to Build: Creating Great Products and Avoiding Overengineering

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

Any PM or technical leader who’s led the charge of building a digital product knows that product engineering is one of the most expensive elements of business. He’ll explain how stitching together pre-existing solutions is often the best way to bring a stable, secure product to market most quickly.

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Embedded BI and Analytics: Best Practices to Monetize Your Data

Speaker: Azmat Tanauli, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Birst

In a recent Economist survey of 476 senior executives worldwide, 60% are already generating revenue from their data, and a whopping 83% have used data to make existing products or services more profitable. But how do you identify these potentially profitable areas, and what can you do to take advantage of them?

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

Any PM or technical leader who’s led the charge of building a digital product knows that product engineering is one of the most expensive elements of business. He’ll explain how stitching together pre-existing solutions is often the best way to bring a stable, secure product to market most quickly.

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Put Your Data to Work: The Complete Playbook

They rely on data to power products, business insights, and marketing strategy. From search engines to navigation systems, data is used to fuel products, manage risk, inform business strategy, create competitive analysis reports, provide direct marketing services, and much more.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information. From a product discovery/product management perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product.

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Ramping-up Your Digital CX Strategy: Adaptation of Omni Channel and Conversational Support

Speaker: Michael McMillan - Customer Experience Expert, TEDx Speaker, and Author

Are you looking to elevate your CX support strategy? Customers who have a seamless buying experience, from speaking with sales and purchasing the product to easily finding support, are more likely to return to your organization and recommend it to others.

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Post-Pandemic eCommerce Growth: Leverage Product Data, Market Research & Shopping Trends

Speaker: Phil Irvine, VP & Director of Audience Intelligence

One-to-one communication has been a trendy philosophy for marketers and advertisers for years now. The more personalized an organization can be with growth strategies and communications, the more likely engagement would increase and ultimately sales. August 26th, 2021 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm GMT

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Keep the Competitive Edge and Reduce Churn

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

When customers leave your product ecosystem, they often leave you puzzled about the reasons behind their departure. Maybe your product was once the best option on the market, but due to missing features and difficulties, its competitive edge has dwindled.

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The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms: Vendor Strategy, Market Presence, and Capabilities Overview

As enterprises evolve their AI from pilot programs to an integral part of their tech strategy, the scope of AI expands from core data science teams to business, software development, enterprise architecture, and IT ops teams. The Forrester Wave™ evaluates Leaders, Strong Performers, Contenders, and Challengers.

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What We Learned From Our Own Data-Driven ABM Strategy

Analysts and professionals alike tend to argue that account based marketing (ABM) is not new. However, ABM practitioners have evolved the strategy from development to implementation. Instead of wading through a series of vague “how-to kick-start your ABM strategy!” On the surface, this is an accurate statement.