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Product Managers Start To Get Direct With Their Advertising

The Accidental Product Manager

Advertising only works if your customers see it Image Credit: Nick Amoscato Every product manager wants to be responsible for a successful product. In order to make your product be a success, you are going to have to get people to buy it. That is where advertising comes in. Are you going to be ready?

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Do Product Managers Need To Become Less Perfect?

The Accidental Product Manager

Product managers adopt a lo-fi approach to advertising their products Image Credit: nefasth When we think about how we want to present our products to our potential customers, I think that we can all agree that we’d like to make the product look as attractive as possible.

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TicTok Product Managers Search For Ways To Stay Relevant

The Accidental Product Manager

TicTok product managers have to deal with new rivals Image Credit: HS You Is there any app that is hotter than TicTok? This would be a great product manager job to have. Along with TicTok’s success has come a wrath of brand new competitors. It could be that advertisers will come, wherever the users are.

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The “51331 memo” and the origins of product management

Product Management Unpacked

It was on this day in 1931 that the field of product management was born – its birth marked by an internal memorandum written by Neil H. McElroy, manager of Proctor and Gamble’s Promotion department. His new product-centric approach called for dedicated teams, focused around a particular brand, each led by a brand man.

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Product Managers Start To Go Directly To Their Customers

The Accidental Product Manager

Ad product managers think that they have found a new market Image Credit: United Nations Development Programme. Advertising product managers are always looking for the next “big thing” The advertising market has its ups and downs as customer’s needs, wants, and moods change seemingly overnight.

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How Subway’s Product Managers Are Going To Come Back

The Accidental Product Manager

Subway product managers have to come up with a comeback plan Image Credit: Mike Mozart I’m pretty sure that even if you didn’t know it, there are more Subway sandwich restaurants out there than there are McDonald’s restaurants. The Subway product mangers now have a new challenge on their hands.

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Product Managers Look For A Better Way To Deliver Products To Customers

The Accidental Product Manager

Product managers are starting to move away from using Amazon Image Credit: Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine. So if you were a product manager and you wanted to both advertise your product to your customers and make it easy for them to buy it from you, how would you go about doing that?