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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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Facebook Product Managers Go Looking For More News

The Accidental Product Manager

Facebook product managers just can’t find enough news to use Image Credit: Megan Trace. The product managers at Facebook are facing a serious challenge. They have to find ways to expand their product development definition and make Facebook more interesting and relevant to their visitors.

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Can an Advertising-Driven Business Model Coexist With Products That Users Love?

Mind the Product

How can we design products that users love, while also building a sustainable business model through advertising? User experience and advertisements seem incompatible. . Meanwhile, product managers are tasked with maximising this user engagement and also developing revenue from it. Here’s how: 1. Looks Matter.

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Product Management Lessons from Kids Television

The Product Coalition

Helpsters four step product discovery process Subliminal product management messaging At first I I didn’t know if I was over thinking it and/or I’m just hyper aware of work stuff but I couldn’t help (pardon the pun) to draw comparisons between the Helpsters and real life product management.

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Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products

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

Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging. 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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Product Managers Find A Way To Turn A Profit

The Accidental Product Manager

The WhatsApp product managers may have come up with a way to make money Image Credit: Marina Stroganova. So just imaging this scenario: you are the product manager for a wildly successful mobile application. As a product manager, how would you go about transforming your free-to-use service into a money making machine?

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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

Transforming communication with instant messaging. Its journey from a modest messaging app to a global giant in instant messaging has been nothing short of remarkable. They wanted to create an app that would allow users to send text messages, images, videos, and other media, without the need for expensive SMS plans.