The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

When Jane, a seasoned product manager, started her new role at a fast-growing SaaS company, she was ready to make an impact. Advanced Tactics: Stakeholder Mapping: Use tools like the Stakeholder Alignment Blueprint (available on jonihoadley.com) to identify key goals and concerns. Click here to download.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The problem with asking people to explain the processes and pain points they have within the B2B space is that, at its most basic, you’re asking someone how they do their job and people are a little too used to talking about this to think about it creatively without prompting. System two – slow, effortful and conscious thinking.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This is largely caused due to not researching enough around the market you are building for understanding the target audience and spending enough time with your customers to build empathy for them and understand their pain points. How Products Fail Without Customer Empathy. First Principles of customer empathy.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 29, 2022

How product managers can understand their customers better than anyone else. If you have listened to me before, there is a good chance you’ve heard me say we need to fall in love with the customer’s problem, not our solution. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:18]

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

High churn rates and dissatisfied customers. Product analytics tools can provide key growth insights that help you solve user problems and provide killer user experiences at the same time. Here’s a guide on how to use these tools. Table of Contents What Are Product Analytics Tools?

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Reveal

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Reveal Embedded Analytics For product owners, leveraging data is not just an advantageits a necessity. Product analytics empowers you to understand gaps in your offering and how users engage with your product. Both embedded analytics and product analytics are designed to help product owners in diverse ways.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

What are the best product analytics tools that PMs can use to gather product insights ? Well, this depends on your product, how established your SaaS business is, and what kind of insights you need. As a very advanced tool with high levels of customization, it may be difficult to set up.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? The choice is tough because there’s no single tool that covers all use cases. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Free trial?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2023

A customer feedback repository is the place you keep all your feedback data. What is a customer feedback repository? A feedback repository is a central location where product teams can collect and organize customer feedback. Gathering customer feedback is crucial for creating successful products.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What product managers need to know about the Targeted Innovation Process Watch on YouTube TLDR The Targeted Innovation Process is a practical framework that helps product managers drive innovation in their organizations. It’s about turning those ideas into tangible benefits for customers and the company.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2023

Tracking cross-platform analytics is essential for product teams to see a complete view of customer behavior. TL;DR Cross-platform analytics is the activity of tracking and analyzing user behavior across multiple platforms or devices. What is cross-platform analytics?

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UX Planet

MAY 27, 2025

The smartphone app has become the front line of financial competition. Any banking app that feels generic, uninspired or offers little real value is already lagging behind. Because todays users wont waittheres always a smarter, faster and more useful app waiting to take itsplace. Amazon reshaped retail with customerfocus.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Help center software allows you to juggle feature rollouts, bug fixes, and user onboarding without keeping up with endless tickets. By using in-app support solutions for quicker issue resolution, you can maintain smooth experiences without sacrificing precious hours. What are the different types of help center software?

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. The tools are constantly evolving and changing their pricing plans, so it may be difficult to ensure that your product team is using the right tools and getting the best value for the money.

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Userpilot

MAY 28, 2025

You finally launched your mobile app. While downloads are rolling in after months of development and a well-formed launch marketing plan, your mobile app adoption metrics show a concerning pattern: users sign up, look around, and quit the app almost immediately. 80% of users abandon apps within the first three days.

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2025

User experience can make or break a web app. If your software is slow or buggy, users wont stick around for long. If youre only finding out about these issues after users complain, youre already too late. On top of that, Userpilot also offers in-app engagement tools you can use to act on the collected data.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Whether you consider your user base in light of market research or user research, both of these kinds of researchers use the patterns they discover to form personas. User personas stand in for users throughout the design of your product. Each one has at least one goal and at least one pain point.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

Interested in customer segmentation analytics but don’t know where to start? We also cover: The benefits of customer segmentation analysis. Best segmentation and analytics tools. TL;DR Customer segmentation divides clients into groups with shared attributes for in-depth analysis and personalized experiences.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

How can product analytics help product managers create better digital products and more satisfying user experiences? We start by looking at different kinds of analyses and the metrics to track and then explore some practical ways of using each of them to drive various product goals. Book the demo!

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How product managers can promote human-centered design I wonder if you can relate to this frustration—the pressure to get products and product updates released quickly sometimes means making compromises on design quality. Her book, Customers Know You Suck , address how to better understand, attract, and retain customers.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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Userpilot

JUNE 8, 2023

How can product and marketing teams leverage customer journey analytics to make data-driven decisions and build delightful customer experiences? TL;DR Customer journey analytics is the process of tracking user interactions at all the touchpoints in their journey. What is customer journey analytics?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

While the product adoption platform offers decent user onboarding and engagement features, it lacks advanced analytics capabilities and is quite expensive. Overview of Chameleon Chameleon is a no-code user onboarding platform that lets SaaS teams create in-app experiences to engage and retain users.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2024

What is data-driven analytics in SaaS? How to conduct user data analysis? What are the best analytics tools for the job? TL;DR Data-driven analytics describes the process of collecting, analyzing , and interpreting customer data to help organizations make better-informed product and strategic business decisions.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2022

We’ve all heard the term “ customer-centric ” in the context of running a successful business, but what does it really mean? From one perspective, it’s about creating value for customers, delivering an effective product at a good price. This is where customer feedback for sales comes into play. No ifs, no buts.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” It keeps us focused and ensures that we create value for the business while meeting customer needs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

How many financial apps do you have on your phone, and how often do you use them? Chances are the ones you frequently use have a simple, intuitive app onboarding process. If you’re a financial services product manager, you’ll know that crafting an effective fintech app onboarding process is no small feat.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. Orinna Weaver – Senior Product Marketing Manager. Rati Zvirawa – Product Manager.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 19, 2025

I have been using standalone session replay tools for quite a long time. They record and replay user sessions to help product managers like myself identify issues and understand how people interact with their products. I watched session recordings, analyzed user behavior, and tried to understand it all.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2024

This includes the SaaS industry too. From marketing to product management and customer success, AI is improving productivity, helping teams make better decisions, and improving customer experience. In this article, we explain: Why investing in AI in SaaS is a must. What AI tools you can use.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2025

Welcome to the ultimate guide to Product Manager interview questions. Result: Reduced churn and improved NPS by 8 points. Product Sense Questions How would you improve our onboarding experience? In this post, we’ll break down the types of questions you’ll face and how to answer them with confidence.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Customer insights provide intelligence and analysis about customer experience, activities, and preferences. Therefore, they are vital for effective product strategies and ensure resource allocation aligns with customer needs. Purchase data to find conversion drivers that influence users to purchase a plan or upgrade.

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Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2025

Optimizing a mobile app isnt just about fixing crashes or improving load times. The real challenge is shaping an experience that keeps users engaged and drives continuous growth. As a product manager, I know that even small friction points cause users to drop off. What is mobile app optimization?

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Userpilot

APRIL 15, 2024

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing how SaaS product teams work by increasing efficiency and productivity, reducing costs, and most importantly, facilitating data-driven decision-making. In this article, we look at how you can use AI to gain in-depth customer insights and how to leverage them to improve the product.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Funnel analysis examples can help product managers find the missing puzzle pieces to improve user journeys. From marketing funnel analysis to review funnel analysis, this article shows you the most important funnels for SaaS. Discover the critical stages of each funnel and tools that help you gather actionable insights.

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Userpilot

JULY 4, 2022

Why should you adopt a customer-led growth strategy in your SaaS? Is it possible to increase user engagement by focusing on a customer-led growth strategy and hit the metrics you are hoping for? Specifically, we’ll consider: Three reasons why the customer-led growth approach is the best go-to-market strategy.

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